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Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

... older people. Hitherto, both these disorders were treated through conventional spine surgeries which required an incision of about 12cms to be made and the patient took a longer time to recover. Endoscopic Spinal Surgery, which was introduced in Europe, US & other countries about five years ago and recentl...

High development costs hinder entry of cancer super drugs into the market

...the potential market is too small, as the patients treated with a particular drug are confined to a small genetically defined subgroup, and the sales from this small group would not cover the development costs. Unless scientists are able to show that these drugs work on a specific genetic type instead of on ...

Combination regime may work against prostate cancer

...g// Taxotere. A phase II clinical trial of 35 men treated with a combination of Taxotere and Calcitriol found that this combination regime was more effective than treatment with Taxotere alone. This was measured by the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response rate. 81 per cent of the subjects showed a PSA l...

Depressed women show signs of earlier onset of Perimenopause

... times more likely to have had depression that was treated with medication for one year or longer compared to women who made a normal transition to menopause (around age 50). The new research study included 330 women with and 646 women without a history of major depression between the ages of 36 and 45 year...

New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

... cases. Patients with TPP have been traditionally treated using a strategy called plasmapheresis, which is similar to kidney dialysis where the blood is replaced with healthy blood. However, the patient who underwent the new treatment did not respond to the standard treatment and was subjected to immune sup...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

Heart ailments that are treated with angioplasty or a transplantation may result in injury of the arteries. While in transplantation there is an ever-present risk of rejection of the// organ, in angioplasty, placing a balloon in the artery causes damage to the vessel walls. This in...

Artificial discs available as replacements for damaged discs

...atients with damaged discs have traditionally been treated by removing a disc or placing a bone graft in the spine to fuse two bones together. Now, an artificial disc which is being studied as a replacement is in the second phase of trials. The phase one study that was recently completed compared the prosthe...

Heart disease in women being under-treated

...are under-treated for heart disease, and women are treated even less aggressively than men. Dr. Michael Shlipak of the University of California, co-author of the study said that these findings could have many reasons including a lingering myth that heart disease is primarily a man's disease, doctors not usin...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...oma in at least one eye. Half of the patients were treated with medicines and laser to lower eye pressure and...gression risk was cut in half in patients who were treated as compared to those who were not treated. They added that other factors were also responsible for p...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...parate six-month periods. The first group had been treated with the previous standard treatment, the second group with Xopenex. It was found that the subjects showed significant symptom improvement and a change in the frequency of nebulizer treatments - in intervals of 6 to 8 hours. This change was achieved ...

New way to control hospital infection

... Dr. Saint added that some of these infections are treated with antibiotics or removal of a device like a catheter, while others lead to overwhelming bacteremia and death. He indicated that central venous catheters are one of the prime culprits, which are used in 3 million people yearly, out of which, 150,00...

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...rease levels of the molecule. They found that when treated with Taxol only about half as many engineered cells were killed by the drug as non-engineered cells. In normal cell division, a cell can only divide if it has correctly shared out all its genes, ensuring each new cell receives a complete set. If the...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...lignant cell. The researchers will then screen the treated cells for those that have reverted to type and become normal again. They hope that those genes switched off by RNA interference in these cells may represent a crucial group of genes, which future anti-cancer drugs could target. Dr. Downward conclude...

Untreated Scoliosis patients found to lead productive and active lives

...rchers compared 117 of those patients who were not treated for their condition to people without scoliosis who where similar in age and gender. They found that 22 patients out of 98 complained of shortness of breath during everyday activities compared to 8 out of 53 in the control group. About 66 scoliosis p...

Treatment for cholesterol-related illnesses likely with the discovery of receptor in mice

...X and other cholesterol-related illnesses could be treated or possibly even prevented with existing drugs like rifampicin and St. John's Wort, which do activate the PXR receptor in humans....

Cancers & Reconstruction

...team based// approach, these tumors either weren’t treated or they were treated and the patients were left with pretty deforming or devastating problems. However now, Dr. Constanti...

Early detection of colorectal cancer may be hindered by coloured toilet disinfectants

...d colon cancers detected early can be successfully treated and that once the cancer has spread cure rates drop dramatically. The National programme// for detection of colorectal cancer suggested checking toilets before flushing for any signs of blood, which may indicate that all is not well. Dr Mourad Habib...

New ways to help children with trauma

...ury. The researchers said that children are being treated like mini adults and put through assessment tests that were designed for adults. So now, they are also trying to find better ways to assess children after traumatic brain injury, such as how they function, walk, talk, speak, and perform other daily a...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...get the tumors. In a pilot study, the researchers treated 35 patients whose non-small-cell lung cancers were spreading despite chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. Tumors removed from their lungs during surgery were ground up into individual cells. The cells were then bioengineered to make a T-cell alerti...

New remedy for those suffering from Crohn's disease

...ople showed relief from symptoms while 53 per cent treated went into remission. GM-CSF is given by self-injection once a day. The drug is going through a larger second phase of study and so is not available commercially as yet. The drug, though not approved for treatment of Crohn's has FDAs approval for oth...

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