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Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

... of this problem is to perform an on the spot skin test to check if the patient is actually hypersensitive... penicillin allergy, make sure to do a simple skin test because jumping to conclusions!!...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

... more difficult for tumor cells to reproduce. To test the efficacy of the drug, the oncologists prescribed the new drug to a group of patients with cancer. All of the 120 patients given IMC-C225 were diagnosed with cancer that was progressing. When given the drug 22.5 percent of the patients achieved a ...

Doctors advice early anemia tests

...ing babies for iron deficiency with a simple blood test can prevent these problems, as they grow older. The Institute of Child Health at the University in Southwestern England has pioneered a research in this field. Dr Andrea Sheriff led the study. Sheriff and her colleagues examined blood samples taken f...

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

... of the treatment. The study was designed only to test the safety and not the effectiveness of the treatment of hemophilia. This disease is genetically transmitted and is characterised by excessive bleeding. Researchers belive this study could some day be applied to treat other diseases such as diabete...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...netic resonance imaging (MRI), a stroke assessment test and the number of hours between the onset of the stroke and the MRI to determine the severity of the stroke. The size of the stroke abnormalities in the brain as a result of blood clot can be measured using the MRI. Simple tests called the stroke a...

Test-tube babies show no emotional problems

...The world's first study that followed in-vitro, or test tube, babies to the brink of adolescence showed th...r children. Since Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born 23 years ago, more than a million children worldwide have been born using Assist...

Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed

...ence in bringing down the disease and he said that test kits have been supplied to all public hospitals in the city and the state has begun a massive public education programme. "The treatment is very simple and consists of a course of antibiotics, once the patient comes in on time. If there is delay dea...

Double impact vaccine

.... A pilot study is now underway at Mayo clinic to test the use of live measles vaccine virus in patients diagnosed with lymphoma. The two main types of Lymphoma include Hodgkin's disease and non Hodgkin's lymphoma, each having its own spread, growth and response to treatment. Chemotherapy alone or in co...

Blocked viens block eye sight

...es not damage the vulnerable vein. He now plans to test how good the plasma-powered bullets are at cutting tissue during microsurgery. As lasers tend to damage the surrounding tissues by creating bubbles in local body fluids, the pure saline jet might make even finer cuts without causing stress to the nea...

Big and Bright

... born weighing less than 2500 grams) have lower IQ test scores at school age - and the smaller the babies at birth, the larger the IQ deficit. The new study showed the association between birth weight and IQ was stronger in boys than girls, with a 1000g increase in birth weight related to a 4.6 incr...

Early detection of prostate cancer

...ostate cancer who could not be detected by the PSA test could potentially be picked up by measuring levels...mon cancer in men over 55, but there is no single test that is sufficiently accurate to justify a program of screening all men in this age group. Current...

Early detection of heart attack

Researchers have found a new test to assess chest pain is accurate in more rapid dia... all others discharged. The results showed the new test is accurate and effective at ruling out heart damage within six hours in patients who are not suffer...

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

...ill 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-clotting drugs....

Breast milk is essential

...Odense, followed 345 randomly selected children to test out the idea that breast-feeding had some effect on a baby's mental development. "Our data suggests that longer breast-feeding benefits cognitive development," they said. They added that the intimacy of breast-feeding may be important as well as th...

Need for Colon cancer screening

...ce in 5 years in older people (above 50).The usual test is the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) which looks for traces of blood shed by a tumour, or the sigmoidoscopy - an examination of th...

Genetic influence in menopause

...nopause. In future it might be possible that a DNA test may be able to tell a woman exactly when she will have her menopause and this may enable her to make more informed choices about when to start a family and how to plan her career. The average age of menopause is 51, but some women stop menstruating m...

Memory problem? solve a crossword

...ve have a better blood supply to the brain, higher test scores in some cognitive areas and improved reaction time.Even those who have never exercised before can improve improve their problem solving abilities by taking up walking, say the researchers....

Babies of the deaf communicate

... speech into understandable chunks.// In order to test that theory, Petitto compared three babies with normal hearing to three babies with normal hearing who had been born into homes of deaf parents who mainly communicated to them through sign language. The babies were videotaped and computers tracked th...

New test for heart attack

A new test really helps detect heart problems. A test for cardiac enzymes allows doctors to spot those people with chest pain who are really having a hear...

Keep guilt off

...develop a pleasure-guilt ratio for each student.To test immune systems, students gave a saliva sample to determine their levels of immunoglobulin A (IgA). This substance is used as an indicator of the health of the body's immune system. The students rated sex 8.9 out of 10 for pleasure and just 1.6 for g...

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