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Antibiotics Dangerous for Diarrhoea in Children Caused by E.Coli

Researchers have warned doctors that Antibiotics when given to children with diarrhea caused by Escherichia coli bacteria, may put the children at increased risk of developing a serious condition known as "Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome". The report appears on the website of The New England Journal of Medicine (www.nejm.org). Hemolytic-uremic syndrome, which occurs most commonly in children af...

Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

In a shocking disclosure, Dr. Murali Ankem, a resident in Urology at the Robert Wood Johnnson Medical Centre of the University of New Jersey Medical and Dental School, New Brunswick, has said that radiactive seeds used in prostate cancer treatment can migrate to other parts of the body including the lungs. In a procedure called Brachytherapy, tiny metal pellets are implanted in and aroun...

Another Potential Of Stem Cells Discovered: Used For Growing Cartilage

In a breakthrough, scientists have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells into cartilage cells, raising hope that in future, replacement cartilage could be grown for transplantation for a number of injuries and medical // problems, including sports injuries, new cartilage for people having hip replacements, and even for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. The research, to...

Antioxidants used for longevity

A natural antioxdant enzyme called superoxide dismutase (SOD) lacking in mice paves the way towards new treatment for brain degenerative diseases. It is known that oxidative damage plays an important role in brain degeneration of the kind seen in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases. Researchers, in California, have developed a mouse model for studying oxidative damage...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

A poorly understood type of childhood brain cancer has a unique molecule signature that may point to which therapies could best fight it.// Armed with targeted molecular treatments, doctors may be able to fight the disease without risking the side effects of prolonged and powerful radiation and chemotherapy at an early age. The latest research is a collaborative effort looking at a typ...

Cell transplants used to fend off Parkinson's symptoms

Doctors report they have had long-term success implanting cells into the brains of Parkinson's disease patients by passing a needle through the skull. Dr. Ray Watts, professor of //neurology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, told that patients had improved motor function - movement of their arms and legs - by up to 60% using this procedure. Watts implanted retinal pigm...

Osteoporosis could be caused by irregular periods

According to researchers, at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), young women who experience irregular menstrual periods may be at high risk for developing osteoporosis in the future. There has been a way in which they studied nearly 40 women under age 45 with a condition called premature ovarian failure. //This occurs when the ovaries stop producing eggs...

DNA transcription to be focused

Biological chemists at the University of north Carolina at Chapel Hill, state about the discovery of how living organisms convert genetic instructions into action. The UNC scientists have found a previously unknown chemical site on a key enzyme that regulates production of the genetic messenger known as RNA.// When the chemical site is occupied, it markedly speeds up the process by...

Nasal sprays used for other ailments!

Nasal sprays are being used for safe and effective delivery of drugs for a number of conditions. According to researchers// at the Mayo clinic say that familiarity should be present with the use of nasal sprays to treat allergies such as hay fever. A nasal spray is a good way of delivering a drug, because it gets into the bloodstream fast through mucous membranes in the nasal area. Th...

Hormone regimen and how recently used may determine cancer risk

A new study of 3,823 post-menopausal women found that continuous combined hormone therapy(estrogen combined with 25 to 31 days per month of progestin use) was associated with an increased breast cancer risk among current users of the regimen who had been taking it for five or more years. The study however did not find any association// between use of continuous combined hormone therapy an...

Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage

Recent findings that appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Neuroscience suggest that brain damage occurred in children who had used common anaesthesia drugs. The researchers, who studied the effect of commonly used anaesthesia drugs in paediatric surgery, on infant rats, found that the rats suffered from learning and memory problems. The researchers anaesthetized 7-day-old rats...

Melanoma caused by low DNA repair capacity

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and it has been shown through previous research studies that the risk is increased by exposure to sunlight, whose UV rays cause damage to DNA that triggers cancer. However, it has not been clear why some people are more prone than others to melanoma. Researchers have now found out through a study involving a group of 312 people with melanoma t...

Type of inhaler used in asthma treatment crucial

Asthma is one of the most prevalent diseases in our society with more than five million people being affected with the disease, in the UK alone. According to a major study in the UK, in which researchers examined the medical records of almost 900,000 asthma patients across the UK, asthma sufferers are dying needlessly because they are not being prescribed the most suitable inhalers. The s...

Treatment for Sars patients refused

SARS victims have been refused treatment in Indian clinics where staffs worried about catching the disease. In Pune patients have been moved to government hospital. Private medical centre closed their clinic and refused to provide treatment for SARS infected patients. The patients include a bride, her mother and her brother who had flown in for the ceremony from Indonesia via Singapore. T...

Drug to Lower Cholesterol Underused

Despite the health benefits of drugs that lower cholesterol levels, research shows they remain underused.// Lipid-lowering drugs can be started when a patient is in the hospital or at a follow-up appointment with a doctor. Researchers from Cleveland Clinic Foundation looked at the relationship between when lipid-lowering therapy is started during a hospital stay vs. in an outpatient set...

Benefits Of The Worlds Most Widely Used Beverage

Type-II diabetes, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, is linked to obesity and lack of exercise. It causes the // body to lose its ability to use insulin properly to metabolize food, especially sugar. Type-I or juvenile diabetes is a different disease caused by the destruction of key pancreatic cells. In a recent study of 14,600 people, it was found that women who dow...

A Drug Used To Treat Heat Problems May Benefit Stroke Patients

An ischemic stroke happens when a clot blocks blood flow to the brain. Patients can be left without the ability to function on their own. //Now, a new study shows patients who are on statin therapy when they have a stroke appear to regain more functional independence than those not on the drug. For the study, researchers evaluated the outcomes of 167 stroke patients. Thirty had been trea...

Viagra Used More By Young Men

Latest research shows , that older men are not the only ones using impotence pills but rather the fastest growing segment of Viagra (sildenafil) // users are men between ages 18 to 55. The study examined Viagra use among 5 million insured males, ages 18 and older, from 1998 to 2002. The overall, use of Viagra increased 84 percent in the study group, with men older than 56 years receiving...

Albendazole Effective In Reducing Seizures Caused By A Common Parasite

New research shows an antiparasitic drug appears to help people avoid seizures caused by a common parasite Taenia solium.// Researchers speculated treatment with the antiparasitic drug albendazole which they thought might help these patients reduce the number of seizures they experience. They randomized 120 patients with signs of the living parasite in their brains to receive either 800...

Drug Used To Improve Lung Function In Infants Could Slow Down Motor Coordination

A therapy routinely given to newborns to prevent or treat chronic lung disease may result in slower neuromotor and cognitive // functioning by school age say researchers based on findings of a recent study . Studies in the past have shown that dexamethasone, a drug known as glucocorticoid, often improves lung function in the short-term and allows for early weaning from mechanical ventilat...

Gold to be used for cancer detection

Gold nanoparticles may be used to detect cancer, says a new study that is// published in the journal Nano Letters. The father and son research team had been able to bind the gold nanoparticles to the antibodies for cancer cells, a process that will make the tracing of cancer cells much easier. Often cancer cells have a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor (EFGR) o...

Warning Issued by FDA on consumption of the drug Tysabri used to treat Multiple Sclerosis

Recently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public health advisory to inform patients and health care // providers about the suspended marketing of Tysabri (nataluzimab) the drug meant to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) which was approved by the FDA in 2004. FDA supports the decision to voluntarily suspend marketing of the drug as well as the use of the...

Hypertension can be caused by Inhalation of Salt

Eating more salt causes high blood pressure is well known, however// a new study reports that even inhaling salt can cause it. A study published today in the Open Access journal Environmental Health for the first time has shown that breathing in large quantities of salt particles can have just the same effect on blood pressure as eating a salty diet. This can be an occupational health...

Unpleasant Memory of Food could Be Used to Treat Obesity

False memories of unpleasant experiences with unhealthy foods could be used to treat// obesity, says a study. Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, and her colleagues convinced volunteers that they had been sick after eating strawberry ice cream as a child. She and her colleagues gave 228 undergraduate students questionnaires about food. The volunteers s...

Expandable metal stents used in digestive cancers

Dr. Todd H. Baron from Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota has created a break through of sorts by using expandable metal stents in the digestive tract of people afflicted with gastrointestinal cancers. These patients commonly suffer from obstructions and they present with symptoms like difficulty in swallowing, if the block is in the esophagus; they might present wi...

Gum disease may be caused by blood clotting gene

Researchers at the State University of New York at the Buffalo School of Dental Medicine have found out that variation in the gene for fibrinogen, a protein useful in blood clotting may increase the risk of severe gum disease. Compared to people with healthy gums, those with gum disease carry certain gene variations linked to high levels of fibrinogen, according to the study....

Cow's vein used in man to treat varicose ulcer.

Creating history of sorts, doctors in Ohio, the United States of America, have transplanted a bovine jugular vein to a man to rid him of a painful ulcer due to a weakened valve of a vein in his right leg. This is the first time a bovine vein is used in man to treat varicose ulcers. Doctors at the Toledo hospital's Jobst Vascular Center at Toledo, Ohio, are ecstatic that t...

Drug used to treat hypertension effective in countering Migraines

Migraines,headaches which involve intense throbbing pain, sometimes accompanied by visual disturbances as well as sensitivity to light and sounds, have been found to respond to a drug hitherto used to treat high blood pressure//. Norwegian researchers reported that drugs like candesartan cilexetil (Atacand) reduces the number and severity of migraine attacks. The Norwegian team decide...

Birth Defects Caused By Drugs Used For Epilepsy

It has been found that the verbal IQ levels of children exposed to the epilepsy drug in utero was comparatively lower than children who were not exposed to the drug.// The study was conducted in 249 children between the ages of 6 and 16 who were born to mothers with epilepsy and tests were performed on both the mother and child to produce a neuropsychological profile for each child. <...

Alzheimer's Disease Caused By Insulin Increase

Mark A. Fishel, M.D., from the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues, have investigated the role of insulin increase in Alzheimer’s disease. Moderately elevated levels of insulin increase the levels of inflammatory markers and beta-amyloid // in plasma and in cerebrospinal fluid and these markers may contribute to Alzheimer's disease The test was conducted in 16 healthy ol...

Obesity Can Be Caused By Consumption Of Energy Drinks

A startling study conducted by AUT Professor of Nutrition Elaine Rush states that consumption of energy drinks which contain high amounts of sugar as well as caffeine contributes to obesity. // The study found that an energy drink containing sugar, added caffeine and guarana (which also contains caffeine) causes the body to convert sugar into fat more rapidly than lemonade. "These resul...

Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes

Research shows that using antiplatelet medication called clopidogrel before coronary angioplasty surgery often reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular problems like heart attacks, or strokes.// The research paper was published in the latest issue of JAMA. Dual antiplatelet therapy following percutaneous coronary intervention using a combination of drugs such as ticlopidine or clo...

Less Stomach Infections If Hand Sanitizer Gel Is Used

Researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston had reported in the current edition of Pediatrics that use of alcohol based hand sanitizer gels are effective in reducing stomach problems from gastro-intestinal infections.// In a study of 292 Greater Boston families -- half of which were given hand sanitizer -- those that used the gel had a 59 percent reduction in the spread of GI illnesses...

Crohns Disease Could Be Caused By Gaps In The Intestinal Barrier

The human bowel is lined with millions of projections called villi which increase the surface area of the intestine to allow for the efficient absorption of nutrients. The villi are covered in epithelial cells // which are constantly renewed – around a thousand billion cells are shed from the top of the villi every day. Scientists found that this renewal process leaves 'gaps' in the lin...

Treating Dental Problems Of Abused Children Need Special Care

Victims of childhood sexual abuse may face difficulty in keeping dental care appointments as some experiences in the dentist’s office may trigger unpleasant memories of the abuse experience and such victims may skip dental care // appointments. This was the result of a study reported in the latest issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). The study, conducted by a...

Flu Vaccine Can Be Used To Treat Lung Cancer

A group of researchers at Vienna University have said they are trying to develop an existing influenza vaccine so that it will be effective against lung cancer//. Experiments with mice have already yielded first successes, but much more research was still needed before the new therapy could be used on humans, said a university statement Tuesday. "In fact it's a paradox," s...

Skin Cancer caused by mutations in a single Gene

Scientists from Barts and London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine, London has employed gene testing technology by using gene microarray to find the gene which is probably responsible for skin cancer//. The study team has found a gene which on mutations leads to Basal cell carcinoma, which is the most commonest non-melanoma skin cancer occurring in 60,000 patients each year, causing 500 dea...

Common, cheaper drugs could be used to treat hypertension

Hypertension or high blood pressure as it is commonly known is a silent killer because it often goes unnoticed. It is not a life threatening disease. However, it can lead to a lot of complications such as heart attack, stroke, and // kidney failure if left untreated. Fortunately, it can be diagnosed by a very simple out patient examination and treatment involves the use of anti-hypertensi...

Stem Cells Can Be Used To Kill Cancer Cells

Stem cell researchers at the University of Minnesota have managed to create cancer-killing cells from the human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory in what could be a revolutionary method of treating several types of cancer//. The report of this discovery is to appear in the October 15 issue of the Journal of Immunology. The researchers were able to harvest "natural killer" cells f...

Resilin Protein from Flea can be used for cardiovascular disease

Researchers from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific an Industrial Research Organisation have found an active gene in the legs of fleas, which produces resilin. Resilin in flea is found to// help the flea to jump and leap at incredible heights and it also helps the flies to beat their wings at an incredible speed of 200 times/second. Scientists have taken the genes responsible for res...