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New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

...genes paired with the gene therapy and establish a picture of the treatment at work....

Thakur warns doctors

...-wide Census, which has come out with a disturbing picture of male-female gender ratio, particularly in relation to children under the age of six. While there was slight improvement in the sex ratio for the past decade, the ratio had considerably declined for the age group of zero to six. The over-all sex ...

Risk of Cancer can be reduced to 40% with a High Fiber Diet

...and avoid cancer. These studies give us a truthful picture of the relationship between cancer and diet....

Women recognise faces better

... facematching tasks to complete. They were shown a picture of a face and then shown 10 similar faces under di...different facial expression and varying degrees of picture quality.// At this stage, it’s difficult to explain the results. The guess is that’s a combination ...

Combined scan gives exact cancer diagnosis

...od. It is notoriously difficult to get an accurate picture of ovarian and cervical tumours,// because the tis... it takes up glucose. Combined with the anatomical picture given by CT, doctors get a better view of a tumour. In this study, a group of 10 women with ovarian ...

Testing for blood sugar levels made easier

... internal structures within tissues to send back a picture and information about the tissue, in this case, including blood sugar levels. A pilot study of OCT was done on 15 healthy volunteers when images of the left forearm were taken every 10 to 20 seconds for over three hours. Doctors took 420 blood gluco...

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

...obby, as newspapers and TV programmes paint a rosy picture of beautiful gardens. Though gardening has been proven to have it's own health benefits, researchers now suggest that enthusiastic// new gardeners who start with little or no idea of how to lift properly and do not have adequate preparation, land up ...

More risks connected with live-donor liver transplants

... the findings will give potential donors a clearer picture of the risks....

Alzheimer’s Continues to Ris

...this study say it is important to have an accurate picture of what lies ahead. They write, "Estimates of its occurrence and projections of future occurrence are essential for public health plannin."...

Optimum Timing for HIV/AIDS Prognosis

...nd cell counts //at that time give a more accurate picture of a person’s prognosis than when they are originally diagnosed with HIV. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is a common treatment for HIV patients. HAART has improved the prognosis of HIV patients, however there is not a lot of informatio...

Low Birth Weight infants could have Problems in the Future

... followed to school age to provide a more complete picture of their overall outcome. They feel this information is necessary for parents and health care providers....

Anger Could Be Linked To Weight Gain

...se but those that look at the broader sociological picture need to be done ....

No “ Lower Limit “ To The Age At Which Children Can Learn New Wors

.... The parents used 12 board books and a set of 48 picture cards that depicted common objects such as keys, apples, fish and chairs in simple games with their children. The games were performed four times a week for up to 10 minutes a session. The goal of the games was to build on routines parents already us...

Appendectomy need reduced with CT screening

... a treatment. CT scans however provide an accurate picture about the health condition and help the medics to distinguish between symptoms of appendicitis and other conditions that mimic the symptoms of the same....

AIDS - The ‘silent but lethal tsunami’ of Asia

... general population. When looking at the larger picture it is clear that the failure to fight the AIDS virus will definitely affect the Asian economy on a large scale. The UN has warned that by 2010, 12 million people are likely to be infected with HIV in Asia alone and it is estimated that a loss of $29 ...

Eating disorder occurs due to increased weight consciousness

...ndex’ along ‘Waist to Hip Ratio’ to get a complete picture of your weight status. Use the calculator link below to find your BMI. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/doctors/ Clinical_cal/bmi.asp...

Premature Babies More Likely If Women Have Higher Protein Albumin In Urine

...ple dip-stick test even at home or to get a better picture a a 24-hour period urine can be collected and analysed. In the study a comparitive study was done of albumin levels in the urine of 111 women who gave birth to babies after less than 37 weeks' gestation, and 293 women who carried their babies to ter...

Brain scans show why we always have room for dessert

...the brain light up again. Eventually, the abstract picture associated with vanilla evoked the responses, but again they weakened after the volunteers ate.Gottfried said specific brain circuits are involved in this process. The researchers found heavy involvement of the amygdala -- the area of the brain best ...

Slowing Down The Progression Of Tumour Cells With Omega-6 Fatty Acids

...umour stage and grade in order to obtain a clearer picture of specific effects of different fats on tumour progression....

Attention! Spells of momentary blindness following visual disturbance

...ge. An irrelevant, emotionally negative or neutral picture preceded the target by two to eight items. The closer the negative pictures were to the target image, the more frequently the subject failed to spot the target. This suggests that emotionally arousing images impact attention in similar ways whether ...

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