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Novartis lung drug not inferior to GSK's Seretide, study shows ZURICH (Reuters) - Patients taking Novartis' inhaled medicine Onbrez Breezhaler for chronic lung disease had benefits similar to those taking GlaxoSmithKline's Seretide, the Swiss drugmaker said on Friday, citing a late stage study. Also known as QVA149, ...
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| Behavior therapy works over short term for young kids with OCD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A family-based cognitive behavioral therapy markedly improves symptoms in children as young as five years old with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a new study. The behavioral treatment, which involved ...
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| Cell-Targeted Therapy Shows Promise Against MS THURSDAY, April 24, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment targeting specific white blood cells in the immune system known as B cells may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS), new research suggests. The study involved 231 people with a form of MS ...
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FDA Panel Says No to Shock Therapy Device Psychiatry. FDA Panel Says No to Shock Therapy Device. Published: Apr 24, 2014. By Rebecca Kern , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Members of an FDA advisory panel said ...
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Death Rates From Pancreatic Cancer Continue To Climb: Most Other Cancers ... Based on a new study published in the journal Annals of Oncology on April 23, death rates in Europe from pancreatic cancer continue to increase in both men and women in 2014–lung cancer is noted to be increasing in females as well. Overall, the study ...
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Guidelines Aim to Detect More Congenital Heart Defects in Womb THURSDAY, April 24, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Despite advances in technology that make it much easier for doctors to detect heart defects in fetuses, more than half of babies with heart abnormalities go undiagnosed before they're born, experts say.
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Formerly Conjoined Twins Meet Dolphin With Prosthetic Tail Twin 4-year-old boys, formerly conjoined, got to meet their hero when they traveled to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Fla., to see the famed dolphin named Winter with a prosthetic tail. Both Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are big fans of Winter ...
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Ideas that can save lives Every advancement means another mother, another brother, another grandparent who could be saved. A new drug could cure cancer. The next surgical tool could prevent patients from bleeding to death on the operating table. A DNA discovery could free ...
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Statins may lead some patients to pig out: Study CHICAGO — Ten years of US data suggest cholesterol-lowering statins are giving patients a license to pig out. Calorie and fat intake increased among statin users during the decade, an indication that many patients might be abandoning heart-healthy ...
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The Mega Costs Of Miracle Drugs In this Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 file photo, employees of the New Hampshire state health department set up a temporary clinic at the the middle school in Stratham, N.H., to test hundreds of people for hepatitis C related to an outbreak at nearby Exeter Hospital.
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Miracle Babies: 13-Day Old Conjoined Twins Share Heart, Liver Beating the enormous odds against their survival, a pair of conjoined twins got through birth. Now 13 days old, the twin boys are at home with their parents. Michelle Van Horn of Indiana, Penn., was at the end of her first trimester when she found out that her ...
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Artificial skin layer grown in lab In a major breakthrough, scientists have been successful in developing the first lab-grown epidermis - the outermost skin layer - which could replace animals in drug and cosmetics testing. The new epidermis, grown from human pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), ...
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Tsetse flies genome may harbor sleeping sickness cure Researchers have revealed that genetic adaptions of tsetse fly allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The tsetse fly spreads the parasitic diseases human African trypanosomiasis, known as sleeping sickness, ...
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Vitamin D supplements have little effect on risk of falls among older people: Lancet Researchers have claimed that there is no evidence to back up the theory that vitamin D supplements prevent falls. The study, by Dr Mark Bolland of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues, analysed findings from 20 randomised controlled ...
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| More Than 7 Percent of Kids on Behavioral Meds A new survey finds that 7.5 percent of children aged 6–17 are taking some sort of prescription medicine for emotional or behavioral difficulties. It's a first look at the problem, and supports evidence that more and more U.S. kids are getting drugs for conditions ...
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Brewing, Ranching Business Could be Hurt by FDA RENO, Nev.--The FDA is proposing a rule that would require brewers to take that left over grain from the brewing process, dry it out, and package it up before handing it off to ranchers. The feds say its necessary to stop the spread of food-borne illnesses like ...
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School of Public Health Study Finds Coffee Lowers Risk of Diabetes A study released by the Harvard School of Public Health has confirmed a direct relationship between the amount of coffee a person drinks and a lowered risk for type 2 diabetes. According to the study, those who increased their daily coffee consumption by ...
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CDC investigates Salmonella Cotham outbreak linked to bearded dragons The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with public health, veterinary, and agriculture officials in many states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) are investigating a ...
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Cervical cancer rise 'due to sexual habits' Sex from an earlier age and with more partners has led to a huge increase in cervical cancer among young Shanghai women, experts said yesterday. Young people aged from 15 to 24 are most vulnerable to human papillomavirus (HPV), which can lead to ...
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