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Allergies can prevent brain cancer

...f GBM. The current study includes results of DNA testing along with the participants’ self report regarding the incidence of asthma and other allergic reactions. The research report shows that specific polymorphisms on the IL-4RA and IL-13 genes increase the higher risk to asthma and lowers the risk of GBM...

Ban On Indian Ayurvedic Drugs In Canada

...icine may be at risk for heavy metal toxicity, and testing of Ayurvedic HMPs for toxic heavy metals should be mandatory. However a spokesperson from Darbur India when asked to comment on the article published by JAMA has been stated as saying that“ Metals form an integral part of many Ayurvedic medicines a...

Fragile X-Associated Tremor /Ataxia Syndrome Need Guidelines For Diagnostic Tests

...couraged them to develop guidelines for diagnostic testing for FXTAS. Men age 50 and older who develop unexplained ataxia should undergo testing to check if they have the FMR1 gene, said co-author Maureen A. Leehey, MD, of the University of Colo...

More News That Circumcision Could Reduce risk of HIV infection

...avoid transmission of the virus by needle. Routine testing for HIV can prevent transmission through blood transfusions. http://www.medindia.net/patients/ aids/prevention_about.htm Further Information on Circumcision from Medindia What is a normal foreskin? The skin over the tip of penis normally fo...

HIV Infection Higher In Drug Trafficking Countries

...avoid transmission of the virus by needle. Routine testing for HIV can prevent transmission through blood transfusions. For more information: http://www.medindia.net/Patients/ aids/prevention.htm /font>...

Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

...abetic CKD patients did not undergo hemoglobin A1C testing to assess long-term diabetes control. Rates of ot...mended tests for anemia, while only 15 percent had testing of parathyroid hormone levels. Patients with CKD were actually less likely than non-CKD patients to ...

Diabetes and heart attack diagnosis now made simple with twin magic

...row-away plastic which would not only make glucose testing simple and painless, but would significantly cut down the time in diagnosis. Because the analysis is done inside the body, the need to withdraw body fluid is eliminated and the small needle does not cause pain. This is not all. The tips of each of ...

Fight oral cancer with gene therapy mouthwash

... spearheaded the research, reported the results of testing gene therapy mouthwash on 10 patients at a meeting in of American Society of Clinical Oncology in San Francisco. The treatment consists of adenovirus, a kind of cold virus, that lack a working copy of one gene that ordinarily allows that virus ...

A new replacement

...ing Director Mr Victor Skladnev said that clinical testing of TruScan has shown it to be at least 20 per cent more accurate than the PAP smear which he says misses about half of all cervical disease. "Half the errors from PAP smears are due to sampling," he said. "TruScan diagnoses on the spot and guides th...

A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma

...with the new technique - the drug-coated stent. In testing on 30 patients over three years, they found it to be 100 percent effective, an accomplishment almost unheard of in medicine.// More than 1 million Americans undergo angioplasty annually, and the new approach is likely to be used on most of them if t...

Research on HIV takes new direction

...ng, he believes. But it will be years before human testing could begin. We think this is an important direction for HIV research, Tor said. We hope these compounds can inhibit the interactions that allow the HIV to spread. This area is still in the dark ages, so there's plenty of opportunity for progress....

Cholesterol in low levels are good

... new synthetic statin atorvastatin. In addition to testing for cholesterol levels, all patients underwent ultrasound to gauge the thickness of their carotid arteries at six months and one year following the initiation of treatment. People taking pravastatin lowered their LDL, or "bad" cholesterol levels, on...

Fight against Fungus - A new ray of hope

...rck. The study, which was funded by Merck involved testing both the new drug and old ones in nearly 250 patients from around the world. The study concluded that the new drug, caspofungin was as effective as Amphotericin B without as many side effects. However one of the main disadvantages of the drug, besid...

Arsenic in drinking water

...including work with local institutes) has been the testing of new types of treatment technologies. So far, many initiatives have focused on water quality testing and control with a view to supplying arsenic-free drinking-water, thereby reducing the risk of furth...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...re quickly and does not require the frequent blood testing of warfarin, also known as Coumadin. According to the study it has shown a reduce the risk of blood clots by one-quarter after knee replacement surgery, and substantially cut the long-term risk of another clot developing in patients who had a blood...

A Likely Breakthrough For Prostate Cancer Patients

... see how it works in patients. Researchers say ,by testing for EPCA in men with high levels of PSA, they feel that they may be able to detect the presence of prostate cancer earlier, before it is discoverable by biopsy, thus saving patients the fear and stress of repeat procedures and enabling us to treat t...

Vitamin E Found To reduce bladder cancer risk

...A National Cancer Institute study now under way is testing the effects of 400 milligrams of vitamin E and 200 micrograms of selenium daily on more than 32,000 men for seven years to see if they reduce prostate cancer. However researchers say much more research is needed before they can recommend more than ea...

Making MRIs Safe for Patients With Implantable Heart Devices

...surgical incisions. Overall, the study finds, MRI testing yielded good images with minor distortions or abnormalities in the pictures and they hope that further research will produce devices that are prospectively designed to be MRI safe eventually making implantable heart devices MRI compatible, so that a...

Pregnancy Complications Could Be Prevented With A Urine Test

...by weekly monitoring of women's blood pressure and testing for abnormal levels of protein in the urine during the third trimester of pregnancy. Researchers now say they have found that they could detect certain proteins in the urine indicative of preeclampsia, suggesting a simple urine test could potentially...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

... create problems for others leading to unnecessary testing and treatment. Celebrities have powerful impact on...an create problems for others, such as unnecessary testing and treatment," the authors write. "There is little question that celebrities can have a powerful im...

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