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Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia
...B) procedure was performed at Pittsburgh while the patient was awake. The operation was done under thoracic e...sthesia. This approach may help in discharging the patient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that pat...Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver
...tocytes (liver cells), and re-inject then into the patient to give them enough functioning liver mass to get them through the acute process," Theise said....Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery
...clinical scoring system, risk classification, and patient presentation; The marker that can identify at-risk...epeat follow-ups, with a repeat of the test if the patient becomes symptomatic....New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered
...therapy are paired and infused into a patient, the patient receives an injection of a special radioactive molecule. The reporter genes produce a protein that traps the radioactive molecules, and the radioactivity causes the regions of the body in which the reporter gene is present to glow "hot" during a posi...Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers
...locate hard to find tumors. During the processes a patient is injected with radioactive vitamin B12. After th... takes pictures of the body. Dr. Collins treated a patient with breast cancer and he says that, "The cancer stands out as a bright spot in the breast. It's ver...Levothyroxine Thyroid Hormone Replacement, Approved for Hypothyroidism
...ment dose of levothryoxine for an individual adult patient is determined, blood tests are usually done less frequently; e.g., every six to twelve months. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include poor growth in children and, in those born with this disorder, impaired intellectual development if this disorder is n...More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies
...y. This free form of PSA is key to identifying the patient who requires a biopsy. Jean deKernion-Urologist, at the UCLA School of Medicine says, "A lot of people have a high PSA and don't have cancer. The free PSA helps you discern those people from the people who do have cancer. Free" PSA levels are lowe...What happens when Medications go wrong?
...bout a third of medication errors that result in a patient being harmed are initiated or perpetuated by healthcare workers who aren't being told of their involvement in those mishaps. This opens up a Pandora’s box on medical ethics and the matter assumes monstrous proportions if the unwitting error happens t...Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine
... the betterment of the patient. But as long as the patient is benefited who’s complaining? "Prince Charles has been at the forefront of the campaign for integrated medicine. It will be good news if more money is now forthcoming," a spokesman for Charles was quoted as saying...Brain death – How to cope with it
...f. However by witnessing tests to confirm that the patient is actually brain dead, the family and friends can be convinced about the futility of prolonging the life support, say doctors. Two-thirds of consultants and nurses who had previous experience of relatives being present during testing felt that the ...Crowning glory of 2000!!! Cracking of the genetic code is top of tops
...Genetic mapping will also help doctors evolve more patient specific therapies. Use of gene therapy to prevent restenosis following bypass surgery and as a treatment option for atrial stenosis is another major breakthrough of 2000.Other topics of interest are the use of stem cells to treat myocardial tissue ...Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery
...otzen performed the surgery, Dr. Chow prepared the patient but was not present during the surgery. A few years ago, the mother of Indian film star Shridevi was operated upon the wrong side of the brain in the United States of America and the incident created a furore in medical circles both in India and the...Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession
...ities and crisis management. If the doctor and the patient with his folks can talk it out and iron out the differences, such ugly incidents can be prevented from happening in future.In India, in the city of Lucknow, doctors went on a days strike on the issue of being harassed by disgruntled relatives of pati...Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"
...ccording to a release on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospita...and hopefully completed by 2003. From the moment a patient registers at the hospital, every blood test and MRI will be recorded in a central patient record, an...New antibiotic already developing resistance
...octors advice a sensitivity test before starting a patient on linezolid....Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer
... are too small to be picked up by a mammogram, the patient may be unaware that she is a potential candidate for breast cancer. But to offset this problem, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore headed by Dr. Saraswathi Sukumar, have devised a new method of detecting early st...Avoid sudden death by quick cooling
...normal beating, the lesser the chances are for the patient to survive. In laboratory studies, Becker has demo...ording to the calculations of these doctors then a patient can be brought to the emergency room with sudden cardiac arrest and then his heart can be cooled and...Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin
...o perform an on the spot skin test to check if the patient is actually hypersensitive to penicillin, the scientists say. To reach these conclusions, the researchers conducted a review of 14 prior studies conducted in the last four decades. They found that 80% to 90% of patients who reported they were alle...ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids
...y are associated with adverse side effects. When a patient receives an organ transplant, the body's white blood cells often try to reject the new organ .It is here that ATG steps in. The rabbit ATG works to prevent this from happening without the problems caused by steroids. Unlike traditional long-term ste...Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient
...ives heard her loud cries. They were told that the patient was mentally upset and that she had been put on sedatives. But around 1130 hrs the next day, Chandrakala died. The post mortem revealed that death had occurred due to the aftershock of spinal anesthesia. The complainants alleged that the doctors had...The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live
...have however clearly improved the condition of the patient in terms of controlling the HIV disease but the side effects on liver forced many to stop treatment. Dr. Chung said the next step would be to see if there are factors that may help doctors predict which HIV infected patients are most at risk for sev...Antibiotics losing their power against acne
...elops, the physician should consider switching the patient to an alternate antibiotic or an alternate therapy. The scientists are also probing the possibility of harnessing a therapeutic vaccine to prevent acne. If successful, this can prove to be an effective solution for millions of patients, most of the...Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration
... Matapurkar has won the patent after four years of patient waiting, there is a long way to go before this magical technique becomes widely used....Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries
...ng, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries
...ng, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors
...nks an advertised drug isn't the best choice for a patient who demands it. He also added that ads have tuned ...l more of their anthistamines of nasal sprays. The patient is at best incompletely informed and at worst deluded. Hence the proposed resolution asks the AMA t...Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!
... of the brain is impaired in the short term when a patient has too much blood sugar. Once you get above a blood glucose level of about 270, the brain starts to show evidence of slowing down. A similar thing happens when you get to a level of less than 80. The brain works optimally between those levels". Thi...Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children
...d that the average number of tablets taken by each patient was 28 each week, with 16 using pain medication daily. They stopped all the analgesic medications and found that the headache symptoms decreased after 2 months.Inspite of the fact the exact roll of these analgesics was not known, it is proposed that ...New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery
...ion of the day is about the recovery - whether the patient would recover and if so how long would it take. Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Maryland devised a method which allows doctors to give patients and their families more accurate information about t...Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed
... and consists of a course of antibiotics, once the patient comes in on time. If there is delay death occurs." The symptoms of this disease include high grade fever, headache, diarrhoea, pain in the joints or muscles. The disease is present in the urine of rats and is transmitted to humans through dogs, catt......tained mechanical heart has been implanted and the patient is resting comfortably after the seven hour operat...han 30 days to live and the life expectancy of the patient who got the new device is expected to be extended by about a month. Courtesy : The New Indian Expre...One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.
...the body),also called LV diastolic dysfunction.The patient presents with shortness of breath. The reasearchers made their observation in a group of 27 subjects who did not have any evidence of heart disease.They were divided into two groups with one group left with smoking and the other with nicotine gums ......e regardless of whether the eye was removed or the patient had instead undergone radiation therapy.// Davidorf, Professor of Opthalmology and investigator of COMS, Ohio said that removal of the eye is the only option for bigger tumours. The study looked at 1,317 patients with cancer of the choro...Alerts for safety of heart device
...heless, having a safety warning is a worry for the patient and supplying a replacement is costly. With the growing population, it is likely that more devices will be fitted and it is important that manufacturers make sure that they are reliable....Early detection of heart attack
...l emergency, and a series of tests is given to the patient to determine whether they have indeed suffered a heart attack.// These tests normally take a minimum of 24 hours and require hospital admission. At the Manchester Royal Infirmary in England, doctors have now found a way of streamlining the process......w shown that the LVAD does more than just keep the patient going - it actually improves the condition of the heart muscle. The researchers looked at heart tissue from two groups of transplant patients - one group had received LVAD support, the other had not. In the first group, the heart muscle had a stron...How to diagnose heart failure?
...the neck. Increased pressure may indicate that the patient with heart failure is retaining excess fluid. These new findings should direct physicians' attention towards simple measures that can detect those patients most at risk. In this study, these two signs heralded an increased risk of death from heart ...... cent mortality. However, without this surgery the patient might die of their disease. So it's a matter of the doctor and the patient weighing up the risks and benefits of different kinds of surgery....... that acupuncture specialists say will prepare the patient for pregnancy,as the news states....Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin
...f Ciprofloxacin in terms of convenience and better patient compliance should percolate to the maximum number of doctors and patients. The company believes that the Ciprofloxacin agreement has strengthened the spirit of cooperation that was started a few years ago between Cipla and Ranbaxy. Together, both th......ces of wine or shots of liquor were consumed. Each patient underwent Magnetic Resonance Imagining to measure the amount of neuronal damage. Dr Mukamal said that the beneficial effects of alcohol were probably derived from its ability to raise levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and to thin the bl...Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking
...f weight gain among some study participants. The patient undergoing this treatment will also require counse...om time to time. While the framework for guiding a patient through the treatment protocol is well established, the exact duration of the treatment needs to be ......of control when the trial was designed because the patient undergoing treatment still thinks of themselves as receiving a valid form of acupuncture treatment. But the small difference between the acupuncture group and the control group suggests the laser substitute might still be stimulating the nerves and ...... Doctors in the US have been testing a new aid to patient decision-making - an interactive video disc. This ...octors and played an important part in helping the patient to come to a decision they were happy with. The new technology opens the door to better-informed p......vement in their symptoms. A doctor need not tell a patient everything on his mind. One may feel anxious and f...ncourage an atmosphere of openness. Meanwhile, the patient should find the confidence to speak up! These days, the doctor-patient relationship should be a two-...... testing for brain surgery to treat epilepsy. Each patient was shown and asked to remember a morphed computer image blending the patient's own face with the face of a famous person. After the anesthesia wore off, patients were asked to choose which face they remembered seeing, their face or the famous face,...... circulation by damaged heart tissue. Along with a patient history and an echocardiogram this can rule out a heart attack in just 90 minutes, compared to six to 24 hours for existing methods. The new test was used on 1,285 emergency room patients with chest pain over a nine month period. This led to a drop...... Normally, doctors measure blood pressure when the patient is sitting quietly in their office. But researchers at University of San Diego now show that there could be a better way. Hence it has to be treated and detected.// They measured the blood pressure of 40 adults aged between 55 and 75 while exercisin...Fingerprinting prostate cancer
...ew diagnostic tests. These could offer more to the patient than the current PSA (prostate specific antigen) test and can be used as a useful diagnostic tool....Excessive use of antibiotics for sore throat
...imes doctors give prescriptions more to please the patient than out of medical need....Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off
...it’s implications on both the physician as well as patient level. New compounds that rebuild bone mass and are associated with minimal side effects represent another area of opportunity. Currently, Selective Oestrogen Receptors Modulators (SERMs) such as Raloxifene and new generation bisphosphonates such as ......est thiamine for HBV after a very bright and aware patient observed that his aminotransferase levels rose and...liver.// Investigators conducted a trial in this patient and two others with HBV infection to investigate the relationship. All had either failed treatment w...Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial
...alveoli - are progressively destroyed, leaving the patient so short of breath that they cannot do everyday activities like climbing stairs or carrying their shopping. In the mid-1990s, studies seemed to suggest that lung reduction surgery was beneficial for people with emphysema. It appeared to leave them wi......s well as links to other relevant sites, including patient support groups. It's planned to include all the common serious diseases in DIPEx in due course, as well as gathering patients' experiences in other cultures and countries....Toxic effects common with AIDS treatments
...eadache were reported by 37 and 22 per cent of the patient population, respectively. The researchers identified specific associations between different compounds, including lipodystrophy and high creatine phosphokinase concentrations with stavudine, thrombocytopaenia with saquinavir, mood disorders with lami...Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed
... they may worry about lowering blood pressure in a patient whose health is poor.// Whatever the reason, it means that of 18.5 older Americans with high blood pressure, 15 million are not adequately diagnosed or treated. This is totally against the patient's interest according to new research from Wake Fore...Depression disturbs heart rate
...as heart problems following a heart attack, if the patient is to have the best possible chance of survival.......nia, said. The medical team said details about the patient would be released later. Surgeons have said previo...d strong circulatory support from the AbioCor, the patient is experiencing pulmonary distress requiring external oxygenation support. We are working to resolve......ger keep up with loss of T cells. As a result, the patient develops one of many different infections and illn... and psychologically. They have seen how rapidly a patient can deteriorate, even when he or she is faithful in taking medications. And they now know that the b...... that "the encounter between the physician and the patient with respiratory infection is an intricate dance i...otic prescribing must pay as much attention to the patient as to the physician." The manner in which the patient communicates his or her illness to the physi...Other ContentsbruisesbruisesbubonicbubonicbubonicreclusebrownbrownbrownbrownbrownbrownbronchospasmbruisebruisingbruisingOther TagsHiroDermDermDermDermDermGARDGARDGARDVolumetricRDLRDLOther Tagsroyal 2chains 2chains 3spent 2spent 3spent 4spent 5spent 6spent 7spent 8spent 9spent 10crash 2crash 3saving 2saving 3observed 2observed 3observed 4observed 5observed 6observed 7observed 8observed 9observed 10faulty 2destroy 2destroy 3destroy 4destroy 5destroy 6destroy 7destroy 8destroy 9
(Date:5/15/2008)...climate change has long been a concern for environ...y issue, the problem of excessive reactive nitroge...ing circle of environmental scientists who study h...negatively alters local and global ecosystems and ... by leading environmental scientists bring the pro...
(Date:5/15/2008)... researchers has developed a simple artificial cel...unction of two of the most basic cell components: ...s fluid that surrounds the structures in living ce...rugs that take advantage of properties of cell org... The team,s findings will be published later this ...
(Date:5/15/2008)...ound that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depen...ineers have created ultrathin films made of polyme...her surfaces to control microbe accumulation. , ...de a valuable layer of protection for the health c...spital-acquired infections, which take the lives o...
(Date:5/15/2008)...uantity of nitrogen compounds emitted into the atm...els and the use of nitrogen fertilizers enters the... dioxide from the atmosphere, concluded a team of ...ty Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Atm...experts from institutions around the world present...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Addressing the 'nitrogen cascade' 2Addressing the 'nitrogen cascade' 3Simple model cell is key to understanding cell complexity 2MIT crafts bacteria-resistant films 2MIT crafts bacteria-resistant films 3Atmosphere threatened by pollutants entering ocean, prof says 2Atmosphere threatened by pollutants entering ocean, prof says 3UT Southwestern researchers identify hundreds of genes controlling female fertility 486 1UT Southwestern researchers identify hundreds of genes controlling female fertility 486 2Video and Photo 3A Leading CEOs Launch Alliance With American Red Cross to Strengthen Nations Preparedness for Disasters 1726 1Video and Photo 3A Leading CEOs Launch Alliance With American Red Cross to Strengthen Nations Preparedness for Disasters 1726 2Video and Photo 3A Leading CEOs Launch Alliance With American Red Cross to Strengthen Nations Preparedness for Disasters 1726 3Video and Photo 3A Leading CEOs Launch Alliance With American Red Cross to Strengthen Nations Preparedness for Disasters 1726 4Stiefel Laboratories Appoints Two New Members to Board of Directors 731 1Stiefel Laboratories Appoints Two New Members to Board of Directors 731 2Stiefel Laboratories Appoints Two New Members to Board of Directors 731 3Greeks get space based help in wake of deadly fires 1725 1Greeks get space based help in wake of deadly fires 1725 2(Date:5/16/2008)...National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, May,18, WASHI...x years into the,AIDS epidemic, someone is newly i...unday, May 18, HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, AIDS Act... Institute of Allergy and Infectious,Disease (NIAI...s everyone,to help end the AIDS epidemic by partic...
(Date:5/16/2008)...untsworth plc (LSE: HNT), "the Group",a leading i...nications,group headquartered in London, released ...Group,s performance in the first quarter 2008 (the...follows below., 15 May 2008, ...erim Management Statement, Record net ...
(Date:5/16/2008)... More in 2007, WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USN...cancer deaths, the National Cancer Institute (NCI)...in lung cancer research in 2007,according to upda...) today., The two other federal agencies with sig...isease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the,Depart...
(Date:5/16/2008)...Comprehensive Income increased 42% to $9.7 million... - 2007 Gross Margin of 76%, - Product Sales Back... million from $2.4 million as of December 31, 200...stCall/ -- Huiheng,Medical, Inc. ("Huiheng" or the...sed leader in the development, sales and support o...
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