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Protein signals need for heart surgery

...only slightly elevated levels of troponin who were treated quickly with anti-clotting drugs. <br...

Radiofrequency Energy Cooks Tumors Without Surgery

...tes, killing the tumor cells. Larger tumors can be treated by overlapping treatments. The dead cells are not removed, but become scar tissue and eventually shrink. Radiofrequency energy is electromagnetic and non-ionizing in nature, similar to microwave energy. Researchers have used RFA throughout the huma...

Ritalin May Lower Cocaine Abuse

...lthood. // Many children and teens with ADHD are treated with stimulant medication, the best-known being Ri...es of children with the disorder that showed those treated with stimulant drugs were less likely than untreated children to abuse illicit drugs later on. They ...

A new treatment for liver cancer

...eatment with advanced liver tumours, who cannot be treated by any other means. TheraSphere involves injecting millions of microscopic glass beads containing the radioactive element yttrium into the femoral and hepatic arteries.// The beads travel to the liver and deliver the radiation there, killing cancer...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...mon malignant childhood brain tumour – who will be treated with lower radiation and increased chemotherapy doses than those currently used. // In the US, about 500 children are diagnosed with this curable condition each year. In the early 1990s, the standard treatment was to apply a dose of 3,600 cGy or ra...

Cure for sleepless nights

...n drugs. Fifty-five per cent of sufferers who were treated with behavioural therapy noted an improvement in t... indicate that chronic insomnia can be effectively treated in late life with structured and sleep-focused interventions aimed at changing poor sleep habits and...

Hope For Stiff-Person Syndrome

...egulating neurotransmitter.// Patients are usually treated with Valium (diazepam), which is only mildly successful at controlling symptoms. While the cause of stiff-person syndrome is unknown, doctors had suspected that it may be an autoimmune disorder. About 1 in every million people has the disorder, thou...

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...on has been described as underdiagnosed and poorly treated in the US. In fact, a recent study stressed that as many as 8 million Americans with serious mental illness fail to receive adequate treatment. Americans have no qualms about seeking treatment for depression. It's just that they're turning more to ...

Relief from common back pain

...al Surgeons, 90 per cent of herniated disks can be treated with conservative therapies such as bed rest, exercise or anti-inflammatory medications. In the past, surgery such as a diskectomy in which the protruding disk is removed has been the only option for patients who do not respond to conservative thera...

Aspirin - a drug after one’s own hear

...who led the study. “If we could get those patients treated we could says an extra 40,000 lives a year,” he told. Aspirin and anti-platelet drugs are normally given to patients who have suffered a heart attack or stroke to prevent a recurrence. But Baigent and his team found the treatment could also help pr...

Burden of lung disease

...esent with symptoms too late for the disease to be treated surgically....

Syphilis uncovered

...so at higher risk of HIV infection.Syphilis can be treated with injections of penicillin or other antibiotics. In addition, the disease is difficult to diagnose and often repeated blood tests are needed.Until now scientists have been unable to keep Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis, al...

Cure for osteoporosis in prostate cancer patients

...yperplasia. Those with prostate cancer were either treated with external beam radiotherapy without androgen d...ients on androgen deprivation therapy who were not treated with diethylstilbesterol had a higher level of urinary creatinine than patients treated with the syn...

New therapy for bone cancer

... is an unusual tumour of the bone which is usually treated by surgery or chemotherapy. However, one case in ten proves resistant to these therapies.// A new radioactive drug, samarium, was tested on 21 patients with bone cancer, ranging in age from 15 to 50. All had failed to benefit from other treatments ...

Plague creates panic in India

...e infected people from the same village were being treated at nearby hospitals. Thakur said about 8000 people in the affected area had been given preventive antibiotics. Most villages and transport vehicles had been fumigated and local authorities had been asked to stay on alert....

New swift therapy limits stroke damage

...th stroke symptoms between a couple of months were treated by paramedics with magnesium sulphate, under the direction of University physicians. Follow up suggested that the drug, when administered within an hour of symptom onset, does protect the brain from damage. A larger trial is now planned and its hoped...

Acupuncture to bring relief to patients with dry mouth

...ncluded mainly patients with head and neck cancers treated with radiation, showed that acupuncture to the ear and index finger recuperated dry mouth in most of the patients. An ancient therapy introduced in China more than 2,000 years ago, acupuncture involves placing fine needles in specific points on the ...

Lethal Heart Condition linked To Cocaine Use

...ry, a condition that should be suspected in people treated for chest pain. The condition called aortic dissection occurs when the lining of the aorta tears, exposing the inner layer. //Cocaine use is not a commonly recognized risk factor for aortic dissection, which usually occurs in older people with high b...

Pain Killers Keep the Virus Away

...on of prostaglandin E2 more than 50-fold. But when treated with the cox-2 inhibitor, the number of virus copies in the cell fell more than 100-fold. "There's a significant block there in the virus production," says Thomas....

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...gs involving 3,890 patients. They found that those treated within the first 90 minutes after the start of sym...ared to people who are not treated. However, those treated in the second 90 minutes have only a 1.5 times greater chance of recovery. Brott said hospitals shou...

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