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Brain death – How to cope with it

...ort- thereby accepting the fact that the person in question is actually dead. Families often find it difficult to accept that a relative who is still warm with no apparent injuries and breathing with the help of a ventilator can be brain dead, despite explanations from medical staff. However by witnessing t...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

... are above 19 years of age. But when the matter in question is such a sensitive and personal one, it is very difficult for anyone to be judgmental and hyper critical of the issue. On the other hand some are happy that something has started and if not a revolution, something positive might come out of all th...

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

...y cause dementia in people is something of an open question among Alzheimer’s researchers. However, the mouse models don’t seem to show the same neural destruction suffered by human patients. But it is certainly encouraging and one can hope that some kind of human application willfollow....

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...uss officially announced that the advertisement in question might not be used again. This followed complaints from many who felt that they did not enjoy the advertisement poking fun at organ donation. The ad shows an unconscious man falling from a carousel horse. A team of medics approaches him and finds he ...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...t 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 patient waiting, there is a long way to go before this magical technique becomes widely used....

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...than 15 million suffer non-fatal strokes. But the question 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 patien...

WORM! WORM! all the way

... vaccine they are engineered to make...there is no question helminths play an important if not essential role in the maintenance of human health....

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

... damage of serotonin neurons to emerge.And now the question is how long MDMA-induced brain damage persists and the long-term consequences of that damage,for the researchers to investigate in the days to come....

Aspirin and Warfarin Are Equally Effective for Stroke Prevention

A study aimed at settling a long-standing question among doctors has found that aspirin works just as well as Warfarin, in helping most patients avoid recurrent strokes. Many doctors suspected that Warfarin was more effective but that aspirin was safer. This study challenges both views, showing the t...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...xual discomfort and vaginal dryness. It calls into question whether it's worth having chemotherapy or tamoxifen in the case of a very small - less than one centimeter in diameter - tumour. For larger tumours, these treatments have a definite survival value that would be set off against any long-term side effe...

Drug Combo Works Better for children with ADHD, Tics

...idence proving this to be true. Hoping to lay this question to rest, researchers set out to study the most effective drug therapy for children with this combination of disorders. In the study, 136 children with both ADHD and a chronic tic disorder were divided into four groups. While one group received a pl...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

... become unbearable. "There's a tremendous ethical question for diagnosing (early) a disease for which this is no cure," James L. Olds, a professor of neuroscience at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and director of the Krasnow Institute, cautioned in an interview with UPI. He said since there is no ...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...rns. These findings -- which the Nature papers now question -- have challenged the traditional view that with the possible exception of those from the brain, adult stem cells are limited to the tissues from which they arise. Many opponents of the creation of stem cells through the removal of an inner cell mas...

No connection between breast cancer and pill

... peak age at which breast cancer develops - so the question acquires a new emergency. Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and elsewhere, reported on a new study showing that the Pill is safe. They studied nearly 8,000 women aged between 30 and 62. Half had been diagn...

Nurses save more lives

... by either LPNs or aides. That finding brings into question the cost-cutting practice at some hospitals of replacing RNs with less skilled nursing staff. ``There's a tremendous amount of judgment and understanding of the courses of illness that RNs bring to the bedside,'' said Jack Needleman, the Harvard hea...

Bacterial discovery may help CF patients

...it is a breakthrough," he Kjelleberg told UPI. "My question is, is it also relevant to other biofilms or only those pertaining to Pseudomonas. You see, there are many types of biofilm, and they are formed everywhere there's an aqueous environment. So the possibilities here are endless."...

Advanced STD programs required

There is always a question of how effective are programs intended to reduce t...transmitted infections, including HIV. That is the question researchers from Scotland set out to answer in a study reported //in this month's Archives of Intern...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...l control of chronic HIV disease. However, a major question which needs to be resolved is that of how long the vaccine-stimulated immune responses will keep the AIDS virus under control....

Gene defect linked to dilated cardiomyopathy(DCM)

... the study, said that the discovery has led to the question of whether heart failure can be prevented if calcium cycle can be restored in this type of defect. The scientists involved in the study believe that this study may help them understand more about heart failure and also in the development of new drugs...

Moderate Exercise may not help prevent Heart Disease

A question of whether daily moderate exercise could actually prevent Heart disease. A study found that only vigorous exercise like jogging, hiking, climbing stairs, racket sports and swimming does really help lower the risk of early death from heart disease. Re...

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