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Sydney’s hospital gets the latest in cancer treatmen

...re. For each particular patient you can absolutely tailor how much radiation you want to go to a particular spot, so treatment is swift, recovery is quick, patients have fewer side effects." Prostate cancer patient Kim Harvey said, "I'm extremely confident I've made the right decision here."...

Personalized Medicine and Innovative Pharmaceuticals

...ng the side-effects by evolving medicines that are tailor –made to a person’s genetic information. Indeed this will be a whole new story in the development of drugs. Amalia M. Issa, a pharmacologist and clinical epidemiologist is the director of the Program in Personalized Medicine and Targeted Therapeut...

Africa's vets to gain from web-based training

...e able to select from a wide variety of options to tailor the programme to meet their professional needs. The part-time and online nature of this programme makes it especially suitable for working professionals, rurally based participants and women." Initially, courses will be available in Ethiopia, Kenya,...

Web-Based Training Programme For Africa Vets

...e able to select from a wide variety of options to tailor the programme to meet their professional needs. The part-time and online nature of this programme makes it especially suitable for working professionals, rurally based participants and women." Initially, courses will be available in Ethiopia, Kenya...

Tackling Drug Addition in UK

...tralia, said that these rehab programmes should be tailor made and should suit different people. People should be made to know that drug rehabilitation is long-term process. Bill Nelles is general secretary of the Methadone Alliance who has received methadone treatment for 20 years. He said that the trea...

Sensor Can Detect "Unhealthy" Molecules In Breath

...re accurate diagnosis, but we will also be able to tailor treatments to the individual. For instance, if a patient is taking steroids for asthma, we would be able determine whether they were being given the right amount of steroids from the molecules in their breath which relate to the severity of the infla...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia May Attain a 90% Cure Rate

...racial backgrounds or their ability to pay, and to tailor the treatment according to their specific needs. That success is based to a large extent on the work done at St. Jude and elsewhere in identifying specific mutations in leukemic cells that strongly suggest the likelihood that treatment will fail t...

Snappy Mobiles Known To Cause Snappish Behavior in Families

...olution for the burgeoning malady. Employers could tailor Employee Communication policy around reasonable expectations. Employees, on their part, could consider allocating family time during which communication devices can be shut off. Working mothers to be given reprieve by fathers to handle Child matters ...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...ive) group. The information should help physicians tailor cancer treatment for specific patients. Dr. Andrew D. Seidman, a breast cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, said the study ``will reaffirm the way that many oncologists are now practicing'' and should help d...

Surgery of spine for back pain may not be cost effective

...sions where the patients undergo exercise programs tailor made for them, along with hydrotherapy, and cognitive behavior therapy. The rehabilitation program slowly brings them back to their life by helping them in getting settled to a new way of life that will not cause any more stress to cause severe back ...

A Better Understanding Of The Brain Network

... the brain network does what, they will be able to tailor physical therapy approaches to an individual's brain deficit....

A Urine Test Could Predict Rejection In Transplant Patients

...ninvasive monitoring could allow doctors to better tailor immunosuppression drugs according to individual patient’s needs, prescribing lower doses to more stable patients or increasing doses for patients who show early signs of rejection....

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

...ople as they age, one will have the information to tailor one's care to this patient population....

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

...or good," he said. "For example, we may be able to tailor future treatment methods to try to suppress or purge the virus from these cells. George said that his team of researchers is already experimenting to see which AIDS drugs best fight HIV in NK cells. Hence it appears that the class of drugs known as ...

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