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New Laser Techniques cure degeneration of the eye

...se blood vessels to grow underneath the retina and leak fluid, causing scarring and loss of vision. Eye specialists have come up with a new therapy called the Photodynamic Therapy, which has a lower risk rate of damaging the retinal tissue. This is a two-step process, a combination of a drug and brief e...

A new drug for cancer

...econd line of attack, causing the blood vessels to leak and break down. Due to restriction of its blood supply, the tumour will start to wither and die.// Magnetic resonance imaging studies reveal that DMXAA reduces the blood flow to a tumour. The new drug will probably be used in combination with other...

Health at heights

...ude and lower atmospheric pressure causes fluid to leak from the capillaries. From take off to touch down the crew spend all their time in a cramped cabin This can cause fluid build-up in both the lungs and the brain. In the lungs this can result in high altitude pulmonary oedema, where the fluid preve...

Clotting Protein plays a role in nerve repair

...ury, it seems that a protein called fibrinogen can leak from the blood into the damaged nerve. Once in the nerve, fibrinogen is converted into fibrin. While this is going on, myelin-repairing cells called Schwann cells begin proliferating. But the presence of fibrin keeps Schwann cells from beginning thei...

Lack of Smell And Its Potential Risks

...ions including not being able to smell a fire, gas leak or spoiled food. For the study, 445 patients were evaluated for smell and taste disorders and underwent olfactory testing. Researchers found the average age of the participants was 50 years old, approximately half were men, and 18 percent were tob...

Nanocells cancer combination therapy acts as chemotherapy as well as anti-angiogenic drug

...s simultaneously as the chemotherapeutic drugs may leak out before the blood vessels inside the tumour are cut," he elucidated. "If both drugs are released simultaneously, it becomes a simple combination therapy and though such a combination did show some efficacy (in our study), the nanocell was far su...

Urinary Stress Incontinence Not Related To Childbirth

... resources. Stress incontinence is the involuntary leak of urine associated with activities such as coughing, sneezing, laughing etc. It most commonly occurs in middle-aged women with positive history of repeated pregnancies and vaginal deliveries. It has been long regarded that vaginal delivery increas...

Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: The 21st anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy was on Saturday 30 doctors of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center resigned. The doctors wanted a pay hike. The hospital gets around // 1,000 victims visit for treatment daily. Run by a trust, the BMHRC was set up as a super sp...

First Frontal CSF Endoscopic surgery performed in Chennai

... for Frontal Sinus cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) // leak to a 25 years old patient in Venkateswara Hospital... blocked by cartilage replacement. The frontal CSF leak Endoscopic surgery is done for the first time in India and has shown successful recovery and treatme...

One million people to donate their DNA and personal information

... sharing of personal information which may lead to leak of these information causing social stigma, recruits may give vague or wrong data which could lead to wrong diagnosis of disease or a doctor would have misinterpreted a diagnosis leading to a different wrong result from the project database to overco...

Junior Doctors Put An End To Strike

...alleged involvement in a medical examination paper leak scam, which was busted by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Reports reaching here from Agra, Allahabad, Meerut, Jhansi, Gorakhpur and Kanpur medical colleges said that most of the junior doctors had resumed work. The UP Junior Doctors Associati...

Bladder Surgery Patients Warned About Risk Of Bladder Cancer

...tinence, a condition in which there is involuntary leak of urine, from the urinary bladder. The Monash Medical centre and the Royal Children’s Hospital, in Australia have conducted the rare bladder surgery on more than 90 patients, since 1980. The surgical procedure enlarges the size and storage capacit...

Prime Suspect Apprehended in AIIMS Question Paper Leak

The prime suspect behind the alleged leak of question papers of the MD/MS and PG Diploma courses entrance examination held by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), // has been identified as a post-graduate student, P. Sathish Kumar, of the Madurai Medical College. Satish Ku...

Two-In One Approach To Prevent Incontinence After Prolapse Surgery

...ss incontinence is a condition in which there is a leak of urine associated with activities such as coughing, laughing, sneezing etc. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that addition of bladder-supporting procedure to the conventional surgery decreases the incidence of s...

State Govt To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Bhopal Gas Victims

...fected by ground water contamination caused by the leak of over 40 tonnes of hazardous gas from the Union ...are still battling the after-effects of the deadly leak - from illnesses ranging from deep psychiatric disorders to stunted growth, various studies have pro...

Tiniest Nanoscale Test Tubes Corked; Holds Promise In Cancer Treatment

...ever, the capping might not work as the tube could leak before it reaches its target, warned Sang Bok Lee, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Maryland. Edite IANS...

Erosive esophagitis healing connected to acid control

...d stomach stops closing properly, allowing acid to leak back into the esophagus. About one in three people with frequent, persistent heartburn also experience erosive esophagitis, in which over time stomach acid begins to wear away, or erode, the inner lining of the esophagus. Since the frequency or sever...

Goat’s Milk One of the First Transgenic Food That Benefits Human

...ial cell wall, causing the contents of the cell to leak out. Because lysozyme limits the growth of bacteria that cause intestinal infections and diarrhea, and encourages the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, lysozyme is considered to be one of the main components of human milk that contribute to t...

The fate of an accused in a murder case to be decided

...y Sjodin vanished, he added. "His stories sprung leak after leak after leak," Wrigley said. George Sensabaugh Jr. was the only witness called by Rodriguez’s lawyer...

Warning on Avastin Updated

...hich markets Avastin said that the brain-capillary leak syndrome has been reported or confirmed in less than 0.1% of the estimated 60,000 cancer patients treated with Avastin. The Adverse Reactions and Dosage and Administration sections of the Avastin label have been updated to include the warning about...

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