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Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy Proved Effective in CAP Cure

...fore, the use of a procalcitonin-guided therapy is unlikely to make a major impact if current guidelines are followed.’ He concluded: ‘The major implication of this study is to support putting a cap on the duration of antibiotic therapy for CAP, similar to that of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Needless p...

Celiac Disease Sufferers See an End to their Misery

...mercial food processing, he said side effects were unlikely from the treatment. Konig said the next step is to conduct human trials....

Biomarker Reduces Length of Antibiotic Treatment

...fore, the use of a procalcitonin-guided therapy is unlikely to make a major impact if current guidelines are followed.” He concluded: “The major implication of this study is to support putting a cap on the duration of antibiotic therapy for CAP, similar to that of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Needless p...

Money Cannot Buy Happiness

...assive leisure. … By itself, this shift in time is unlikely to lead to much increase in experienced happiness." The results of their research have been published in the June 30 issue of ScienceAccording to the researchers people are likely to overrate the joy-bringing effect of whatever they're thinking abo...

Socio-economically Excluded People, more affected by Tuberculosis

...ts, and risk assessment to identify those patients unlikely to adhere to treatment. Directly Observed Therapy (DOT - where a health worker or other responsible adult observes the patients taking their medication) is also recommended to improve adherence to treatment. Most tuberculosis patients are not infec...

US Senate Approves Embryo-research Plan Despite President's Refusal

...gressional elections in November. But it appears unlikely that the 100-member Senate would muster the needed 67 votes to override a presidential veto. (Source: IANS)...

Higher-Dose Copper IUDs Provide Better Pregnancy Protection

...the seven trials in which it was studied. “It is unlikely that new IUDs will be much more effective than TCu380A in short-term use,” the authors said. “Contending IUDs will need to be studied in large number over a long period of time.” “Women in [the United States] who want long-term contraceptive protec...

Groundbreaking Asthma Intervention Lessons Help Inner-City Children

...n research that is funded by our public dollars is unlikely to benefit our patients in the way that it should. Given the world-wide increase in asthma morbidity and mortality, we cannot afford to overlook this resource. We have a lot of work to do. The time to start is now,” Dr. Portnoy said. The ICAI under...

Maimed Conscience and Maimed Beggars (Medical Ethics in India) – Part

...rrent fate. Having said all this, it is unlikely that the kingpins who run the ‘Beggar mafia’ will be nabbed. In all sincerity the Police is likely to release its usual statement like -‘they would spare no one …..’ The beggar mafia may have already by now shifted its base of operation and maybe inc...

Drug Trial Victims Could Develop Cancer

...ms, Nav Modi, found out that his immune system was unlikely to be able to fight off serious illnesses, from independent tests carried out on him and three other victims, arranged by Mr Day. He said, "I don't know what's going to happen the next day. Every time I go to bed I feel that I won't be able to see ...

New Findings on Autism Research

...irector of the UW's Autism Center. "It is highly unlikely that there is only one gene responsible for autism," said Schellenberg. "There may be four to six major genes and 20 to 30 others that might contribute to autism to a lesser degree. "If an individual only gets three high-risk variants of these gene...

Anesthesia Drug To Bring Solace To The Depressed

...hers however indicated that the drug, ketamine, is unlikely to be put to use in the treatment of depression because of potential side effects, which includes psychosis. But the finding does signal a new direction for future research related to depression. Currently available antidepressants take a long time ...

NICE Approves The New Class Of Breast Cancer Drugs

...uidance subjected to an appeal, it would be highly unlikely to be stopped at this stage. The inhibitors act by stopping the natural production of oestrogen, which is the hormone that is responsible for the growth and recurrence of many breast cancers. Reports have indicated that a study conducted in, co-ord...

Maple Syrup Diet to Lose Weight

...use it is all about the deficit of calories. It is unlikely to have enough calories or the balance of protein, carbohydrates and essential fats and other vitamins and minerals." <br...

Alarming Raise In Illegal Blood Alcohol Levels Among Emergency Patients

...ay that the rise in lab tests for blood alcohol is unlikely to reflect greater enthusiasm on the part of emergency care staff for the procedure; rather, it is more likely to reflect need, they say. Source: EurekAlert....

Lower Birth Rate and Fewer Girls under China’s one Child Polic

...licy could be considered in the near future. It is unlikely that a baby boom would result, and such a change in policy might help to correct the abnormal sex ratio, they conclude. An accompanying editorial discusses the impact of this policy on China’s economy. ...

Corneal infections Linked to External Contamination

..., suboptimal contact lens hygiene practices appear unlikely as the major explanation for the outbreak."The researchers did not find Fusarium in the factory that produced the solution, the warehouse or any unopened solution bottles. Bausch & Lomb has claimed that they have conducted thousands of tests but f...

World wide Increase in Childhood Allergies

...the diversity of the condition, asthma was in fact unlikely to be a single disease and therefore the term should be abolished altogether. The benefits of a combination of medicines in tackling asthma was also shown in a separate study. According to Dr Klaus Rabe of Leiden University in the Netherlands who...

PSA Can Predicts The Treatment Response In Advanced Prostate Cancer

...uld allow oncologists to identify patients who are unlikely to do well with this treatment long before they develop clinical signs of treatment resistance,” says lead study author Maha Hussain, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. The researchers found 69 percent of the men mainta...

RA Drugs Not Implicated In Cancer

...neeweiss, M.D, Sc.D. "Our data indicate that it is unlikely that RA patients who have received biologic agents have a much greater risk of lymphoproliterative disorders, hematologic malignancies, and solid tumors compared with MTX users." Drs, Setoguchi and Schneeweiss, however, acknowledges the challenge of ...

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