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Triple Therapy Shows Better Improvement of Brain Functions

...e but they were discharged from the hospital a day sooner than those taking only aspirin and three days sooner than those taking none of the drugs. Triple drug therapy patients showed lower risk of brain cell ...

Parents Concerned About Pesticide And Cancer Risk To Babies

...ticularly at increased risk of developing cancers, sooner or later in life. This could perhaps be attributed to the transfer of cancer causing chemicals from mother to baby, through breast milk. Dairy products, meat and other forms of diet is the main source of exposure to organochlorines. Children are co...

Premature Death - Smokers Puff Out Of life, Early

...ate to give up smoking, as studies have shown that sooner the smoker gives up, it enriches his health and certainly has a positive effect on longevity....

Smoking Related Illness Could Become A Major Cause Of Death By 2020

... Said German lung specialist Michael Barczok: "The sooner the disease is recognised, the better the chances to control it. Breathing problems after exertion are an early symptom." As of now, there are no therapies to rebuild lungs. What is destroyed is destroyed, said Pfeifer. --Edited IANS...

Trendsetters: Little girls fast track into ladies even before they know it

...more than 10 years, are reaching puberty 18 months sooner than their mothers and 2 years earlier than their grandmothers, a new research has revealed. // Early puberty is triggered by a range of factors that includes high levels of obesity, a lack of exercise and most certainly, broken homes, according to...

Better Communication With FDA Could Speed Up Approval Of New Drugs

...s found that newer medicines could hit the markets sooner if regulators met with the drug makers and apprised them of their concerns regarding that particular// medication before it went into the final phase of human testing. The report by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, on behalf of the FDA said tha...

New warning signs for child meningitis

... ill to being dead within 24 hours," he said. "The sooner a child can be spotted and admitted to hospital, higher the chances of survival." Dr Thompson led a team investigating children who contracted the most dangerous, bacterial form of meningitis. Most had only non-specific symptoms in the first four t...

Increase In Health Insurance Premium Likely In Australia

...vate health premium is likely be to be implemented sooner or later in Australia. // Despite reports of profit, insurers have approached the Federal Government to approve a 5 to 7% increase for the fifth consecutive year. If the proposal were to be approved, health consumers would have to pay nearly $300 f...

An unlikely contender for speedy surgery recovery: Chewing gum

...gum after elective colon resection surgery recover sooner than those who do not//. The study involves 102 ...ose who use chewing gum leave the hospital one day sooner than the other group. A possible explanation is that chewing gum after surgery can help prevent or ...

Complete Robotic Surgery To Revolutionize Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

...ment of prostate cancer with robotic arms promises sooner recovery, less pain, scarring and a // reduction in the post-operative complications. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death among American men. The disease is however less prevalent in Asian men. It is estimated that one in six males ...

Drug Herceptin To Be Recommended To All Breast Cancer Patients

...r widening the use of Herceptin cannot be made any sooner than February because data from independent research has to be evaluated before it can be submitted. Keywords: Breast cancer, Herceptin, Her-2/neu, treatment, tamoxifen, chemotherapy, anti estrogen therapy, drug, anti-cancer drug, medication, primary...

Weight gain intimately linked to prostate cancer

...he age of 25 were found to have aggressive cancers sooner than slow weight gainers. "Thirty percent of men who have biochemical failure will develop a life-threatening cancer metastasis, and so PSA is the only marker we have as yet to predict whose cancer will spread," Strom observed. She adds that underst...

Prostate cancer recurrence attributed to obesity and rate of weight gain

...table. Obese patients had elevated PSA levels much sooner after surgery – 12 months earlier – than their lighter counterparts. The incorporation of body mass index at time of diagnosis with other measures of prostate cancer progression could enhance the predictive value of tools used to determine the risk...

Zinc Effective In Helping Kids Recover From Pneumonia

...kids on the zinc supplements recovered about a day sooner than those on the placebo and stayed in the hospital about a day less. The treatment was well tolerated. However researchers say more studies need to be done to confirm the beneficial role of zinc supplements in the treatment of pneumonia ....

A Likely Breakthrough For Prostate Cancer Patients

...st men with prostate cancer would rather find out sooner than later if they have the disease. At present, men are tested for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen test. But since PSA levels normally go up and down over time, it’s hard // for doctors to know what a high reading is and what may...

Glucose may support in Cardiac Arrest

...he possibility magnesium could be helpful if given sooner after an attack and to people with a worse prognosis - such as the elderly or people who couldn't have their arteries widened or receive clot-busting drugs. The U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute funded a Harvard Medical School study of mo...

Scientists use plastic to help body make new bone!!!!

...er. If this breakthrough can heal the bony defects sooner and help in regrowth of bone faster, people with cancer spreading to the bones will be spared of a lot of trauma. This research also opens the possibility of man growing his own spare parts for his body himself inside his system. That day do...

Gene enchances radiation therapy - A novel approach to fight cancer

...ds, is within our reach," they lamented. Hope this sooner gets into the application to humans to put an end to the cancer morbidiity and mortality. Let us hope that future collaborations between the Yale and University of Pennsylvania research teams will result in further understanding the disease. "...

Fixing the way to a Man’s Heart

...cal developments are allowing men to get diagnosed sooner and for the better. A ten minute EBCT scan can detect even the smallest amounts of calcium deposits on artery walls. This helps patients to find out before they are in serious trouble whether they have high blood pressure and cholesterol problems o...

Identifying Irregular Heart Beats

...s say identifying people with irregular heartbeats sooner rather than later could help save many lives, because effective treatments exist to combat the problem and they also recommend that people should have their pulse checked by a physician to screen for atrial fibrillation at every doctor’s visit and at...

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