treat 1 3

Tag: "treat" at medical news

Researchers Develop Tool to Gauge Quality of Life of Hepatitis B Patients

...tology. Our results revealed that to effectively treat hepatitis B patients, clinicians need to consider the social and psychological impact of the disease, as well as biological functioning, said Dr. Brennan M.R. Spiegel, principal investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen Sch...

New Delhis Apollo Hospital Treats More Than 80 Iraqis

..., paediatric surgeries, orthopaedics and spine. We treat them and then they go back. We form linkages with doctors in Iraq so that they have continuative care," said Anupam Sibal, the spokesperson of the hospital. The treatment of Iraqi patients at the hospital began on June 1 after an agreement was rea...

Pain Doctor in Virginia Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment

...show to tout his views. He said many doctors under treat pain because they ignore patient complaints or they are fearful of harassment by drug-enforcement agents. Between 1998 and 2002, Hurwitz drew more than 400 patients from 39 states to his clinic in McLean for prescriptions for painkillers such as mo...

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

...ly given the go-ahead for Baraclude (entecavir) to treat chronic HEPATITIS B. Baraclude is an oral antiviral therapy which will arrest the multiplication of Hepatitis B virus in the liver. This is indeed a positive development for India in the treatment of Hepatitis B. Existing Impediments Worldwide ...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...vents . The work could lead to the first drug to treat the millions of adults who suffer each year from p...s data points to a promising therapeutic avenue to treat emotional disorders and raises hope for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or ph...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

... Improved therapeutic strategies are required to treat sleep apneas and hypopneas and their associated morbidity and mortality. Sleep apnea affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health, and is especially prevalent in overweight or obese individuals. Many more hav...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...nterMune was accused of improperly promoting it to treat a fatal lung disease. Scios of Mountain View, a ...arding its marketing of three drugs widely used to treat people infected with HIV....

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

... useful for health care professionals identify and treat plant-caused injuries. It will also be a guide to the ordinary people who dirty their hands and knees in their gardens. The generously illustrated book highlights hundreds of troublesome plants, providing photographs and written descriptions, c...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...n more of the drug being absorbed and available to treat the cancer. Patients currently take five 250 mg lapatinib tablets on an empty stomach. The study found that taking the drug with a meal increased the bioavailability of the drug by 167 percent. Taking the drug with a high-fat meal boosted levels by...

Orthodontic Treatment is Better During Adolescence

...d) then the orthodontist has to decide whether to treat immediately and then again when the child is older (12 to 16 years old), or wait until the child is a teenager and perform the treatment in one phase. By analysing data from eight trials involving a total of 592 patients, a group of Cochrane Resear...

Chemical Compound in Turmeric Helps to Fight Alzheimers

...possible to infuse this compound into patients and treat the incurable and fatal brain condition, reported the online edition of Sky News. The study might explain why Alzhimer's disease is so rare in India. Turmeric is frequently consumed in India and some other Asian countries as a dietary supplement, ...

MS Drug Fails The Test For Treating Crohns Disease

...rom European regulators to use its drug Tysabri to treat patients with Crohn's disease, a debilitating int...ntroduced in the United States in November 2004 to treat patients with multiple sclerosis, but was abruptly withdrawn from the market after the companies fou...

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

... clinical practice and scientific investigation to treat diabetes, he said. In fact, based on our work on one of the insulin receptor substrates, Irs2, in liver and pancreatic beta cells, we thought more Irs2 would be good for you. It reduces the amount of insulin needed in the body to control blood gl...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

... more expensive HIV medications that are needed to treat patients who have become resistant to the old drugs....

EU Drug Regulator Highlights Depression Danger of Weight-loss Pill

...t the dieting treatment, which can also be used to treat diabetes, was unsafe because it caused suicidal thoughts as a side-effect. The maker of the drug, French group Sanofi-Aventis, abandoned attempts to win approval for the drug in the United States as a result. The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) ...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

...ase, 12 years ago. "Doctors, whom I trusted, did treat my son very well, but it is god who healed him," Sarah said. Howard showed the first symptoms of the disease when he was five. After frequent blood transfusions, Sarah decided to find out whether the disorder could be completely cured. Before long...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...N-backed HIV/AIDS drugs programme which is helping treat some 13,250 children, UNITAID said Thursday. Th...e 300 million dollar fund, which is aiming to help treat an additional 100,000 child HIV/AIDS victims in the world this year, and provide drugs against other...

Math Model Helps Identify Genes That Attack Hepatitis C Virus

...e is one well know medication, interferon, used to treat the virus to which every patient does not respond. As part of the study, researchers conducted clinical trials which included 400 patients and combined the clinical study with the mathematical model and identified 37 out of 22,000 genes which are k...

UK Hospital Performs Heart Surgery Using Robotic Arm

...e thin wires through blood vessels in the heart to treat a fast or irregular heartbeat. Doctors claim that it will reduce risks in patients and increase the number of procedures they can carry out. During the procedure, known as catheter ablation, several thin wires and tubes are inserted through a vein...

Young People And Doctors Building A Healthy Relationship

... their risk of harm. Dr Capolingua said doctors treat young people with respect, do not sit in judgement of them, and are there to understand what their needs are, and help. Dr Capolingua today launched AMA Family Doctor Week 2007 a celebration of the hard work performed all around Australia every d...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10