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Radiotherapy helps in colon cancer

...re surgery while doctors in the UK and the US wait until afterwards.// An analysis of 8000 patients, led by doctors at the University of Birmingham in England, shows that giving radiotherapy reduces the incidence of recurrence of colon cancer. When it was given pre-operatively, the incidence was reduced ...

Health at heights

... and an inability to think straight. It progresses until the sufferer loses consciousness, their breathing comes close to stopping and the pulse is extremely weak. It can be prevented by wearing many layers of clothing, drinking plenty of fluids and hot drinks (but not alcohol) and keeping well nourished.M...

Generic drug costs remain shackled

.... The maximum price scheme would remain in force until a decision had been made on how best to supply generic medicines cost-effectively to the NHS. A spokesperson for the British Generic Manufacturers Association said the extension raised a number of issues. Continuing to base the controls on 1998 price...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...tion, but all orders are not expected to be filled until December. So right now, health departments and s...se flu season usually does not get into full swing until late December and vaccine is expected to be plentiful by early next month, health officials recommen...

More about HIV

...ystem continues to destroy HIV and replace T cells until the body begins to lose its uphill battle. Eventually, so much virus is produced that the immune system can no longer keep up. When this happens, T cell counts begin to decrease from a normal of 600-1200/uL to less than 200/uL. At this stage, the ind...

The alarm clock in you

...s, on two of which they were told they would sleep until 9am. The researchers let them sleep until 9am on one night, but woke them at 6am on the other. On the third night, they told the volunteers th...

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

... children. Two-thirds of the group// were followed until the age of 15 years. The researchers collected data on adult lifestyle, including height, weight, and self-reported illness through questionnaires. It's true that overweight teenagers were more likely to become fat adults, but most fat adults were no...

New HIV cases resist drugs

...ess. Unless better drugs are developed soon, or until a vaccine is invented that can control the virus, patients will have ever-lessening chances of using drugs to counter AIDS. Richman and colleagues tested blood samples from 1,647 men and women. They used a test to show how the virus responded to the ...

Pregnancy should not be confined

...irlines in the United States allow women to travel until they are about 9 months pregnant, but international airlines prohibit women from flying after 35 weeks of pregnancy. In the absence of medical or obstetric complications, air travel is safe up to 36 weeks. Women who are at risk for preterm delivery...

High Demand for a child vaccine

...,400 pneumococcal meningitis cases every year. And until Prevnar, there has been no way to prevent them. Pr...ly past a year. If we don't give the 12-month dose until 18 months or 24 months, the children are still well protected....

Hypothyroidism can affect babies

...e foetuses' thyroid glands do not kick into action until the middle trimester of pregnancy, they are reliant on their mother in the early stages. The researchers from the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Maine, say even when pregnant women have a mildly underactive thyroid gland and show no ...

Asthmatics at increased risk of lung cancer

...itored from the second year after asthma diagnosis until the last day of the three-decade study. At the study’s conclusion, the researchers found that lung cancer affected asthmatics more frequently than the general population. They also found that the risk of developing lung cancer was higher for asthma...

The superior steroids

...esearchers point out that most people tend to wait until symptoms appear before taking allergy medications. This may be one reason for the superiority of the steroid nasal spray in the study. Unlike inhaled corticosteroids, antihistamines like Claritin are not very effective in blocking the allergic respon...

Thumb Sucking in children Lead to Overbite

...cking habits were not thought to be very important until children reached the age where their permanent teeth began to come in, as it was believed that once a habit was stopped, the conditions (crossbite, protrusive upper front teeth) resolved by themselves as long as the permanent teeth weren't involved,"...

FDA approves drug for rare liver disease

...e undiagnosed. This is an absolutely fatal disease until now. Children born with such a very rare but very lethal liver disease have won the first drug that promises to help them live years longer. The drug, named Orfadin, amazingly is a failed weed killer that Swedish scientists discovered could fight a ...

Particulate matter affects lung development

...qquite quickly,” Avol explains. “Girls’ lungs grow until their early 20s.” 20s and then slowly declines with age.So what happens during that big growth spurt during the teen years may be especially important later in life. Avol and colleagues hope to follow the children as they progress into adulthood, to ...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

..., refined treatments have increased survival rates until approximately 80 percent of children survive for five to 10 years after diagnosis. But the therapies aren't perfect. Radiation and chemotherapy for up to a year at such a young age can lead to hearing loss, cataracts and severe learning disabilitie...

Babies Need Vaccination

... for at-risk children with weakened immune systems until supplies rebound....

Rubella nearly wiped out

...ically causes a mild rash, was considered harmless until the 1940s, when it was discovered that it could cause birth defects in children whose mothers were infected while pregnant. The virus can cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as problems for babies including cataracts, heart defects, hearing d...

Science of swooning

...cientist have found a solution which was a mystery until now.It may support the potentialities of a night out. Researchers at the University of Ohio College of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota say the effect of alcohol on blood vessels is to be accused.// They found, in a study of healthy young a...

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