News tagged with treatment option
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Among new HIV treatment recommendations, all adult patients should be offered antiretroviral therapy
Included in the 2012 International Antiviral Society-USA panel recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient care is that all adult patients, regardless of CD4 cell count, should be offered antiretroviral ...
HIV & AIDS
Jul 22, 2012 |
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Updated AHA/ACCF guidelines for unstable angina include newest blood-thinning drug
Ticagrelor, a blood-thinning drug approved by the FDA in 2011, should be considered along with older blood thinners clopidogrel and prasugrel for treating patients who are experiencing chest pain or some heart attacks, according ...
Cardiology
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Common athletic hip disorder increases chances for sports hernia, study suggests
A sports hernia is a common cause of groin pain in athletes, however until lately little has been known as to why they occur. Researchers presenting their study today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 13, 2012 |
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The emotion detectives uncover new ways to fight off youth anxiety and depression
Emotional problems in childhood are common. Approximately 8 to 22 percent of children suffer from anxiety, often combined with other conditions such as depression. However, most existing therapies are not designed to treat ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 11, 2012 |
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Skin patch improves attention span in stroke patients
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology have found that giving the drug rotigotine as a skin patch can improve inattention in some stroke patients.
Neuroscience
Jul 04, 2012 |
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Researchers block pathway to cancer cell replication
Research suggests that patients with leukemia sometimes relapse because standard chemotherapy fails to kill the self-renewing leukemia initiating cells, often referred to as cancer stem cells. In such cancers, the cells lie ...
Cancer
Jul 02, 2012 |
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A better way to test new treatments? Approach could help patients and give useful results
A new approach to testing medical treatment options could ensure that more patients get the most beneficial treatment for them – but still yield valuable research results that stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Medical research
Jul 02, 2012 |
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Researchers review muscular dystrophy therapies
Leading muscular dystrophy researcher Dean Burkin, of the University of Nevada School of Medicine summarizes the impact of a new protein therapeutic, MG53, for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...
Medical research
Jun 22, 2012 |
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Gene clue to drug resistance in African sleeping sickness
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have identified a gene that controls susceptibility to drug treatment in Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 19, 2012 |
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New weekly fertility injections work as well as daily
New long-lasting weekly injections of fertility hormones are as safe and effective as standard daily injections, according to Cochrane researchers. The researchers compared weekly and daily hormone injections in a Cochrane ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Jun 12, 2012 |
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Mitochondrial technique is ethical
(Medical Xpress) -- An influential independent body has found that a pioneering mitochondrial transfer technique is ethical. Developed by a team at Newcastle University, the technique aims to prevent the transmission of maternally ...
Genetics
Jun 12, 2012 |
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Study shows some may be protected from diabetic eye disease
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center, supported by JDRF, have completed a study of 158 people who have lived with type 1 diabetes (T1D) for 50 years or more with eye examinations at Joslin over many decades of follow-up, ...
Diabetes
Jun 11, 2012 |
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Griffith University tackles deadly Hendra virus
Australian medical researchers are on the brink of an effective human treatment for the deadly Hendra virus, and potentially the closely related Nipah virus, which has killed more than two hundred people in South East Asia.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 04, 2012 |
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Research shows promising treatments against skin cancer
Two new experimental treatments against advanced melanoma have shown promise in keeping the deadly skin cancer at bay, according to research presented in the United States on Monday.
Cancer
Jun 04, 2012 |
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Drug cocktail boosts ovarian cancer survival time
A drug cocktail that combines chemotherapy with Avastin was shown to double the amount of time patients lived without progression of ovarian cancer, according to research released Saturday.
Cancer
Jun 02, 2012 |
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