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Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

...to get a large number of laboratories activated on testing them, but also seeks to start registering farmers ...g, the government has decided to recognise private testing laboratories. A notification is being issued for encouraging people to get these drugs tested, perha...

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

...ns earlier in life and requires a regimen of blood testing and insulin injections. It happens when cells in the body normally responsible for dealing with excess blood sugar lose their ability to respond to insulin, the hormone which instructs them to perform this function. The increased blood sugar level...

New treatment for diabetics

...n. However Desai sad that it will need a lot more testing before diabetic patients can use it....

Wheat wards off colon cancer

... cancer-fighting ability because their preliminary testing shows some available wheat strains already contain a great number of orthophenols.Antioxidants can be found in several vitamins, including vitamins E and D, but research shows that eating whole grain products and wheat germ is critical for the antiox...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...er a cardiac arrest. Doctors in Vienna have been testing this idea. They looked at patients who had experienced cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation - an abnormal heart rhythm. One group had their body temperature reduced to 34 to 32 degrees - hypothermia - over 24 hours, while the other group re...

Stent shows promise in keeping arteries open

...th the new technique - the drug-coated stent. //In testing on 50 patients over 3 years, they found it to be 100 percent effective. More than 2 million Americans undergo angioplasty annually, and the new approach is likely to be used on most of them if these promising results hold up in further testing. Th...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...e special care in prescribing Arava, by repeatedly testing patients' livers for signs of harm. Unlike other drugs that can clear the body shortly after patients swallow a dose, Arava can takes months to dissipate. According to him, there is not much doctors can do if a patient shows signs of trouble. Yet so...

Drug to treat lung cancer shows promise

... long exposed to tobacco. Experts say large-scale testing will be necessary to show that the approach truly lowers the risk of lung cancer, but they say the latest findings make biological sense. "It's an intriguing, promising finding in a small patient population. When people give up smoking, they retain a...

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...er. “While more research is needed before clinical testing can begin, we hope it will help identify early-stage cancer that could be vulnerable to aggressive treatment, perhaps with drugs that target Rho protein....

Gene variation simulates cholesterol response to oestrogen

... so well. More research is needed before genetic testing for oestrogen receptor alpha can be recommended for women considering HRT. But this study promises a way of detecting those women who can most benefit from hormone replacement....

Needle free future for diabetics

...he skin without pricking it makes for easier blood testing in diabetes. Iontophoresis is a relatively new method which uses the application of an electric field// to draw molecules into and out of the skin's barrier without the need for an injection. It could mean taking blood samples without a syringe, and ...

Treadmill test displays hidden heart disease

...rs at Hopkins University have found that treadmill testing is a useful way of pinpointing those at risk of he...reathlessness. According to researchers, treadmill testing can show up hidden weaknesses long before heart problems become obvious. They report on a study of ...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...rain anaesthetised briefly as part of preoperative testing for brain surgery to treat epilepsy. Each patient was shown and asked to remember a morphed computer image blending the patient's own face with the face of a famous person. After the anesthesia wore off, patients were asked to choose which face they...

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

...ing genetic variation in these patients. Genetic testing for a part of the immune system called HLA was performed in a subgroup of these sleepwalkers. Half of them were carrying a specific genetic variant of HLA, compared to just 20 per cent in a control group of non-sleepwalker. It's not yet clear just ho...

A promising treatment for wart removal

...of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are analysing and testing the needs. In a previous trial, they showed how a single injection got rid of warts in 70 per cent of participants.// The new treatment is a form of immunotherapy - that is, it stimulates the body to fight and destroy warts using its own defences. ...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...hip. Physicians will need to be on notice to begin testing more routinely for pancreatic cancer in cases late-onset diabetes, Keeffe said. Dr. Cynthia Yoshida, of the University of Virginia, told, "most clinicians knew this intuitively," but the study added a critical time and age element. She noted the mea...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

...ing a rule that lets the government require safety testing of adult medicines commonly given to children, a move that has drawn the ire of some Democratic lawmakers. FDA says Congress recently reauthorized financial incentives for manufacturers to do those studies. The FDA said it wants to see if the new law...

Ulcer causing bug found in stored food

...urate follow-up, they then conducted genetic-based testing on the chicken and determined that 50% of the chicken pieces tested positive for the presence of the H. pylori bacteria....

High Levels of Protein Linked to Brain Shrinkage

... healthy elderly people who underwent homocysteine testing and brain scans to detect brain atrophy. Participants with more extensive brain atrophy were more likely to have higher blood levels of homocysteine, according to a team led by Dr. Perminder Sachdev of the University of New South Wales in Australia. ...

Hypertension drugs could lower Disability

... hypertension drugs or using none. During repeated testing over the three-year period, the subjects walking speeds were measured and they were graded on muscle strength. Correlating that data to pharmaceutical records, the researchers found women on continuous ACE inhibitor therapy had a lower average decli...

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