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Rent-A Body Scam Busted

... was quoted."It's unfathomable that a doctor would treat patients as if they were bodies on a medical conveyor belt" for profit. Deputy Dist. Atty. Rick Welsh, who is leading the prosecution, said he found the case "mind-boggling" on several levels: the volume of the procedures, the boldness of the docto...

Natural-Birth Centers In U.S Pulling Down The Shutters

...rs and 1 percent in private homes. Most midwives treat only healthy women with low-risk pregnancies. Anesthesia, such as an epidural block, and medications to speed up labor are available only in hospitals, and only physicians may perform C-sections. Across the U.S, about a half-dozen birth centers hav...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...ments such as the use of ACE inhibitors, which can treat high blood pressure and heart failure, and aspirin, which can prevent heart attacks and strokes. After reviewing four years of charts for 80 patients from each of the 17 centers, the researchers reported that "multiple components of care improved f...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...UC patients are not currently taking medication to treat their UC. For patients who are taking medications, compliance is an issue. Of those UC patients taking aminosalicylates (5-ASAs), the first-line therapy and most commonly prescribed class of medication for UC, only about half (54 percent) reported th...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...nhibitor celecoxib, a common pain reliever used to treat arthritis, may reduce the risk of the most common cause of brain damage in premature babies. The work involves shoring up blood vessels in a part of the brain that in premature infants is very delicate and susceptible to dangerous bleeding, which ...

FDA Approves Ranbaxys Allergy Drug

...dministration to manufacture and market a pill to treat rhinitis, one of the most common illnesses in the US. Affecting more than 50 million people in US, rhinitis is marked by bouts of sneezing and itching, or a runny or stuffy nose that do not seem to go away. Total annual market sales for the appro...

Combining NSAIDs With Chemotherapy May Improve Cancer Therapy

... may be minor compared to the potential benefit to treat cancer more effectively." Two new UI studies sh...mi and Domann added that when radiation is used to treat head and neck cancers after surgery, the cells most resistant to radiation therapy are in the S phas...

Minorities Prefer Counseling and Prayer to Drugs for Treating Depression

... more likely to prefer a doctor of the same sex to treat their depression than white participants. African-Americans surveyed had a strong preference for a doctor of the same ethnicity, while Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans were less likely than white participants to want a doctor from their own eth...

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...s projects that, by 2009, spending on medicines to treat diabetes could soar by 60 percent to 68 percent from 2006 levels.Spending on diabetes treatments increased 14.5 percent from 2005 to 2006 and the use of diabetes drugs increased 5.1 percent. The U.S. sales of diabetes drugs reached $9.88 billion in 2...

Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine

...r in developing nations, where medical services to treat intestinal distress are not widely available. Rotavirus vaccine to prevent this illness is currently produced in a liquid or freeze-dried form that must be chilled for transport and storage, making it very expensive for use in impoverished areas. In ...

Genetic Marker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...genetic marker also will guide doctors in how they treat the cancer. The Northwestern study showed a strong hereditary component to this aggressive cancer. Prostate cancer patients who carry the genetic marker called 8q24 - are much more likely to have a close family member with the disease. They have a...

Green Tea may Protect the Bladder from Becoming Inflamed

Herbal agents could be used to treat inflammatory bladder diseases, according to a preliminary study that looked at the ability of green tea to protect bladder cells from inflammation. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study, being presented at the annual meeting of the...

Retinol Lotions Enhances Skin, Reduces Overall Aging

...ast, it was everyone believed that retinoids would treat only photoaging, or damage from exposure to sun. T...ol. You can rub it anywhere, and it will help to treat the signs of aging, he added. The lotion was made at U-M, but U-M will not commercialize this loti...

New Approach to Treating Precancerous Esophagus Condition

...theter inserted down the esophagus can effectively treat the dysplasia with fewer side effects than current...has the potential to dramatically alter the way we treat patients with Barrett's esophagus." While the incidence of Barrett's esophagus is difficult to det...

Wrinkles can Be Really Ironed Out, Thanks to Vitamin A

...inoin, was already prescribed by dermatologists to treat skin ageing. "They work by improving the topmost layers of the skin, increasing cells production and helping to increase collagen which gives the skin its structure."...

New DNA Tests Advances Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Diseases

...artment of Human Genetics, diagnose, evaluate, and treat patients using a variety of treatment regimens, including the most advanced enzyme replacement technologies, which over the past 15 years have changed the lives of many patients. The Emory center is one of only two centers nationally with an infusion...

Macrophages may Help Prevent Obesity

...might be targeted at adipose tissue macrophages to treat obesity and insulin resistance....

Combo Therapy may Be Highly Beneficial in Asthma Control

...ace fast-acting inhalers and should not be used to treat acute symptoms of asthma. SYMBICORT is a combination of two proven asthma medications budesonide, an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), and formoterol, a rapid and long-acting beta agonist (LABA). As part of the 12-week, randomised, double-blind, pla...

Magnets to the rescue of Alzheimers patients

...ranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used to treat certain disorders, including depression and schizophrenia and to rehabilitate people after stroke. To look at the effect of TMS on growth of neurons, Dr Fortunato Battaglia and Dr Hoau-Yan Wang at City University in New York, gave mice the therapy...

$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease

...nal cord, and has studied the use of stem cells to treat spinal injuries caused by interruptions in blood flow. The use of this technique in ALS, which involves the death of the motor neurons that send signals to the muscles and control movement, could be a new frontier in treating the disease. Already...

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