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Supply of Radiopharmaceuticals Hampered by Attacks

...e to get radiopharmaceuticals so that all possible treatment options would be open to the victims of the attacks....

Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

...The findings may open the door to new types of HIV treatment with hepatitis G, researchers suggest. "We are working to try to understand the mechanism of the HIV inhibition'' apparently caused by hepatitis G, Dr. Jack T. Stapleton, of the University of Iowa and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. ...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...sity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that a treatment program that focuses on reducing women's concerns about weight is the first treatment to significantly improve smoking cessation in weight-concerned women. Previous interventions for wei...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

... research is needed to see whether the antioxidant treatment is applicable to humans. There's also the possibility that this kind of oxidative stress might also play a role in brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease, as well as brain injury....

Dopamine helps stroke survivors

...movement to function more normally. It's used as a treatment in Parkinson's disease, but a new trial suggests t...rvivors. Till now, physiotherapy has been the only treatment given for stroke-induced disability. The discovery of drugs that can enhance the recovery process is...

New snoring cure

... the more standard treatment. And radiofrequency treatment works well - most patients in the trials experienced a significant decrease in snoring, which was maintained for several months following the surgery....

Heat therapy relieves back pain

...applied a hot water bottle to an aching back? Heat treatment has always proved effective in lower back ache. This treatment delivered with needlepoint accuracy leads to dramatic improvement of a certain common type of lower ...

Toxic effects common with AIDS treatments

...ls of toxic effects associated with antiretroviral treatment for HIV have been recorded and quantified by a gro... efficacy levels of drug combinations are similar, treatment choice will depend on the toxic effects of the drugs. Therefore, the data may be useful as a referen...

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...hors are now recommending that hospitals offer the treatment to patients in whom conventional drugs have failed to prevent vomiting. Mark Bovey, a research co-ordinator, at the Acupuncture Research Resource Centre at Exeter University, said that doctors were beginning to become far more accepting of acupunct...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...rom high blood pressure have the most to gain from treatment - yet they are being neglected. Doctors are often reluctant to treat people with high blood pressure when they have other risk factors, like high cholesterol or diabetes. Maybe they believe little can be done when matters have reached the 'multiple r...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

...iving initial antibiotic treatment. The antibiotic treatment received was divided into first-line therapy and s...ed. Of the 17,329 patients who received first-line treatment the success rate was 90.1 per cent and for the 11,773 patients receiving second-line treatment the s...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...tudies. When comparing the different drugs used in treatment they found that calcium-channel blockers and ACE inhibitors provided the same overall protection against cardiovascular complications as diuretics or ?-blockers. However, calcium-channel blockers were found to be more protective against stroke than...

Pharma majors gear to supply anti-anthrax drug

...ed to an increased demand for the drug used in its treatment - Ciprofloxacin. Already there is news that the Ge...llion tablets a month of Ciprofloxacin for anthrax treatment starting December. The treatment for anthrax entails one ciprofloxacin twice a day and the U.S. Gove...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

The diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy is often handled in a casual “insoucia...rsity College London have found that some epilepsy treatment regimes are outmoded, inappropriate or given too late to be of maximum benefit to patients. // The...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

... Smallpox is contagious, and there is no effective treatment available. Some federal officials have reason to believe that Iraq is developing it as a biological weapon.” The Bush administration appears to agree with Matthews. Tommy Thompson, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, wants Congress to provi...

Resurface your skin

...ein that gives skin its youthful elasticity. The treatment takes just 15 minutes and you might expect a visible improvement after three to five treatments spaced out over about four weeks. You do need to protect your new skin from the sun thereafter, with sunscreen. If you are careful about this, the results...

Fluoride Found Effective in Osteoporosis

... vitamin D with calcium and vitamin D alone in the treatment of 85 women aged 65 years or older who had already experienced one or more backbone fractures from osteoporosis. Women treated with fluoride showed significant improvements in various measures of bone formation compared with women not treated with ...

Short stature -a problem

...s, a major study has found. Researchers found that treatment with growth hormone not only boosted growth in children, but also improved their conduct and relations with other people. Lead researcher Dr Derick Beens, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of North Dakota, said: "We believe thi...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

... said Professor henry. The advantage of multi-drug treatment is a reduction in the probability of a mutated virus escaping the treatment.The team has been working on the project for the past couple of years . ...

Misleading Advertisements for Prescription Drugs

...The ads "not only targeted symptom relief but also treatment and prevention of disease," Dr. Woloshin noted. Si...ds argue that the ads help educate consumers about treatment options and increase the awareness of the consequence of disease. Dr. Woloshin's group proposes that...

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