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Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...ansplant in which a part of all donors’ liver were removed and transplanted to a recipient’s body. After the surgery, the donors regenerated 80% of their liver in a month’s time and 90% of their liver in a year’stime....

Hemopurifier may revolutionise AIDS treatment

...m drinking water. In the Hemopurifier case, Tullis removed HIV from several 10-milliliter samples of contaminated blood plasma. The inventor of the filter, Dr. Julian Ambrus, said this blood filtration could be used along with other treatment modalities like AZT and antiviral cocktails....

Thakur warns doctors

...ur, today warned doctors that their names could be removed from the register of the Medical Council of India (MCI) if they were found guilty of indulging in female foeticide. The warning comes in the wake of the recent nation-wide Census, which has come out with a disturbing picture of male-female gender ra...

Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!

...here is also no good way to tell whether they have removed enough. No drugs have yet been proved to prevent oral cancer, but many are being tested. Several other studies published within the past year have found other genetic markers for oral cancer. For instance, there's also a risk of cancer if cells from...

New dimension in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

...attained their menopause or whose ovaries had been removed surgically for some reason. Dehydroepiandosterone(DHEA), may serve as an effective treatment in such sexual dysfunction, according to a study released at the 96th annual meeting of the American Urological Association in Anaheim, California. This rep...

Vitamin Shields Brittle Bones

...t is shown that female rats that had their ovaries removed and treated with vitamin E had much higher bone densities after eight weeks than the rats that received no treatment. Vitamin E is an antioxidant, meaning it soaks up so-called free radicals or substances that can damage tissue, including bone. The d...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...t all five cases had small gastric cancers in the removed stomach, which were detected after very thorough pathological examination," said co-author Dr. Carlos Caldas of the University of Cambridge in the UK. Hence it is rather curative than preventive. "Nevertheless, what we are learning about gastric c...

Eye Saver

...es were the same regardless of whether the eye was removed or the patient had instead undergone radiation the...ive years after treatment, 12% had the treated eye removed due to complications of the radiation treatment or tumour growth....

Silicon eye implants

...incisions the gel in the middle part of the eye is removed and is replaced with saline solution.Then the surgeons make a pinpoint opening in the retina to inject fluid in order to lift up the retina the place the microchip,which is just 2 millimeters in diameter and 1/1000 of an inch in thickness in position...

Wrinkle cure

...bell peppers. There are also foods that should be removed from one's diet in order to prevent aging. Sugar damages skin by causing collagen to cross-link, making skin stiff and inflexible. Other foods that should be avoided include red meat, potatoes, corn, peas and pastas....

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer recurrence

...nding the rectum, which may contain tumor cell, is removed along with the rectum itself.// In order to investigate researchers randomly assigned more than 1,800 patients to have either total mesorectal excision alone, or the surgery along with radiation given beforehand. According to Dr. Ellen Kapit and c...

Quit coffee and help your heart

...concentration of total cholesterol are only partly removed by a coffee filter," the researchers report.Dr.Right, speculates that coffee consumption may interfere with the body's ability to keep homocysteine levels in check, possibly by inhibiting the action of the vitamins folate or B6....

Relief from common back pain

...h as a diskectomy in which the protruding disk is removed has been the only option for patients who do not respond to conservative therapies and whose pain affects their everyday lives.Nucleoplasty claims to have a number of benefits over invasive surgery because this is quick and painless. ...

Babies Need Vaccination

...eservative called thimerosal, which has since been removed from most vaccines, said Dr. Louis Cooper, AAP president. While there's been no known increase in infants infected with hepatitis B, vaccinating them before they leave the hospital ``just makes good sense,'' Cooper said.Newborns can contract the vir...

Leukemia pill shows promise against stomach cancer

...cers. If caught early, these tumors can usually be removed surgically, but growths often return. According to its manufacturer, Novartis Oncology, Gleevec also is being studied as a possible treatment for prostate cancer, small-cell lung cancer and a rare type of brain cancer....

New hope for eye cancer

...es were the same regardless of whether the eye was removed or the patient had instead undergone radiation the...ive years after treatment, 12% had the treated eye removed due to complications of the radiation treatment or tumour growth....

Artificial silicon retina

...incisions the gel in the middle part of the eye is removed and is replaced with saline solution.Then the surgeons make a pinpoint opening in the retina to inject fluid in order to lift up the retina the place the microchip,which is just 2 millimeters in diameter and 1/1000 of an inch in thickness in position...

Cell transplants used to fend off Parkinson's symptoms

...cells, which are grown by the millions after being removed from human donor retinas. These particular cells produce dopamine, normally manufactured by neurons in the brain. Levels of dopamine steadily decrease as Parkinson's progresses. This is the first human intracerebral retinal cell implantation study in...

Radiation reduces cancer recurrence

...nding the rectum, which may contain tumor cell, is removed along with the rectum itself. In order to investigate researchers randomly assigned more than 1,800 patients to have either total mesorectal excision alone, or the surgery along with radiation given beforehand. According to Dr. Ellen Kapit and col...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

...nding the rectum, which may contain tumor cell, is removed along with the rectum itself. In order to investigate researchers randomly assigned more than 1,800 patients to have either total mesorectal excision alone, or the surgery along with radiation given beforehand. According to Dr. Ellen Kapit and col...

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