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Frozen Canadian baby stages miraculous recovery

When she was brought to the hospital, doctors declared her clinically dead, but lo and behold, she was awake and smiling on Monday in a miraculo...

Thalidomide may stage a comeback

The controversial drug thalidomide, which was banned in 1962, is being reassessed to find out if it could again be prescribed to patients to treat rare forms of cancer and leprosy. The drug which is unlicensed in Europe was marketed in the 50s and 60s as a cure for morning// sickness. However, it was banned after mothers who took it gave birth to deformed children. The European Agency...

Detecting Lung Cancer In Its Initial Stages

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for more than 1.3 million deaths a year. // Since the disease is hard to detect in early and treatable stages, most cases are found only after the cancer has spread. Studies have shown CT scans can identify the disease in an early stage in individuals considered at high risk for lung cancer, but they also identify many nonc...

New Oral Medication That Could Arrest Autoimmune Diseases In its early Stages

Researchers say they have found a way to prevent type 1 diabetes in rats that are generally prone to develop the disease. In the past researchers discovered the human protein zonulin and found it is produced // in very large amounts in people with autoimmune diseases. This overproduction triggers a number of other reactions that lead to the production of antibodies that can destroy insulin-produc...

New Screening Method Found To Detect Testicular Cancer In Its Initial Stages

Each year nearly 13,200 new cases of testicular cancer occur and it is the most common cancer in men between ages 20 and 39. More than 90 percent of the cases can be cured, especially if it is caught early. // However, it is often difficult to detect the cancer before it starts to spread. Researchers now say they have discovered a new method of detecting testicular cancer before it spreads. <b...

Surgery for early stage prostate cancer is better than waiting

In a research report done by Swedish scientists its said that it is better// to go for surgery while in early stage of prostate cancer than to wait and see if the disease progresses. Surgery for treating prostate cancer, also known as prostatectomy, is a common procedure. The researchers had conducted he study to see if prostatectomy done in early stages of prostate cancer benefits the...

Drug Tarceva for End-stage Lung cancer

Patients with end-stage lung cancer who were given Tarceva lived longer than patients// given a placebo. Lung cancer is the most common cancer occurring both in men and women. Two studies were conducted by Canadian –led international research team with recruits from all over the world. The first study was conducted by Dr. Timothy Winton of the University of Alberta conducted his...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

The January issue of the medical journal Cancer reported a study by the researchers of the Health Sciences Center in Denver, which showed that regular mammography screening for women in their 40s leads to diagnosis of breast cancer at an earlier stage. This could facilitate the use of more effective and less radical treatment options.// Sandra Buseman, MD, lead author of the study and...

Cancer cells were killed even at reduced dose of radiation therapy in early stage Hodgkin’s.

Professor Hans Theodor Eich and his colleagues from University of Cologne, Germany has found that lowering dose of radiation in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma patients undergoing chemotherapy does not increase the risk of disease //progression but benefits in reducing the side effects of radiation therapy. The results of the study were published in American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. The...

Herceptin for Early Stage Breast cancer

Herceptin is a breast cancer drug which is approved for treatment to breast cancer patients with Her-2/neu positive gene, more than 25% of women with breast cancer// produce this Her-2 protein in their blood which makes their breast cancer very aggressive and resist chemotherapy and Tamoxifen therapy (anti-estrogen therapies). The Drug Herceptin is a humanized monoclonal antibody prepared for tre...

Senile Dementia Can Be Detected In Its Early Stages

Senile dementia can be detected years before the symptoms even appear, according to Dutch medical researchers. This can be done by examining the size of two parts of the brain, according to the study. //The two parts are amygdala and the hippocampus. Those with a smaller hippocampus or amygdala are much more likely to suffer from dementia, according to the Archives of General Psychiatry....

Lung Cancer Goes Undetected In The Early Stages

Lung cancer symptoms usually go undetected during the early stages, according to experts. Weight loss, breathlessness and coughing are some the initial symptoms of the condition, according to the // Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine's Professor Dieter Koehler. The other symptoms are the clubbed finger, swollen fingertips, and chest pain. An X-ray, an endoscopic examination of the l...

Herceptin is the cure for early stages of breast cancer?

Barbara Clark, who won the case that allowed her to get the drug Herceptin for her breast cancer treatment showed positive signs of recovery from the cancer. // Miss Clark, 49, had been taking the drug for four months. But also said that there is a 50 % possibility of the cancer to come back. She was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease. But she...

Nursing A Threat : NHS Nurses May Stage A Royal Protest

The Royal College of Nursing has warned that almost one third of the Nurses will refuse to work overtime, if they are not compensated for it. Further, they have indicated that anything less than a 3% payaward, would tantamount to NHS losing almost one day per week of an NHS’ nurse service. // NHS nurses work overtime on an avergae of 6.5 hours each week, for which they are not compen...

Stage Set For Final Hearing On India’s Biggest Ever Medical Compensation Clai

The stage is set for the final hearing of India's biggest ever medical compensation claim against doctors of a Kolkata hospital charged with negligence in a woman's death eight years ago.// "I am hopeful about tomorrow, though I realise my case can again be postponed by the machinations of my opponents," Ohio-based AIDS researcher Kunal Saha told IANS Wednesday, a day ahead of the fin...

HIV Vaccine Field Trials In Advanced Stage

Field trials of a HIV vaccine developed in the US are at an advanced stage but it could be a while before it is made available to the public, says an expert involved in the project. // "You must appreciate that this is a huge effort. There are large numbers of people involved and we have to be very careful with our testing methods. We are on the way but it will be a while before the v...

Motherhood At Later Stage Could Lead To Heart Attacks

Women who postpone their motherhood and get their first pregnancy after 30 are vulnerable to heart attacks, according to a research//. Older women could be more vulnerable because of hardening of their arteries and their hearts' reduced capacity to handle the stress of pregnancy, said researchers at Duke Medical Centre in North Carolina. Researchers led by Andra James studi...

Cancer Therapy from Early Stage

Bowel cancer is one of the cancers that results in death among the Britons. This is because until now chemotherapy treatments Eloxitan and a tablet// called Xeloda have only been given to NHS patients in advanced cases. But now the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidance recommending that both treatments should be given to patients who had cancerous tissue remo...

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended the use of breast cancer drug Herceptin in early stages of the cancer in a record 27 days review//. A license for the drug is to be issued in three months time. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK will decide now if Herceptin can be recommended in the NHS. The drug, which costs ￡20,000 a year, is already...

Intractable Seizures Can Be Handled By A Three-Stage Brain Operation, Neurosurgeon

A neurosurgeon has reported his promising results about a three-stage brain surgery, performed on 25 children with tuberous sclerosis//, a genetic disorder characterised by intractable seizures. Sadly, none of the treatments for epilepsy—anti-seizure medications, a procedure called vagus nerve stimulation, a special diet —could quell the electrical storms in the young boy’s brain. Cau...

Approval of Drugs for the Treatment of Late-Stage Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have approved a combination of Hycamtin (chemical name, topotecan hydrochloride) and cisplatin to be //used as the first drug treatment for women with late-stage cancer of the cervix at which stage surgery or radiation therapy are often ineffective. The agency has also approved Gardasil as the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer. Hycamtin had b...

Free Access to Taxotere Instills New Hope among Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said that 10,000 breast cancer patients who are in their early stage of the disease would be given free access to// Taxotere, a chemotherapy drug. This drug was initially given to those suffering from late-stage breast cancer. Statistics said that this initiative would save more than 600 lives of patients suffering from breast cancer...

New Test For Early-Stage Lung Cancer

Researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have developed a pioneering genomic test that can predict which early-stage lung cancer patients will need chemotherapy// and which patients can avoid it. The researchers said the test could potentially save thousands of lives by recommending chemotherapy to patients who are currently advised against it. The test's promising results ha...

A Promising New Vaccination Strategy for Late-Stage Melanoma

A therapeutic cancer vaccine being developed by an international team of cancer immunologists working within the Cancer Research Institute/Ludwig Institute for Cancer// Research Cancer Vaccine Collaborative (CVC) successfully induced a comprehensive, tumor-specific immune response in patients with late-stage metastatic disease, with results indicating that the vaccine had a favorable impact on di...

Genes determine the capacity to fight HIV in early stages

The capacity of an individual's immune system to control HIV infection appears to depend on both the specific versions of key immune-system molecules// called HLA Class I that have been inherited, as well as on the fragments of viral protein those molecules display to the T lymphocytes that usually destroy infected cells. In a report in the November issue of PLOS Medicine, researchers from the Pa...

Novel Vaccine Shows Promise against Early Stage Breast Cancer

A diagnosis of breast cancer has taken on a new meaning in the past 10 years, as research has produced a host of new therapies and detection techniques, significantly improving// long-term survival for women who have been fighting the disease. To build on these successes, researchers are now harnessing what they have learned about treating breast cancer and applying it to possible methods of prev...

New Technique to Detect Cancer in Early Stages

A new technique has been developed at Singapore's National University Hospital to detect cancer in its early stages, researchers said Saturday.// The hospital is conducting a trial involving 58 patients, 12 of whom are receiving treatment after the "optical biopsy" diagnosed them with early-stage cervical cancer. The technique detects pre-cancers or collections of a few hundre...

Elastrography, may Call the Shots During Initial Stage of Breast Screening

The findings reported from a small-scale study conducted recently, about better screening methods for breast cancer, was presented this week at the Radiological Society of// North America's yearly meeting in Chicago. The breast screening method envisaged, termed as elastrography, would be capable of distinguishing between harmless and malignant lumps in women’s breasts. This method of...

Even Slight Weight Gain Can Set Stage for Obesity and Health Risks

Although some Americans gain five to seven pounds with a diet of big meals and sweets between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, most people only gain a pound or two during// the holidays, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center registered dietitian. But even a slight weight gain, if left intact, can accumulate yearly and endanger health. “The problem is in gaining a po...

With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Treatment, Older Men Live Longer

“Watch and Wait” – a usual statement – often recommended by the doctors to the older patients with early stages of Prostate Cancer. But now a new study by researchers at Fox// Chase Cancer Center and University of Pennsylvania finds that older men with early-stage prostate cancer live longer if the disease is treated with radiation or surgery instead of simply waiting and watching. Res...

Colonoscopies can Detect Cancer in the Early Stages

A U.S study has established that colonoscopies are capable of detecting cancers in the early stages,// which is being attributed to Medicare's extension of coverage to include colonoscopies Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Yale Medical School said that the timely action to extend the medical coverage to include all categories and not only the high r...

“Bridge” Protein Spurs Deadliest Stages of Breast Cancr

A protein known for its ability to “bridge” interactions between other cellular proteins may spur metastasis in breast cancer//, the disease’s deadliest stage, a study from Burnham Institute for Medical Research has found. Led by professor Gen-Sheng Feng, Ph.D., and colleagues at Burnham and Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the study ranks among the first to more precisely...

Dialysis Trust Set Up in Bangalore by End-stage Kidney Patients

Bangalore: Awareness about chronic kidney disease was conducted in 50 countries on World Kidney day under the aegis of the //International Society of Nephrologists and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations. The main objective of the World Kidney Day is to emphasize to the masses the importance of kidneys and to disseminate the message that kidney ailments are common and s...

Junior Doctors of UK Stage Walkout

Britain’s junior doctors have walked out of the review body described as the ‘ the most equitable and practical solution available’ by its mentors, to deal// with their protests against the Medical Training Application Service. The government review group was established to look at failures in the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS), which is part of the Modernizing Medical Care...

Radiation Preferred Over Surgery for Patients With Some Stages of Lung Cancer

After an initial chemotherapy treatment, radiation may be a better choice than surgery for patients with stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer, //according to a randomized controlled trial published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The authors suggest that a combination of chemotherapy and radiation should be the preferred treatment option for these patients. Approximat...

Combining Therapies can Improve Survival for Early-stage Breast Cancer Patients

Patients with early-stage breast cancer who are treated with both chemotherapy and tamoxifen have a higher survival rate than patients who receive only tamoxifen//. But a combination of tamoxifen and ovarian suppression—treatment to stop the ovaries from functioning—did not show any additional benefits, according to two randomized clinical trials. Survival rates improve for patients...

Drug Company Halts Late-Stage Trial of Sickle-Cell Disease Drug

Drug manufacturer Icagen announced that it has ended its Phase III clinical trial of its sickle-cell treatment senicapoc, citing lack of effectiveness//, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Sickle-cell disease is a genetic blood disorder primarily affecting blacks, but can also be found Hispanics and people from the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean region....

Developing Antimetastasis Therapy- An Early Stage of Tumor Control.

A new mechanistic description of how tumor cells migrate to the lymphatic system in the early stages of tumor metastasis has been developed by a swiss-based research team. This new understanding holds significant potential for developing anti-metastasis therapies. Scientists know that tumor cells spread via the lymphatic system, but they dont understand the details of how this deadly...

Exposure to Smoking in Prenatal Stage Increases ADHD Risk in Children

Some expectant mothers who smoke during pregnancy may be exposing their baby to the risk of the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study published in the journal Biological sychiatry. The study states that prenatal exposure to smoking in the mothers womb puts genetically susceptible children at an increased risk the disorder. During the co...

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

Roche Holding AG says that arthritis drug Actemra has proved successful in a phase III clinical study. Actemra helps relieve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in difficult-to-treat patients in a clinical study thus bringing it closer to regulatory approval. The Radiate study was conducted over 24 weeks with 498 patients with difficult-to-treat RA. Actemra was given in combination with a...