No Increase risk of neuropsychiatric side effects with smoking cessation drugs: LANCET Study supriya kashyap kashyap23 April 2016 4:15 PM IST The smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion do not appear to increase the incidence of serious neuro psychiatric side effects...
This drug combo helps soft-tissue cancer survival savita thakur thakur22 July 2016 9:39 AM ISTAdding a novel monoclonal antibody therapy to traditional chemotherapy can help make people more likely to survive advanced sarcoma, a lethal...
Vertebroplasty helps reduce acute pain among patients with spinal fractures: Lancet Study savita thakur thakur21 Aug 2016 9:15 AM ISTVertebroplasty is a safe and effective procedure to reduce acute pain and disability in patients who have experienced spinal fractures within a 6-week...
Landmark: Nose cells used to repair damaged knee joints. Meghna Singhania22 Oct 2016 5:52 PM IST In what may be termed as a landmark procedure, Swiss surgeons successfully used an experimental technique, which includes harvesting cells from the...
Ketamine fails to prevent post-operative delirium: Lancet Study Anjali Nimesh Nimesh26 Jun 2017 1:17 PM IST To blunt postoperative pain and reduce the need for opioid drugs following surgery, anesthesiologists often give patients low doses of the drug...
Lancet study examines effectiveness of labor induction in India Anjali Nimesh Nimesh2 July 2017 10:02 AM ISTResearchers from the University of Liverpool with colleagues from Gynuity Health Care in New York and the Government Medial College, Nagpur, India,...
Targeted radiotherapy for less side effects in breast cancer : Lancet Anjali Nimesh Nimesh3 Aug 2017 10:30 AM ISTBreast cancer patients who have radiotherapy targeted at the original tumour site experience fewer side effects five years after treatment than those...
Newly developed drug found effective against Resistant Malaria : Lancet Anjali Nimesh Nimesh14 Sept 2017 11:30 AM ISTScientists have developed a drug which effectively treats malaria and can help fight strains of the deadly infection that are resistant to existent...
Once daily long acting inhaler best maintenance therapy for asthma :LANCET Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli18 Sept 2017 5:03 PM ISTA new study published in The Lancet shows that once-daily inhalation of a powder, made up of drugs fluticasone furoate and 25mg Vilanterol (FF/VI),...
Increasing frequency of blood donation has no major side effects : BMJ Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli4 Oct 2017 9:40 AM ISTGiving blood more frequently -- up to every 8 weeks for men and every 12 weeks for women -- has no major side effects and could help to increase blood...
Stenting NOT better than Placebo in stable angina : ORBITA Trial Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli21 Feb 2018 8:30 PM ISTClinically the primary goal of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in stable angina is a symptomatic relief but there is no evidence from...
90% of hepatitis B patients unaware of their disease : Lancet Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli29 March 2018 7:02 PM ISTThe 69th World Health Assembly approved the Global Health Sector Strategy to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030. Despite the fact that no virological...
