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Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

...ttack, matching each patient to two other patients treated for a non-life-threatening asthma attack. In the medical publication the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, they report that 53 percent of children with a life-threatening asthma attack were food allergic compared with only 10 percent of th...

Stem cells offer hope for muscular dystrophy

...y alpha sarcoglycan proteins in the muscles of the treated mice. "The muscle cells of a dystrophied mouse are extremely weak, but a cured mouse recovered almost entirely all its strength," said Roberto Bottinelli from the University of Pavia, who worked on the study. The experiment proves a theory but some...

Drug Reduces Risk of Clogged Arteries, Veins

...sk of these conditions, claims a new study. People treated with the drug were 47 percent less likely to suffer venous thromboembolism (a condition involving clotting or obstruction of a vein that includes both deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) than people who received a placebo,// according to the...

Novel Therapy for Chronic Problem

...ears old to 55 years old. All of the patients were treated with topical corticosteroids for six weeks. The pa...hat, once diagnosed, can easily and effectively be treated with topical corticosteroid therapy....

What Makes Teens take Drugs

...study findings could affect the way that teens are treated for substance abuse. "Because girls' use of substances is controlled by the same genes that are linked to behavioral problems, treatment efforts that target the antisocial behavior itself may be effective. Boys' substance use may be reduced by direc...

Angioplasty Should be the Standard

...wn heart attack patients fare better when they are treated with angioplasty to open up the clogged blood vessel that caused the attack than when they are treated with a clot-busting drug therapy called fibrinolysis. Danish investigators provide evidence reversi...

Chemotherapy Effective for Bladder Cancer

... patients live longer. Researchers found patients treated with surgery alone lived 41 months compared to 77 months in patients who had the combination treatment. Specifically, 77 patients in the surgery only group died and 54 patients died in the group receiving chemotherapy. Patients who had surgery only h...

Drug might prevent Prostate Cancer Spread

...e researchers write, "Our results suggest that men treated with the bisphosphonate sodium clodronate have lon...atic bone progression-free survival times than men treated with placebo." More than 70 percent of the men who took the medication also reported a significant ...

Treating Stroke Patients in Rural Areas

...ral areas of the United States can be assessed and treated as well by a neurologist via a wireless Internet program as they can in person. That good news comes from a study in the October online issue of Stroke.// Treatment through this Internet-based program includes the use of the clot-busting drug tPA, ...

Risks for Silent Strokes

...ent is found to have multiple SCIs, they should be treated as if they had suffered a stroke. For example, doctors say the patient should be put on an aspirin regimen or other drugs to help blood flow in the body. Researchers also looked at patients who had white coat hypertension. White coat hypertension is...

Reducing HIV Transmission

...untries because HIV-infected mothers are routinely treated with the anti-HIV drug zidovudine during pregnancy and labor, and their infants receive the drug during the first six weeks of life. This treatment, however, is generally considered too complicated for use in less developed countries. In 1999, inves...

Oncologists Overlook Clot Risk

... About 40 percent of the doctors who were surveyed treated their patients with either chemotherapy or radioth...r warfarin, as a preventative measure for patients treated with chemotherapy. Seventy-nine doctors did not recommend the medication for hormone therapy patient...

Link Between Migraines and Behavioral Disorders

...inked to the episodes. They say children should be treated aggressively if headaches occur more than three times a month. However more research is needed to confirm these findings.Researchers say: In the future, they hope to examine the correlation between chronic daily headaches and behavioral issues. We’...

ICU Survival can be improved by Antibiotic use

...U for at least three days, provided they are being treated in an ICU with a low incidence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ...

False beliefs could cost cancer patients their lives

...ll-lung cancer, the most common type, is found and treated before it spreads, patients have a 50 percent chance of survival. But only 15 percent of patients are diagnosed early enough. Patients need to be better educated about cancer, and doctors need to realize what the false perceptions are and how common...

Drug-Coated Stent

...blood vessels, and long lesions, the area that was treated closes up again. For the last 20 years, doctors have been working to devise medications to prevent the problem from recurring. This new study looked at a drug-coated stent in patients with more challenging cardiac problems. The study, included 53 me...

Anemia Treatment for Cancer Patients

Many patients being treated for cancer complain of feeling weak and tired,// and doctors often prescribe an anemia treatment to relieve these symptoms. A new study suggests that may not be a good idea. Since anemia has been associated with worse prognosis after radiotherapy, t...

Anemia Treatment for Cancer Patients

Many patients being treated for cancer complain of feeling weak //and tried, and doctors often prescribe an anemia treatment to relieve these symptoms. A new study suggests that may not be a good idea. Since anemia has been associated with worse prognosis after radiotherapy, t...

Comparing Psoriasis Treatments

...s were given methotrexate, and the other half were treated with cyclosporine. Researchers evaluated the side ...life. None of the participants had previously been treated with methotrexate or cyclosporine. Results of the study show the overall response rate for both dru...

Anemia Treatment for Cancer Patients Might Not be a Good Idea.

Many patients being treated for cancer complain of feeling weak and tried, and doctors often prescribe //an anemia treatment to relieve these symptoms however a new study suggests otherwise. Since anemia has been associated with worse prognosis after radiotherapy, the doctors ...

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