Posts Tagged ‘treatment’
A test that is offered to measure the activity of genes in white blood cells may prove helpful for doctors to find the suitable treatment when someone complains of chest pain, a report says.
The findings are going to be published in the first issue of a new American Heart Association Journal named, Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. The journal will be released after every two months and according to Ramachandran S. Vasan, who is editor of the journal, “there is a dire need of such journal as the completion of the Human Genome Project is meant a quick acceleration of our knowledge regarding genes and their functionality.” Read the rest of this entry
Evidence suggests that useful bacterium found in health drinks and yoghurt are ineffective on eczema symptoms and can also cause gut problems occasionally.
The researchers reviewed 12 studies that comprised around 800 children who had eczema. In researchers found that in these children probiotics didn’t prove effective to ease itching and the rash.
In some separate studies, some side effects like infection and bowel damage were also reported in 46 patients. According to the experts, further trials are needed to know about the long-term safety of their use. Read the rest of this entry
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Calls for Medicare government health plans to include coverage for PET scans to additional cancer types have been made. The medical imaging industry has asked an advisory panel to recommend wider payments.
Data has shown that positron emission tomography (PET) scans went a long way in giving doctors accurate information and allowed them to alter their treatment plans for nearly one-third of their enrolled patients. The way PET scans work is that radioactive sugars are injected into the body which then travel to the metabolically active parts of the body and can indicate cancer risk. What the CT or MRI scans miss, the PET scans could pick up due to the unique method of locating possible cancer cells. Read the rest of this entry
