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Pazopanib Shows Positive in Advanced Renal Carcinoma, Ovarian Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

... II studies of pazopanib in advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC), ovarian cancer and soft tis... clear clinical activity in advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and a number of ongoing studies also demonstrate therapeutic promise in several othe...

Cisplatin-very Effective Than Carboplatin in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

...tolerated, such as those with significant baseline renal impairment, hearing loss, peripheral neuropathy, or other serious medical comorbidities, the authors wrote....

New Balloon Catheter Available Worldwide for Carotid and Renal Angioplasty

...plasty procedures for patients with carotid and or renal artery blockages. AVIATOR(TM) Plus combines a uniq...ast inflation and deflation time during carotid or renal intervention procedures helps to limit the period of distal ischemia, and the low profile may help r...

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

...ame more apparent. He said multi-organ failure, renal failure, blood disorders and skin reactions had been reported in patients using lamotrigine. Dr Jeffrey Aronson, a reader in clinical pharmacology at Oxford University, said many drugs were not tested on children because of the difficulties that i...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

...ancer, orthopaedics and joint diseases, emergency, renal diseases, neurosciences, eye, minimally invasive surgery, trauma and cosmetic surgery are coming up in the integrated facility. The Apollo Group plans to apply for a special economic zone (SEZ) status to the health city. "It is not a medical city...

Diabetes The Leveler-Sweeping Across Nations

...associated problems like cardiac problems, stroke, renal failure and blindness, which either leaves people disabled or proves to be fatal disorders,'' says Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya. The rapid changing lifestyle -lack of adequate exercise and balanced diet – is an oft-quoted reason. ...

Renal Transplantation in Children Younger Than 6 Years Old

Garcia, et al reported their experience with renal transplantation in 38 children //(40 transplant), ...African Brazilian. The main etiology for end-stage renal disease was uropathic/vesicoureteral reflux in 45% of the children followed by glomerulopathy in 25%...

Primary Urinary Tract Infection in Infants

...ely 10%. All the patients in this study underwent renal ultrasonography, voiding cystourethrogram, and a D...ould one do with a DMSA scan that was positive for renal scarring 6 months after therapy was instituted. Further investigations with a larger cohort may help...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...ids can be an instant killer. Side-effects include renal failure and heart attacks. Dr Maagouiya, the general surgeon at the main hospital in the capital city of Nouakchott, said that without autopsies - which are not permitted in Mauritania - he could not be sure how many lives the steroids had claimed...

‘For-profit Dialysis Centers’ in the Spotlight Over Anti-anemia Drug Overdoe

...ords of 159,522 adult Medicare-eligible, end-stage renal disease patients from the US Renal Data System, undergoing hemodialysis at various centers during November and December 2004 was analyzed using statistical regression models to understand the average epoetin dose and dose adjustments executed by th...

Epogen – Overuse Dangerou

...e is also a hemoglobin restoration in patient with renal diseases. This can be one of the reasons why there is still an overuse of epogen for patients, at for-profit dialysis centers, in spite of their anemic status. The Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute in its new study found that Epoge...

UCSF Brain Tumor Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Results

...ion for both metastatic melanoma (skin cancer) and renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer). Reviewing the presentation at AANS, Henry Brem, MD, director of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, noted, “This is an encouraging study of a therapeutic cancer vaccine that targets multiple tumor...

New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

...ular changes that culminate in a malignant tumor], renal [kidney] dysfunction, rhabdomyolysis [a condition in which skeletal muscle cells break down] and cardiovascular toxicity.' The authors believe their findings underscore the importance of prompt and thorough reporting of clinical trials of new pharm...

Womb Transplant Pregnancy Success

...wn that certain drugs used to prevent rejection in renal transplants did not harm a baby during pregnancy, he noted. Though this kind of a transplant will benefit only those born without wombs or those who have had a hysterectomy, still the Swedish success is considered a milestone. GPL/...

Obese Heart Patients At Greater Risk

...a, showed obesity waslinked to wound infection and renal failure following operation. "Morbid obesity was associated with prolonged ventilation, readmission to the intensive careunit and prolonged length of stay," says Dr Yap."We did not find an increased risk of early mortality in patients with obesity ...

Heart Failure Medication Provides Some Symptom Relief

...ned reduction in body weight, without worsening of renal function and with sustained normalization of serum...ormalities in fluid and electrolyte balance and/or renal function are difficult to manage by other means." Source-Eurekalert...

South African Minister Recovering After Liver Transplant

...liver. He also added that in case of a delay in a renal transplant, a machine can be substituted to perform the role of kidney whereas such measures are not possible when it comes to liver. There is also an issue of donor compatibility involved in this. Professor Jeff Wing, the minister’s physician said...

Chancellor Of UMass Medical School Resigns Due to Health Reasons

...en removed for Dr. Lazare as he was suffering from renal cancer. Jack M. Wilson, the president of UMass said that Dr.Lazare would surely be missed at the UMass campus. JYT...

Kidney Disease In Children: Common but Treatable

...e ages of 20 and 44. Many of them likely developed renal disease in childhood, say doctors from the Childre...mate that 650,000 Americans will develop end-stage renal disease by 2010, costing the health care system $28 billion a year. More then 11 percent of American...

Ten Percent of Americans Has A Relative With Kidney Failure

... of U.S. adults have a family history of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). These individuals appear to be at ...y disease was not as strong in whites. End-stage renal disease is an increasingly frequent problem, occurring at substantially higher rates among African-A...

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