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New treatment for interstitial cystitis

...women , but can also affect men. Investigators are testing the bacteria Bacillus Calmette-Guerin(BCG), which from earlier studies was found to be effective in treating interstitial cystitis, by inserting six installations into the bladders of patients through a catheter. An earlier pilot study of BCG// also ...

Leptin is "new breast cancer indicator"

...t over the years and offer an alternative means of testing for breast cancer risk. The amount of leptin found in a woman’s bloodstream can indicate her accumulation of fat over the years. Measuring current body weight and fat intake doesn’t offer that kind of perspective, says Dr Hajek. The research team lo...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

... their mainland Chinese counterparts was ready for testing on animals, with results expected in six months.//...

New Cure for Addiction?

... in the product by investing $100,000 dollars in a testing program. The United Nations Development Program is...ting idea that deserves encouragement." The actual testing will be done under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This is the first time the...

Vitamin D May Aid Breast Cancer Treatment

...reast tumors. Currently, a large European trial is testing EB1089 on human cancer patients....

Catching Alzheimer’s Disease Earl

...e University of North Texas are confident this new testing method may be able to partially reverse Alzheimer’s. It is well documented that if Alzheimer’s is caught early, some medications can slow the process. This study is particularly important because the number of people aged 60 years and older will incr...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...ments can help prevent permanent damage. Routine testing urged Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable time because youngsters are undergoing such rapid growth, their bones require large amounts of calcium, and vitamin D is needed to help the body absorb it. Thus adequate vitamin D intake is crucial from...

Flu Shots Best for Protection

...-like illness. The strategies reviewed included no testing or treatment, testing for flu before treatment with an anti-flu drug, and treating patients without testing. Results of t...

Gene Increases Cancer Risk

...h study at Northwestern, but study authors predict testing for TGFBR1*6A could become more widely available in the near future. Study authors say the goal is to be able to identify high-risk individuals based on their genes and prevent many cases of cancer....

Obesity Increases Risk of Cervical Cancer

...amous cell carcinomas. They put the women through testing for the human papillomavirus, calculated body mass index, and took waist-to-hip measurements. They found women with the highest body mass index numbers and largest waist-to-hip ratio were more likely to have adenocarcinoma than squamous cell carcinom...

Tea Prevents Skin Cancer

...nscreen to maximize skin protection. Dr. Dong says testing in humans could begin within the next few year....

Hidden Disease in Stroke Patients

...rther medical testing. The authors write: "Several testing options are available for stroke patients who are being evaluated for unrecognized coronary artery disease. The most commonly used tests for myocardial ischemia are exercise ECG, nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging, and stress echocardiography."...

West Nile and Blood Transfusions

...r of transfusion-related West Nile cases. They say testing donors with nucleic acid-based assays for the West Nile virus could reduce the risk of infection....

New Test for HIV Patients

... they point the way towards making cheap CD4 count testing available to people receiving antiretroviral therapy in rural areas. Such methods could be used in a similar way towards HIV viral-load measurement, another test required to assess the success of HIV treatment."...

An Alternative to Warfarin

...other downside is patients must have monthly blood testing and frequent dose changes when they are on warfarin. An international research study led by investigators in Sweden compared the outcomes of patients on warfarin and ximelagatran. The study included 3,407 patients from Europe, Asia and Australia who...

Green Onions Blamed in Outbreak

... "There is currently no industry-accepted means of testing produce for Hepatitis A virus. And there is no effective way to wash Hepatitis A off of green onions, as the public health authorities have confirmed," Zavertnik said. The Centers for Disease Control said in a statement on its Web site http://www.c...

WHO and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005

... programmes will make more people come forward for testing HIV/AIDS status. Treatment can therefore contribute to the rapid acceleration of prevention. Building on work done by UNAIDS, developing and donor countries, NGOs and other multilateral agencies, WHO and UNAIDS are taking another big step forward in...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...hods should not be considered for further efficacy testing since they were typically inaccurate. However, researchers were optimistic about the symptothermal method, which relies on a woman’s own observation of two indicators of fertility -- changes in her basal body temperature and in her cervical mucus pa...

Magnetic Stimulation Found Effective for Parkinson’

...ntly joined a new study with a neurologist who was testing transcranial magnetic stimulation. “We think that TMS makes patients’ brains more sensitive to the medication he or she is already taking,” says specialists at the National Institute of Health. Researchers however say their results have been short-...

The Effectiveness Of Screening Tests Questioned

...lop to the point of causing real problems. Routine testing of otherwise healthy men on a regular basis, therefore, may simply cause many men to be treated unnecessarily, leading to incontinence, impotence, and other problems. In terms of breast self-examination, a recent large study suggests the technique ...

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