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Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...tionship and rarely tell patients about the drugs' success rate, alternative treatments and other key information. The pharmaceutical industry argues the ads inform and educate consumers, prompt many to see their doctor about an untreated health problem and prod others to take their prescription drugs more ...

Attempting Hypnosis for relaxation

...ike smoking,// reduce stress and relieve pain. Its success depends upon why it is being used, and how readily the person can enter the altered awareness of the hypnotic state, say doctors at the Mayo Clinic. But most people can benefit from a simple form of self hypnosis. This involves finding a quiet plac...

Cell transplants used to fend off Parkinson's symptoms

Doctors report they have had long-term success implanting cells into the brains of Parkinson's disease patients by passing a needle through the skull. Dr. Ray Watts, professor of //neurology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, told that patients had improved motor function - moveme...

Filtration treatment assigns more live kidney donation

...t can cause donor kidney rejection allows a higher success rate with live donor transplants. Many patients need a kidney transplant but are denied one because no donor organ can be found. Body organs, from dead bodies, are in short supply, and to have a kidney from a live donor //means they must be of a comp...

Fame brings wealth but not health

...healthy lifestyles - squandering the benefits that success bestows. And maybe being in the public eye somehow benefits the health of the winning actors and actresses. The study suggests that it's how you use fame and wealth that matters rather than merely possessing it....

Gene therapy restores sight

... at the University of Pennsylvania, reported their success in this month's Nature Genetics.Their experiment involved dogs with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a form of blindness, that also affects human infants and for which there is no treatment.// The disease involves a defect in the genes responsible ...

Benefits in fertility procedures

...nly one embryo may be implanted and the chances of success drastically decrease. Dr. Werlin says it appears PGD makes no difference in this group, although results on more women could alter the findings. Dr. Werlin says this is one of very few randomized studies to look at the benefits of PGD on specific wo...

Brachytherapy for breast cancer

...al, Michigan found that it has been used with some success in prostate cancer. A group of 200 women were assigned to either a lose dose or a high dose implant, placed in the lumpectomy cavity after surgery for early stage breast cancer. Follow-up suggested that five year outcomes are similar to those for th...

Sepsis treatment functions best in difficult cases

...ory agents, which can damp down the infection. But success of anti-inflammatory agents is variable. Researchers in the US carried out a large retrospective study, covering 20 clinical trials and 35 pre-clinical trials on animals. This revealed that anti-inflammatory agents were most effective when the patien...

Bridge to liver transplant looks encouraging

...rs now, but the liver is such a complex organ that success has been elusive. However, researchers at the University of Michigan are now having success with a device that can filter toxins out of the blood, mimicking the liver's cleansing action. The l...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

... Cancer Institute. This research will build on the success of the human genome project and will have scientists looking at nearly 10,000 genes, inactivating one at a time to find out precisely what they do and how they contribute to the development of cancer. They hope// that this effort will ultimately lead...

Second hope for men with erectile dysfunction

...ork, but did not help perform well, the chances of success may be much higher with the new drugs. And finally, all three drugs share similar side effects(headaches & heartburn) and precautions(relating to cardiac events)....

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

...g to a new study. In this scenario, the chance for success is comparable to that of one cycle of a type of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in which sperm is directly injected into an egg. Besides reversing a vasectomy, another option for men who have gone under the knife is to have sperm extracted and then used...

Stem cells offer hope for muscular dystrophy

...uscular dystrophy. Their early work has shown some success in mice but they warned any real progress is years away. Writing in the journal Science, the team lead by Dr. Giulio Cossu of the Stem Cell Research Institute in Milan and the University of Rome said certain stem cells //had been coaxed into strengt...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...icon, is 40 years old this year. The drug owes its success to the stubborn streak of chemist Leo Sternbach, who refused to quit after his boss at Hoffmann-La Roche ended a project to develop a tranquilizer to compete with a rival company's drug. Sternbach tested one last version and in just a day, he got the...

Vaccine Reduces antibiotic-resistant infections in Children

...chers say their study may not reflect the ultimate success of the vaccine because it was conducted only nine months after the vaccine was introduced. Researchers say "The use of this vaccine in combination with recently reported decreases in antibiotic prescribing are two important steps in protecting child...

New Test for HIV Patients

...d measurement, another test required to assess the success of HIV treatment."...

Free Tissue Transfer Effective in Treating Massive Skin Cancers

... damage from these cancers has been difficult. The success doctors have had with taking tissue from one part of the body and using it to repair other damaged parts, however, is promising for these patients. A new study shows the disfiguration caused by massive skin cancers on the face can be effectively rep...

Methamphetamine Users Found To Suffer From Mood Disorders

...people to determine how brain activity affects the success of addiction therapy. Participants completed quest...ders in methamphetamine users may help improve the success of addiction treatment. Most methamphetamine users undergo behavioral therapy because no medications...

Epilepsy Drug May Relieve Chronic Headaches

...d anti-epileptic drug. Studies have also shown its success in treating other pain-related health issues like diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, and migraine headache. Since gabapentin often reduces migraines by more than 50 percent and chronic daily headaches often have migraine-like features, rese...

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