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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 corneal ...

New operation for kidney cancer

...ration was performed. In all, 80 tumours have been treated and there has been no recurrence at the treated sites. Better still, kidney function has been preserved in all the patients (while conventional surg...

Lymphoma's Link to Hepatitis C

...oma's. //A patient with both of these diseases was treated with the antiviral treatment interferon. The patie...lymphoma, and the hepatitis C virus infection were treated with interferon either alone or in combination with the drug, ribavirin. Outcomes of these patients ...

Altitude sickness connected to genes

...y death occurs in 40 percent of people who are not treated or moved to a lower altitude. Researchers from Japan report on a genetic variation. They found climbers who had experienced HAPE were more likely to have the variation than climbers who had never had it. The authors write, "We did this study to try ...

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

...ng to experiments on mice with HD. The mice were treated with a bile acid known as tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), which is produced naturally in the liver. This compound is unusual in being able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. The experiments showed how it protected the cells in the part of the b...

Sleep disorders can have anomalistic sexual acts

... diagnosed with a mental disorder. The patient was treated for the sleep disorder REM behavior disorder. Seven of the other patients were diagnosed with psychiatric conditions, including major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. In some cases, patients had a history of sexual abuse. One m...

Stroke and Dementia - a ghastly association

...owed patients with dementia were less likely to be treated with medications that have strict dosing guidelines. The lack of these medications could explain their increased risk of death. Currently, stroke prevention focuses on patients without dementia, but researchers felt that doctors also need to focus o...

Laser technique assists beard problem

...area. After 80 days, the incidence of PFB on the treated sites was much lower than on the untreated control area. This means that laser hair removal might be a better and more complete treatment for PFB than existing options such as topical steroids and exfoliation, which typically only deal with the probl...

A way to eradicate allergy

... researchers that nearly two out of three patients treated for allergies were not allergic. Sixty-five percent of the patients tested negative for allergies; the blood samples from only 35 percent of the subjects showed true allergic reactions. " This means that two-thirds of the patients were on the wron...

An effective drug for lung cancer

...ents with Mesothelioma. Twenty-seven patients were treated with five different doses of the drugs. The study found that not only was the drug safe, but about one-third of the patients responded to the drug combination. On average, patients who were given the drug combination survived as long as 12 to 14 mon...

Support for patients with Leg Pain

... were seen in one year. The patients were randomly treated with either intravenous glutathione twice a day or saline solution twice a day for five days. The patients' pain and blood circulation were then assessed. Researchers found the patients on the treatment were able to walk longer without pain compared...

Gel assists head and neck cancer

...searchers studied 120 patients who were previously treated for their cancer. Nearly 80 percent of the patients had been treated with more than one therapy including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Some patients received ...

Leeches help in tissue transfer

...nt of patients develop obstructions that cannot be treated with medicine or surgery. Of the 400 tissue transfers performed at UM between 1997 and 2000, eight patients developed a problem. Doctors used leeches on all eight patients with the intention of reducing the obstruction. They write, "Aggressive applic...

Flesh-eating virus

...the underlying tissues. If caught early, it can be treated with antibiotics, but more serious surgery can involve the removal of skin and even limbs to halt the spread of the bacteria....

Injection supports Heart Devices

...d , however, that this serious complication can be treated dynamically and an exchange of the device would not be essential....

Sensitive cough suffered by females

...t of cigarette smoking and the kind of cough being treated at the clinic. The study suggests that women have a more sensitive cough reflex than men to. Similar differences have been found in the onset of asthma and gastroesophagal reflux disease....

Early therapy aids eyesight

... glaucoma in one eye. Around half of the group was treated with medicine and laser to reduce the amount of in...rs found the disease progressed more slowly in the treated patients than in the untreated patients. In the treated patients, eye pressure was lowered by about ...

Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

...bial peptides in their skin. When the researchers treated staphylococcus aureus colonies with the antimicrobial peptides, levels found in skin of psoriasis patients killed the bacterial. The researchers also found that two hormone-like proteins associated with the immune response and commonly secreted by at...

Light therapy devotes new hope in advanced lung cancer

...ring the operation. More than half of the patients treated in this way survived for four times longer, on average, than those getting surgery without PDT. They were surviving for more than 20 months - a remarkable improvement on previous survival times in NSCLC. More research is now needed to see just why PD...

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...eps them up at night. Patients until now have been treated with// the same medications used to treat Parkinson's disease. Though patients reported relief with these drugs, there are often significant side effects and long-term complications. Researchers in Spain have now discovered that medication commonly u...

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