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New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...sachusetts, says that 60 patients have so far been treated with it. In open surgery, biodegradable dressing sheets can be applied to internal wounds, but there has been little available to help wound healing in keyhole surgery patients. Head of Confluent Surgical, Amarpreet Sawhney told that the gel may al...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...d that all six men with testicular cancer who were treated by hormonal supression experienced an increase in plasma amyloid levels. Plasma amyloid roughly doubled over the six months of the investigation, say the researchers.// Previous animal research by the team had shown that brain concentrations of amy...

Hemochromatosis Patients' Blood is Safe

...stitute (NHLBI). // Hemochromatosis patients are treated with periodic phlebotomies or "blood letting" to remove excess iron from their body. Because these patients benefit medically and financially by giving blood, there has been concern that they might donate despite having infectious disease risk factor...

Sequencing of the Plague

...human, however, up to half the victims die, unless treated with antibiotics. If the bacteria invade the lungs of such patients, and they cough them out, nearby people may catch "pneumonic" plague. This is always fatal without treatment. Pneumonic plague is the form feared as a latent biological weapon, as i...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

Peripheral artery disease is underdiagnosed and treated in many cases, say US doctors. In peripheral artery disease (PAD), the arteries in the legs and arms become blocked with the same kind of fatty deposits - plaque - which cause coronary artery disease. The best way of treating it is very simple - keep...

The new born nightmare

... stenosis than those who were not, although babies treated with erythromycin eye ointment, which is regularly used to combat conjunctivitis, did not have much risk. “The link between erythromycin and pyloric stenosis is an important finding which will make a difference to the health of babies,” said Dr Lida...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...in cells. However, if rats with kidney failure are treated with an antioxidant drug, much of this damage can be prevented. Further research is needed to see whether the antioxidant treatment is applicable to humans. There's also the possibility that this kind of oxidative stress might also play a role in b...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

...set out to determine whether the symptoms could be treated with older and less expensive (first-line) antibio...cost of care was significantly higher for patients treated with a second-line antibiotic. ...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

...d less than a third with generalised seizures were treated with recommended treatments. Only 11 per cent of patients received the latest medication and 7 per cent had been kept on the same drug despite failing to achieve remission after two years. UK doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs to patients who...

Health at heights

...ore at high altitude, and can lead to death if not treated promptly. Balloonists will have tp prepare for such eventualities. ...

Fluoride Found Effective in Osteoporosis

...more backbone fractures from osteoporosis. Women treated with fluoride showed significant improvements in v...measures of bone formation compared with women not treated with fluoride, the researchers note, suggesting that fractures were prevented by bone remodeling and...

Look out for gout

...But gout affects other joints too and if it is not treated it will leads to permanent joint damage. There are effective medications for gout that both relieve the pain and stop the condition from recurring. So if you get a sudden joint pain, consult your doctor - you may be experiencing an attack of gout....

Stem cell transplantation of eye

...e part of the eye called limbus, were successfully treated through this method in the last few months. // Stem cells are found in limbus, which regenerates the ocular surface of the cornea. Conditions such as chemical burns, damages the limbus resulting in limbal stem cell deficiency characterised by corne...

Asthma linked to obesity

...the West. Over 6million people are currently being treated for asthma, compared to 3.4m in 1999. The researchers found the fattest children were 77% more likely to have asthma symptoms.They suggest increased weight might lead to inflammation in the respiratory tract, which could be the key factor in induci...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

...enter of Boston. He says that eight of 12 patients treated with VEGF-2 had increased blood flow to the heart -- indicating that the gene caused new blood vessels to grow....

Cyclosporin A Treats Leukemia Complications

...L) patients with anemia or thrombocytopenia can be treated effectively with the drug, cyclosporin A. Anemia i...ne response to their own tissue. The patients were treated with 300 mg/day of cyclosporin A. While on the drug, more than 60 percent of the patients with throm...

An effective way to treat angina

...th the oxygen demand being made on it. They can be treated by angioplasty, to open up a blocked artery to the heart, or bypass surgery to short-circuit a vessel blockage.// Angina can relieved by another, less invasive, method by increasing blood flow to the heart. Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP...

Bupropion relieves nerve pain

... pain).Neuropathic pain or nerve pain is commonly treated with tricyclic antidepressants(TCAs) But these drugs have side effects and don't always relieve the burning, stabbing and shooting sensations associated with nerve pain. Now researchers at the University of Texas have revealed that bupropion SR (s...

Antioxidants used for longevity

...isease and live for only a week. But when they are treated with synthetic antioxidant molecules which take the place of SOD, their lifespan is trebled and they stay healthy. This research has significant implications for human disease....

Smallpox Vaccine May Help Fight Cervical Cancer

... and causes 300,000 deaths. If it is diagnosed and treated in its earliest stages there is a high survival rate. // Doctors at Britain's Cancer Research Campaign hope the vaccine will boost the immune system's response to the human papilloma virus (HPV), which is linked to most cases of the illness, and pr...

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