Pfizer is expected to hit the market with its new rheumatoid arthritis drug after approved by FDA. Provisionally, the advisory panel to Food and Drug Administration backed its anti-rheumatoid drug ‘tofacitinib’.
The panel voted favouring ‘tofacitinib’ by 8:2 on Wednesday and thereby Pfizer’s new drug would likely to become the first of its kind to become reputed in the market by having the new JAK inhibitors.
The panel favoured the drug tofacitinib with the view to use it as an important drug where patients suffering from rheumatoid fail to respond to …

The widely used cholesterol lowering agents called statins found to reduce the risk of having stroke by reducing the irregular heart beat-atrial fibrillation, always associated with stroke.
Dr.Chen-Ying Hung, lead author of a study published his presentation at Heart Rhythm Society’s annual meeting in Boston and said, “Our study found that statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces the risk of new-onset of atrial fibrillation.”
But, however, Dr.Chen said that their study is only preliminary one and needs more evidence to support the findings and their study limited to statins …

Many of the heart attack survivors think and they fear that sex will trigger the incident of heart attack again and the myth about them in sexual activity destroys their sex lives.
It is the fact that heart attacks occur in only one percent of the total heart attack incidents.
Experts view that doctors are not speaking about sexual activity when heart attack patients are discharged and it leaves them in confusion.
The new study reveals that about 40 percent of the heart attack survivors have a non-existent sex life a year …

Lesley Garrett, born 10 April 1955, is an English musician, broadcaster and media personality shares her experience with the painful disease of cystitis and explains as how she battled the disease cystitis to win in the last.
Cystitis is the infection by bacteria that affects the urinary bladder and causes symptoms of irritation or burning sensation while urinating, abdominal pain and fever. It affects almost 50 percent of the women worldwide and make them to suffer till their life with medications.
“Take huge amount of water up to four liters a …

Baltimore (AP) – Family history or stress or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, said a UCLA neurologist on Friday.
There are theories that Russsian leader must have died because of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis.
Lenin’s records were reviewed on Friday for an annual university of Maryland School of Medicine confence that examines the death of famous leaders.
The conference, already examined the medical reports of death of Abrahan Lincoln.
The Russian leader Lenin suffered a number of strokes before dying in 1924 and what caused the …

Gujarat: Polio Foundation of Gujarat is aiming at a new project to remark its silver jubilee and part of its celebration.
Retionopathy of Prematurity in neo-nates (ROP), potentially affects the vision and cause blindness in premature infants.
A team of the project will visit various neo-natal intensive care units of hospitals to identify ROP. It plans to help the infant by surgery on identification. The project is to run with Rs. 1.25 crore as capital and it is the first of its kind of the state and second in the country.
“The …

Health experts warn that dengue fever could prove costly globally and even it could cause more sickness than the deadly malaria.
A report published in the issue of American Journal of Tropical Medicine ad Hygiene indicates that dengue is inflicting US$ 37.8million burden on Puerto Rico and it adds that saving $1 to prevention of dengue could save $5 in costs of illness.
The mosquito-borne disease ‘dengue’ is known as ‘break-bone fever’ by its character of causing severe, unbearable joint pain. The dengue is transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquito made …

Doctors at Arizona had done a rare transplant in a one year old child. Child’s mother has donated a portion of her liver to be transplanted into the child.
Doctors after searching for an organ from a deceased donor, decided to replace the liver of the mother.
The procedure was carried out on March 20 by surgeons at the University Of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson. The young woman, Vanessa Negrete, 26 from Yuma, Arizona decided to give a portion of her liver to her daughter, Aliyah Negrete.
Aliyah was discharged from the …

Superstar Rajinikanth visited the children affected by Cystinosis, a rare genetic disorder very difficult in diagnose.
Cystinosis, a rare condition in which the body accumulates ‘cystine’ the amino acid and forms crystals which could damage the body cells.
Six such cases of Cystinosis had been identified at Tamil Nadu and four of them are under care of Sapiens Health Foundation.
On Wednesday, the four children together came to launch the Cystinosis Chapter of India and in fact that the megastar Rajinikanth was there at the function.
The Superstar dressed in a simple white shirt …

ALBANY: A nation wide cancer study has enrolled hundreds of state workers this week to recruit volunteers by the American Cancer Society.
The American Cancer Society is starting its latest project named the Cancer Prevention 3 study (CPS3) for which it looks for people between the age group of 30 and 65 with no history of cancer.
The aim of the study is to find the out the cause or prevent cancer by studying and understanding the people’s environment and genetic factors with a goal to enroll 500,000 people across the United …