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Poly-pill – A Single Drug For Multiple Complaint

... has certain deficiencies. It assumes a fixed dose regimen for treating everyone but the fact is everyone’s response differs. The side-effects are dose-related. This is a combination of active drugs that can have dangerous side-effects like the weakening of muscles and liver disorders,” said Dr Ashok Seth of...

A Collaboration to Find New Tools to Fight Leukemia

...r Center//, presented evidence Sunday that a novel regimen of three chemotherapy drugs, pentostatin, cyclopho...ffectiveness. Also, the researchers found that the regimen was equally effective in young and elderly (over age 70) patients. “We are very pleased with the r...

Having OCP’s All Year Round to Eliminate Menstrual Cycles Not Unsafe: Says Stud

...etween 18 and 49 years old were given a continuous regimen without any breaks or placebos.During the course o...lts demonstrated that the continuous-use, low-dose regimen was safe and as effective as traditional oral contraceptives. Source-Eurekalert MT...

Women Faces No Risk on Discontinuation of Osteoporosis Drug

...their overall costs for medical care." A typical regimen requires the patient to drink a full glass of water with the drug on an empty stomach and sit upright for up to 30 minutes. While the results suggest discontinuation of the treatment for some women, women at a very high risk of clinical spine frac...

Exercise Both Brain and Brawn to Stay Fighting Fit

...rove brain health as part of their overall fitness regimen for the New Year." The Alliance for Aging Research has advised all and sundry to eat food rich in omega-3 fatty acids (fish is one source), protein, antioxidants, fruits and vegetables, carbohydrates and a diet low in trans fats. To stay mentally ag...

Accuracy of Gene Expression Test for Heart Transplant Patients Confirmed

...als organ rejection, a patient’s immunosuppressive regimen is adjusted. Based on new data, in more than 99 percent of cases, the AlloMap test successfully predicted heart-muscle biopsies that showed absence of moderate or severe acute cellular organ-transplant rejection. These results confirmed the findings...

Proactive Measures for Diabetes at Edmonton

...rses could advise such people to adopt an exercise regimen combined with proper diet. People who are registered with this programme would be educated on diabetes management. These patients would be constantly monitored and kept a tab by their family physicians. If there are no such family doctors, then pub...

Chemo Combination Improves Survival in Asbestos-Related Cancer

...ther research is needed into the optimum treatment regimen for pleural mesothelioma.” The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusio...

Tuberculosis Case Alarms Health Officials

...tuberculosis usually includes a six- to nine-month regimen of medication. Public health and Epidemiology staff from the state Health Department, along with a tuberculosis expert from the University of New Mexico, have met with the infected student and others who might have been exposed, the news release sa...

Arsenic Compound Effective in Treating Rare Leukemia

...ATRA, a vitamin A derivative plus a post-remission regimen of additional chemotherapy and ATRA followed by a ...sing oral agents, including ATRA, or the identical regimen plus two 25-day courses of arsenic trioxide prior to the post-remission therapy. Patients receiving ...

Primary Graft Dysfunction Is Risk Factor For Lung Transplant Problem

...plications and suggests that the immunosuppressive regimen should be optimized and that lung function should be monitored closely for patients who develop primary graft dysfunction,” said Dr. Hachem. The researchers noted that additional studies are needed to further investigate the molecular mechanisms of...

Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment

...ase, the reviewers still recommend a multiple-drug regimen because it works in HIV-infected patients. Questions still remain, however, about what to do if an HIV patient is resistant to existing medications. “That is,” Rutherford asked, “what do you do if you know a patient is not susceptible to the first-...

New Protocol Targets Aggressive Brain Cancer

...is fighting all the way. Thanks to a new treatment regimen being tested at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wollschlager is back to work and optimistic about his prognosis. “There’s nothing in this life that I can’t beat. Nothing will beat me in this life. I believe that wholehearted...

Combination of Depression and Type-2-diabetes Lethal for Heart Patients

...e 2 diabetes typically have an extensive self-care regimen involving special diet, medications, exercise and numerous appointments with their doctor," she said. "It may be that such patients who are depressed might not be as motivated to carry out all these activities, thereby putting them at higher risk." ...

New Reason to Hit the Gym: Fighting Memory Loss

...tion. “Our next step is to identify the exercise regimen that is most beneficial to improve cognition and reduce normal memory loss, so that physicians may be able to prescribe specific types of exercise to improve memory,” said Dr. Small, who is also a research scholar at the Columbia University Taub Inst...

Exercise To The Rescue Of Senior Citizens

...the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center. Her exercise regimen includes balancing on one leg, working with weights and stair climbing. She is very determined not to fall and break her bones. Health experts opine that Nicholson is an excellent example to follow especially when statistics reveal that 33% of adu...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...l for the efficacy. But such is the way the entire regimen has been conceived, it is bound to fail, Deivanayagam asserts. He still swears by the previous Self-Administered Therapy (SAT) where the patients are given medicine at one go for a month. If the DOTS had been that effective, why the disaster loom...

Follow Screening Regimen for Early Cancer Detection

...e in identifying early-stage lung cancer//. “The regimen of screening determines how early the cancer is di...enter in New York City. “Following the appropriate regimen also markedly decreases unnecessary work-up and biopsies,” she added. Lung cancer remains the lead...

Choking Game, Rage Among US Teens, Evokes Deep Concern

...ead. He spent three days in a coma followed by a regimen of anti-seizure drugs. Increasingly teenagers are seeing such choking games on Internet sites like YouTube, and playing them in more threatening variations. More often, like Levi, alone, and with a rope. And many deaths have resulted. There is...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...-RET) in the women and infants whose prenatal drug regimen included AZT. No increases were detected in the women and infants who did not receive prenatal AZT. The frequency of MN-RET in the AZT-exposed newborns decreased over the first 6 months of life to levels seen in nonexposed infants. These findings imp...

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