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Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...ossly obese had a miscarriage rate after fertility treatment of 27%. Those with a BMI of over 35 miscarried in 34% of the cases. This equates approximately to 50% increased risk among the lower weight group, and a doubled risk among the most obese patients. Professor Norman speculated that as the body's abil...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...rs at the University of Iowa are testing whether a treatment regimen of worms may help patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The worm research represents perhaps the most extreme example of a field known as probiotics: the use of living organisms to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract...

TELITHROMYCIN - the proven effective new drug for cap

...ved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of CAP, acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (ABECB), and acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS) and is marketed by Aventis Pharma....

Roller coaster takes brain for a big ride!!

... veins on the surface of the brain. Surgery is the treatment of choice....

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...en or an inactive placebo. Twenty-four hours after treatment began, body temperature was an average of 0.4 degrees Celsius lower in patients taking a high dose of acetaminophen than in patients taking the placebo, according to the report. Dr. Diederik W J Dippel of the University Hospital Rotterdam said ther...

New Laser Techniques cure degeneration of the eye

...of these latest laser techniques is helpful in the treatment of those suffering from a degenerative eye conditi... but it halts the progression of the disease. This treatment is quite expensive, since it requires trained skills. Doctors feel, the key to successful treatment...

Shock it to Heal!!

...urs as well as removal dead tissue weekly, topical treatment and rest for 3 months, it was found that the ulcer healing rate was about 65%. Though it is not clear, electric stimulation works in enhancing the blood flow to the affected area and hence enhance the immune system. The device should be used in comb...

Double impact vaccine

...tially developing the measles vaccine virus into a treatment for patients with advanced lymphomas. The study in...combination with radiation therapy is the standard treatment for lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation is given in case of relapse. ...

New FDA Approved Drug To Treat Migraine

Axert has been approved by the FDA for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults. Axer...rapy from Pharmacia, proven effective in the acute treatment of migraine....

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

...ients with epilepsy not to have an interruption in treatment because it could lead to consequence such as status epilepticus. Conversely, those patients that do not have epilepsy could be placed at unnecessary risk of adverse events, including serious rash, if they are mistakenly given Lamictal. The most com...

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...eir sex hormone levels decrease. The most common treatment is hormone replacement therapy. But this can increase the risk of cancer, especially in women.// At the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Stavros Manolagas and Starvroula Kousteni have created forms of sex hormones that will keep bone cells a...

Lose Weight With New Wonder Slimming FDA approved Prescription Drug

...inimise any weight regain. The impact of Xenical treatment on quality of life was examined in research presented by SusanMathias, at the Technology Assessment Research Group. Results of this study show patients taking Xenical 120mg thrice a day up to two years reported a greater decline in overweight distres...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...ndition, but one third of the patients discontinue treatment early due to toxicity.// Patients taking Met...ks, 38% of patients taking the placebo had stopped treatment with methotrexate, compared with 17% of patients taking folic acid and 12% of patients taking folini...

Eye Saver

... eye removed due to complications of the radiation treatment or tumour growth....

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...ts help doctors to decide whether patients require treatment with drugs to combat arrhythmia or may be implant a defibrillator, a device similar to a pacemaker, which operates only when the heartbeat starts to get out of step. Mathematicians at the new Fraunhofer Institute ITWM together with a private servic...

Alzheimer cure

...rebrain, is already underway - to show whether the treatment is safe. If the mice results are anything to go by, the clinical trial could be a winner - and thus a cure for Alzheimer's disease....

Chaste plant a boon

...let a day throughout three monthly cycles, and the treatment was especially effective for irritability, mood alteration, anger, headache and breast fullness. The authors say that, following the positive results, agnus castus should now be considered by medical practitioners as a therapeutic option for women s...

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...ity of life survey of 71 patients who received the treatment at the International Symposium of Sympathetic Surgery held in Helsinki, Finland. These patients were submitted to a questionnaire about the amount of stress they experienced in their daily life as a consequence of the constant sweating before surger...

New Modality in Migraine Management

...ed 85 patients who had experienced no relief after treatment with standard therapies,//treated them with 100milligrams of valproate sodium every 5 minutes until their pain was relieved. By the end of the study, he found that,patients' average rating for symptom relief was 88%, and 59 reported complete pain re...

Herbs for Rememberance

...sease. This herb is an economical option for the treatment and prevention of memory loss and dementia and is very safe, without any side effects. Intensive studies are being carried out in medical institutes in the USA and India to evaluate this....

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