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Scotland lags far behind in meeting the demand of prostate cancer treatment

... 83.9% of patients are given proper treatment. The success rate for prostate cancer in Scotland is poor about 48% if the treatment is given on time. Dr Bob Masterton, lead cancer clinician for the west of Scotland, said that these patients have other secondary disease conditions and quick treatment strateg...

Try a consortia of cholesterol-lowering foods for best results

... Emphasizing diet changes in general can boost the success rate of statins while providing additional health benefits and a possible alternative for those for whom drugs are not a viable option," was the opinion and statement of Dr. Jenkins. A seven-day menu high in viscous fibres, soy protein, almonds and...

Death Due To Measles Plummet By About 50% Following WHO Campaign

...WHO was very happy to announce the results and the success of the campaign. But in South Asia it was very dif...hat they would not stop until they found a similar success rate in that region also. Hence they are planning to increase measles immunisation coverage in tha...

Military-based Research Labs Needed To Manage Bird Flu Threat

... say a group of military-affiliated experts. The success of the former and the current military labs could be exploited to incorporate a broad range of diagnostic abilities. This however would not be possible without employing personnel from diverse disciplines. The establishment could then be used to prov...

Be well informed and better advice the key to better living

...x, eight weeks" and he is always happy to hear the success stories. One of his concerns is that some early results -- good news, no matter how you attribute it -- can be chalked up to placebo effect. He sees six months as proving the overall results (or lack of benefits). "My question is, what is placebo?"...

A great hope for quitters of smoking by researchers

...er if there is a measurable difference in quitting success rates between the two groups in our trial." ...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

... eastern Europe pose significant challenges to the success of the program. Nearly 260, 000 TB related deaths that occurred during 2004 were a result of co-infection with HIV/AIDS. A majority of the TB patients live in highly populous countries in the Asian region. Infact, Pakistan, Indonesia, China and Ind...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...n. Here is hoping for an encore of the commercial success of Sujoy Ghosh's "Jhankar Beats" or the sophistication of Aparna Sen's "Mr. and Mrs. Iyer", "36 Chowringhee Lane", and Nagesh Kukunoor's "Three Walls". Higher international acceptability is also one of the reasons more and more filmmakers are going ...

Rituximad Can Treat Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Study

... and B cell activity in transplant recipients. The success of this approach suggests that anti-B cell therapies cold be tested as part of a strategy for preventing GVHD and treating it in its earliest stages.” Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (http://www.danafarber.org) is a principal teaching affiliate of the...

Incidence Of HIV/AIDS In The Indian Armed Forces Negligible

... treatment is started within 24 hours, 100 percent success is guaranteed. Even if there is delay in starting treatment, all is not lost," he said. Pointing out that the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the US armed forces was 0.026 percent, Singh said this was due to compulsory screening that the Indian governm...

An Effective Drug Identified for Shoulder Pain

...g's use in treating knee pain after it showed a50% success during the trail period. At present the FDA is currently reviewing the results in shoulder pain. Chronic shoulder pain is a common problem that is very difficult to treat. According to the National Institute of Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, s...

India On The Road To Become 'Open Defecation Free'

...em extremely encouraging after a new report on the success of their project reveled that since 2001 there has been a constant growth on the uses of toilets. "The growth in the use of toilets from 22 percent in 2001 to 38 percent of the population in 2006 (till February) is an encouraging sign." Announced M...

Tuberculosis Is Still A Major Health Threat In Africa

...eness in the people. The researcher says long-term success depends on the “empowerment and active involvement of communities in TB and other health concerns affecting them. According to Swiss info one third of the people with Aids also suffer from TB, with that itself killing almost half the population. Swi...

India to Implement National Action Plan against TB-HIV

...tes have come down to 4 % from 29 %. The treatment success rate has risen from 25 % to 86 % due to this programme being extended to almost all the states. In the report the minister read out the data that RNTCP in 1992 has treated 5.45 million patients saving nearly 9.8 lakh lives. Mr. Ramadoss also pointed ...

British fertility clinics have low success rates

... and psychological trauma. When compared to the success rates of fertility clinics in Belgium (40.5%) the clinics in Britain manage to attain a success rate of 28.6%. this is a very pathetic state as Britain was the first to produce test tube babies 12...

Liquid Respiration Respirator For Premature Babies

... of the good news is that though this machine is a success in prototype, and has been successfully tested in animals and near death premature babies, it would take a while to hit the markets. It is because there is no Perfluorocarbon available in the market. As babies use very little, and there is no known a...

India Can Become A Role Model In Combating HIV Infections

India's success in reducing new HIV infections in the southern states through awareness and condom-use campaigns could serve as a roadmap for other countries, says an Indo-Canadian expert.// 'There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India...

Fertility Treatment Can Be Affected By The Use Of Marijuana

...efore fertility treatment could greatly reduce the success of the procedure. This was found according to new studies when compared to couples that did not use it, marijuana is also popularly called as grass. // Dr Hillary Klonoff-Cohen of the University of California stated that if the studies were confirme...

Gene Therapy Helps To Cure 'Incurable' Illness

...ts said Sunday.Scientists believe that this latest success will lead to further operations for treating other such chronic and incurable conditions due to inheritance of defective genes. These cutting-edge techniques have mainly been used in the past to help sick children. Dorothee von Laer, gene therapy coo...

Malfunction Of Key Growth Factor Increases Mortality Rate From Pulmonary Fibrosis In Blacks

...iative: oxygen to increase the chance of breathing success and/or trying to generally boost the immune system. Neither approach is real therapy,However, "now that we've identified the c-Met malfunction, it gives us a good direction to follow," Bogatkevich said. "It's a promising target that seems to take the...

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