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12 Hour Cure For Yeast Infection

CureMyWife.com — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:17:14 +0000

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FDA Approves First New Lupus Drug in 56 Years

CureMyWife.com — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:12:46 +0000

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Benlysta (belimumab) to treat patients with active, autoantibody-positive lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus) who are receiving standard therapy, including corticosteroids, antimalarials, immunosuppressives, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Prior to Benlysta, FDA last approved drugs to treat lupus, Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) and corticosteroids, in 1955. Aspirin was approved to treat lupus in [...]

Benlysta (belimumab): A New Lupus Medication on the Horizon

CureMyWife.com — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:15:28 +0000

The Study: BLISS-52

On July 20, 2009, Human Genome Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline announced positive results from their Phase-III, double-blind, placebo-controlled lupus clinical trial.

This 52-week study, also known as BLISS-52, enrolled 865 patients in 13 countries outside North America and randomized active lupus patients to 10mg/kg active drug (Belimumab, also known as Benlysta), 1 [...]

Lupus Research Investigator Says Breakthrough Holds Potential For New Treatment To Quiet Lupus

CureMyWife.com — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:44:41 +0000

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have identified a new type of cell in mice that dampens the immune system and protects the animal’s own cells from immune system attack.

This “suppressor” cell reduces the production of harmful antibodies that can drive lupus and other autoimmune diseases in which the immune system mistakenly [...]

Removing Fallopian tubes during hysterectomies cuts ovarian cancer – B.C. study

CureMyWife.com — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:55:07 +0000

In a dramatic development, B.C. scientists say that deaths from ovarian cancer could fall by as much as 50 per cent if women getting routine hysterectomies or tubal ligations have their Fallopian tubes removed too, unlike current practice which is to leave them intact.

About 50,000 hysterectomies are done each year in Canada, and slightly [...]

Chronic fatigue may be triggered by virus

CureMyWife.com — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:56:34 +0000

When the journal Science published an attention-grabbing study last fall linking chronic fatigue syndrome to a recently discovered retrovirus, many experts remained skeptical — especially after four other studies found no such association.

Now a second research team has reported a link between the fatigue syndrome and the same class of virus, a category known [...]

Latest Fibromyalgia Treatments- Advances in Treatment for Fibromyalgia

CureMyWife.com — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:44:02 +0000

Besides the most common symptoms linked to fibromyalgia, which are obvious, people having this health problem, may also suffer from insomnia, sleep apnea, gastrointestinal problems, bladder and urinary tract problems. It can cause a lot of problems to the patient. The quality of life of the patient decreases. His or her work and social life [...]

B.C. researchers develop virtual reality for pain sufferers

CureMyWife.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:45 +0000

There has been a new breakthrough for chronic pain sufferers and it seems that a virtual walk in the park may be just what the doctor ordered for relief. Simon Fraser University associate professor Diane Gromala claims research shows that a 3-D walk in the forest has the same power to help people manage chronic pain, sometimes with even more positive results than traditional methods of treatment and medications such as morphine. [...]

Australia may consider chronic pain as a disease

CureMyWife.com — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:58:44 +0000

Some recent news out of Australia seems to be a positive step in recognizing those suffering with chronic pain. Australia may soon become the first country in the world to recognize chronic pain as a disease in its own right. This move of recognition will lend more credibility to the sufferers and potentially allow them [...]

Virus discovery called breakthrough in fight against chronic fatigue syndrome

CureMyWife.com — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:31:47 +0000

Traces of a retrovirus similar to HIV are found in most patients with this mysterious disorder – chronic fatigue syndrome. It could be an opportunistic virus, but researchers want further testing to see if it actually causes the syndrome.

In what may prove to be the first significant major breakthrough in the fight against chronic [...]