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Tag: "capacity" at medical news

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

... raise the number of beds to 8000 from the present capacity are already underway and will be completed by 2002. Reddy said Apollo Hospitals had also firmed up plans to enter health insurance and had initiated talks with some insurance companies to function as a third party administrator. He also added that t...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...m cells which are present in the body and have the capacity to transform into full organs. He adds that since one's own body is the factory, there is no question of biological rejection as these new organs are produced by one's own body itself. Though Dr. Matapurkar has won the patent after four years of pa...

Drink grape juice for health

...research at the USDA showed that total antioxidant capacity of purple grape juice was more than three times that of either orange, grapefruit, tomato or apple juice. In 2000, other research comparing purple grape juice to orange and grapefruit juice found that only the grape juice inhibited platelet activity ...

Aspirin reduces deaths

... was seen in older people, those who had a reduced capacity for exercise, and those with a history of coronary heart disease. The study shows that aspirin can be recommended for routine use in heart patients to improve their life expectancy - as along as there are no medical reasons why they shouldn't tak...

For healthy lungs

...ed data taken in the 1980s. It found that the lung capacity or "forced expiratory volume" (FEV) of people with a high intake of two particular vitamins - C and E - was better than average.Eating bread was also associated with improved lung health.// Scientists believe this effect is due to antioxidant prope...

Risk Of Developing Arthritis

...d exercise must be tailored to people’s individual capacity and age. Don’t overdo it now because you might regret it later,” Logan says. The charity has launched a campaign to raise ￡ 250,000 to fund its sports injuries-related work. The charity is currently financing work into a new type of cartilage trans...

Cut your puff's

...earchers say that every cigarette has the inherent capacity for the development of a heart attack.This is because each cigarette appears to have a startling - and almost immediate impact on the cardiovascular system.// In a study of heart attack patients, the researchers found that those who smoked a cigaret...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

... with arginine and vitamins increased the exercise capacity and quality of life of those with angina. Arginine is an amino acid// that can produce the gas nitric oxide which, in turn, may improve the functioning of blood vessels. So you might think that arginine might help people with heart problems, especial...

Inadequate Drug Treatment For Youth

...ompanies must address funding, insurance coverage, capacity and the stigma associated with seeking help for drug addictions....

Heart patients should play Golf

...art patients were working at 100 per cent of their capacity - and needed to ease off their exertions a little, maybe by using a motorised cart. The message is to work out the right level of exercise for you with your health care provider....

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...in are very plastic, which means they have a great capacity to learn to compensate for the damage....

Melanoma caused by low DNA repair capacity

...hat those with fair skin// have lowered DNA repair capacity and are more likely to develop skin cancer. They analysed the DNA repair capacity of this group of people affected by melanoma and found that they had an average 19 per cent reduced ...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...hey will work with WHO/TDR, and use their existing capacity and global resources to address the needs of peopl...like WHO/TDR, will seek to strengthen existing R&D capacity in developing countries affected by the diseases. Prof N.K. Ganguly, Director-General ICMR, an act...

Midlife Brain Activity a Predictor Of Alzheimer’s Diseas

...anded the lifespan well beyond the brain’s natural capacity and the process of adult brain development and becoming ‘wiser’ has this downside that evolution could not anticipate. Researchers say the new brain model suggests the best time to address myelin depletion is when it begins -- middle age. They say ...

Radiation Exposure Found To Affect Intellect Later In Life

...months of age. Participants had their intellectual capacity tested at age 18 years or 19 years. Researchers also studied school attendance records for the young men. Results of the study show boys who received increasing doses of radiation in the front and back parts of their brains were more likely to miss ...

Regeneration of muscle

Skeletal muscle has a remarkable capacity to regenerate following exercise or injury and harbors two different types of adult stem cells to accomplish the job: satellite cells and adult stem cells // that can be isolated as side population (SP) cells. A certain group of these stem cells is i...

Overweight Kids At Risk Of Being Iron Deficient

...regnant women, and problems with work and exercise capacity among adults. Overweight children and adolescents also appear to have an increased iron deficiency according to a new study. Results of the study show children at risk for being overweight or who are overweight are twice as likely to be iron-deficie...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...chael tells Ivanhoe. He only has half of his lung capacity right now, but as time passes, it will decrease even more. He says, "The hardest part was telling my kids that I might not be around." Michael is determined to stay around, so he enrolled in a study at Tulane University Health Sciences Center with P...

Pollution Found To Impair Lung Development

...wed children living in polluted cities had a lower capacity to exhale than children living in cleaner cities. Thus researchers say potential long-term effects of reduced lung function are alarming....

Dogs Can Sense Bladder Cancer

...lone. Results of the study showed that the dogs' capacity to recognize an odor characteristic of bladder cancer was independent of other chemical aspects of the urine, such as the presence of blood. Thus researchers say, their study provides the first piece of experimental evidence to show that dogs can det...

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