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Drug Risks Must Be Balanced Against Benefits, Researchers

...spirin for cardiovascular protection; clozapine to treat schizophrenia; Tysabri, a multiple-sclerosis drug; and Vioxx, the now-retired painkiller. These were then compared to various non-drug activities, with these findings: * Taking aspirin carries a risk of death similar to driving a car or working a...

New Cancer Therapy That can Be Less Painful

...alignant growth. It is hoped the technique could treat tumours in the breast, ovaries, colon and lungs. So far it has been used in mice and dogs, and the researchers plan to begin human trials shortly. Dr MacDiarmid said the treatment could potentially be used on any solid tumours. She said the tec...

Anemia Drug Overused and Could Hasten Death in Some, Say Experts

...dchildren. Officially, the drug is used only to treat anemia and avoid blood transfusions; its makers have not proved to FDA's satisfaction that it restores vigor and improves quality of life. "There is a fine line between rights of the First Amendment speech and the protection of the American public ...

Blind Faith Dictates Use Of Herbal Supplements In Many

...ore than 3,300 adults said they had taken herbs to treat a specific health condition. The researchers focused on 609 people who reported treating a specific health condition with any of 10 herbal supplements. Five supplements evaluated were garlic (high cholesterol level), ginseng (diabetes), kava-kava...

Debate Focuses on Door-to-balloon Time in Heart Attack Treatment

... in some cases. "Time is important, and we need to treat patients as quickly as we can," said Dr. Henry, the director of research and an interventional cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. "But there is clear evidence that 90 minutes is arbitrary."...

7 Common Myths About Osteoporosis

...sk for the disease, as well as ways to prevent and treat it, Douyon clears up some common myths about oste...has approved certain medications to prevent and/or treat the disease. Medications alone, however, do not help to build bone, Douyon cautions. Its only one of...

'Cocaine' Turns 'Censored' and Remains 'energy Drink'

...ive to an illegal street drug and making claims to treat or cure disease. For the Redux states, among other things, one of the ingredients, Inositol, reduces cholesterol in the blood; it helps prevent hardening of the arteries, and may protect nerve fibers from excess glucose damage. Inositol has a natu...

Film Festival on Gender Sexuality Draws Crowds

...ing about them in the open, the festival is a sure treat for cine lovers....

New Strategy Identified for Preventing Acute and Chronic Brain Disease

...ould enable a major leap forward in our ability to treat and prevent devastating neurological diseases." Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) was first described over a hundred years ago, there is still no effective way to prevent it. Many investigational therapies for AD aim to reduce levels of amyloid-bet...

Vitamin D Might Prevent Development of Active TB, Study Says

...for tackling the disease'. Vitamin D was used to treat TB in sanatoriums before antibiotics were used, according to BBC News. Peter Davies, a chest specialist and secretary of TB Alert, said it is positive that the study's findings confirmed what already was suspected about the benefits of vitamin D. 'Wh...

Glucosamine-like Supplement Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes

...he potential of using a dietary supplement to help treat autoimmune diseases, said Demetriou, an assistant ...etabolic therapy a rational approach to prevent or treat these debilitating diseases. The UC Irvine study defines how metabolic therapy with the sugar GlcN...

Researchers Identify Immune Dysfunction in Melanoma Patients

...ponse could help in the development of vaccines to treat cancers. "We think this is a dominant way that immune dysfunction occurs in people with cancer," said senior author Peter Lee, MD, associate professor of medicine. Lee was interested in melanoma rather than other forms of cancer in part because o...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

... ever growing epidemic and how best to prevent and treat it. Equally important is our duty to further explore the mechanisms causing health disparities in this new and profoundly serious child health problem....

America on Brink of Allergy Crisis

...nd other allergic diseases. Allergists help people treat or prevent their allergy problems. After earning a medical degree, the allergist-immunologist completes a three-year residency training program in either internal medicine or pediatrics. Next the allergist completes two or three more years of study i...

Albuterol may Be Helpful for Infants Suffering from Bronchiolitis

...ge group. There are two drugs in general use to treat this condition, epinephrine and albuterol, and there is some controversy and passion involved in the choice of medication. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, a double-blind randomi...

Health Experts Discuss Effect of DOTS on TB Control in India

...tors in the country use trial-and-error methods to treat drug-resistant TB, turning to second-line treatments after first-line drugs fail and the bacteria has had more time to develop resistance. IMA Secretary Ramesh Shah said that the incorrect use of antibiotics, interruptions in treatment regimens and...

Cow Protein Aids in Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorder

...t evidence suggests that therapy currently used to treat Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, a major...he first time that they have been used together to treat H. pylori. The study found that the infection-causing bacterium was eliminated in more patients tr...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

... that women should not expect stem cell therapy to treat egg infertility or menopause in the foreseeable future. This is a very important finding by a distinguished group of researchers and clinician-scientists at USF Health which affirms the traditional dogma of a finite period of fertility in women, sa...

Death and Disability from Brain Injury Reduced, Emory Researchers Report

... they plan to implement a study of progesterone to treat pediatric brain injury, which is a leading cause of death and disability in children....

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

... long been asking for better medical facilities to treat mental illnesses. Apart from the OPD facility at the Psychiatric Hospital, the OPD facility kept available at smhs hospital, Srinagar, receives more than 150 patients per day. The centre was set up on the persistence of doctors. Doctors say that mo...

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