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A treatment for blindness

...one eye. Those with ROP in one eye either received treatment in the affected eye or did not receive any treatment. Results after 10 years showed that total retinal detachments continued to occur in untreated eyes throughout the follow-up period, increasing from 38.6 percent when the children were 5.5 years o...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

... seeking marketing authorization for Zometa in the treatment of bone complications associated with a broad rang...he FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 2001) for the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM), the most common life-threatening metabolic complication of can...

Eating disorders are hereditary

... healthy habits and finally a cognitive-behavioral treatment is essential....

Relieve hot flashes

...r, Minnesota Vitamin E is one of the remedy in the treatment of sufferers with hot flashes. Estrogen relieves hot flashes in most women, but concerns remain over its use in breast cancer survivors because the hormone may stimulate breast cancer growth.// The herb black cohosh seems to alleviate hot flashe...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer recurrence

...ccording to a report, giving radiation to surgical treatment for rectal cancer may not make much difference in ... Jersy, among patients who received both radiation treatment and surgery, 2.4% saw a reappearance of their cancer. Patients in the surgery-only group had a recur...

A new growth factor identified

... or EG-VEGF. The finding could lead the way toward treatment for illnesses affecting these glands. The endocrin...roughout the body. This has been investigated as a treatment for heart disease. Since tumors need new blood vessels in to grow, they have also sought to fight ca...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

..., the first pharmacotherapy ever available for the treatment of smoking problem, is a prescription drug and is ... study participants. The patient undergoing this treatment will also require counselling from time to time. While the framework for guiding a patient through t...

Quality of life after cancer

...The women were asked a list of questions about the treatment side effects, effect of the illness had on sex life and so on. Finally they were asked about their overall quality of life -and most scored highly on this. For 130 out of the 200 patients questioned, quality of life was the same as before their illn...

Acupuncture provides relief

Acupuncture works better than massage as a treatment for chronic neck pain, but it may need to be combi... trial was designed because the patient undergoing treatment still thinks of themselves as receiving a valid form of acupuncture treatment. But the small differ...

Decision making made easier

...eir treatment. The days when doctors told you what treatment to have are long gone. Patients today expect to pa...acement therapy (HRT) and with men considering the treatment options for prostate problems. In both instances, the videodisc was liked by both patients and docto...

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

...of diseases which could potentially benefit from a treatment which can safely create new blood vessels to supply specific areas with oxygen....

Surgery a safety in senility

...edication, or referred them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Results indicated that those who were put on medication were twice as likely to have a major adverse cardiac event - death, non-fatal ...

Quit Smoking

...igarettes. Foreign studies have shown that despite treatment advances to help people stop smoking, 70% to 80% o...on to help them stop smoking. After seven weeks of treatment 461 participants had successfully stopped. Half of that group continued with bupropion for a year, a...

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

...In some of the studies he reviewed, women had less treatment success using nicotine gum or nicotine patches than did men. Women may suffer greater relative risks of smoking-related diseases than do men. For example, in one study cited by Dr. Perkins in his review, women who smoked had almost double the risk ...

Treatment for Meniere's disease

...One problem in assessing the value of a particular treatment is that the condition is very unpredictable - it m...Researchers in Italy, have surveyed the results of treatment in a group of 300 patients with Meniere's disease, treated over a ten year period.// Half the pati...

Vitamin B for Hepatitis

...nvestigate the relationship. All had either failed treatment with interferon or could not tolerate the drug. While patients were on thiamine treatment, their aminotransferase levels fell from abnormally high to normal levels; these levels increased when thiamine was subsequently withdrawn. And in subsequent li...

Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

...any in the United States focusing primarily on the treatment of dermatological conditions. Based in Wilmington, Mass., Ascent is a pharmaceutical company primarily dedicated to the specialty of pediatrics. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation and Ascent Pediatrics, Inc. today announced that they have entered int...

Alternative therapies popular with Parkinson's patients

... about it - even though some remedies and forms of treatment might have an adverse effect or interact with prescribed therapies. It's something patients should reveal to the doctor, and something doctors should ask about. There's also a need for more research into the effectiveness of CAM. For instance, vitami...

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

...The finding suggests the medication could be a new treatment for high blood pressure, heart failure, and certain complications of diabetes. The drug, ALT-711, snips bonds or crosslinks created in the arteries and other tissues when glucose attaches to the protein collagen. // Crosslinks are cable-like stru...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

... with advanced disease could benefit, although the treatment is best started early on. A final study of irbesar...ope to people with diabetes, for there has been no treatment for kidney complications till now. They also underline the need for the earliest possible diagnosis ...

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