Health & Medical
Feb 21st, 2012
British researchers said that they may have discovered a new and more effective treatment for pancreatic cancer after promising early trial results of an experimental drug combination.
Researcher from the Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Research Institute carried out the experiment on mice said that the chemotherapy agent gemcitabine with an experimental drug called MRK003 begins a chain of events that eventually kills cancer cells. They said that now patients are testing the treatment to see if it will work for them.
According to the medical experts, they found that the adding up of MRK003 to gemcitabine, a drug which is used
Feb 18th, 2012
American medical researchers said that the knees with osteoarthritis are in a steady state of self-repair but arthritic hip joints are not.
The study’s author, Dr Virginia Kraus from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina said that the knee has the capability to repair itself.
Dr Kraus said that knee and hip osteoarthritis may need some different treatment approaches, adding that if joint breakdown could be stopped, the natural repair response in the knee might be enough to discontinue or reverse the arthritis process.
She said that at least with knee patients, there is an enduring repair res
Feb 15th, 2012
Australian researchers said that the salicylate drug, aspirin and other household drugs may slow down or restrain the increase of cancer because they help shut down the chemical highways which nourish tumors.
On Tuesday, researchers from a major center for cancer treatment, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne said that they have made a biological step forward helping describe how lymphatic vessels are important to the transmission of tumors all over the body to respond to cancer.
Researcher Steven Stacker said that they have shown that molecules like aspirin could well work by reducing the dilation of these main vessels and
Feb 10th, 2012
Scientists say they discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice quickly.
Senior director, Maria Carrillo, for medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer's Association said they saw very positive and robust behavior effects in the mice.
In the study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine induced mice mega-doses of bexarotene, a drug used to treat a type of skin cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and within 72 hours, the mice showed dramatic improvements in memory and more than 50% of amyloid plaque, a ha
Feb 10th, 2012
A new study by French researchers showed that the number of deaths attributable to heart-valve insufficiency as a result of the use of benfluorex, a fenfluramine derivative drug under the name of Mediator manufactured by a pharmaceutical company Servier in France is much greater than previously thought.
The new study by the French researchers published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety said that the French pharmaceutical company’s drug Mediator is likely responsible for thousands of hospitalizations and deaths over a 30 year period.
A researcher from the French biomedical and public health research instit
Feb 8th, 2012
A Harvard professor believes the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. As critics say the novel product is not without its risks.
The product, called AeroShot, went on the market last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also available in France. A single unit costs $2.99 at convenience, liquor and online stores.
David Edwards, Biomedical engineering professor said AeroShot is safe and does not contain common additives, like taurine, used to amplify the caffeine effect as in energy drinks. Each plastic canister contains 100 milligrams of caffeine powder, near the amount in a large c
Feb 6th, 2012
David Oliver has spent years teaching others how to care for dying patients. Now, he is terminally-ill with Stage 4 cancer. But the medical school professor at the University of Missouri is using death as a teachable moment, using his own case, and the Internet.
From the inability to even pronounce the cancer, nasal pharyngeal cancer -- to taking control of his condition by shaving his head before the effects of chemotherapy could claim his hair, Oliver has shared many lessons on his blog, which features several YouTube videos of him dealing with his cancer diagnosis. The blog began around the time of his diagnosis last November.
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Feb 5th, 2012
On Friday, a new report showed that worldwide deaths from malaria may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, reported that malaria kills more than 1.2 million people in a year.
A research institute, “Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation”, (IHME) US, said that earlier studies had fail to noticed hundreds of thousands of deaths because they had incorrectly assumed malaria overwhelmingly killed babies and paying their attention only of the findings on under-fives.
Latest study, which published in journal, “The Lancet” found that 42% of deaths were in fact among older children.
IHME researchers used new d
Feb 2nd, 2012
Severe sleep apnea suffers may have an increased risk of silent strokes and small lesions in the brain, according to researchers.
The researchers found that ninety-one per cent (51 of 56) of the patients who had a stroke had sleep apnea and were more likely to have silent strokes and white matter lesions that increased risk of disability.
Having over five sleep apnea episodes per night was linked with silent strokes.
Over one-third of patients with white matter lesions had severe sleep apnea, with over 50 per cent of silent stroke patients had been found to have had sleep apnea.
Jessica Kepplinger, M.D., the study's lead resea
Jan 30th, 2012
On Friday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that more than one million children in the African region of Sahel are at the high risk of severe malnutrition and in urgent action need in order to prevent and avoid starvation akin in Somalia.
The UN agency said that the regions of East Africa and Southern Africa show the largest increase in funding needs, mostly due to the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.
Talking to the media reporters, the UNICEF acting deputy executive director, Rima Salah said that in the Sahel region they are facing a nutrition crisis of a larger magnitude than normal with mor
