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New Two-Drug Regime To Tackle Malaria

...ment has decided to replace the drug by a two-drug regime including artemisinin and sulphadoxine to prevent deaths and transmission. New challenges: It will be another 2-3 months before the drugs are available in the public health network. Experts also believe the real challenge will lie in retraining...

Vitamin Abuse Syndrome In the UK

...ergo more rigorous testing, The need for a tougher regime to control the regulation of vitamin supplements should be set up including which involves restricting their accessibly to appropriate health professionals . 1.A High does of Iron supplements can interact with antibiotics and make them less effecti...

Heart damage a consequence of Atkins’ Die

...earch in no way suggests that a high fat, low carb regime is going to give them heart failure. "However, they should be aware that extreme, unbalanced diets are a major insult on their bodies' metabolism and as this study indicates, may have direct effect son their hearts." The Atkins’ diet is known to in...

India - Favored Orthopedics Surgery Destination

...e five-star hotel or services apartments with full regime of dietician, physiotherapists, room service and even a holiday on recovery. With Indian hospitals offering high standards of surgery and post operative care, we have a large number of non-resident Indians as also foreigners coming here for surgery,...

FDA Approved Nerve-Stimulation Therapy Now Available In New York

...tion therapy is a FDA approved long-term treatment regime for patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD). // This form of therapy is now being offered to patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. The treatment is now the first treatment specifically approved for...

Tarceva Found To Benefit Older Lung Cancer Patients

...the significant problems // faced in the treatment regime in the elderly patients is the tolerability and side effects of the drugs currently used. The tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib (Tarceva) has demonstrated encouraging activity with relatively tolerable side effects in elderly, previously untreated...

Weight loss accomplished by high carbohydrate, vegan diet

...an an omnivorous diet, which is a generalized diet regime lacking specificity. The study was conducted among 59 overweight, postmenopausal women, who were keen on losing weight. The participants were divided into two categories. Half of the study participants followed a vegan diet while the other group fo...

Drug used to treat hypertension effective in countering Migraines

...her group of 30 underwent the reverse of the above regime (ie. Atacand in the first 12 weeks and placebo in the next 12 weeks), though none of the groups were aware whether they were taking the placebo or the medicine. Researchers found that during the 12 week periods, the average number of days with head...

Arsenic May Have Been Responsible For The Madness Of King George III Of England

... faulty synthesis of a protein. However during his regime he suffered from five major episodes of prolonged and profound mental derangement. The King’s illness was originally thought to be a psychiatric disorder. However, there is little information available to account for the unusual persistence, severity...

Use Of Sunscreen In Childhood And Prevents Future Skin Cancer

...ys been an important part of an overall sun-safety regime to protect the skin and reduce the number of sunburns, especially for children," said dermatologist Jason K. Rivers, M.D., professor of dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia. "This study demonstrates that sunscreen plays...

Weight Loss Relieves Osteoarthritis Pain

...ion . Three kinds of groups were formed based on a regime of diet only, exercise only or a combination of healthy habits. The abstract written on the above study, states that for every one pound of weight loss, there is a 4-pound reduction in the load exerted on the knee with each step. Considering this ad...

Exercising for long term relief from lower back pain

...ment, or another exercise group. The most exercise regime for these patients is the stretching and strengthening exercises that the people performed routinely. In sub acute low back pain it is possible to improve some functions of the muscles with the help of graded activity program, however the effect of...

Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery

...." Michael says with his new knees -- and his new regime -- he plans on being able to work another 30 years. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, about 267,000 total knee replacement surgeries are performed each year in the United States. The computer-assisted surgery is now availabl...

Study supports vegetable diet

...ught the world the Garden of Eden diet to devise a regime that lowers cholesterol, appeals to modern taste buds and suits a busy lifestyle. Jenkins directs the clinical nutrition and risk modification centre at St. Michael's Hospital. Funding came from the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research...

Combination regime may work against prostate cancer

...axotere and Calcitriol found that this combination regime was more effective than treatment with Taxotere alone. This was measured by the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response rate. 81 per cent of the subjects showed a PSA level reduced by more than half while 59 percent showed a 75 percent decrease in t...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...gen in the body. The participants were put on this regime for 12 weeks. At the end of the 12 week period it was found that participants who received the dietary supplement with phytoestrogens showed greater reductions in fasting insulin levels, insulin resistance, HbA1c levels, total cholesterol levels, LDL...

Conserving the larynx

...e with laryngeal cancer may be offered a treatment regime that avoids radical surgery and so offers a better quality of life....

Lung cancer gets better with new radiotherapy rule

...45 per cent to 60 per cent while combining the new regime with chemotherapy....

Glaucoma may be delayed by eye drops

...ed intraocular pressure - placing around half on a regime of daily eye drop treatment. The drops contain a medication known to lower the pressure. The rest were closely monitored by eye specialists, but did not receive eye drops. At the end of the five year study, only 4.5 per cent in the eye drop group h...

Men happy to take contraception

...aid Dr Weston. The most popular choice was a daily regime of pills, with 33 per cent of respondents showing a preference for it. This is probably because men are looking at what their partners are taking, and thinking that is what contraception is, Dr Weston suggested. Men who said they would consider tryi...

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