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General Anesthesia Safe For Children On Ketogenic Diet Suffering From Epilepsy

... and his team at the Children’s Hospital in Boston spearheaded this research. The results they say are encouraging. While serum glucose levels remained stable in all patients throughout the procedure, most of the patients had a decrease in serum PH and bicarb levels. No increase in seizure frequency was observ...

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

...cerous or not.Scientists at the University of Oslo spearheaded this research. If identified early and treated, leukoplakia, as the patches are known, can be cured and the occurrence of cancer prevented. The number of chromosomes in the cells that make up the patches is the key to finding if the patches can beco...

Weight loss supplements harm the body

...e on glucose and potassium homeostasis. The study spearheaded by Dr. Christine A. Haller and colleagues from the above university took the experimental group of 16 healthy adults. Two tests were performed with this set of people. Supplements taken were Xenadrine RFA and the other a combination of two supplement...

Fight oral cancer with gene therapy mouthwash

.... Dr. Ezra Cohen of the University of Chicago, who spearheaded the research, reported the results of testing gene therapy mouthwash on 10 patients at a meeting in of American Society of Clinical Oncology in San Francisco. The treatment consists of adenovirus, a kind of cold virus, that lack a working copy ...

Indian Doctor in World's 65 'caring' doctors

...tional Health Foundation, a charity trust. He also spearheaded a movement against female feticide in India....

Early Intervention Required For The Hearing Impaired

...normal child," said Sunil Kathuria, the doctor who spearheaded the operation. "Congenital hearing loss is very common among Indian children. The estimated incidence varies from one to four per 1,000 births," Kathuria, head of the ENT Department at Batra Hospital here said. Experts say children with congenital ...

Unfit teenagers and adults have a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases.

...hool of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago spearheaded the study. The samples were examined for prevalence of low fitness in the U.S. population of adolescents and adults younger than 50 years and determined the relation between low fitness and CVD risk factors in this population. The study populat...

Several helping of fruits and vegetables help the pressure off the pump- the heart!

...ody weight affected the fall of BP. The study was spearheaded by Dr. Paul Elliott who recommended that high blood pressure and related ills like kidney malfunction and heart disease could be prevented by consuming diets rich in plant-based foods. The study was conducted based on close monitoring of the subjec...

India set to become the global knowledge hub

...ts to become a superpower in knowledge economy are spearheaded at the highest level by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who is a noted scientist himself, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an Oxford and Cambridge-educated economist. "It is often said that the 21st Century will be the knowledge century. We in Indi...

Poor Health of Homeless in New York

...s. A city epidemiologist, Dr. Bonnie Kerker, who spearheaded the study for the health department has expressed the importance of this multi dimensional study that looks at several health conditions, necessitating relevant focus on deficient areas. The plans for the homeless would primarily cater to treatment p...

Brain tonic in the form of green tea!

...versity Graduate School of Medicine and colleagues spearheaded the study. They extensively surveyed 1,003 men and women ages 70 or older for their dietary practice in the previous month, their overall physical health and lifestyle. Subjects’ cognitive functions such as language use, attention and memory using a ...

Ultimate Destination of anti-depressant, Prozac

...t on May 23). It was led by Grigori Enikolopov and spearheaded by postdoctoral fellow Juan Manuel Encinas.To address the controversy surrounding the use of Prozac in children and in pregnant women, Enikolopov’s group is currently testing the effects of the drug on brain neurogenesis in juvenile and pregnant mice...

Doctors Urge Government To Roll Back Quotas

... indefinite strike to protest the government move, spearheaded by Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, to reserve 27 percent seats in higher education institutions for other backward classes (OBCs). At AIIMS, resident doctors are using hundreds of posters and hand-shaped balloons to convey their me...

WHO Chief's Sudden Death - A Major Loss To Global Health

...global fight to prevent the avian flu pandemic and spearheaded battles against public health threats such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, Annan said, condoling Dr Lee's death. "Not only was he a valuable leader to the WHO, but a cherished colleague and a personal friend," Annan said.Source: PTI...

Association Asks People To Tell Their Senator To Vote against The "National Food Uniformity Act"

...arket chains and food manufacturers, who are being spearheaded by the powerful Grocery Manufacturers of America, are pushing for the bill. They explained that the big food corporations and the biotech industry are beginning to see that the consumers are understanding and are becoming more and more concerned abou...

Research on AIDS vaccine a wealth of information

...ge the efficacy of these vaccines.' The work was spearheaded by Letvin and his colleagues at the VRC, which is dedicated to improving global human health through the rigorous pursuit of effective vaccines for human diseases such as AIDS. Since it was first identified 25 years ago, the human immunodeficiency vi...

Vitamins may not protect against cancer say researchers

...J. Michael McGinnis, chairman of the vitamin study spearheaded by the National Institutes of Health reports says “More than half of Americans are taking dietary supplements - mostly multivitamins - but scientists aren't certain about their benefit. For something used so widely, at such expense, among Americans, ...

New Tool to Diagnose and Treat Breast Cancer

...breast MRI is small, but growing. A recent study spearheaded by Dr. Kathy Schilling, medical director of Imaging and Intervention at the Center for Breast Care at the Women’s Center at Boca Raton Community Hospital, was published in The American Journal of Radiology and entitled “Assessment of Suspected Breast...

HIV discrimination in workplace should be eliminated

...workplace is HIV positive. A February 2006 survey spearheaded by the JEF has found that 62 per cent of the approximate 23,000 employees in the companies were not protected by HIV-related workplace policies. The grim scenario is best reflected with the finding that 13% of the organizations surveyed were upfront ...

Mizoram Women Under the Grip of Tobacco

...oducts. A study by the Aizwal civil hospital and spearheaded by Eric Zomawia, a senior pathologist and principal investigator, also showed that the risk of stomach cancer among women was significantly prominent in the past three years due to extensive use of tobacco in various forms. Mizo women also top the ...

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