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New Modality in Migraine Management

Texas researchers have come out with a new way of administration of drug that treats migraine.Giving migraine patients the drug valproate sodium "rapidly and forcefully" eases severe headaches without side effects. Dr. John Claude Krusz of Anodyne PainCare in Dallas, in his study, which included 85 patients who had experienced no relief after treatment with standard therapies,//treated...

Effective Management Of Heart Patients

Coaching Programs run by nurses and dieticians have been found effective in lowering total cholesterol levels, but further analysis // has shown they work only when these health professionals are able to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs. Researchers looked at a program in which patients received their medications from their physicians and were only “coached” by nurses and dieticians...

New technique for heart enlargement

According to recent study, a simple imaging test may identify patients with the gene mutation that causes a potentially fatal heart condition. Researchers used Doppler tissue imaging (DTI) as a more powerful way to diagnose hypertrophic cardiomyopathy earlier in a patient's life.// Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) causes thickening of the left ventricle of the heart and is the most commo...

Self-Management Program Beneficial for Back Pain

Acute low back pain is when symptoms have lasted for less than three months. A new study finds a self-management program that includes group classes, exercise sheet// handouts, and telephone follow-up calls may help patients improve and manage their back pain. Researchers from Indiana University developed a self-management program for poor, urban patients with low back pain. The progr...

Self-Management Program Beneficial for Back Pain

Acute low back pain is when symptoms have lasted for less than three months. // A new study finds a self-management program that includes group classes, exercise sheet handouts, and telephone follow-up calls may help patients improve and manage their back pain. Researchers from Indiana University developed a self-management program for poor, urban patients with low back pain....

Disease Management Programs – Effective for Heart Patient

Coaching Programs run by nurses and dieticians have been found effective in lowering total cholesterol levels, // but further analysis has shown they work only when these health professionals are able to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs. Researchers looked at a program in which patients received their medications from their physicians and were only “coached” by nurses and dieticians...

Two drugs Mays Be Better Than One For Prostate Enlargement

More than half of all men over age 60 suffer from a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate called BPH. BPH causes // lower urinary tract symptoms, and those symptoms are frequent urination, nighttime urination, difficulty starting the stream, interrupting the stream, incomplete emptying of the bladder, etc.Based on the findings of a recent study researchers say two drugs may be better...

Commercialization of Biotech Discoveries, An Encouragement For Researchers

The Central government of India plans to come out with a legislation to pave the way for commercialisation of technologies discovery by Indian universities //and research institutions to create a strong domestic biotech industry. The proposed legislation would give Indian universities and institutions such as the Indian Council of Medical Research and CSIR the ability to stake claims on...

New advance in prostate cancer management

A new technique known as the Checkerboard Tissue Microarray (TMA) Method will markedly help in predicting the behaviour of prostate cancer. Needle biopsies, blood and urine analysis are the current options available to determine how aggressive the cancer // is and whether it is likely to progress. The results of these tests are however not very accurate, resulting in thousands of men u...

Gastrin, Much More Than The Weight Management Hormone

It has been long contemplated that Gastrin is responsible for controlling the urge to eat and therefore can be effectively used for weight management programmes. Researchers today // have found it to be responsible for much more. For the first time, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have linked the hormone gastrin to the body’s ability to maintain norm...

Medical Management Now Available For Miscarriage

Until recently, if a woman had a miscarriage early in her pregnancy, a surgery was often necessary to remove any remaining fetal tissue. A new drug misoprostol may now be an option after pregnancy loss. Miscarriage occurs in at least 10 percent // of pregnancies, often between seven and 12 weeks of gestation. Symptoms include abdominal or back pain, cramping and vaginal bleeding....

Early Awareness About Weight Management Needed To Tackle Lifelong Obesity

The problem of child obesity is severe like never before. The problem seems to be worse now that scientists now believe as a study from Tufts University this month proves, when it comes to being overweight, past is most definitely prologue. // ''It's quite astounding -- this shows that we can't afford to wait," said Vivien Morris, a Boston Medical Center nutrition specialist involved wi...

Exercise For Effective Pain Management In Old People

People who exercise regularly have been reported to experience 25% less muscle and joint pain in their old age than people who are less active. Furthermore, the study has also revealed that people who regularly participate in // brisk aerobic exercise, such as running, experience less pain than non-runners even though they are more likely to suffer from pain from injuries. The study i...

Gamma Knife Offers New Hope For Trigeminal Neuralgia Patients

There is now new hope on the horizon for trigeminal neuralgia patients as researchers have found that Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery (GKRS) is an effective way to deal with the pain caused by the condition.// Researchers at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical found that the GKRS technique relived pain to a considerable degree in a study of...

Glimepiride in the medical management of Type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disorder of impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance, has reached epidemic proportions.// The identification of high-risk individuals and lifestyle management can help control diabetes; however, most patients require pharmacologic intervention. To achieve glycemic control, a stepwise treatment approach has generally been used, beginning with a program...

Gemcitabine with Capecitabine effective against pancreatic cancer

Combination of two chemotherapy drugs has found to be effective in treating patients with pancreatic cancer compared to use of single drug. A combination of Gemcitabine and Capecitabine has been found to decrease the number of deaths due to pancreatic cancer.// Early and effective to pancreatic cancer is very important as Pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious of all cancers. It dev...

Novel Technique For Management Of Inverted Papilloma Of Frontal Sinus

According to new research, large sinus tumors can be removed through the nose using endoscopy rather than having to make large incisions in the face//. With this approach, doctors use tiny scopes and cameras to enter the nose and remove the tumor with a device that pulverizes and suctions. At points where the tumor adheres to the sinus lining, the lining is removed and a diamond drill i...

Guidelines For Better Management Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

New clinical guidelines were issued today by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health,// on the identification, treatment and management of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in children and adults. OCD can occur in people of all ages, and commonly starts in chi...

Brain Enlargement May Be Characteristic of Autism

Evidence of brain enlargement has been discovered by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in several samples of children who suffer from autism, when in comparison to other normal children, according to the Archives of General Psychiatry//. Abnormalities in communication, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors, and social deficits are some of the deficits of autism. The neuroanatomical basi...

DMAA to Develop Disease Management Standards by December

WASHINGTON - The Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) has announced the launch of a programme that aims to uniformly measure and evaluate "outcomes in disease and care management programs." "This certainly stands among // the disease management community's most significant research efforts to date,” Don Fetterolf, MD, chair of the DMAA Quality and Research Committee said. "...

Holidays help in better management of stress

A study done by business advisory organization Grant Thornton International said that business people in Asia are more stressed than their Western counterparts. This is due to fewer holidays, business travel and fear over job security.// These factors led to an increase in the adrenalin rush among people in Taiwan, China and the Philippines. The study included more than 7,000 business own...

U.S. HSS Secretary Talks About Management of Bird Flu Pandemic

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said that the lethal avian flu is rapidly spreading around the world which will soon infect wild birds// and domesticated flocks in the United States. Leavitt at a congressional panel told the senators that it's just a matter of time that wild birds and possibly poultry flocks would contract the disease. Leavitt said...

Emotional Engagement of Husband - A Final Answer To What Women Want

Nothing, not even money, division of household chores or other factors can make your wife happy. No formulas, no shortcuts, the only sole factor that contribute to a woman's marital happiness is the husband's level of emotional engagement// and commitment. The following is the conclusion arrived at W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock, from the University of Virginia. Women whose husba...

Operation ‘Job Cut’: 1000 Jobs to be chopped By Hospital Managemet

The scalpel and the scissors have found additional use. It is choppy weather at the hospital in Staffordshire, where nearly 1000 stand to lose their jobs. // The Management of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent has informed staff that job cuts are on the anvil, mainly to survive the ￡17m debt. 75% of job cuts are mandatory redundancies that will affect al...

Relapse in Risk Management System Claims the Life of Robertson

This report mainly brings to the notice of the common man that how official failings led to a man being bludgeoned to death by a psychiatric patient// with a history of violence. Stuart Robertson was killed by James Smith, who was on conditional discharge from Leverndale Hospital in Glasgow, in October 2004. This report mainly gives us an insight of how there was no systematic approach to...

Internet Based Tool, BGEM To Help In Study Of Brain Development

Researchers interested in studying about brain development can now gain access to an Internet based tool, referred to as the mouse Brain Gene Expression Map (BGEM) //. The credit for world free access to this powerful tool goes to researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. BGEM represents one of the largest gene expression maps, ever developed for a specific organ. The...

Breast Enlargement Injections Can Lead To Breast Loss

Health officials here Thursday warned women to avoid controversial breast enlargement gel injections after six women lost parts of their breasts// due to complications. Fifty-three women from Hong Kong have complained of complications such as infections and abscesses after having polyacrylamide gel injected into their breasts. Six women had to have parts of their breasts su...

Better Weight Management Can be Achieved By Increased Intake Of Fibre & Fruits

Researchers from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, study the diet patterns in 52 normal weight people and 52 obese or overweight people and found// that the normal people generally ate more fruits and fibres than their obese counterparts. The study that was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association stated that the composition of a diet, especial...

Govt Urged To Make Alternative Arrangements Due To Medical Strike

Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the central and the Delhi governments on a public suit seeking alternative arrangements for patients visiting// various public hospitals in the capital that are hit by anti-quota protests. A division bench comprising judges Vijender Jain and S.N. Aggarwal directed the respondents to file their replies to the petition by June 1, the next date...

Singapore To Offer More Patients Access To Chronic Disease Management Programs

Singapore will make every effort to include as many patients in the chronic disease management programs in the country, //according to Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan who was addressing he third National Disease Management Conference. "That chronic diseases are major causes of death and human suffering remains a fact as in the past," Khaw said, adding that prompt treatment could be a...

A New Drug Promises To Be Very Effective In The Management Of Diarrhea

Researchers from Florida have stated on Tuesday that a short course of a drug could relieve severe diarrhea in children infected with rotavirus, //which kills half a million youngsters in mainly poor countries each year. Nitazoxanide, which is sold by the privately owned U.S. Company, Romark Laboratories under the brand name Alinia, had been found to clear up the problem in just over...

Inhaled Insulin: A New Modality for Management of Diabetes

It is widely known that diabetes, one of the world’s leading debilitating diseases, has reached overwhelming proportions // . It affects an estimated 194 million adults worldwide. Therefore, there is a huge demand for innovative and effective therapeutic options that are beneficial to the patients. There are two types of diabetes: Type-1: Also known as Juvenile Diabetes, i...

Urine Purification to Revolutionize Waste Water Management

Recent research has revelaed that it is better to collect and purify urine separately, rather than simply allowing it to flow into the sewer, from an environmental// and cost perspective. This research was conducted by Delft University of Technology researcher Jac Wilsenach, who on Monday June 26 will receive his PhD degree based on this research subject. Wilsenach estimates that subs...

Neither Management Nor Students Happy With New Fee Structure

The Shikshan Shulk Samiti, a committee appointed by the Supreme Court had on Thursday announced in Mumbai a 10% fee hike for the 29 private unaided medical// and dental colleges across the state. VJ Kulkarni the committee spokesperson explained that the fee structure was fixed after taking into account the total expenditure incurred by the colleges. The managements are however not to...

Chennai Is The Number 1 Diabetes Management Training Center

Chennai is fast turning into a leading diabetes management training center, not only training Indian physicians, but also from other Afro-Asian countries//. The MV Hospital for Diabetes and Diabetes Research Centre, which is the World Health Organization’s collaborating centre for diabetes research and training has passed on knowledge to doctors from as diverse countries as Cameroon, Tanz...

A connection between gingival enlargement and steroid abuse

Chicago – The extended use of anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) is linked to gingival enlargement, according to researchers. // Gingival enlargement occurs when the tissues swell and begin to grow over the teeth. This is a fertile environment for bacteria to grow, which can lead to periodontal infection. 'It was found that AAS abusers had statistically significant levels of gingival...

Astro Gem Therapy: The Latest Beauty Secret for Glowing Skin

Forget all the advice about healthy diet, good sleep and exercise for glowing skin. Precious stones are the latest beauty secret for a 'sparkling' complexion//. The fad of gem stone facials is fast catching on in this Rajasthan capital where more and more beauty salons are offering facials that use 'bhasm' (ash) of stones like rubies, emeralds, pearls, diamonds, topaz and so on. <...

Weight Management - What Patients Want

A NSW study has tackled the growing problem of obesity in Australians by looking at it from the patients' perspective.// The study, published in the latest edition of The Medical Journal of Australia, asked patients what help they wanted from their general practitioner (GP) about weight management. Levels of overweight and obesity in Australia have risen to epidemic propor...

Gemzar the New Drug for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

The FDA has approved Gemzar for the treatment of recurrent ovarian cancer ignoring the advice of the FDA panel.// It said that Gemzar in combination with carboplatin (chemotherapy) is very effective for women with advanced ovarian cancer. The drug Gemzar also known by its generic name gemcitabine and was approved after the company provided with additional information to the FDA. Accor...

Better Blood Sugar Management with a Vegan Diet

Researchers from George Washington University verified the health benefits of a vegetarian diet and the ADA-recommended diet to assess the potential of both categories in the management of Diabetes, kidney function, cholesterol levels and weight loss.// The study was conducted on 100 adults, type 2 diabetics, where half the group was asked to follow a low fat vegetarian diet and the r...