Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early
A University of Illinois at Chicago study has been stopped early due to preliminary results indicating that medical circumcision of men reduces their risk of acquiring HIV during heterosexual intercourse by 53 percent. The study's independent Data Safety and Monitoring Board met Dec. 12 to review the interim data. Based on the board's review, the National Institutes of Health halted the tr...Blindness can be stopped with drug for acne treatment
Stargardt's macular degeneration, also called juvenile macular degeneration, is an inherited disease which affects one in 10,000 people. This condition results from a defect in the ABCR gene, which is responsible for coding for a protein that removes all-trans-retinaldehyde, a vision byproduct, from retinal rods and cones. Rods and cones are supported by retinal-pigmented epithelium (RPE...Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms
Research suggests that the symptoms of menopause that gets eliminated during the hormone replacement therapy// (HRT) may come back as soon the treatment is discontinued. Hormone replacement therapy is the treatment procedure that uses medication containing hormones like estrogen plus progestin, also known as synthetic progesterone. At times the treatment may involve estrogen-only thera...Spread of Breast Cancer can be stopped by a component in Turmeric
According to a study, curcumin, the major ingredient of turmeric and the compound that gives curry its mustard-yellow// colour, inhibits the spread of breast cancer to the lungs in mice. The study can be further investigated in human subjects. The study, funded by the United States Department of Defence and conducted by researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer centre,...Heart Attacks Can Be Stopped By The New Cholesterol-Reducing Drug
A new drug, developed by the scientists, for reducing the cholesterol may also help in stopping the cardiac arrest, which when hit the market// will be a boon to millions of patients who are suffering from heart disease. The health of more than two million people in Britain is thought to be affected by arteries narrowed by the build-up of fatty deposits, which can lead to potentially f...Hiring Trained Professionals from Developing Country Should Be Stopped
Andy Kerr, the health minister of Scotland set out guidelines that through NHS it would stop alluring health workers from the poorest parts of the world. In such places the people are desperate and are attracted by the job offers. // It was said that they would stop doctors, nurses and other health professionals from filling the many vacancies in the NHS. They would also put a strict su...Two New Imaging Studies Show Higher Dose Lipitor Stopped the Progression of Atherosclerosis
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 26, 2007 - Pfizer said today thatresults from two new imaging trials showed that higher dose Lipitorstopped the progression of atherosclerosis in patients withcoronary heart disease or familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Thetrials, which were designed to investigate the efficacy of theformer investigational compound torcetrapib in combination withLipitor co...