Use of Cellular Phones associated with Increased risk of Brain Tumors
...How does this affect the Indian physician? It just makes the differential diagnosis of headache just a little more intricate, especially when dealing with the successful, middle-aged businessperson with a headache....Human Genome Project Achieves Technological Triumph
...quences of DNA characters form the genes and this makes us what we are and determines our susceptibility to illnesses like cancer or diabetes. Mapping involves three separate steps: sequencing, assembling and annotating the genes. In the sequencing phase, researchers identified the approximate 3.5 billion...New hope on the Horizon for People Wishing to Quit Smoking
...while they overcome the addiction to nicotine that makes it so hard to quit."...Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched
...a competetion. The current tablet size are big and makes it uncomfortable to swallow. The pharmaceutical company SangStat expects to launch significantly smaller cyclosporine capsule in Europe. The new cyclosporine capsule is significantly smaller than any cyclosporine capsule currently on the market. ...Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!
...mmunity works says stress reduces our immunity and makes us more vulnerable to diseases. For long we have a...latest research in the United States on how stress makes a person more immuno compromised. In old people and in very young individuals the immune system is ...And now live birth on the internet.com?
...inement of one month for a mother after childbirth makes it difficult for them to visit their kids if they are hospitalized due to illness. This facility has come as a boon to these people and is turning out to be a big hit with Singaporeans. This is called view baby project and the web casting technol......uggests that a positive and happy mental framework makes a person healthy and prolongs life. These findings stem from a 15-year study of aging and Alzheimer's disease in nuns. "It's been known for years that pathological expressions of emotion like depression or hostility can lead to illness," said David ...New drug helps boost cancer treatment
...eceptor, a molecular structure that, when blocked, makes it more difficult for tumor cells to reproduce. To test the efficacy of the drug, the oncologists prescribed the new drug to a group of patients with cancer. All of the 120 patients given IMC-C225 were diagnosed with cancer that was progressing. Wh...GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia
...nd side effects regarding the tranplantation which makes it more difficult to perform. Gleevec has produced higher remission rates in comparison to the drug-interferon alfa, in three short-duration, early phase clinical trials.After many clinical trials - the FDA approved Gleevec. Richard Klausner, M.D.,...GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia
...nd side effects regarding the tranplantation which makes it more difficult to perform. Gleevec has produced higher remission rates in comparison to the drug-interferon alfa, in three short-duration, early phase clinical trials.After many clinical trials - the FDA approved Gleevec. Richard Klausner, M.D.,......ogist at the University of Aberdeen. The pressure makes the small veins rupture and leak, flooding the inner cavity of the eye with blood because of the blockage, blood cant flow into the eye, so the cells in the retina die due to lack of oxygen. Once the retinal cells begin to loose life, they release ...A new device has now been developed, which makes the process of providing artificial respiration to critically ill and comatose patients almost risk-free. The device, called Percutaneous Tracheostomy Kit would be used in the precutaneous procedure which involves giving artificial respiration ...Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer
...lucose and insulin abnormalities, and the pancreas makes insulin. But moderate physical activity - about 1.5 hours a week of walking, cycling, swimming, work outs in the gym or hiking - decreased the risk in obese people. Medications that normalises insulin, and keeping diabetes under control, could redu...Stress can make you overweight
...says that the slowing metabolism of people over 45 makes them more vulnerable to stress, which releases hormones that stimulate both appetite and the storage of fat. The approach of menopause puts women even more at risk due to waning sex hormones. Therefore people who near 40's should take care of the......scovery of many new antibiotics. Streptomyces also makes potential anti-cancer drugs, and immune-suppressants. Incidentally Streptomyces is also quite similar to the microbe that causes tuberculosis. So this research may reveal insights into the biology of this important disease, which still poses a majo...Doctors not to accept gifts from drug companies
...t large gifts from drug companies. The AMA says it makes sense to involve the industry in a campaign that's also designed to inform drug makers about what is considered unethical behavior. // At issue are the myriad freebies, ranging from pens and notepads to free dinners and trips, that some drug maker...Birth weight key factor in heart diseases
...se of poor nourishment in the womb which probably makes a foetus divert resources from muscle development to the brain. So, the lightweight baby will have a tendency to put on fat after birth and develop a body type prone to heart disease.Barker says this highlights the fact that it's not your weight bu...... a first exam cannot diagnose.// The radiologist makes the final decision, but each mammogram is read first by the radiologist and then by the computer. CAD helps by pointing out lesions that might have been overlooked in the initial exam. It's as if the radiologist had a second pair of highly-trained ey......nge to the product stability and performance. This makes scale-up a very critical component, which if not handled sensitively can undo all the R&D efforts. Russo, in 1984 discussed the factors influencing the scale up process of various dosage forms. Factors such as variability of raw material, equipmen......t is very simple - keep walking. While the disease makes walking painful, regular exercise does actually increase the ability to walk with ease. Positive effects are seen within three months. // Unfortunately, say physicians at Johns Hopkins University in the US, too few patients with PAD are diagnosed...