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Seen that? - New Website Provides Resources For Diabetic Teens
in Daily Diabetic, on November 29, 2009
...ive in helping diabetic neuropathy. An investigational injectable medication is being investigated: Patients are to test a trial treatment for diabetic nerve damage after promising studies on animals....
Allergic Reactions to Heparin
in Allergies, on November 23, 2009
... © Blind Grasshopper A newly published study ( pdf file ) reports that in some patients undergoing heparin injections , the blood anticoagulant has been shown to cause skin lesions due to allerg...
Seen that? - Non Diabetics Abuse Diabetic Drug
in Daily Diabetic, on November 19, 2009
...o increase insulin output in response to meals. Byetta is a popular drug, and it's helped many patients. But liraglutide - soon [...] Read More Chromium Picolinate + Diabetes Drug =...
Seen that? - Money talks: Health report cards do not improve patient care
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 19, 2009
...am randomly assigned 76 hospitals in Quebec to get immediate feedback on their care of heart attack patients, or to get feedback after 14 months. Each hospital group accounted for more than 3,000 hear...
Seen that? - Acupuncture for Infertility
in Well Woman Blog, on November 14, 2009
...omised controlled trial - the gold standard of clinical trials - researchers in Germany divided 270 patients with a similar severity of tension headache into three groups. Over an eight week period on...
Seen that? - 2005: A Year Of Diabetes Breakthroughs
in Daily Diabetic, on November 9, 2009
...e blessed to be living in a time of explosive research and developments, a time when scientists and patients alike are fighting to improve the lives of millions diagnosed with the disease. Nina Nazor,...
Seen that? - Portable dialysis machines on the horizon
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 9, 2009
...he exclusive provider of advanced sorbent hemodialysis products and services for treatment of patients with renal failure. "Our new approval further demonstrates that Renal Solutions is on the le...
Seen that? - Is there hope for female sexual dysfunction?
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 31, 2009
...male sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) in post-menopausal women. Phase IIa pilot studies involving 26 patients diagnosed with FSAD showed favorable results. Results showed that on a 14-item questionnaire...
Gene Therapy for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA)
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 26, 2009
...nherited retinal degenerative disease characterized by severe loss of vision at birth. Although the patients did not attain normal eyesight, half of them (six of 12) improved enough that they may no l...
Ambulances charge more for obese
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
Another sign that the US health care system is truly screwed with reports that ambulances are jacking up fees to take the obese. The ambulance companies say transporting fat people costs 2.5 times more than normal, requiring extra people and special equipment. As a result, they've nearly d...
Aerosol Measles Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 21, 2009
...htake. "This new method could potentially offer safer, more affordable and effective treatments to patients that need them the most."
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Seen that? - A Diabetic With Olympic Courage
in Daily Diabetic, on October 2, 2009
...ive in helping diabetic neuropathy. An investigational injectable medication is being investigated: Patients are to test a trial treatment for diabetic nerve damage after promising studies on animals....
Seen that? - Do erectile dysfunction drugs cause blindness?
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 2, 2009
...ygen during a heart attack, which can result to significant damage to heart muscle and tissue. Most patients would require treatment after a heart attack to repair the damage and improve their chances...
STOP Your Child’s Allergy Disease March without the OUCH!
in Allergies, on September 3, 2009
The following entry is contributed by Guest Blogger Stephen Hauer, Principal of DropYourAllergies.com a national, physician-based, patient-focused allergy services company offering environmental and food allergy testing, custom formulated immunotherapy vaccine (SLIT DROPS or traditional Injection...
Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope is the Tech I Expect my Doctor to Have
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 28, 2009
... doctor to hear up to 38% better. It also has active noise amplification which will help with obese patients or with patients that have a feint heartbeat. These are the patients that that a doctor nee...
The Power of The Fetal Fibronectin Test
in Well Woman Blog, on August 27, 2009
... at St. Thomas' Hospital in London included nearly 100 clinically symptomatic and asymptomatic patients between 23 and 34 weeks gestation. After using the fFN test in both populations, clinicians ...
EarlyCDT–Lung™ Test for Detection of Early Stage of Lung Cancer Released
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 25, 2009
Oncimmune LLC announced the release of EarlyCDT- Lung , a simple blood test with the ability to detect the earliest stages of lung cancer when treatment can be most successful. Categorized as a high-complexity test under CLIA guidelines, the test is performed exclusively at Oncimmune's CLIA ...
Alternative Medicine Reduces IVF Success Rates
in Next Nine Months, on August 20, 2009
...te is 30% lower among women who have used alternative medicine . Based on a study of more than 700 patients who had IVF treatments, they found that women who had first tried a combination of alternati...
Diabetes Risk In Childhood Cancer Survivors
in Daily Diabetic, on August 20, 2009
...s as likely to report diabetes mellitus."
The above findings do not appear to be related to patients' body mass index or physical inactivity.
Read more from Science Daily .
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Minimize infections at hospitals with RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on August 20, 2009
... common phenomenon in hospitals without creating any sort of rift between medical professionals or patients.
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MIT and LIMR Announce Nanotech Ovarian Cancer Therapy
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 8, 2009
... Lankenau Institute's Dr. Janet Sawicki . "Our hope is to begin doing clinical trials in patients in the next 18 to 24 months and then potentially tailor this therapy to treat different soli...
MRI Can Be A Tool in The Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment Of Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 7, 2009
...l beta cells left would allow physicians to develop the most appropriate treatment plans for their patients. It would also allow them to respond, change or manipulate those treatment plans at any time...
Summer Diabetes Management
in Daily Diabetic, on July 28, 2009
...t Tips
Marc Wolf - a registered pharmacist with more than 28 years of experience serving diabetic patients and founder and CEO of Diabetic Care Services - provides tips on protecting testing supplie...
Avandia, Under Fire Once More!
in Daily Diabetic, on July 27, 2009
...ted in risk of heart attacks , Avandia is facing another criticism:
liver failure and death in some patients.
Researchers from the activist group Public Citizen reported the said connection to Ava...
IVF Success Lies in the Genes
in Next Nine Months, on July 26, 2009
... answer may be found in your blood .
"We found that the gene expression profiles in blood of patients at the time of pituitary down-regulation showed interesting patterns of gene clustering. Ove...
20 Cholesterol Regulating Genes Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...scover exactly how the novel genes regulate cholesterol levels inside cells, as well as looking at patients to determine whether these genes (or alterations in them) do constitute risk factors, and in...
Victoza® (liraglutide) Received EU Marketing Authorization
in Daily Diabetic, on July 6, 2009
...7 European Union member states for:
combination treatment with metformin or a sulphonylurea in patients with insufficient glycemic control despite maximal tolerated dose of monotherapy with metfor...
Treatment For Gaucher Disease From Protalix
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 4, 2009
... to market as soon as possible. Through their clinical trials, there are currently a number Gaucher patients who have been successfully treated using Protalix's therapeutic proteins for over 2 yea...
AADE'sNew Blog: Diabetes Education Voices
in Daily Diabetic, on June 29, 2009
... www.diabeteseducationblog.org .
It's AADE's hope that the blog will continue to help patients develop healthy diabetes self-care behaviors and offer an educator's insight into healt...
Omega-3 For Diabetics' Heart Health
in Daily Diabetic, on June 23, 2009
... omega-3 fatty acids (3 g/day) for 2 months decreases the production of homocysteine in diabetic patients, which can lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease," wrote the researchers fr...
Type 2 Diabetes Overtreatment, Is It Really Safe??
in Daily Diabetic, on June 22, 2009
... to assess the impact of changes in antihyperglycemic therapies on health outcomes in managed care patients with type 2 diabetes.
Specifically, we assessed the predictors of intensification of antih...
Social Entrepreneurhip at Stanford
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
...e for developing this product is now doing the field trials in India and has been fitted on over 40 patients to date. In late May, the Re:Motion team was a co-winner of the Stanford student entreprene...
Blood Test for Aging Protein p16p16INK4a
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...ward a better understanding of issues like the suitability of organs for transplantation, how well patients are likely to recover after surgery or the future toxicity of chemotherapy for cancer patien...
Victoza: New Diabetes Drug, Better Than Byetta?
in Daily Diabetic, on June 14, 2009
...increase insulin output in response to meals.
Byetta is a popular drug, and it's helped many patients. But liraglutide - soon to be called Victoza if approved by the FDA - works better, says Law...
Drug pushing Eli Lilly
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
...eports that drug giant Eli Lilly pushed drugs for dementia, specifically zyprexa , on to elderly patients even though it knew the stuff didn't work. The evidence has come out in internal compan...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
...ing into hospitals even when there's nothing wrong with them, sucking up limited resources from patients who are actually sick from the virus. As if that's not bad enough, there are reports ...
Chemotherapy Drug Triggers Fatal Allergic Reactions
in Allergies, on June 9, 2009
...cates that between 1997 and 2007, there have been an unusually high number of deaths among cancer patients who received Cremophor-based paclitaxel , a solvent-administered taxane chemotherapy.
Ad...
Self Foot Examination Against Needless Diabetic Amputations
in Daily Diabetic, on June 4, 2009
...ty of the diabetes crisis is illustrated by a trend he's seeing in his practice: more and more patients are undergoing highly preventable amputations due to complications from diabetes.
"The...
Bayer Diabetes Care Launched A1CNow® SELFCHECK For Home Use
in Daily Diabetic, on June 3, 2009
...ar is being managed.
With Bayer's A1CNow®SELFCHECK - which was recently cleared by the FDA - patients will be able to more closely watch their A1C level in between healthcare provider visits so t...
Obese Pregnant Women Should Not Gain Weight
in Next Nine Months, on May 31, 2009
...control group was 31 pounds, compared to 11 pounds in the study group. Twenty-three extremely obese patients lost weight during their pregnancy.
The findings showed that there were no fetal deaths an...
Eight Genes That Help Predict Patients Response to Melanoma Treatment
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...atient's response to treatment .
Dr. Tawbi and his colleagues examined the tumor tissues of 21 patients with metastatic melanoma, some of whom responded to chemotherapy and some who did not. Once...
Triglycerides and Diabetic Neuropathy
in Daily Diabetic, on May 25, 2009
...rides (a known cardiovascular disease risk factor) can also be used to by doctors to predict which patients with diabetes are more likely to develop neuropathy.
In a study report now online in the jo...
OTC Prevacid®, Heartburn Medicine Now FDA-Approved
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 15, 2009
...More than 50 million Americans suffer from frequent heartburn, and nearly half-more than 21 million patients-utilize prescription-only Prevacid® to treat acid-related disorders.
The US FDA recentl...
New Heart Studies with Focus on Prevention and Early Diagnosis
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 14, 2009
...ill be released by Medtronic this week could help improve cancer and arthritis diagnosis in heart patients.
The groundbreaking research includes data on the world's first pacemaker designed for...
Diabetes Drug Januvia May Trigger Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer
in Daily Diabetic, on April 30, 2009
...liptin - sold in pill form as Januvia - could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users.
Researchers from the Larr...
Saliva Test: Non-invasive Method To Detect Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 28, 2009
...e searching for biomarkers that may indicate diabetes, doctors examined the saliva of 40 different patients. Through salivary analysis, they managed to devise a new "non-invasive" method for...
Urine Metabolite Identifies Smokers with Higher Lung Cancer Risk
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...ls of NNAL in the urine were divided into three groups. Compared to those with the lowest levels, patients with a mid-range level of NNAL had a 43 percent increased risk of lung cancer, while those a...
Louisiana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Board Certified Interventional Pain Physicians -- Ensuring Patient Safety
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 22, 2009
...ican Society of Anesthesiology.
"The utmost concern of these organizations was the safety of patients. When these procedures were being performed by individuals with little or no formal trainin...
Tips for Accurate Blood Glucose Testing
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2009
...evels.
Marc Wolf, a registered pharmacist with more than 28 years of experience serving diabetic patients and founder and CEO of Care Services, Inc. ( www.diabeticcareservices.com and www.diabetic...
Robindira Unsworth Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...e, and she chose to work in social services. Working with diverse populations such as AIDS dementia patients and adults with developmental disabilities, she learned to appreciate the strength, beauty,...
Stem Cell Transplantation Benefits Type 1 Diabetics
in Daily Diabetic, on April 14, 2009
... © kaibara87
A certain type of stem cell transplantation in majority of patients with type 1 diabetes resulted to them being insulin-free for several years.
Such were the findings of a new st...
Allergy Results from Malfunction of Respiratory Epithelium
in Allergies, on April 4, 2009
...ly birch pollen binds to, enters and travels through conjunctival and nasal epithelium of allergic patients but not of healthy subjects within one minute after the exposure.
During the research it be...
Virtual Doctors?
in Web 2.0, on April 3, 2009
... has a facility in Second Life where students "navigate a full-service hospital where they see patients, order X-rays, consult with colleagues and make diagnoses." They describe it as "...
Marker that Predicts Breast Cancer Metastasis
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 28, 2009
...mor Microenvironment of Metastasis).
TMEM density was found to be more than double in the group of patients who developed systemic metastases compared those with only localized breast cancer. If thes...
Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009
...ot there but because there is right amount of inventory to mix and create the right combination for patients (combination of drugs is different for male, female, pregnant, etc.). This might be a good ...
Cancer Research UK Announces Nanotech Breakthrough
in Nanotechbuzz, on March 13, 2009
...fending cells, leaving healthy tissue unaffected. We hope this therapy will be used to treat cancer patients in clinical trials in a couple of years."
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March is DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) Awareness Month
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 12, 2009
...nd local communities nationwide, promoting the importance of having healthcare professionals assess patients for their risk of developing DVT. They will roll out to 14 cities across the nation.
This ...
Prognostic Test for Frontotemporal Dementia
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 10, 2009
...tal lobe dementia (Frontotemporal Dementia, FTD), a form of dementia that occurs most frequently in patients younger than 65. The test is based on previous findings showing that a genetic defect in tw...
MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 5, 2009
...mmuneering Corporation)
Choice and Change: Innovations in Consumer Centric Healthcare
Jeff Carter (Patients without Borders), Nathanial B. Findlay (MyCa), Chaim Indig (Phreesia), Karen Mastrianni (BC...
Biomarkers for Severity of Chikungunya Fever Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 5, 2009
...ss that, like dengue fever, is transmitted by mosquitoes.
Based on blood samples obtained from 10 patients who developed the disease during Singapore's CHIKF outbreak in January 2008, the scien...
Psoriasis Drug Raptiva Found Linked To Rare Brain Infection
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 21, 2009
...ve linked Raptiva to progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) - a rare brain infection - in patients using the drug. The FDA is now reviewing the said information and will take appropriate ste...
Drug Combo May Lower Diabetics' Kidney Risk
in Daily Diabetic, on February 19, 2009
...ch were the findings of researchers who analyzed data from a study that included more than 11,000 patients.
After an average follow-up of four years, patients taking the blood pressure-lowering dr...
Success story: God's Love We Deliver...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on February 13, 2009
...Ganga Stone joined forces with Jane Best and Restaurant Claire in 1986 to help patients with HIV and other serious problems get food delivery service for free. Restaurant Claire prepared meals that Ga...
FDA Approxes ATryn, First Drug from a Genetically Engineered Animal
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 7, 2009
...nd the first recombinant antithrombin approved in the U.S.
ATryn is indicated for the treatment of patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency, undergoing high-risk surgical or childbirth proced...
Stem Cell Therapy Reverse Multipple Sclerosis
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 31, 2009
...row.
The findings, published in the Lancet Neurology medical journal, showed that 81 per cent of patients had significant improvements to their disability.
Just five of the group suffered side eff...
First Clinical Trial Using Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injuries
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 28, 2009
...45362 The FDA has approved the world's first clinical trial on the use of stem cell therapy for patients with acute spinal cord injury. Geron Corporation will conduct a Phase I multi-center ...
ASTHMyths: Asthma Facts vs Myths
in Allergies, on January 28, 2009
...t asthma from AsthMyths , a website put together by Merck (manufacturer of Singulair ), to help patients separate fact from myths.
Will moving to a dry climate improve your asthma?
Can one outgro...
Gene Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 27, 2009
... Human Gene Therapy reports of the first clinical evidence that gene therapy reduces symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis , based on data from two patients. The experiment build on a prev...
New Survey Shows A Disconnect Between Doctors And Patients On Diabetes And Weight
in Daily Diabetic, on January 22, 2009
...iabetes Institute found that eight in 10 physicians said that they discuss weight issues with their patients every/almost every visit, yet half as many patients - only four in 10 - report having these...
RFID Hermes System can aid in diagnosis of dementia at early stages
in The RFID Weblog, on January 17, 2009
...ation System or HERMES (not the messenger from Greek mythology ), it can track the movement of patients and on the basis of information collected it could be used for diagnosing dementia at ear...
