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Painkillers may Reduce the Risk Enlarged Prostate

...adder (where urine is stored) and the urethra (the tube urine passes through). As men age, the prostate gland slowly grows or enlarges. As the prostate gets bigger, it may press on the urethra and cause the flow of urine to be slower and less forceful. Source-IANS...

New Lung Heating Device can Help Asthma Patients

...erted inside the lungs with the help of a flexible tube through the mouth or nose can help treat asthma, researchers conducting its// trial said. Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system in which the airways constrict making it hard to breathe. At its worst, asthma can be fatal. Though ast...

Good News for Infertile Men

...rocedure termed embolization; involves inserting a tube into the groin and pointing it towards the varicocele. A tiny platinum coil put in at this point stops blood flow through the faulty veins and hinders it from entering another passage. This procedure was performed on 173 men who were considered i...

Pig Stem Cells Show Promise in Repairing Animals’ Heart Attack Damag

...revious studies, Hopkins cardiologists used a thin tube to extract samples of heart tissue no bigger than ...a month after the initial heart attack, a catheter tube was inserted into an artery in the pig leg for infusing the cardiospheres. Previous research had sho...

Holiday Season Could Ring in “Heartburn Season

...e stomach up into the esophagus, which is the long tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach. A valve at the end of the esophagus is supposed to function as a one-way release, relaxing to allow food into the stomach and closing back up so food and acid in the stomach stay there while the food ...

Hope For Patients With Macular Degeneration From Manmade Protein

...helped reduce blood vessel development in the test tube and animal models for corneal injury and melanoma. 'Now we are talking about making them go away,' says Dr. Ambati. While the work is still in the laboratory, it provides further evidence of the intraceptor’s potential clinical application, he says...

Revolutionary Eye Cancer Treatment

...in-3 to block MDMX in retinoblastoma cells in test tube studies as well as in mouse models. The molecule was originally developed by Roche Pharmaceuticals (Nutley, N.J.) for a similar use against a related target called MDM2 in adult cancer cells. The success in knocking out MDMX with nutlin-3 represent...

Colon cancer Linked to low-folate diet

...y are at a risk of producing offspring with neural tube defects like spina bifida. Rozen however stressed that she's not suggesting people start loading up on folic acid but rather make sure that they get the recommended daily allowance of 400 micrograms by eating foods such as broccoli, spinach and ora...

Lack of Evidence on Treatment for Narrowed Kidney Arteries

...ioplasty in combination with a stent, a metal mesh tube placed inside the artery; or therapy with drugs, such as angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), calcium channel blockers, and/or beta blockers. Some doctors also recommend statins to lower cholesterol,...

Folate Fortification Now

...s will experience a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect. This is not acceptable.” Canada, the United States and a number of other nations already have introduced mandatory requirements for folate fortification of flour – an effective and inexpensive way to ensure women of child-bearing age consu...

Choice of Anesthesia in C-section

...e anesthetic is given through a tiny "catheter" or tube that has been placed in the space overlying this sac of fluid. "Virtually no OB facility in the United States routinely uses general anesthesia; in fact, its use is limited to very rare clinical settings," Lockwood said. "General anesthesia increas...

NOTE surgery – to combat obesit

...ry out a stomach-stapling surgery by introducing a tube through the mouth than using an incision. // Around 1 million bariatric surgeries have been carried out across the globe. This surgery is recommended for weight loss and it involves stapling of the stomach, making it smaller, as a result, people ...

Dengue and Chikungunya: The Dirge of a Nation

...· Use bleaching powder mixed in water if it is not tube used for drinking. · Measures should be taken to prevent mosquito breeding in stored water bodies, like wells · Destroy discarded objects like old tyres, coconut shells and bottles, as they collect and store rain water · Wear bright and light colo...

Grant Encourages Drug Testing Sans Animals

... to take novel drugs straight from testing done in tube tests," said Dr Walmsley. "But if we can refine the pre-animal tests and increase people's confidence in them, then we will be able to reduce the number of chemicals that are tested on live animals." Source-Eurekalert MS...

Chemical in Curry May Help Immune System Clear Plaques Found in Alzheimer's

... are hopeful that these positive results in a test tube may translate to clinical use, but more studies need to be done before curcumin can be recommended.” The patients ranged in age from 65 to 84. Fiala noted that the patients whose immune cells responded were younger and had higher scores on a Mini-M...

Super Chow, Laced With Semi-Synthetic Vitamin E, Inhibited Spread of Cancer

...ions. Administering V?-TOS daily through a feeding tube had the same effect on tumor size, but V?-TOS was ineffective when delivered in this way, Akporiaye said. “We found that V?-TOS wasn’t stable, and returned to its natural vitamin E state,” he said. To gauge the effectiveness of a dietary treatment,...

Bypass Surgery, a Better Option than Angioplasty for Severe Heart Patients

...y involves snaking an expandable balloon through a tube inserted through a blocked coronary artery and then expanding the balloon to push the blockage against the walls of the artery, thereby opening it. "It may sound very appealing to patients with severe coronary artery disease to get a treatment that...

16 Common Myths About Breast Cancer

... participation may be as simple as having an extra tube of blood drawn or answering a survey. “I think every woman should ask her doctor, ‘What clinical trial can I be on?’ At least they should hear the options. Through clinical trials, we will continue to take good care of patients today, and better ca...

A New Approach to Heart Bypass Surgery Provides Patients with 'One-stop Shopping'

...e put in a central line, nasogastric tube, a chest tube or an endotracheal tube, when your knee or hip is operated on, when you have gall bladder surgery, you get a before and after picture. When you have your heart valve operated on you have a before and after picture (intraoperative echocardiography). ...

Prenatal Multivitamins to prevent risk of Brain Tumors In Kids

...ancy to reduce the risk of development of a neural tube defect like spina bifida in the fetus. "This c...re advised to take multivitamins to prevent neural tube defects even if they are not trying to get pregnant." The mothers’ interrogation included the freq...

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