Fibromyalgia is a chronic widespread muscle and joint pain that is difficult to diagnose and cannot be cured.
The condition is far more prevalent
in women and the incidence increases with age, reaching 7 percent among women 65 years and older.
The researchers at the University of Manitoba Rehabilitation Hospital conducted the trail on 40 […]
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The researchers found an important target that holds significant promise for millions of people suffering from allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis
and a range of other inflammatory diseases.
The study showed that a key component of the body’s own response to allergy-causing agents (allergens) can be targeted to reduce allergic reactions in mice.
In the study, […]
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The first hint that the drug might be useful in cutting alcohol cravings surfaced when the investigators noticed that mice who didn’t have NK1R seemed
to have less desire to consume alcohol.
To test their qualms, the researchers gave the NK1R-blocking drug to 25 recovering alcoholics, while giving 25 others an ineffective placebo treatment.
The […]
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According to estimates, revenues and profits of drug companies have plunged because of increasing pricing pressure and competition in important Western
markets. A firmer rupee has also added to the problem.
On an average Indian companies earn 50 per cent to 80 per cent revenue from exports, which is very unlikely in present situation.
Cipla?s […]
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The symptoms of Noroviruses, commonly called ?stomach flu? include 72 hours of vomiting and diarrhoea and could sometimes lead to death among the elderly and infants.
?One of the mysteries of medicine has been why do they keep infecting people when you?d think we?d be developing immunity,? said Lisa Lindesmith, one of the lead authors […]
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At least 500 officers were involved in raids on 30 homes and businesses in the British capital, The Mirror reported.
As part of the operation,
Metropolitan Police officers used a JCB digger to smash through a perimeter wall at a fortified thre million pound property in Hayes, West London, belonging to one of the suspects. […]
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The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto, is in the online edition of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
?This is the first study to show that smoking marijuana can have a harmful effect on the cognitive skills of people with MS,? said study author Anthony Feinstein, MPhil, […]
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The findings by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have potential implications for drug development because they involve G
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are the target of 40 to 50 per cent of modern medicinal drugs?such as antihistamines and drugs for high blood pressure.
In humans, reactions to everything from taste […]
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The study was conducted over 170 men and women at clinics across the United States. Half of the group received a daily dose of oxcarbazepine while the other half took placebo.
The findings revealed that both groups did not experience any change in the number of migraine attacks from the beginning to the end of […]
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In a paper published in the US online journal the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the scientists describe an unprecedented undercover mission that led
to the arrest of a Chinese gang peddling fake anti-malaria pills.
Bogus treatments for malaria are rampant in Southeast Asia, placing lives at risk, they warn.
These pills are unlikely to […]
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