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Tuberculosis Drug Increases OCD Therapy Progress

...compulsive disorder (OCD) by enhancing progress of therapy sessions by accelerating extinction learning. T...innesota. Researchers explained that behavioural therapy attempted to help the person disassociate problematic reactions that were either positive (e.g., cra...

New Study Challenges NICE Guidelines on Adolescent Depression

...m last month found that adding cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (S...ss the combination of SSRI and cognitive behaviour therapy over monotherapy for depression in adolescents, writes Professor Philip Hazell from the University o...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...s family and friends had questioned why she needed therapy to deal with an experience that "everyone" went through, she said it had helped her enormously. She realised her overeating was one way she had channelled the abuse. "It was an eight-year-old's way of dealing with stress," she said ruefully, thou...

Russian Government Allocate Funds for HIV Vaccine Project

...number of infected people receiving antiretroviral therapy and to increase the number of those being tested for the virus from 21.7 million to 22 million, Onishchenko said. Since 1987 when the first HIV case was reported in Russia, 388,871 cases have been registered, and women infected with the virus have ...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...ancer Council of Australia. Hormone replacement therapy and long-term use of the oral contraceptive pill are believed to make women more susceptible to breast cancer, which is known as "hormone dependent" because it relies on the female hormone, oestrogen, to grow. Increased public awareness of breast s...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

...ncouraging, and supports the notion that this drug therapy may be best used over a relatively short period of time, to be replaced or supplemented with behavioural therapy," Dr. Milner says. Dr. Milner, however, admits that it is too early to say whether the changes noted in the Ritalin-exposed brain will ...

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

...f oral contraceptives (OCs) or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) did not show a considerable effect on the risk of developing RA. Whilst other studies suggest that hormonal factors play a part in the development of RA, and we know that pregnancy can result in an improvement in RA symptoms, we wanted to inv...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...y aimed at determining whether patients who failed therapy early were initially infected with drug resistant ... rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure, as it is limited to detecting resistance mutations that are present at levels of approximat...

Humanized Antibody Therapy Found Highly Effective in Easing RA Symptoms

...ve tocilizumab in addition to ongoing methotrexate therapy , showed a 50 per cent improvement in the symptoms at 24 weeks. Also one fifth of the patients achieved a 70 per cent improvement in symptoms in the same period during the study, which was presented at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rh...

Amy Winehouse Admits She's a 'terrible Drunk'

.... Winehouse said that writing songs is a type of therapy for her to deal with her problem. "It is a kind of therapy. Sometimes I can't feel good about a situation until I've got a song out of it," she said. The soul star added that she is not a self-piteous person, and that she will not talk about a pr...

Breast-feeding Protects Mothers from Rheumatoid Arthritis

...f oral contraceptives (OCs) or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) did not show a significant effect on the risk of developing RA, it said. "This study specifically highlights the potential of naturally-induced hormones in protecting individuals from developing RA in the future," said lead researcher Mitra K...

Etanercept Reduces Psoriasis

...to the safety and efficacy of high-dose etanercept therapy for the management of moderate to severe psoriasis,' the authors conclude....

Frostbite can Be Treated by Bloodclot Drug

...e journal Archives of Surgery. "Today, traditional therapy consists of tissue rewarming, prolonged watchful waiting and often delayed amputation," they wrote. "While many other areas of burns, trauma, and critical care have advanced significantly in their treatment modalities, the saying "frostbite in Janu...

Interoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients

...ts .The procedure, called intraoperative radiation therapy , takes less than an hour and eliminates the need for further radiation treatments. The PMH team combined the expertise of surgeons, radiation medicine specialists (radiation oncologists, physicists and therapists) and nurses to perform its first p...

Effective Treatment for Malaria Control

...s indicates that two doses of a malaria preventive therapy during pregnancy provides substantial benefit to H...de-treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) with the malaria drug sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. Feiko ter Kuile, M.D., Ph.D., of the Liverp...

Kerala to Set Up Holistic Tourism Centre to Promote Medical Tourism

...gy, hip and knee replacement, ophthalmology, voice therapy and obesity treatment. The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) here has taken the concept of medical value travel (MVT) in the state to newer heights through accreditations and certifications. It was the first Indian hospital to be accre...

Women Taking Oestrogen Therapy Showed Reduced Coronary Artery Calcification

...d that in these younger menopausal women, estrogen therapy reduced calcified plaque buildup in the arteries, ...nary heart disease for women who initiated hormone therapy within 10 years of menopause; and a statistically significant reduction in total mortality among wom...

Novel Method to Inhibit Prostate Cancer

...ty. However, its therapeutic application in cancer therapy is limited, in part, due to its low water solubility, making it difficult to effectively deliver the drug to the points needed. It is also known to induce hypersensitivity reactions. Therefore, novel methods are needed that would allow for delivery...

A New Milestone in Stem Cell Research

...ly than before the heart attack. Cardiac stem cell therapy aims to repair the damaged heart as it has the potential to replace the damaged tissue. In this trial (known as TransACT), all patients will have bone marrow harvested before their heart operation. Then either stem cells from their own bone marrow ...

Novel Treatment Beneficial for Colon and Liver Cancer

...harmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology used genetic therapy with non-viral vectors for transferring genetic material to the cancerous cells. With this technique, we can assure the therapeutic function of the drug in a wide variety of tissues. In addition, we can apply the treatment repeatedly, since it does n...

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