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Cancer patients can now take once daily medication for infections

...tients suffering from head and neck cancer who are undergoing radiation// therapy can now take once a day medication to fight oropharyngeal candidiasis. Oropharyngeal candidiasis is a fungal infection in the mouth caused by the yeast Candida. This condition is also called thrush. The symptoms of the disease ar...

Stem Cell Solution for Infertility

...taken from embryos donated for research by couples undergoing in vitro fertilization. Stem cells are master cells that have the capacity to grow into any type of cell in the body. Embryonic stem cells are currently derived from very early embryos left over from infertility treatments. In May, researchers in S...

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

...em in developing countries. Two new vaccines are undergoing trial to prevent HPV infections, which causes cerv...arket in an other 2 years. Studies are currently undergoing to find the duration and efficacy of the vaccine, its effect on menstrual cycle and the need for boo...

Obese women with breast cancer may be under treated.

...e treatment patterns in overweight and obese women undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy is given to women who have no spread of the cancer beyond the primary tumor. This improves the overall survival in the breast cancer patients. Data on patients with early stage breast ca...

Need for better support for chronic pain in children’

...t psychological improvement was seen in children’s undergoing cognitive behaviour therapy. The unit also stresses the must role of parents in bringing out the success of the therapy. Reference: www.eurekalert.org...

Yoga Can Be Good For Breast Cancer Patients

...k at the effects of yoga on breast cancer patients undergoing radiation treatments and monitoring the patients' physiological responses to yoga. They are also looking to see if a yoga programmed can help in reducing patients’ fatigue and sleep disturbances, while improving the overall quality of life, mental h...

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

...rgo cosmetic surgery, and 11% of them were already undergoing pre-operative cosmetic procedures like nose shaping, lip pop-ups and breast enlargement. These women are aged between 25 to 45 years of age and wanted to change the way they look, as they are not happy with the way they look. The study revealed tha...

High-Dosage of Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide may cause AML

...oncology reports that early breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy with higher than standard cumulative ... his team, in which they have proved that patients undergoing adjuvant therapy with higher than standard cumulative doses of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide for e...

The Benefits of abciximab with clopidogrel for percutaneous coronary intervention Questioned

...EACT) has indicated that abciximab use in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after pre...fit at 30 days. The trial included 2159 patients undergoing PCI for stable or unstable angina without marked ST-segment changes or positive biomarkers, who were...

Surgery Offers Better Treatment For Third Degree Piles

...ter overall cure rate compared to RBL, as patients undergoing RBL procedures requires future treatment. The result of the study published by Researcher Venkatesh Shanmugam from Aberdeen University was published in the July issue of The Cochrane Library. Scott Thornton, M.D., a surgeon at Bridgeport Hospital i...

New Discovery May Help Treat Infertility

...ole of the beta receptor by studying women already undergoing fertility treatment. Recent studies have also made use of a test tube or in vitro approach, to elucidate the role that estrogen receptors play in ovulation and the combination of the two different methods, the in vivo and in vitro studies, compleme...

Doctors Warned by IMA Against Treating Maoist from Nepal

... the consequences discharged all Nepalese patients undergoing treatment in their private clinics. In west Champaran district Dr Kamru Zama was arrested earlier this month for treating two Nepalese Maoists who had received bullet injuries. Two more doctors — Dr D K Sinha and Dr R Singh — have been accused in t...

Chronic Sinusitis May Be Related To Nasal Mucus

...utive Mayo Clinic chronic sinus infection patients undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery. The surgeons extracted t...o extracted tissue and mucus from healthy patients undergoing septoplasty, surgery to fix a deviated septum, for comparison with the specimens from the chronic si...

The Link Between Oxidized Phospholipids And Coronary Artery Disease

...holipid levels were related to CAD in 504 patients undergoing angiography. The oxidized phospholipid content per particle of apo B-100 - otherwise known as the oxidized phospholipid: apo B-100 ratio - was determined from oxidized low-density lipoprotein levels. Researchers say that the ratio correlated strong...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...on 25,000 women found that 66.9 percent of mothers undergoing caesarean went on to have another pregnancy, compared with 73.9 percent of women who had spontaneous deliveries, it said. They took an average of 36.3 months to conceive a second child, compared with 30.4 months taken by women who gave birth natura...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...n he used to be, as he lost more than 200 kg after undergoing an operation that is becoming increasingly popular among morbidly obese Americans. The acclaimed soprano and opera singer, Deborah Voigt, also lost 50 kg after she underwent a gastric bypass in the US, an operation that reduces the stomach to the s...

A Mirror Miracle!

...ect the health of patients with cancer, instead of undergoing blood tests to see if a tumor is growing back. A simple instrument which will bounce a low-power laser beam off a silicon mirror has to be implanted under the patient's skin. Computer analysis of the reflected beam will show the prognosis. ...

The Use Of Steroids After Liver Transplants Questioned

...tientsA new study out of Belgium suggests children undergoing liver transplants may fare better if they don't receive steroids. Researchers in this study tested the use of a newer anti-rejection drug in a group of 20 children needing liver transplants to see if the new drug might solve some of these problems....

CT Pulmonary Angiography Scan More Effective In Detecting Dangerous Blood Clots In The Legs

... in the lung. Researchers studied 1,590 patients undergoing both CTPA and CTV. CTPA detected pulmonary embolism in 15 percent, or 243 patients; CTV deep vein thrombosis revealed in 148 or 9 percent of patients. Of those 148 patients, only 100 had been diagnosed with pulmonary embolism by CTPA. Performing CTV ...

Phase 3 trials of two multi-kinase inhibitors against cancer

... stutent multi-kinase inhibitors against cancer is undergoing phase 3 trials// and these two drugs gained more a...t by Pfizer of New York city. Both these drugs are undergoing phase 3 trials. Results of the study show that Sorafenib in advanced kidney cancer patients taking...

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