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How to Avoid Side Effects of Air Conditioners? Green Environment

There are heaps of symptoms of air conditioners on wellbeing not withstanding about the earth. Most of the symptoms are on the grounds that people don’t see how to utilize or keep them at the primary area. What precisely are the symptoms? Let us talk about them. (more…)

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Radiation Therapy Algorithm Could Substantially Reduce Side Effects, Maintain Effect Against Tumors

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a mathematical model for computing radiation therapy treatments that could substantially reduce patient side effects while delivering the same results as conventional radiation therapy. (more…)

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Chemical compound holds promise as cancer treatment with fewer side effects than traditional chemotherapy

Molecule produced by UCLA chemists drove international research collaboration

A synthetic version of a rare toxin produced by a sea creature appears to hold promise for treating many different types of cancer while minimizing the harmful side effects of widely used chemotherapy drugs. (more…)

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Highly effective new anti-cancer drug shows few side effects—in mice

As injections or pills, drug inhibits an enzyme active in many cancer types

A new drug, known as OTS964, can eradicate aggressive human lung cancers transplanted into mice, according to a new report. The drug, given as a pill or by injection, inhibits the action of a protein that is overproduced by several tumor types, including lung and breast, but is rarely expressed in healthy adult tissues. Without this protein, cancer cells begin the cell-division process but fail to complete it and die. (more…)

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Diabetes treatments ‘do more harm than good’ for many people

Treatments to reduce blood sugar levels do more harm than good in many type 2 diabetes patients, particularly older people, finds new research from UCL, the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital.

The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that for many people the benefits of taking diabetes medications are so small that they are outweighed by the minor harms and risks associated with treatment. The benefits of treatment decline with age and by age 75 the harms of most treatments are likely to outweigh any potential benefits. (more…)

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