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New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...with a low score of 0-2 recovered, but 47% who had medium scores and 93% with the highest marks recovered....

Eye Saver

...ost of the eye's melanocytes .All the patients had medium sized tumours (2.5- 10mm in height and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the size of a small pea to a bean.Half of the patients(657) underwent radiation therapy while the other half(660) had their affected eye removed. Findings show that 8...

New hope for eye cancer

...ost of the eye's melanocytes .All the patients had medium sized tumours (2.5- 10mm in height and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the size of a small pea to a bean.Half of the patients(657) underwent radiation therapy while the other half(660) had their affected eye removed. Findings show that 8...

Help Quit Smoking

...ancer in addition to an addiction quiz proves as a medium to understand why a child smokes and what the child requires to do to help quit smoking. The program provides parents with newsletters on steps to help quit smoking. It provides a better platform for parents to communicate effectively to their teens...

Bones repair themselves with bone marrow cells

...mbination with titanium mesh formed a good culture medium for new bone growth in the case of bone damage. This bone growth was further improved dynamically by the researchers by 'sowing' the cells onto the mesh that lies on a turning plate. The researchers who tested three differently coated pieces of mesh...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...ge of reliability and the hormonal computer in the medium range. But, the mini-microscopes had a very low estimated efficacy. Hence there is an “urgent need” to test the systems that met their basic quality index standards....

The Best Way To Get Your Childs Attention

...iting young children’s exposure to television as a medium during formative years of brain development ... may reduce children’s subsequent risk of developing attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ....

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

For light to medium smokers, daily intake of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) may reduce the risk of having oral cancer.// Norwegian scientists, who had conducted the studies, had said that people who took NSAIDs for extended time period have 65% less cha...

New kidney test a better predictor of health

...nguishes three types of cardiovascular risks: low, medium and high. The new test revealed that 20% of the population tested has a high level of cystatin-C. This makes them at 50% higher risk of cardiac attack and stroke compared to those who have lowest levels of the cystatin-C. The same participants when w...

Researchers Present Ways To Reduce The Risk Of Dementia

...her factors, both low and high levels (compared to medium levels) seemed to be associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment. For example, too low or too high caloric intake, blood sugar, diastolic blood pressure, as well as too low or too high levels of antioxidants (particularly vitamin E) and dr...

Digital Mammogram For Detection Of Breast Cancer In Women With Dense Breasts

...mmograms. Development of digital mammograms with a medium cost, which is comparative to film mammograms, is required to popularize the use of digital mammograms in breast cancer screening. SOURCE: The New England Journal of Medicine, September 16, 2005....

Get stressed to be spared of breast cancer risk?

... asked about their routine levels of stress - low, medium or high. Symptoms accompanying the stress included tension, nervousness, anxiety, impatience and sleeplessness. Over the study period, 251 women diagnosed with first-time breast cancer. Women reporting high levels of stress were 40 per cent less li...

Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...buying intellectual property rights from small and medium enterprises around the world and turn them into higher value products in collaboration with MNCs. Visalakshi’s study of 229 Indian biotech companies concludes that 20 years after setting up DBT, India still has no clear definition of biotech. “Everyt...

Lipoma Arborescens: A Rare Tumor Of The Knee

...may lead to resolution of symptoms in the short to medium term. In the case described above, Yttrium treatment gave relief of symptoms for 2 years before surgical treatment was required. The surgical treatment of lipoma arborescens is complete excision. Formal open synovectomy is held to be curative with on...

Prose Memory Deficits Found To Be Associated With Schizophrenia

...hers from China recently used memory of prose as a medium and studied how the illness differentially affected the various processes of contextual verbal memory. It was speculated that patients with schizophrenia would have a poorer performance compared with healthy controls on all constructs studied, with...

Cabbage And Genes May Protect Against Lung Cancer

...e amount to none, as opposed to a high amount to a medium amount. Professor added, 'The risk a regular smoker will getting lung cancer is 20 times that of a non-smoker. So even if eating these vegetables cut that risk by half, smokers would still be at a much higher risk.' (BBC News) Surgery, radiother...

Orissa found to be worst affected by the killer disease, AIDS

... 11 and 9 nine districts as the highly vulnerable, medium vulnerable and low vulnerable respectively. Of all the districts, Ganjam has been found to be the worst-affected district and is closely followed by Kendrapara, Puri, Cuttack and Koraput. Orissa State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) has undertaken tar...

Sperm stem cells could be an alternative to embryonic stem cells in future

...in this study was the development of a new culture medium to grow the cells and the incorporation of a tag, the green fluorescent protein to help enable easy identification of germ cells from a mixture. The findings of the present study have valuable clinical implications. It can pave way for the developm...

Animal Cruelty free Test Kit

...rum. The new alternative test kit uses synthetic medium and the cost and accuracy is not found to vary from the conventional animal serum test kits. The cruelty-free kit is expected to sell particularly well in Europe, where laboratories are concerned about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow diseas...

Twin Babies Help Charity

...2 pounds at birth. // The Internet was chosen as a medium by their father Martin to keep his friends and family informed with regard to the progress of the babies who are battling for their lives. A charity drive is also on to get additional funds for further research regarding premature birth. Over £ 3 m...

High Prevalence of AIDS among Indian Truck drivers

..."Interpersonal communication is the most effective medium to convey any message. When a health worker interacts with a trucker, there is a greater possibility of realizing the importance of safe sex. "Besides, they must be educated on the use of condoms. They should also be motivated to seek early and comp...

Price Of Alcohol Does Not Influence Consumption

...rits - as well as quality brands that can be high, medium or low-end," said senior researcher Paul J. Gruenewald. "We then go on to examine the impacts of the broad distribution of alcohol beverage prices upon sales of alcohol. Our results show that higher alcohol prices may and may not cause reductions i...

Long-Standing Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

... patients. The patients with RA classified as low, medium and high activity patients. It was found that patients with medium RA had a 8-fold increase in the risk of developing lymphoma, while high RA activity was associated w...

No Lymphoma Risk From Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs

...homa risk was much lower (8 fold) in those who had medium disease activity. Furthermore, no increased risk of lymphoma was found in those who were given anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDS), including the drug methotrexate (anti-cancer drug). No increased risk could also be documented with use of steroids or NSA...

'Fight the Flab' Competition Yields Great Results

...A message board provided for the competition was a medium of encouragement, motivation and the occasional taunt. Fight the Flab was a great success with over a 93% participation rate. Many participants reached their weight loss goals and were able to develop become more energetic, healthy and happy. More...

Music Helps in Spreading AIDS Awareness

...om drugs. Plays and skits will also be used as a medium and peer educators roped in to spread awareness about AIDS in rural areas. CHARCA has been conducting activities in different colleges of Delhi to involve the students and create a personal stake in the issue. The campaign would be hosted jointly...

A Complete Diet for Kids

...ss. Water is very essential and it presents as a medium for vital body processes to occur.According to scientists at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center abundance of fats and sugars in the diet result in excess weight and chronic disease. By avoiding these foods one can actually help ...

Blood Pressure Levels Across The Globe Show Surprising Drop

...who may be on drugs but also in people with low or medium levels." This drop in blood pressure could not be ...at risk of high blood pressure but also in low and medium blood pressure segments. "There is a lot more to health than popping pills," said Tunstall-Pedoe, a ...

Designer Strawberries

...original site and transferring it to an artificial medium for growth or maintenance. Here unfolded leaves, known as trifoliate leaves, are able to grow. When collected at 6-7 weeks after seed germination, these leaves are highly amenable to gene transfer using A. tumefaciens. Since they glow green under flu...

Presence Of Live Avian Flu Is A Cause Of Concern: Scientists

...ple has to reach us when the virus is alive in the medium - dead chicken, blood, egg, tissue, or faecal matter - by maintaining a cold chain and sticking to the time of collection and packaging norms". As for the culling procedure, Pradhan said, it is better to burn the carcasses. "Buried animals can b...

Are We To Be Blamed for The Bird Flu

...in a recent update, it mentions feed as a possible medium for the spread of bird flu between farms. In Russia authorities identified feed as one of the main sources of an H5N1 outbreak at a large-scale factory farm in Kurgan province, where 460,000 birds were killed. They felt that still little was being do...

Hepatitis C diagnosis delayed is same as denied

...s Hepatitis C was developed in 1991. Using the medium of BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr McGuire said 84% of his clients said they were never called in or notified of their infection. "My concern is they only found out by sheer coincidence and there must be a lot of people out there w...

Construction Of A New Hospital In The Bega Area Confirmed

... more capital works have to be done at Bega in the medium term. He instructed the Area Health Service to work with clinicians to look at what needs to be done to keep Bega hospital working effectively. The Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, has paid tribute to the medical staff councils, local Area Health...

Hi-tech Walking Stick Developed For Visually Impaired

...B, is capable of detecting fire exits in small and medium size buildings. "We are going to patent the product and test run it on the streets of Delhi. It may take one year to make it ready for the market," said Paul. He praised IIT for its financial and technological support and NAB for constant feedba...

Biocon To Shift Focus On Innovation To Accelerate Growth

...s will deliver superior shareholder value over the medium and long-term. We expect our insulin products to g...of FY 2007 as the biotech sector is evaluated on a medium to long-term basis, given the gestational nature of its R&D investments and regulatory time lines. ...

Fad Diet for Fat Australians

...st a quarter (23%) of your daily sodium intake. A medium Big Mac Meal including Big Mac, Fries and Coke, co... to expend the same amount of energy as found in a medium Big Mac Meal from McDonald's. A 65kg woman would have to spend just over 3 hours walking to expend ...

Advertisements to Assuage Bird Flu Concerns

... the government has resorted to using the powerful medium of advertisements aired over radio // and television to drive home the message that chicken is safe to consume, if it is properly cooked. The advertisements convey the methods of ensuring safety to poultry, in the event of the virus spreading to th...

Testtube Babies Born in Kenya

...dium. Fertillized eggs are transferred to a growth medium for at least 48 hours until they reach the 6-8 cell blastocyst stage at least. The embryo or more often several embryos are transferred to the uterus via the vagina and cervix. The woman oten undergoes at least 2 weeks of uncertainty before she retur...

Britons Believe In The Paranormal Phenomena

...ndon's College of Psychic Studies and a practising medium said that psychic is always associated with an old lady in a gown with a crystal ball. About 74% of the people in the age group of 55 to 64 year olds believed in psychic powers. But Padraig Reidy, deputy editor the New Humanist magazine said that the...

Actor Anil Kapoor Supports Birth Registration Cause

...r will actively promote UBR through the electronic medium and other activities. His participation in the campaign is a reflection of his beliefs in upholding the basic right of a child - the right to a name, legal identity and nationality. The actor said: "Being a public figure also brings along with it a ...

Stimulant Medications More Effective In Treating ADHD Than Nonstimulants

...ct sizes are generally categorized as small (0.2), medium (0.5) and large (0.8). Standardized mean averages, or effect sizes, for dependent measures in each study were computed by taking the mean of the active drug group minus the mean of the placebo group and dividing the result by the pooled standard devi...

UN Sending Aid To Angola To Counter Cholera

...n by all partners at the country level, for short, medium and long-term response to the outbreak, while the WHO continues to support the health ministry of the country in its surveillance, sanitation activities. As of 19 June, Angola had reported a total of 46,758 cases including 1,893 deaths. About 35 ...

Suitable Culturing Medium, essential for Stem Cell Development

...that in embryonic stem cell development, nurturing medium plays an important role than nature and environmen...ishes, specific types of cells would arise. ‘The medium and the molecular environment influence the fate of the cell,’ said Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., executi...

Presence of Beneficial Bacteria in Probiotic Drinks Mere Tall Claims

...ich are advertised and marketed through the online medium seem to be taking customers for a ride, as they do not contain the requisite amount of beneficial bacteria mentioned on their labels. Consumers are advised to resort to brands that contain lactobacilli or bifidobacterium-at least 10 million bacteria ...

A Mushroom Extract May Impact the Body’s Immune Syste

...tions of cell lysates and supernatants (the liquid medium in which the cells were cultured) were collected at 0, 1 and 24 hours, flash-frozen, and stored at –80°C. Samples were analyzed at pH3 on immobilized metal affinity capture (IMAC30) ProteinChip? arrays, using both low-performance and high-performance...

People Exposed To Lead Likely To Die From Brain Cancer

...d to have a high probability of exposure, but only medium intensity of exposure because their direct contact with leaded gasoline was not as great as the potential for contact. The jobs with the highest probability and intensity of lead exposure were painters and automobile mechanics. But firefighters, engi...

Bypass Surgery, a Better Option than Angioplasty for Severe Heart Patients

...f life over the 15 years covered in the study. For medium severity disease (two blocked arteries), procedures added 10.6 months of life. For low severity disease (one blocked artery), procedures added 8.1 months of life. Smith also pointed out that his group's study has the strength of having analyzed pat...

New Antipsychotic Medications have Little Advantage Over Older Drugs

... would translate into lower quality of life in the medium term,” the authors conclude. “This suggests that despite recent policy statements and prescribing patterns, further randomized and other evaluations of second-generation antipsychotics would still be useful in establishing their role in the long-term...

Now a Robot to Treat Baldness

...rmal papilla cells and then grow them in a special medium until we get 10,000 fold. Then we take a very fine needle and we inject them under the skin and a new hair will grow at each point of injection," said Higgins. He added: "The cell culture growth phase takes about three weeks and involves lots of st...

India to Be Made Medical and Health Tourism Destination

...ars in the print, electronic, internet and outdoor medium under the Ministry of Tourism’s Incredible India Campaign”. vii) Brochures & CDs on Body, Mind and Soul covering the traditional system of medicine have been produced and circulated extensively by Ministry of Tourism. Source-PIB SRM...

Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products

...ment Monday. Plasma is the storage and transport medium of clotting factors. Its protein content is necessary to maintain the oncotic pressure of the blood, which 'holds' the serum within the vessels. Until recently plasma proteins including Factor VII were mostly being imported. Reliance Life Scienc...

Trans Fat Ban: Watch Saturated Fats and Calories Too

...ring between placing an order for a small versus a medium order of French fries, both the price and the number of calories per serving will be displayed. People will become more aware of the caloric cost of the foods they order, and the next step on a public health level would be to educate the consumer on ...

Link Between Nanoparticles and Kidney Stones

... precipitated upon proteins present in the culture medium used to replicate the nanoparticles. Researchers did, however, identify chemical bonds between proteins and calcium in nanoparticles that were similar to those found in the bacteria that calcified in the environment. “Right now the results are inco...

Good Diet Includes Herbs

..."For maximum benefit, you need to have about three medium cloves of garlic per day. Dry garlic, or garlic left out too long, loses its healthy benefits," said Zick. Rosemary is an antioxidant that improves memory and possibly helps prevent cancer.Basil, oregano and rosemary fight colds. Thyme treats chr...

Experts Warn Against Raw Milk Following Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in Kenya

...w milk and crudely prepared meat, could be another medium through which, the disease can be spread. Health and Livestock authorities in Northern Tanzania are keeping a tight watch around the Tanzania-Kenya remote periphery, over developments of a fresh outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in Ga...

How Bacteria Generate Energy to Live?

...nzyme has to reach all the way from the water-like medium inside the cell, through the oily membrane interior, to the water-like environment outside the cell. For this reason, the enzyme is made up of water-soluble and oil-soluble components within a single entity, so it can’t hold its shape in any one solv...

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

... been shut off. However, when Dox was added to the medium supporting the liver tissue, circadian rhythms matched those seen in livers from mice with fluorescent mPer2 and unimpeded Bmal1 expression. The mPer2 expression patterns in the liver explants together with in livers taken from the transgenic offspri...

South Asians in US More Prone to Heart Disease

...n angiography (which includes injecting a contrast medium into the patient) and can just as easily detect the disease in the early stages." Dr. Dodani and her colleagues suspected that if a subject had thickening of the carotid arteries, he or she would also have dysfunctional HDL and a polymorphism of th...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

...ltured in the lab in petri dishes, which contain a medium to grow bacteria. But the method leads to inaccuracies, she explains, because only a fraction of bacteria in a sample grow in that medium. So the team used a powerful molecular method that involved extracting a subunit of genetic material called 16S ...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...s Kavya is a folk art group that uses theatre as a medium for anti-AIDS messages and employs aravani dancers and musicians. "It is an emotionally satisfying moment for all the aravanis who participate in our campaigns that they are able to contribute to other people's lives," said TAI project director La...
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