treat 1 2

Tag: "treat" at medical news

Genzyme Announces First Phase III Study of Tolevamer in Diarrhea Patients

...ne. A non-antibiotic approach has the potential to treat CDAD and reduce the number of disease recurrences, resulting in improved quality of life for the patient and significant savings to the healthcare system....

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

...arry a veterinary team each, which trains local to treat their animals. A team of 25 personnel, which includes doctors and nurses of the local health department, is conducting 15 to 20 camps every month. It travels on the ships for around 7 to 10 days a month. The initiative was started with an amount ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...e Replacement Therapy Estrogen has been used to treat the symptoms of menopause for years, beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1970s, medical studies found that postmenopausal women who used estrogen therapy alone had a significantly increased risk of uterine cancer. Then researchers found ...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...vention, while the US system creates incentives to treat illness rather than prevent it. This leads not only to much greater costs -- the United States spends about twice as much per person on healthcare as the rest of the advanced economies do -- it also plays a likely role in their declining stature. A...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...e anti-cancer drugs. Etoposide is widely used to treat lung and other cancers but can cause hair loss. Sakai, professor at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, said his team was hoping to to put the agent to practical use in the future. "I want people to know that few studies have been made on r...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

... benefited from his company's aggressive effort to treat sleep apnea. "It's wonderful to be able to function during the day now," he said, adding that he has more energy and makes his deliveries on time. He said his company has also persuaded him to quit smoking and eat better. Changes are worth it. Ab...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ted States. They are prescribed more than drugs to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, or headaches. In a study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), looked at 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in visits to doctors and hospitals in 2005. Of those, 118 million were for a...

Experts Need to Include Children in Research

...f a helium oxygen mixture in intensive care and to treat acute bronchiolitis; and studies into the impact of various allergic problems on sleep and daytime behaviour. The unit is funded by St. Marys Paddington Charitable Trust and the George John and Sheilah Livanos Charitable Trust. Jane Miles, Chief Ex...

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...echanisms underlying NPHP opening up novel ways to treat the disease. Our mice show striking similarities with NPHP patients, says Mathias Treier, group leader at EMBL. Very early on in their lives their kidney cells start to die and the mice develop all the characteristic disease symptoms. It is the ...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

...cause medical research and development of drugs to treat such diseases is financially disadvantageous, comp...many drugs have been developed, including drugs to treat such diseases as multiple myeloma, bone marrow cancer. Welcoming the FDA decision, Corcept said it...

Scientists Find New Way to Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

...bugs cause deadly infections that are difficult to treat and expensive to cure, according to the background information in an article published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. When a person takes an antibiotic, any bug having a protective mutation against the drug survives...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...e study also shows that the standard drugs used to treat Parkinson's modify the areas that are involved in movement but not those that regulate cognition. The network that grows abnormal over time includes an called the pre-frontal cortex, known as the brain's executive secretary; organizing, planning and ...

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...tem cells monthly, but how we take those cells and treat disease is going to be a significant amount of translational work. This is one of the first studies that starts that process looking at primates before going into people with Parkinsons disease. While the transplanted cells appeared not to form tu...

Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients

...f responses. Dialysis patients receiving ESAs to treat anemia of kidney disease often have variations in hemoglobin levels. "These variations occur across the dialysis procedure and when patients become ill with other conditions, for whatever reason," Dr. Will explains. "There is also some wave-like vari...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...e are a number of drugs and therapies available to treat the left ventricle of the heart from failing or af... have a number of drugs and therapies available to treat the left ventricle of the heart to prevent it from failing or to treat it after it has failed, but w...

Drinking More Milk may Lessen Type 2 Diabetes Risk

... uplifting the significance of finding new ways to treat and prevent this lethal disease. The recommended three servings of lowfat or fat-free milk provides 900 mg of calcium, 300 IU of vitamin D and 80 mg of magnesium daily. The new meta-analysis and review is published in the Journal of Clinical End...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

... education. While all licensed medicines used to treat children have been rigorously tested before their general use, not all are specifically licensed for use by children says Dr McLay. Until this situation is rectified, community pharmacists need to be competent and confident in recognising and deali...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...d sewage lines and build new ones to take away and treat waste from the three largest drains as well as to hook up unauthorised colonies. The river will be visibly cleaner in just three years, Mathur said, in time for the Commonwealth Games. But with the water board now suffering from a "credibility" p...

Pfizer Says Nigeria Gave Approval for 1996 Drug Test

...Trovan as an oral application was the best drug to treat those disease and underlined that Pfizer meant no harm. The US Food and Drug Administration cleared Trovan for adult use in 1997 and the drug swiftly became established as one of the most prescribed antibiotics in the US market. She said the comp...

Avastin Dropped Out Of Funded Drugs List

...rs. According to the committee, Oxaliplatin can treat colorectal patients after surgery and prevent the ...ll also pay for a drug called Mab Campath, used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia, at an estimated cost of $170,000 per year....

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10