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New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...dose used. Hence studies were conducted in another study group of 498 patients with a much smaller dose. This time, low blood pressure struck only about 4 percent of patients. So the FDA approved an injection containing the lower Natrecor dose. Studies showed patients could breathe better as blood circul...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

...e issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the study found a strong association between men with infertility problems and the subsequent risk of testicular cancer, with men in couples with fertility problems being over 1.5 times more// likely to develop testicular cancer than other men. Though there ...

Ear infection- a new treatment

The study in this week’s British Medical Journal shows that bacteria with the ability to inhibit the growth of the pathogens responsible for ear infections can be used successfully and may help reduce the use of antibiotics. Acute Otitis Media is one of the m...

Depression and heart failure

According to a new study at the Duke University in the United States, depression increases the risk of dying from heart failure. The link between depression and coronary artery disease is well established and generally have a worse outcome. They screened 357 patients diagn...

Say "no" to x-rays

...r back pain can appear to worsen the outcome. The study tracked two groups of patients - 421 in all - who ...d limitation of actvities. The authors said their study shows that radiography should not be given to patients suffering lower back pain unless serious spin...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...se the risk of miscarriage. The comments follow a study by Danish reseacher Gunnar Lauge Nielsen and colle...earchers used prescription //records to identify a study group of pregnant women who had taken NSAIDs and followed them through to see what happened to their...

Chaste plant a boon

The British Medical Journal last week published a study on the agnus castus fruit, also known as “Chaste t...tion which keeps the menstrual cycle regular. The study followed 178 women diagnosed with PMS who suffered symptoms such as unstable mood, anger, anxiety, t...

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

... HPA-2 Met. However, the majority of men in this study had other risk factors, like smoking or diabetes. But it does not mean that this gene variant is a caution for death. Till now there is no screen for HPA-2 Met, but if a test were developed, those at risk could perhaps be helped by preventive anti-cl...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

A major US study has found that women who have taken postmenopausal...he Journal of the American Medical Association.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 to 1996 and found ERT (oestrogen replacement therapy...

Action of nerve cells

...of Biology, Univerity of Utah . According to a new study Eric and his colleagues demonstrated that UNC-13 is necessary for helping another protein named syntaxin to send signals to the adjacent neurons.In a series of experiments, Jorgensen showed that without UNC-13, the syntaxin protein remins closed and ...

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...he cattle saved the cost to around one fifth. The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spraying.It was also found that such methods adopted to eradicate the mosquitoes had no toxic reaction...

Iron supplements proves helpful in dry cough .

... cells. Dr. Hong and colleagues embarked on their study based on reports that iron supplementation decreases NO generation or diminishes NO-related cell damage....

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...owance, said Dr. Mark Levine, lead author of a new study supporting the increase for women.'We've been reco...ay to fight off the common cold and cancer. In the study of healthy young women, however, the vitamin did not change the level of isoprostanes, compounds tha...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

A new study reveals that obesity raises the risk of pancreatic cancer, but this can be modified by exercise.Only one person in 20 can expect to live for more than five years after pancreatic cancer has been diagnosed and little has been known about how to preven...

Prevention of cataracts

A new study provides further evidence that nutrient antioxidants play a role in the prevention of cataracts. Researchers from Tufts University studied more than 575 women ages 53 to 77 from the Nurses' Health Study. The women did not have diabetes nor did they...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

...ity to recognise the displayed HIV fragment. The study indicates that the virus can learn //how to evade the immune response in one person, and that it retains this ability even after it is transmitted to the next person according to researchers. When this happens, the immune sustem is forced to use a s...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

...tal cancer. Dr. Carlo La Vecchia, who led the study said "For a while now we have suspected that estrogen in the pill could protect against bowel cancer and our research has gone some way to confirm this In the future, it may be possible //to develop new treatments that take advantage of the anticance...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

A new study suggests that flaxseed lowers female hormone levels and may thereby reduce breast cancer risk.The flax plant has been used for thousands of years - the fibres to make linen and the ground seeds in bread and cereal.The seeds are rich in lignans, which...

Surviving surgery

According to a new study older patients run a higher risk from elective surgery. Researchers in the US have tried to quantify the risks associated with surgery, which should help patients and doctors make more wise choices. Deciding on having an operation is never a zero ris...

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

... drug's effect on the serotonin uptake system.This study was done by comparing the blood flow in the brain using magnetic resonance imaging of their brains of dug users and then comparing them with brain scans of similar aged non-users."The longer a person uses ecstasy, their brain shrinks," said Dr. Lind...

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