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India to Eradicate Leprosy by 2026

... // transmission of the bacteria and the treatment regimen to be followed for treating the disease. Indian Health Minister Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss during the Leprosy day as asked for increasing the awareness to completely eradicate the disease which as about a 1 Lakh of patients in India but the incidence of...

Zactima Receives Fast Track Designation By The FDA

... Presently, there is no satisfactory chemotherapy regimen or other treatment modality for the cure of advanced thyroid cancer. Only those drugs, used for the treatment of severe diseases for which there is an unfulfilled medical need would be granted fast-track status by the FDA. The fast track review by ...

Colon cancer patients benefit from Hepatic Arterial Infusion Therapy

...unts, and hair loss. However, patients on the HAI regimen experienced mild toxicity to the liver. In case of both the regimes women fared better than men, with median survival in the HAI group of 29.4 and 20.1 months for women and men, respectively, and in the systemic group it was 22.0 and 18.3 months. ...

Fat fighters’: Whole-grain foods’: under the microscoe

...nteered for the study each completed a whole-grain regimen and a refined-grain stint. The first 3 days of the whole-grain phase, the volunteers ate six to eight servings of whole-grain foods a day, on average. Next came the refined-grain regimen, when the women ate foods such as a refined-grain cereal at b...

Type 1 diabetes has a cure?

...isease can be cured with a simple, short and cheap regimen of drugs. But they found that when adult stem cells from the spleen were added in the pancreas it did not find spleen cells morphing into a new source of new pancreatic cells. Statistics show that about 21 million Americans have diabetes. According t...

Weight Training Improves Quality Of Life In Breast Cancer Patients

...en treated for breast cancer. A bi-weekly exercise regimen for six months improves the overall physical and emotional condition of the patients. In the initial days after therapy for breast cancer, patients experience insomnia, weight gain, chronic fatigue, depression, and anxiety. The focus has mainly bee...

AIDS Deaths On The Rise Due To Low Access To Antiretroviral Treatment

...creased by between 37-53 percent, depending on the regimen used. While important advances in HIV treatment access have been achieved in the past two years, the report also acknowledges that, despite the efforts of many partners and significant funding from a number of donors, the '3-by-5' strategy fell sho...

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center To Study Ways To Prevent 'Chemo Brain'

...l group. Any person aged 18 or older who has had a regimen of chemotherapy in the last 5 years and has experienced memory problems can participate in the study. "A wealth of research now indicates that exercise participation preserves cognition function as we age. In addition, sedentary older adults without ...

Baby Boomers Visit Doctors As Frequently As They Visit the Gym

...o common cold. Most baby boomers have the exercise regimen deeply ingrained into their psyche, and many of them chase the youthful look by overdoing fitness regimens. There is also a thought that seems to point at the high divorce rate in this generation that ensures people spend hours at the gym. Some of t...

Concerns About Popular Anti-Ulcer Pill Used For Inducing Labor

...in appropriate circumstances, a safe and effective regimen of oral misoprostol can be prescribed on an outpatient basis around a woman’s due date. 'What woman wouldn’t want to be able to take a pill to control when she went into labor?' she asks. 'But we’re a long way away from that.' The review itself not...

Low-Intensity Exercise The Key To Losing More Pounds

...moderate pace, faithfully adhering to the exercise regimen for a period of three months lost more weight than their counterparts who worked out more extensively. The study participants were randomly assigned into either a low intensity exercise group or moderate intensity exercise group. The first group pa...

Women Fail to Take Calcium Pills Regularly; High Risk of Bone Fractures

...(dummy medication). ‘The calcium supplementation regimen tested currently cannot be recommended as a public health approach to fracture prevention because of the lack of long-term compliance,’ remarked the study author Richard Prince, University of Western Australia. The results of this study can be cited ...

Preeclampsia Risk Can't Be Overcome By Taking Antioxidants

...the remaining 942 women were given a placebo. This regimen was followed from the second trimester of pregnancy to the delivery of the baby. Researchers found no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of their risk of preeclampsia. Around 6 percent of the women in the vitamin g...

Colon Cancer Death Rate Doubles As Patients Stop Chemotherapy

...s have shown that not adhering to the chemotherapy regimen is associated with shorter survival rates. Moreover, it equates to being offered no treatment at all. Despite this fact, colon cancer patients fail to take the issue seriously. The researchers have therefore urged all colon cancer patients to complet...

Anti-cholesterol Statins May Be Helpful For Eyes Too

...(intraocular pressure). This week-long treatment regimen was repeated again 28 days after the end of the first phase of the study. The result: Blood flow and speed were significantly increased in men who took the statin for seven days, although the size of the retinal blood vessels didn't change. Intraoc...

Moderate Exercise, Key To Breast Cancer Prevention

A moderate exercise regimen for 30-45 minutes, performed on all weekdays of the week could be the key to preventing breast cancer in women. Breast cancer// is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately 10 percent of all women at some stage of their life ...

Gates Foundation to donate USD 104 million to TB Alliance

...ents could free patients from a grueling six-month regimen and, ultimately, save millions of lives.'The four standard drugs used to treat tuberculosis are more than 40 years old and take at least six months to work effectively. When the long treatment is not completed or drug supply is interrupted, multi-dr...

HIV Vaccine for Monkeys Increases Survival Rates

...elerate future efficacy trials.' The SIV vaccine regimen used in the two studies was a simplified version of a preventive human HIV vaccine strategy developed by VRC scientists and currently undergoing Phase II human clinical trials in the United States, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. Current plans ...

Folic Acid Supplements to Prevent Cancer

...mparison to another promising chemopreventive drug regimen that includes a retinoid, 'our complete response rate is lower than the one reported in a smaller population,' the authors write. Nevertheless, folate 'is characterized by a lower grade of toxicity,' and there was no progression of disease. These r...

Enbrel Joins with Methotrexate to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ouble-blind TEMPO trial were continued on the same regimen (n = 96). Commenting on the implications of the...thritis, who have active disease after an adequate regimen of methotrexate, can improve significantly when etanercept is added. Whether newly diagnosed patient...

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