Disorders and Diseases
234 Articles & Excerpts
Botulinum Toxin : Use as Medicine
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Meanwhile, purified botulism toxin is the first bacterial toxin to be used as a medicine. FDA licensed botulinum toxin as Oculinum in December 1989 for treating two eye conditions - blepharospasm and strabismus - characterized by excessive muscle contract
Botulinum Toxin : Infant Botulism
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Infant botulism differs from food-borne botulism in that the toxin itself is not ingested. Instead, C. botulinum spores swallowed by the infant germinate and produce the toxin in the favorable environment of the baby's large intestine.
Botulinum Toxin: A Poison That Can Heal
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Called the most poisonous substance known, botulinum toxin can paralyze and kill if consumed in contaminated food. Now scientists have found a way that it can be used, in a purified form, to treat certain muscle conditions.
Interstitial Cystitis: Disabling Bladder Condition : Treating the Condition
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
There is no cure for IC. All doctors can do is try to relieve the symptoms, a challenging task, because they vary from person to person. People may have flare-ups and remissions, and different patients respond to different treatments.
Interstitial Cystitis: Disabling Bladder Condition
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Interstitial cystitis is a bladder condition far more common in women than in men. It can be devastating to quality of life. Treatments include drugs and special diets. Sometimes a diagnostic tool - cystoscopy - can temporarily improve the condition.
Breast cancer, osteoporosis... Conditions Men Get, Too : Part 2
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
As with breast cancer in women, symptoms include the presence of a breast lump that is usually firm and painless. The nipple can have an abnormality such as retraction, crusting, or a discharge. Patients frequently are over 60.
Breast cancer, osteoporosis... Conditions Men Get, Too
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Breast cancer, osteoporosis, and eating disorders are three maladies often thought of as 'women's diseases.' This stereotype often prevents men who contract them from getting the help they need.
Cause of Gastritis and Ulcer Treatment : Treatment, Ulcer Bacterium and Cancer?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Quite a few helpful drugs are already on the market, though they are not approved for treating ulcers. FDA's role now is to wade through studies, old and new, to identify the best combinations of drugs, a process that was under way when this issue of FDA
Cause of Gastritis and Ulcer Treatment : Infection Connection, Diagnosis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
But most of the medical community felt this was not sufficient proof to definitively implicate the bacteria in causing ulcers. A medical dictionary published in 1986, for example, lists the causes of ulcers in order of importance as high acid, irritation
Cause of Gastritis and Ulcer Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Antibiotics are now being used to treat ulcers, after researchers verified that bacteria are largely responsible for this condition, which was once thought to be caused by stress or diet.
Teens: Correcting the Curved Spine of Scoliosis : Surgery
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Today, molded braces are available that generally don't show under clothing because they fit close and only come up to the underarms. Although underarm braces are effective for lower chest and lower back curves, a full torso brace works best for a high
Teens: Correcting the Curved Spine of Scoliosis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Scoliosis affects a small percentage of teens, and if mild is usually nothing to worry about. But severe spinal curves require prompt treatment, sometimes involving a body brace.
Orphan Products: Hope for People with Rare Disorders
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People with hemophilia, certain leukemias, cystic fibrosis, and AIDS-related conditions are among those benefiting from FDA's Orphan Products Program, which has helped get more than 100 products for rare diseases on the market since it began in 1983.
Hemophilia : Genes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A person with hemophilia lacks one of the dozen or so factors that cause blood to clot. In hemophilia A, factor VIII is at fault; in hemophilia B, it's factor IX. Treatment consists of intravenous infusion of the missing factor and is now usually done
Hemophilia : The AIDS Disaster, Genetic Engineering
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
For some time, scientists had known that hemophiliacs were at high risk of hepatitis, a group of viral diseases that can be transmitted by contaminated blood and blood products. Though not usually fatal, hepatitis is serious.
Youngsters with Hemophilia
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A string of scientific and technological marvels have improved the picture for young people (mostly boys) with this blood-clotting disorder. But obstacles will have to be overcome to make the hope of a cure a reality.
Spinal Cord Injuries : Treatments
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Another drug under study is GM-1 ganglioside. Fred H. Geisler, M.D., Ph.D., a neurosurgeon at the Chicago Neurosurgical Center, headed a team at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore that studied 34 people with paralyzing spinal cord
Spinal Cord Injuries
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Medical experts once considered extensive recovery after spinal cord injury hopeless. But now the outlook is more optimistic, due to advances such as electrical muscle stimulation, restorative devices, and drug research.
Day-Care, For Safe Food, Handle with Car
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Another parasite gaining ground in this country is Giardia lamblia, a protozoan also spread through the fecal-oral route, either directly through person-to-person contact or through contaminated food or water.
More Food-Borne Parasites
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Trichinosis symptoms vary with individual immunity and the intensity of the infection. The adult worms develop and reproduce in the human digestive tract, where they may cause mild diarrhea. They then die and leave the body in feces.
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