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A Urine Test Could Predict Rejection In Transplant Patients

...urine test that would save patients from having to undergo painful biopsies. A urine test would also be cheaper and safer than a biopsy. Researchers also say that it could radically change the way transplant patients are managed and frequent, noninvasive monitoring could allow doctors to better tailor immuno...

Embryonic Cells Might Prevent Parkinson’s Disease From Worsenin

...tly improve the progression of the disease if they undergo a surgical procedure to implant // embryonic cells into their brains, say researchers. The cells work by producing dopamine, a neurochemical that helps control movement. People with Parkinson’s don’t produce enough dopamine, which leads to the moveme...

Thawed Ovarian Transplant

...a woman is diagnosed with cancer, she often has to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This treatment can ...d froze the left ovary of a woman who was about to undergo treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Two years later, they transplanted six strips from the frozen ovar...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

...be less active in tumor tissue, then the woman can undergo chemotherapy earlier in the course of her disease and possibly avoid progression. Researchers conducted the study by comparing ALCAM activity in frozen samples of 120 tumors and in 32 samples of normal breast tissue. Women who had died of breast ca...

Minimizing the Effects Of Cancer Treatment

A new study shows patients who undergo chemotherapy or radiation expect a high number of side effects. Researchers found side effects from // chemotherapy or radiation can diminish the quality of life for patients. If a patient expects a certain side effect, such as nausea, he or she is ...

The Efficacy Of Newer Stents Questioned

People who undergo a balloon angioplasty to open a clogged artery often receive a stent as well a small, wire-mesh device inserted into the artery// to keep it from closing. The problem with older stents, however, has been that they can trigger an immune response from ...

Reconstituted Blood Better For Young Hearts

Young children who undergo heart surgery fare better if they receive reconstituted blood rather than fresh whole blood say researchers.// Investigators say that children who received reconstituted blood -- which is made from stored red blood cells and plasma -- tended to acc...

Operating on a Beating Heart Yields Better Results For Blocked Heart Arteries

...rchers assigned 400 patients with bypass grafts to undergo either on-pump (work of the heart is shifted to a mechanical pump while heart remains still) or off-pump (the heart is still beating) surgery. Results of the surgeries were evaluated one year later. Results showed both surgeries were equally effecti...

Understanding The Harmful Effects Of Radiation Exposure

...nition tests. Researchers say young children who undergo computed tomography (CT) scans for minor head injuries may be at risk for adverse intellectual development. They say CT scans, which deliver high doses of ionizing radiation, are becoming more common in young children. Researchers say, “Irradiation o...

Hypnosis Found To Reduce Stress In Children During Medical Procedures

... The study included children who were scheduled to undergo a voiding cystourethrography. During a VCUG, a tub...a VCUG and may also be beneficial for children who undergo other invasive medical procedures....

Survival rate not improved by invasive procedures

...ls with specialized facilities were more likely to undergo invasive procedures as expected. However at the end of six months, it was found that the risk of death was 14 percent higher among patients admitted to hospitals with specialized facilities.This finding recommends the optimal and judicious use of inv...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

...en. When those methods fail to help, many patients undergo surgery to decompress the nerve. However, another option is to receive steroid injections to relieve symptoms. In a recent study researchers compared results between people who had been experiencing symptoms of the condition for at least three month...

Combination Therapy Found To Be More Effective In Treating Brain Cancer

... as much of the cancer as safely possible and then undergo radiotherapy. The current study compared 573 patients with glioblastomas who were randomized to receive either radiotherapy alone or radiotherapy in conjunction with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide (Temodal). It was seen that about 85 percent o...

Milk in diet good for heart

... 20 years after the initial study. They all had to undergo comprehensive health check-ups, including ECGs at the beginning of the study and every five years. The researchers had also kept a tab on their hospital records and family doctors’ records. Blood pressure levels and cholesterol levels of the people ...

Surgery of spine for back pain may not be cost effective

...ith intensive training sessions where the patients undergo exercise programs tailor made for them, along with hydrotherapy, and cognitive behavior therapy. The rehabilitation program slowly brings them back to their life by helping them in getting settled to a new way of life that will not cause any more str...

Treatment for chemobrain may be possible

...rvivors. People who suffer from cancer and had to undergo chemotherapy often find the process of treatment affecting their mental functions and cognitive abilities. This condition is called chemobrain and some common symptoms are inability to concentrate, inability to be organized in doing daily activities,...

Grafting arteries to restore blood flow is best for survival

...of coronary arteries have more life span when they undergo arterial grafts that will restore blood flow to all areas of the heart. Incomplete artery grafting may not increase the lifespan of the patients sufficiently outside the hospital stay. Researchers feel that the current tendency of considering only t...

Two New Human Papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines to prevent cervical cancer

...sing approach for developing countries would be to undergo a cheaper screening test and visual inspection followed by prevention and treatment....

“Yes, I need Cosmetic surgery” – view of majority wome

...magazine, Grazia reported the interest of women to undergo cosmetic surgery. // The survey results reported ...ing half of the interviewed women is interested to undergo cosmetic surgery. The result of the survey was reported in Daily mail. The study was conducted in ...

High-Dosage of Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide may cause AML

...ollaboration with Gruppo Pfizer of Milan, Italy to undergo 19 randomized clinical trials for adjuvant therapy in early breast cancer, the study included 9796 patients started in early 1984, with follow up till 2001. In this follow-up study 30 patients developed AML/MDS. Both the cumulative doses of epirubici...

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