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Recommendations for Treatment of Blood Pressue

... lives. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a serious condition that affects 50 million Americans i.e, one in four adults. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, the first- and third-leading causes of death among Americans. It also can lead to other conditions, such as conge...

AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...e the next big trouble spot--India."We have a very serious catastrophe in the offing, and if there's an enemy of India it's not Pakistan, it's not China, and it's not any of the other superpowers--the big threat to India is HIV/AIDS," said Dr. Ishawar Gilada, the secretary general of the People's Health Orga...

Antibiotics Dangerous for Diarrhoea in Children Caused by E.Coli

...put the children at increased risk of developing a serious condition known as "Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome". The report appears on the website of The New England Journal of Medicine (www.nejm.org). Hemolytic-uremic syndrome, which occurs most commonly in children after a gastrointestinal infection, begins with...

A prescription cream for unwanted facial hair

...ive for women for whom this problem is considered serious enough to warrant tweezing, waxing, or shaving at least once a week for hair removal. Vaniqa is actually not a brand new drug, but rather a new topical-use version of the older drug eflornithine (brand name Ornidyl). Vaniqa, like Viagra, is consi...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...e may be potentially harmful for patients who have serious cardiac dysfunction, and this form of treatment may be useful....

Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos

...hnology to harvest life saving drugs to treat many serious diseases including cancer. The same team had earl...chicken eggs – which can be used as drugs to treat serious diseases. Professor Grahame Bulfield, Director of Roslin Institute at Edinburgh, said, “ The collab...

Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene

...ple so far and at least 50000 people have suffered serious injuries of the brain, spinal cord and other grave...s and other injuries were treated at the site some serious life threatening injuries had to be treated by shifting the patients out of Gujarat to tertiary medi...

Individuals with sleep related breathing disorders more prone to heart disease

...rience problems such as early morning headaches or serious daytime fatigue. Among the various sleep disorders, sleep apnea in its mild or moderate form is commonly experienced. Sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. Most individuals may have less severe slee...

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

... The current announcement is considered to be more serious because cloning technology has matured and the principal investigators have experience in treating infertility. The controversy, however, remains. This is largely because reproductive technologies have far outpaced regulatory, legal, ethical, moral a...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...n paracetamol can cause death due to poisoning and serious consequences ranging from hospitalization to permanent disability might occur. However the benefits of paracetamol cannot be brushed aside. The idea is only to alert the consumers against the potential side effects...

Antibiotic induces liver damage in children with E.COLI infections.

...a known as E. coli 0157:H7 causes some of the most serious digestive infections in both children and adults. Infections with this organism are often caused by eating undercooked meat. A major study shows using antibiotics to treat children with E. coli bacterial infection increases the risk of developing a p...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...ir other drugs, including steroids, which can have serious side effects. The symptoms returned when the patients stopped drinking the mixture said Weinstock, professor of internal medicine. The importance of contact with environmental organisms is supported by studies of mice specially bred to be germ-free,...

Prevention is better than cure

...lds than non-smokers and are more likely to suffer serious complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Though colds are generally contracted from other people, social isolation also increases susceptibility to colds.Stress is another factor that increases chances of a person contracting a cold. There ...

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

...d at unnecessary risk of adverse events, including serious rash, if they are mistakenly given Lamictal. The most common dispensing errors have been between Lamisil(R), an antifungal tablet and Lamictal.In these instances, either Lamisil was substituted for Lamictal or Lamictal was substituted for Lamisil. ...

Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...bled by a cough. The side effect is not considered serious by doctors, but it is the most common reason why patients abandon ACE inhibitors.// In Seoul, at the School of Medicine, researchers, have found a way of treating the cough. They gave ten patients on ACE inhibitors, with the cough, iron supplement...

Say "no" to x-rays

...given to patients suffering lower back pain unless serious spinal disease is suspected. <br...

Dark skin protects

... less likely than people with fair skin to develop serious skin diseases. It also explains why all do not have black skin. Melanin is made from the amino acid tyrosine, which is also needed to build proteins. In prehistoric days when food was scarce in cold, dry areas, tyrosine was probably conserved to m...

Vaccination reminder for anyone over 65..

... you from pneumonia, meningitis, and various other serious infections. The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention official recommends it for anyone over 65. If you are otherwise healthy, you only need one dose. Some people with health problems may even benefit from the vaccine at a younger age. And if yo...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...s from the original tumor to the bone, can lead to serious complications called skeletal related events like fractures, compression of the spinal cord, severe bone pain and hypercalcemia.// Zometa is a new generation intravenous bisphosphonate that was approved by the FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 200...

Early puberty linked to nutrition

...e in a long term, the early menstruation entails a serious risk for health, because the long exposition to estrogens can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Besides the excess of body fat is a source of extra feminine hormones, because its secretion doesn’t only depend of the activity of the ova...

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