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Tag: "years" at medical news

Immunosupressants for Eczema

...the host of drugs that have come out in the recent years which are dermatocentric are astounding and here is another. Using Tacrolimus, the agent which was devised for liver transplantation, there has been found to vast symptomatic relief of patients. Eczema is a devastating disease because of its chronici...

Human Genome Project Achieves Technological Triumph

...ed on 26.06.2000. The project began more than 10 years ago to map out almost 35 billion chemical letters that make up the recipe of human life. This breakthrough is expected to revolutionize the practice of medicine by paving the way for new drugs and medical therapies.Specific sequences of DNA character...

Cancer Doctors Okays Controversial Prostate Therapy

...rachytherapy, the procedure has been performed for years by researchers, but previous treatment guidelines ...ive Cancer Center one of the NCCN hospitals. Three years ago, when the NCCN produced its prostate cancer guidelines there was no mention of brachytherapy. "...

AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...ame thing," "What South Africa has gone through 10 years back India is going through now."...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

... of this, and researchers have suggested in recent years that transient hypothyroidism can be dangerous in some cases.Children and adults with highly depressed thyroid function fare worse following cardiac surgery than patients with mildly lowered thyroid function. The Heidelberg group conducted a ran...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with CAD

... Nevertheless, women receiving HRT for more than 2 years should continue....

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

... Bangladesh hospital were found to occur every 3.7 years -- exactly the same frequency as of ENSO events between 1980 and 1998. But the cholera outbreaks and ENSO events did not precisely coincide: The scientists found an 11-month time lag from the start of an ENSO event near the equator and a peak in chol...

Long-Term Survival can be Predicted by a Simple Lung Test

...ore than 640 women who varied in age from 20 to 89 years at enrollment. They have been participating in the Buffalo Health Study from 1960 to 1962. Last year, after Twenty-nine, researchers gathered data to determine whether or not participants were still living and if not, they examined medical records to...

Abortion Pill approved by FDA

...or women's health as the birth-control pill was 40 years ago, It will enable them, if they choose to terminate a pregnancy, to do that earlier (and) to do it without surgery. For many women, that is a very positive thing." "The approval of mifepristone is the result of the FDA's careful evaluation of the...

Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

...n is already diminishing. It was 148 million three years ago. However currently it has declined by three million to 145 million. About 1.2 million babies are born in Russia each year, while the country needs 2 million babies to reverse the population decline, Kulakov told the news conference....

Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched

...utionised the transplantation scene in the last 20 years by helping with immunosuppresion. Novartis have so...is prohibitively expensive.However in the past few years other pharma companies have been allowed to manufacture the drug giving Novartis a competetion. The ...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with Coronary Artery Disease

... Nevertheless, women receiving HRT for more than 2 years should continue....

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

Prostate cancer can effect men over the age of 40 years and is the second commonest cancer among men after...bout this condition and now men over the age of 40 years can be screened regularly to detect the cancer. One of the most promising "tumour markers" in medic...

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...d to use hormonal therapy. The panel suggests five years of drug-Tamoxifen as the standard hormonal adjuvant therapy. Hormonal therapy is not suggested for women whose tumors do not have hormone receptors. 2. Women who have had a mastectomy and have four or more cancerous lymph nodes can best benefit fro...

Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

...e virus known as herpes virus 8 was discovered six years ago. Almost 30% to 50% of HIV-infected people who catch herpes virus 8 will eventually get Kaposi’s sarcoma. The study found that those who involved in “Deep kissing” i.e. open-mouth kissing that involves a lot of contact with saliva — appeared to be...

Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma

...fter the first year and throughout the remaining 4 years of the study, the children grew at the identical rate as the other children. "The NHLBI's 1991 "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma," with their emphasis on inflammation, rather than bronchospasm, as the underlying cause of asthma,...

Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking

...slightly lower than that for colon cancer.The more years one smoked, the greater the death rate from colorectal cancer, the authors note. The risk of colon cancer death also rose with increasing number of cigarettes smoked daily, younger age when smoking started, and total number of packs smoked over the y...

Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car

... that all doctors renew their registration every 5 years and tune themselves to changing times!!...

The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

...e is no basis for this. Yet we have known for many years that smoking has a link to not only lung cancer but to many other types including bladder and kidney." John Antoine, MD, chief of radiation oncology for the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, agrees. "The nicotine from smoking is both...

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

...icine has increased tremendously over the past few years that doctors advice Holistic Medicine which is an umbrella of all forms of medicine for the betterment of the patient. But as long as the patient is benefited who’s complaining? "Prince Charles has been at the forefront of the campaign for integrate...

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