Featuring news, articles and special features relating to health and wellness, the Dr Prem’s Health Guide & Magazine assesses industry developments and analyses the latest thinking around preventative and curative medicine. Packed with essential healthcare information, the title also includes must-read items on nutrition, fitness and lifestyle management.
To get more accurate radiation dose in the delivery of radiation treatment in the case of head and neck cancer, the combining images derived from positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT scan) will be more helpful now.
The…
PET and CT scan work better in treating cancer, when together Read More »
An experimental bird flu vaccine may protect from H5N1 virus and other strains of influenza as well. It is being developed by San Diego-based Vical Inc. Tests on mice showed that the vaccine protects them against H5N1 virus and seasonal human flu…
Vical Inc's vaccine prevents animals from H5N1 Read More »
Peplin, a Brisbane based company, is developed a typical gel to treat cancer. It can be polished on the skin to treat certain types of skin cancer. The PEP005 Topical gel was used for two consecutive days on basal cell carcinomas patients. The process…
Peplin makes gel for skin cancer cure Read More »
An intranasal influenza vaccine said to be extra successful than the injectable influenza vaccine. This concluded in the research on children between 6 months to 5 years of age. The research presented at the yearly conference of the Pediatric Academic…
Intranasal vaccines prove to be more effective than injectable one Read More »
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, a branch of MIT, has recognized an insulin-like growth factor. According to a research, it puts off the natural effects of visual deficiency in the brain.
This insulin-derived growth factor 1 (IGF1) may control.
Study: Natural process of visuals deficiency can be put off Read More »
One year course of the drug Herceptin showed considerable benefits in serious breast cancer patients. The drug reduces the risk of return of disease by half and clearly improves survival. This study came in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Herceptin makes breast cancer patients happier Read More »
Biomedical Tissue Services, a New Jersey company, is accused of taking bones, tendons, ligaments, skin and other tissue from infected dead bodies and planting them in different people. At least 8,000 people received BTS tissue.
Lawsuits have been…
Biomedical Tissue Services faces charges for infections in people Read More »
problems of erectile dysfunctions are no more confined to middle age and old age men, the young men too are coming across similar problems. Dr. Najah S. Musacchio, of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and other fellows came out with a surprised…
Sexual dysfunction prominent in young males too Read More »
Skin cancers, like melanomas, are strongly linked to sun damage. It arises on exposed areas of the skin. But melanomas can show up in covered parts of the body as well. It can be on the soles or the palms or between the toes and even on the scalp.
So…
Regular test for skin cancer is essential Read More »
Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman, is the first person who received first partial face transplant. She has now complete feeling in the new tissues. It is now five months of operation. She told it in a press conference on April 30, 2006.
She becomes…
Woman has signs of feeling in transplanted tissues Read More »