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Hope for tinnitus sufferers

...he amputated arm or leg. Researchers successfully treated amputees by asking them to identify the position and frequency of non-painful electric shocks applied to their amputated stumps. The corresponding brain areas were stimulated by the treatment, which led to growth of these areas and resulted in a 70% ...

Fluoride proves effective against fractures

...more nontraumatic fractures. The study group was treated with sustained-release sodium fluoride combined with calcium citrate and vitamin D while a control group received the calcium citrate and vitamin D combination alone.After three treatment cycles, bone-mineral density increased by 5.4 percent in the s...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...cy has already begun. So far 30 patients have been treated and the goal is to enroll 120 patients....

Experimental drug to fight flu

...a single dose of multimeric zanamivir successfully treated mice infected with human influenza A and B....

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...tioning and short attention span. ADHD is commonly treated with the stimulant drug methylphenidate (Ritalin), the active ingredient in Metadate. The researchers report their findings in the April issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. "A controlled-delivery form of ...

Fatty deposits affect the stomach too

...volved and may lose weight. The condition can be treated in much the same way as atherosclerosis in the arteries serving the heart that is, with bypass surgery or with angioplasty, which involves insertion of a balloon-tipped catheter which widens the artery. In fact, mesenteric ischemia should alert those...

Oestrogen to help mental health

...andenong Psychiatry Research Centre, in Melbourne, treated 12 schizophrenic women with both oestrogen skin patches and risperidone for a month. She compared her results with a control group of 16 women just receiving risperidone and found those taking oestrogen as well had fewer symptoms. "Several patients...

New hope for eye cancer

...eatment.By five years after treatment, 12% had the treated eye removed due to complications of the radiation treatment or tumour growth....

Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment

...or underreporting. These conditions are routinely treated with diuretics, or drugs that decrease body fluid by increasing urine production. But diuretics can be dangerous and even deadly for TRALI patients, who need more fluids....

Down syndrome life anticipation doubles

...in children with Down syndrome would not have been treated as vigorously as in others, and they were on the bottom of the list for cardiac surgery until the mid 1980s. Growing up at home has meant better healthcare, better nutrition and a better lifestyle." Down syndrome is caused by an extra copy of chromo...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...calls made to patients a month after they had been treated in the emergency department, the screen was almost 95% accurate at detecting heart attack, identifying100 to 150 cases. Thus the author concludes that the artificial neural network has the potential to be used as a real time aid to identify the pres...

Filtration treatment assigns more live kidney donation

...f blood type. In a study 27 out of 29 recipients treated in this way are doing well after their transplant, with no sign of rejection. In fact, receiving a kidney from a living donor is a better option all round as the organs work straight away and last twice as long as cadaver kidneys. The new filtration ...

Ulcer Surgery connected to danger of Pancreatic Cancer

...l intestine, called the duodenum. Often ulcers are treated with antibiotics, but some patients require surgery. During a gastrectomy, the surgeon removes part of the stomach, as well as some of the tissue around the stomach. It has been suggested that patients who undergo peptic ulcer surgery may be at incr...

Acoustic neuroma in older patients to be treated

...t acoustic neuroma patients over 60 should only be treated by surgery if the tumour is large and pressing upon the brainstem, or with rapidly worsening symptoms. Otherwise, it may be better to leave well alone....

A way to slow the progression of Type 1 Diabetes

...eople aged 8 to 35 years with type 1 diabetes were treated with anti-CD3 mAb, a modified antibody.// A 14-day... their good sugar levels. However, the 12 patients treated with anti-CD3 mAb produced more natural insulin and needed less injected insulin one year after trea...

How to repeal male infertility?

...from an animal study that show infertile male mice treated with gene therapy are able to go on to produce off... say these results suggest male infertility may be treated with gene therapy and that the gene alteration was not passed on to the descendants....

Ulcer causing bug found in stored food

... risk for gastritis and gastric cancer, but may be treated with a regimen of antibiotics. The researchers evaluated 10 different food types purchased from behind the counter at a local grocery store. They were able to grow cultures of the H. pylori on about one third of the samples of the chicken, shrimp, po...

New treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...herapy for RA as well. In a new study, researchers treated laboratory mice with endostatin for RA, and found the volume of new blood vessels, as well as inflammatory cells, was significantly decreased....

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...d develop without the enzyme. When the researchers treated the mice with chemotherapy that severely damaged bone marrow, 72% died, while all of the mice that still produced MMP9 survived because they successfully regenerated blood and immune system cells. He said that without MMP9, none of the stem cells wok...

Sleep apnoea linked to surgical risks

...searchers say sleep apnoea should, if possible, be treated before this kind of surgery to improve the outcome....

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