strategy 1 6

Tag: "strategy" at medical news

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

...tional efforts against the disease. The aim of its strategy is to support Member States in their efforts to re...ds in asthma; · develop and implement an optimal strategy for its management and prevention (many studies have shown that this will result in the control of a...

New Mechanism Identified for Resistance to Targeted Lung Cancer Drugs

...many types of cancer. It also suggests a treatment strategy for patients with these resistant tumors. "We found that, for about 20 percent of patients with tumors that become resistant to Tarceva or Iressa, resistance is caused by the genetic activation of an oncogene that is not the normal target of the dr...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

..., researchers used a relatively new, comprehensive strategy known as a genome-wide association study. "Genome-wide association studies offer a powerful way to uncover the genetic variations that contribute to diabetes, as well as other common conditions, such as asthma, arthritis, heart disease, cancer and me...

Simple System Accurately Predicts Weight-loss Surgery Risk

...s have failed. However, our system shows that this strategy may need to be reconsidered. "If patients put off surgery while they attempt other weight-loss therapies that ultimately don't work, over time they risk moving into a higher-risk category as they gain more weight, get older or develop hypertension....

Local Councils Should Be Responsible for Tackling Health Inequalities

...tancy has continued to widen, and the government’s strategy for health inequalities is now more akin to redistributing health than to redistributing income or wealth. Drugs seem to offer an opportunity to redistribute health, and quickly. The looming 2010 target for narrowing the life expectancy gap in Engl...

Priority Needs to Be Given to Maternal Health in Afghanistan

....' 'In our work in Afghanistan and the overall strategy of the country, the big challenge facing human development in Afghanistan is to support women and girls so they can exercise their rights to education, to health, to decent work, to live free from violence, coercion and discrimination, and to partici...

Bed Nets - A Formidable Weapon Against Malaria In Africa

...the Middle East. They suggest the most effective strategy for preventing malaria infection is to avoid being bitten by infected mosquitoes. This would include staying indoors from dusk to dawn, when mosquitoes are biting most, wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants, sleeping under a mosquito net impregn...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...earch revealed that doctors were approached with a strategy befitting their personality type. The study revealed some of the key strategies employed by reps to break the ice and make positive inroads in their relationship with doctors. Mr. Ahari felt, that reps "create a subconscious obligation to reciproca...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...ons and national groups who collaborated to define strategy for moving the policy forward. Some of the key areas of strategy addressed at the meeting were as follows: ? Forming a consensus on agricultural production and foo...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...pact an individual’s ability to plan and execute a strategy to overcome a dilemma in daily life." These results would suggest that women are at risk of developing cognitive problems more rapidly than men, said Garbutt. "The results are particularly interesting because this population is a relatively ‘pure’...

Vaccine for Pancreatic Cancer Halts Progression of Disease in Some Patients

... University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "One strategy to improve the odds of survival is to help the imm... Our study, although small, demonstrates that this strategy can be used with some success in pancreatic cancer patients by slowing down, or even stopping, the p...

Head and Neck Cancer Vaccine Targets Proteins to Create Immune Response

Researchers have developed a vaccine strategy for head and neck cancer that targets multiple pep... formation of secondary tumors. "The key to our strategy is to select those p53 peptides that can best activate the immune system and induce it to produce im...

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

...antation from the brain dead is the right future strategy and must be vigorously propogated. There is a need to regulate, strengthen and tighten the grip on the reign of affairs related to organ transplant. Measures have been undertaken to salvage the scenario and this has already begun to have it...

Biocon Net Profit Up by 15 Percent for Fiscal Year

....3 per share, as recommended by the court. "Our strategy of building global scale in our products and services businesses has delivered robust profits this fiscal year. This has enabled us to invest incrementally in our innovation led research programmes which will deliver attractive shareholder returns in...

Exports Of Herbal & Dietary Products Has Huge Potential

...the State Medicinal Plants Board in preparation of strategy paper and action plan. The State Forest Departments will also have to play a key role in conservation and development of medicinal plants in forest areas through Joint Forest Management. Source-PIB ME/B...

Resistance Already Emerging in First Months of Treatment Despite Viral Load Decline

...uring the early treatment phase be considered as a strategy to control replication. In this study, published in the March 30th edition of AIDS, 15 mainly chronically infected patients were followed just prior to and during the early months of antiretroviral therapy. Plasma sampling was performed before an...

Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

... about the effectiveness of advance provision as a strategy to reduce unintended pregnancy at a population level,” Polis said. “The review is not about the effectiveness of EC; that is a separate matter.” The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collabor...

Breast Cancer Vaccine Stimulates Potent Immune Response to Cancer Cells

Mayo Clinic researchers have designed a new strategy in the promising field of cancer vaccine research .../ force against cancer cells. Scientists say their strategy may prove to be more successful than methods currently under study and in clinical trials. The res...

Genes That Spread Breast Cancer Fast Identified

...d then once they reach the lung, they use the same strategy to enter the lungs." Dr Massague is also looking at which genes promote metastasis to other sites in the body, such as brain and bone and whether the same or similar genes are involved in cancer spread in other cancer types, such as colon cancer. ...

Doctors Treat Early Heart Attacks Before Labs Could Confirmation It

...s of a larger trial, the Superior Yield of the New strategy of Enoxaparin, Revascularization, and GlYcoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (SYNERGY) trial. The study included patients who met two of the following criteria: at least 60 years old, elevated heart markers and an electrocardiogram test that indicated a po...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10