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Treating Blocked Arteries In The Lower Limbs

...hers say, stent placement should be considered the standard of care for treating patients with abnormal circulation due to the obstruction of the iliac arteries. Analyzing available data, the investigators found blood circulation improved with stents in 484 limbs out of 496 limbs of patients suffering from ch...

Zinc Supplements Found To Be Effective In Treating Children With ADHD

...For six weeks, half of the children were given the standard treatment of stimulants along with zinc supplements and half were given stimulants along with a placebo. Researchers say the children taking zinc improved much faster than the others. Specialists say, behavior improved in both groups of children, ...

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

...is time, doctors cleared his blocked arteries with standard balloon angioplasty then inserted special metal stents to keep the arteries open. These new stents are coated with the cancer drug paclitaxel, also known as Taxol. "When we look at these stents six to nine months later with ultrasound, we see a per...

Strategies That Might Lower Blood Pressure Questioned

...a healthier diet, had more or less of an effect as standard care. Nearly 300 patients without an established history of high blood pressure were randomized into one of eight groups defined by three factors: an information booklet; low sodium, high potassium salt; prompt sheets for high fruit, vegetable, fiber...

Stent Effective In Keeping Arteries Open

... study, 27 received the new stents and 15 received standard stents. Standard stents have metal mesh tubes used to keep vessels open after balloon angioplasty opens the clogged artery. Everolimus also has promise in preventing heart and kidney rejection after transplantation....

Laproscopic Surgery As Effective As Open Surgery

... that the surgical community should apply the same standard operating techniques to safely remove cancer when they perform even the less invasive mode of surgery ....

New Test To Detect Irregular Heartbeats

...irregular heartbeats identifies problems missed by standard tests, find researchers. Investigators evaluated ...ered a stroke or mini-stroke. All were tested with standard EKGs. The standard test identified 10 patients with atrial fibrillation. The remaining patients unde...

Hope For Patients With Prostate Cancer

...estramustine while the other half was treated with standard care, which is mitoxantrone and prednisone. Researchers found improved survival among the men who received the docetaxel/estramustine treatment and it was also found that there was a greater significance in survival rates . Men in the docetaxel/estr...

Effective Control Of Blood Sugar Levels

.... Each participant was assigned to practice either standard or intense diabetes control. Patients in the standard therapy group checked their blood sugar one or two times daily and gave themselves only one or two i...

Hope For Patients With Lung Cancer

...percent. These are patients who did not respond to standard therapy. Researchers say, until now, no treatments... of 6.7 months compared to 4.7 months for those on standard therapy. Although, it’s a difference of only two months, researchers say it’s a significant finding....

Laser Surgery for Allergy

... only be offered to patients who are not helped by standard anti allergy prescription drugs....

Studying The Causes Of Autism

...e experienced fetal distress, have low scores on a standard test to measure functioning in newborns, and have been delivered via cesarean section. Researchers conclude saying that the above observed complications are generally nonspecific and cannot predict autism development however they feel that their res...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Found To Increases Fracture Risk

...ions to prevent fractures should be implemented in standard care....

Identifying Virus Found To Be Essential for HIV Patients

...atus in about 375 people infected with HIV using a standard test. Investigators followed the patients for three years, noting new cases of CMV disease, development of new AIDS-related disorders, and deaths.Results showed patients who were CMV positive had significantly shorter times to progression of the dise...

Blocking Pain Found To Slow Down The Healing Process

Researchers say standard post-operative pain medications widely prescribed for rotator cuff surgery may actually delay healing .// The rotator cuff is composed of the muscles and tendons that surround the top of the upper arm bone and hold it to the shoulder joint. The res...

Recovery After Heart Transplantation

...this. Hence researchers say patients doing well on standard heart transplant medications will not need to switch to Everolimus for the moment....

Intensive Treatment Found To Help Patients With Arthritis

... with steroid injections. The other group received standard care, which consisted of treatment every three months in an outpatient clinic. Patients on the more intense therapy also underwent monthly assessments of their disease to help doctors plan their treatment. After 18 months, 82 percent of the patients...

New Treatment Option for Colorectal Cancer

...r patients who have colorectal cancer that resists standard chemotherapy treatment. New research shows the dru...n as Erbitux, may be a promising new therapy. The standard treatment for colorectal cancer patients is the drug irinotecan (Camptosar) that can be given alone ...

Good News for HIV Patients Also Suffering From Hepatitis C Virus

... to rid their bodies of HCV than those who receive standard therapy. The finding is important because as many as 300,000 of the estimated 1 million Americans infected with HIV also have HCV, and as people live longer with HIV, HCV is becoming a serious health problem. The multinational study compared treatm...

The Use Of MRI For Screening Of Breast Cancer Questioned

...s in women at high risk of developing cancers than standard mammograms // or clinical breast exams. The study involved around 1,900 women with a lifetime breast cancer risk of 15 percent. The group included 358 women who also carried one of the genes known to put women at particularly high risk for the disea...

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