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Alternative Treatments for Arthritis

... new studies examined patients decisions regarding therapy for RA and glucosamine for OA and found that most ...Recent advances in RA treatment include multi-drug therapy with anitrheumatic drugs such as methotrexate, as well as improved tools for measuring the response ...

Potential Target for Allergy Therapy

...time clearly represents a potential target for the therapy of allergy. This is currently under investigation, said Dr Nicoletti. David Reading, director of the Anaphylaxis Campaign, said: Food allergy can place an extremely heavy burden on the families affected. We welcome this research and look forward to...

Testosterone Cream Ineffective in Enhancing Libido in Female Cancer Survivors

...evious study which pointed a link between androgen therapy and increased sex drive in women with sufficient estrogen levels, this new study was conducted on 150 post menopausal cancer survivors. The women were divided into two groups. One group got a testosterone cream and the other received a placebo for ...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

...ion or suicidality, especially at the beginning of therapy or when the dose either increases or decreases. Although FDA has not concluded that these drugs cause worsening depression or suicidality, health care providers should be aware that worsening of symptoms could be due to the underlying disease or migh...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

...hat advanced donor age together with steroid pulse therapy and over immunosuppression can explain differences in outcomes. "The association with worse outcomes in recent years, and the controversy that seems to surround this observation, is likely due to differences in distribution of these variables from st...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

Negative pressure wound therapy is a new innovation in treating severe and complex...ith children, and can be life-saving. This wound therapy is usually delivered via a vacuum system which applies negative suction pressure to the wound base t...

Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...strated for the first time the potential of larval therapy to eliminate MRSA infection of diabetic foot ulcers. If confirmed in a randomized controlled trial, larval treatment would offer the first non-invasive and risk-free treatment of this increasing problem and a safe and cost-effective treatment in cont...

Novel Technology to Locate and Treat Tumors

...in that acts like a nanosyringe to deliver tags or therapy to cells, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers show that, the protein fragment, called pHLIP (pH (Low) Insertion Peptide) can be injected into the abdomen of a mouse, find its way into the ...

Malaria Control Measures

...Artesunate + Sulphadoxinepyremethamine combination therapy has been introduced. The supervision and monitoring of the programme has been intensified by involving National Institute of Malaria Research and other Indian Council of Medical Research Institutions. In high Plasmodium falciparum malaria endem...

Honey, I Shrunk The Abscess!

...the University of Wisconsin introduced this unique therapy to about 6 diabetic patients. The therapy healed the infection and offset the final blow of amputation. Honey destroys bacteria due to its aci...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) helps patients with severe depression who do...the Southern Medical Journal. "Electroconvulsive therapy has been shown to be a highly effective, safe, and even life-saving treatment for persistent and sev...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

...le for transplantation. To serve as a long-term therapy for patients deemed unacceptable for a heart transplant. However, for some time, transplant specialists have debated the potential for LVADs to be used as a "bridge to recovery" for the patients own heart. Prior small studies have yielded contrast...

Estrogen May Be a Good Therapy for Women Before They Turn 65

...ouble blessing for those women who are on estrogen therapy before the age of 65. Recent research has shown a...d that women who took any form of estrogen hormone therapy before the age of 65 cut their risk of dementia by 50%, as compared to women who were not on hormone...

Family Planning Initiatives Central To Reducing Child Mortality in Developing Countries

...ve these lives, such as vaccines, oral rehydration therapy and insecticide-treated mosquito nets are not expensive. Yet, many mothers and children lack access to these lifesaving measures"....

DNA Repair Proteins Monitored at Double-strand Break

... novel ways to make cancer cells more sensitive to therapy by blocking their ability to repair double-stranded breaks caused by chemotherapy or radiation. It could also suggest new strategies for enhancing repair of double-stranded DNA caused by radiation, natural oxidants in food or the body and other toxin...

Combined Molecular-targeted and Hormonal Therapies Offer Promise in Treating Ovarian Cancer

A combination of molecular-targeted therapy and hormonal therapy may be the most promising area of research for those seeking an effective treatment for ovarian can...

Baby Aspirin Better for Your Health, University of Kentucky Study Says

...ead author of the report, "the downside of aspirin therapy is an increased tendency for bleeding (particulary from the GI tract). We believe the minimum effective dose should be utilized (75-81 mg)." However, Campbell notes, "We also believe more study in this area is warranted to determine if the minimum ...

Major Medicare Fraud Detected in Florida

...ls there said most of the schemes involve infusion therapy and medical equipment suppliers. "Tuesday we charged 24 individuals, and today we arrested four more defendants in yet another Medicare fraud scam," U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said. "That brings the number of individuals charged by this stri...

HIV Survival Improves If Patients Stay in Care

...available on line. "In an era when highly active therapy directed against HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS) is keeping people alive, understanding the value of regular medical care is crucial," said Dr. Thomas Giordano, assistant professor of medicine infectious diseases at BCM and l...

Inherited Genes Linked to Toxicity of Leukemia Therapy

...eactions to specific drugs. "Such individualized therapy would eliminate the time-consuming trial-and-error approach to finding the right dose for a patient," said Mary Relling, Pharm.D., chair of the Pharmaceutical Sciences department at St. Jude. "When the results of our findings are translated into rout...

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