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Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

...er the name Ativan, is only approved by the FDA to treat seizures in adult patients but is widely prescribed off label for children. Once a drug has been approved by the FDA for a particular use, physicians may use their best judgment to prescribe it for other uses, known as off label uses, in other patien...

Adult Down Syndrome Clinic Opened at UAB

...se patients, our clinic is designed to simply help treat facets of their Down Syndrome. But for those without a primary care physician, we can turn to the UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine to provide those services. The clinic offers services from a number of health disciplines, including o...

Shortage of Doctors and Nurses Affects AIDS Treatment in Africa

...vated health care workers to diagnose, monitor and treat them," the report said. That calls for a very different orientation both on the part of policymakers and also doctors themselves....

Anthrax Claims Two Lives in Orissa

... has sent a team of doctors to the two villages to treat villagers and create awareness among them about the disease. "The team will camp in the villages to monitor the situation. They have also destroyed cattle meat preserved in some houses there," the official said. "As a precautionary measure, anoth...

Indian President Urges Doctors to Help Rural Patients

...village India. If each doctor showed the zeal to treat at least 20 rural patients a year, the president advised, a lot of diseases could be taken care of. Kalam also told doctors to make full use of technology to provide the best and cost-effective treatment. The president also addressed a special c...

Antibiotics Highly Effective for Treating Lyme Disease

..."While other guidelines exist to help diagnose and treat general Lyme disease, there continues to be consid...s that long-term use of antibiotics doesnt help to treat chronic symptoms that persist after treatment for Lyme disease, the symptom complex will remain prob...

Understanding Why C. Difficile Causes Disease -- It's Hungry

...e hypervirulent strain, we might have a new way to treat the disease," says Sonenshein....

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...ess of a staff's skill, smaller neonatal ICUs that treat fewer infants don't have the same economies of scale as larger hospitals. And little things matter. A lack of dedicated, 24-hour anesthesia coverage for a woman needing an emergency caesarean section can make the difference between a live, but strugg...

Blood from Bird Flu Survivors Provides Breakthrough in Treatment of H5N1

... search-and-destroy force, as an additional way to treat or even prevent H5N1 in case the worrisome flu strain ever mutates to spark a worldwide epidemic. The research started when four Vietnamese adults who survived bouts of H5N1 in 2004 agreed to donate blood to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho...

MRSA, the Super Bug Spreading to Urban Poor in US

...eatable it is with antibiotics. MRSA is hard to treat because the bacteria have developed resistance to ...as swelling in the area. Antibiotics are used to treat these infections. But there's been a gradual change in how well these antibiotics are working. While...

Personality Changes may Help to Identify a Form of Dementia

...cularly important because some medications used to treat the mental health symptoms of Alzheimer's disease can be potentially hazardous for people with dementia with Lewy bodies. The study found that even prior to diagnosis, people with dementia with Lewy bodies showed passive personality changes, such a...

Fibroid Symptoms in Women can Be Relieved by Focused Ultrasound

...roids. Radiologists then used MRgFUS to locate and treat the targeted fibroids while monitoring temperature changes in tissue. Ninety-six patients were treated under the original study protocol (A), and 64 patients were treated under an optimized protocol (B). Protocol A allowed a maximum treatment time ...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

... is a major problem and we've been losing drugs to treat it one by one.'' Gerberding said the CDC is recommending that people who sat near the man on the two transatlantic flights - beside or two rows in front and two rows behind - be tested for tuberculosis. "We are considering not only his own ability ...

Antidepressant Use May Boost Fracture Risk, From Harvard Women's Health Watch

...he danger comes from depression, the drugs used to treat it, or something else, doctors are paying more attention to this association. During the 1990s, depression began to emerge as a possible cause of bone loss, rather than a result. Scientists studied women who didn't have osteoporosis symptoms or eve...

Brain Activity Reflects Variation in Types of Anxiety

...o panic attack and PTSD. But those who study and treat patients with anxiety disorders do not always dist...types of anxiety, Miller said. Whether you want to treat anxiety psychologically or biologically and we know that either type of intervention affects both t...

Stop TB Partnership Has Provided Treatments for Ten Million People in Six Years

...tant form of the disease. MDR-TB takes longer to treat and can only be cured with second-line drugs, whic...ing countries with the second-line drugs needed to treat MDR-TB, after the Stop TB Partnership's Green Light Committee has verified that applicant countries ...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...is only the first step in creating therapeutics to treat this devastating disease. We hope to help translate this knowledge into more effective vaccines designed to generate these types of protective antibodies, Kain said....

Mutant Parasites, Unable to Infect Hosts, Highlight Virulence Genes

...g targets for developing drugs that could block or treat human parasitic infections such as malaria. The new results are reported online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Though a larger problem in the developing world, parasitic infections are not uncommon in the U.S. F...

Advanced Cancer Treatment Brings New Hope to Michigan Patient

...stem in the world that is specifically designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with sub-millimeter ac...formed on an outpatient basis. CyberKnife can also treat multiple tumors at different locations in the body during a single treatment session. Patients with ...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

... Approximately 20 years ago, it became possible to treat leprosy. A multidrug therapy (MDT) comprised of several drugs given orally for a period of six to twenty four or more months may cure leprosy but can cause severe side effects. Although combination antibiotic therapy provided during the early stages ...

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