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Misleading Advertisements for Prescription Drugs

...that the US Food and Drug Administration mandate a standard format for summarizing the information about a drug in advertisements....

New light on Cardiology

...ed the effects of the ACE inhibitor in addition to standard therapy with placebo and vitamin E in a sample of about 7,580 high-risk patients with cardiovascular disease.In the HOPE sub-study, conducted by Dr James Chadwik and colleagues from the University of Baltimore, the electrocardiograms of 6,222 patient...

The best treatment for migraine

...comparison with the 'gold standard' sumitriptan, a standard dose of rizatriptan was more effective and reliable, and equally tolerable.// Eletriptan was also more effective - but less tolerable. And a third drug almotriptan was similar in its effectiveness, but scored higher on tolerability. Other drugs were ...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...rable condition each year. In the early 1990s, the standard treatment was to apply a dose of 3,600 cGy or rads (units of radiation) to the whole brain and spine, with higher doses to the cerebellum. However, most patients suffered severe neurological impairment in addition to tumour eradication. The current...

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...ation of contrast (dye) material.// It is the gold standard with a very high spatial resolution and temporal r...e rendered, not in the usual tomographic format of standard MR images, but as a projection over a large volume, similar to a conventional angiogram.It does not ...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

...w class of breast cancer drugs, worked better than standard therapy with tamoxifen in treating breast cancer i...drug with a generic version of tamoxifen, the gold standard treatment for advanced breast cancer. Femara was initially approved by the FDA in 1997 as treatmen...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

...egular heartbeats.// But the new warning says even standard low doses of droperidol can be dangerous, and thus doctors should try alternatives before using it. So the FDA issued warning and ordered manufacturer Akorn Pharmaceuticals to write thousands of doctors alerting them to the problem. Apparently the ...

Lancing tumours into the body

...ma says they could be injected into the body using standard hypodermic needles. Once inside a vein, they could... concedes that his swimming machines won’t replace standard tools such as catheters for medical operations any time soon, he thinks that nanobots even smaller t...

Less sodium,less pressure

...high (3300 mg per day), intermediate (2400 mg, the standard recommended amount), and low (1500 mg). The study found that the greatest blood pressure reduction occurred when the lowest sodium intake was combined with the DASH diet. This combination worked best for all population groups in the study. Study pa...

FDA Approves Elidel Cream for Eczema

...ema. It is intended for people who can't use other standard skin medications. Typically, doctors use steroids to treat eczema, which fight against swelling and inflammation but often bring side effects. Novartis reports there were side effects in the drug trials, but they were mild when compared to those wh...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

Addition of intravenous magnesium sulfate to standard emergency department migraine therapy with metoclo...study showed that the addition of magnesium to the standard therapy of metoclopramide may reduce the effectiveness of metoclopramide in relieving migraine." How...

Broccoli's role against cancer

...ve and toxic molecules called oxidants.// Unlike standard anti-oxidants that use the molecular equivalent of hand to hand combat, broccoli’s compound is a covert operative that works indirectly.Oxidants are like molecular hit men, damaging DNA and killing cells, eventually leading to cancer, retinal degener...

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

... Germany either butterbur extract or cetirizine, a standard 'non-drowsy' antihistamine, for two weeks. Accordi... a hypersensitive reaction. Antihistamines are the standard treatment for seasonal allergic rhinitis. While they successfully reduce sneezing, they are less eff...

New device for detecting artery blockages

...wo different images in a far shorter time than the standard ultrasound exam. When compared to the standard method, the new technique was found to be equally good in detecting blockages of the carotid arterie...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...e injectable anti-inflammatory drugs and set a new standard in arthritis treatment. Scios' ambitions are much larger than its market capitalization of a little more than $1 billion. That's because the first company to commercialize an oral version of today's dominant injectable drugs could gain the lion's sha...

Additional Radiotheraphy for Breast Cancer

...lts mean that a boost should now be considered the standard treatment for early breast cancer, particularly in younger women....

Gleevec gets hopeful results

...s with chronic leukemia. They all had received the standard drug, interferon, but after six months their cancer had gotten worse. The patients were switched to Gleevec, which they took once a day. After 18 months, the researchers could find no visible sign of the genetic abnormality that causes the disease in...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

...se them than patches. "This may well become a new standard treatment for some forms of amblyopia," the medical name for lazy eye, said Dr. Paul Sieving, director of the National Eye Institute. The study found the drops worked as well as patches in treating mild to moderate forms of the disorder in children a...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...e administered before brain cells die. The current standard requires that treatment begin within three hours of the onset of the stroke, and most patients who make it to the hospital on time get the drugs within the last half hour before that deadline. Now, a new report finds that earlier treatment - in the ...

An inventive blood test for diabetes

...sed risk of heart disease and kidney problems. The standard test involves measuring blood sugar and requires many hours of prior fasting. However, doctors at Hopkins University, have been trying out a new blood test. The HgA1c test can detect 60 per cent of cases of diabetes and does not need the person inv...

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