Brain Tumor Drug in Frogs A New Report
...d therapeutics with the potential to help patients suffering from cancer and other dismal diseases.The company is now working on pre-clinical trials of Amphinase with a view to beginning clinical trials in the future....Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life
... based on the neurophysiological model - for those suffering from tinnitus. She points out that it is a treatment the aim of which is to get the patient to become accustomed to the noise. To achieve this, therapeutic advice and sound therapy are used. The father of TRT is professor Pawel J. Jastreboff, who ...Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial
...ted median survival time in a group of 28 patients suffering from recurrent late stage glioblastoma multiforme. This was considered a promising development in this serious and deadly disease, which kills half of its victims within 14 months of diagnosis. Peregrine believes that combined positive data from th...Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
...hase III clinical study of Vekacia(R) in children suffering from Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) at the XIV ... from May 2006 to October 2006. Most patients were suffering from perennial VKC (90 patients, 76.3%) and were presented at study entry with a mixed form of VKC (...Kidney Donor Alleges Fraud by Doctors
...am district, about 250 km from Hyderabad, had been suffering from kidney failure for few years. He was admitted to the Osmania General Hospital three months ago. Since both his kidneys had failed, Radhika offered to donate one of her kidneys. The woman claimed that all pre-transplantation reports showed that...Paris Suffered from 'life-threatening' Psychiatric Condition, Says LA Sheriff
...nded his decision and said that the socialite was suffering from a 'life-threatening' psychiatric condition called decompensating. 'Decompensating' is a condition is the deterioration of one's mental state to the point of severe depression, nervousness or hallucination. Baca also said that the Simple Life...Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia
Kids suffering from pneumonia may no longer have to worry about the doctor's needle, for a new study has found that the less painful oral treatment works just as well as injections. The first of its kind study by researchers at The University of Nottingham showe...Gatifloxacin Very Effective for Typhoid Treatment
...ult, leading to patients taking longer to recover, suffering more complications and continuing to spread the disease to their family and to their community. Clinical investigators based at Patan Hospital Lalitpur in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam have completed ...Chilean President's Cousin Successfully Tests Allergy 'Knockout' Technique on Mice
...administration of the antibody in nose drops, mice suffering from sever chronic asthma completely reverted to normal in less than two months. Termed RECEPTRA, the pioneering project presents a novel therapeutic strategy for acute and chronic allergic diseases, and is currently being licensed through Yissum,...Researchers Identify Five Distinct Subtypes of Alcoholism
...lism by analysing a national sample of individuals suffering from alcohol dependence. Our findings should help dispel the popular notion of the typical alcoholic, notes first author Dr. Howard B. Moss, NIAAA Associate Director for Clinical and Translational Research. We find that young adults comprise the ...Helpline Launched for Hearing Impaired
...here Saturday for providing assistance to children suffering from hearing disabilities. Social Service Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), launched the Shishu Sravana Helpline, which will provide information about the nearest hospitals where treatment facilities are available for children wit...Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis
...eeks ago said: Doctors are saying that my child is suffering from Encephalitis. It began with vomiting and high fever. The symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis virus are seemingly mild, but the disease can cause meningitis and inflammation of the heart in newborn babies. India's worst encephalitis outbreak in...Better Resources Needed To Control Hospital Infections
Already stressed hospital systems are suffering under the added burden of antibiotic-resistant inf...des prolonged patient length of stay and increased suffering for the patient, says Professor Collignon. Professor Collignon says that to reduce the prevalence ...Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility
... levels of MIF have also been found in individuals suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. A few years ago UK cancer researchers said they had discovered a molecule that played a key role in the development of sperm. Sperm cells develop in the testes and undergo a series of changes until they are mature and v...Stressed Mice may Hold Clue to How Fat is Stored: Study
...ers. With more than 300 million people worldwide suffering from obesity and 800 million more considered overweight, according to international estimates, ever more scientists are joining the search for that miracle molecule that will slim us all down. While most pharmaceutical solutions have so far focused...A Blood Test Developed in Australia to Repair DNA Damage
...eventing disease is an opportunity to reduce human suffering and the costs of degenerative diseases to the community," Pyne said. "A growing body of scientific evidence has linked the degeneration of the human genome to an increased likelihood of degenerative diseases, such as cancer an Alzheimer's disease. ...INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia
...ng safety and tolerability in 114 elderly patients suffering from schizophrenia.(iii). The primary measure of efficacy was the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), a tool commonly used in schizophrenia research that measures the severity of positive and negative symptoms and general psychopathology....INVEGA(TM) Gets Marketing Authority from EU to Treat Schizophrenia
...ng safety and tolerability in 114 elderly patients suffering from schizophrenia.(iii) The primary measure of efficacy was the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), a tool commonly used in schizophrenia research that measures the severity of positive and negative symptoms and general psychopathology. ...Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient
...tive. "The attitude of people regarding patients suffering from AIDS has changed. That's why I am here inaugurating this bar. Had this situation been there earlier, even my husband would have got some treatment for the disease," said Pooja, who is now an AIDS activist. Even female condoms are being offere......o non-diabetic." He also said that most patients suffering this condition snore in sleep. The air passages behind the nose and throat end close when a person goes into deep sleep, resulting in reduced oxygen supply to lung, heart and brain. This could lead to snoring and people could find it difficult to bre...