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Use of Cellular Phones associated with Increased risk of Brain Tumors

A recent article published by a team in Sweden suggests that there is an increased risk of brain cancer in the areas of highest exposure in patients using digital telephones (Case Control Study on Radiology work, Medical X-Ray Investigations, and Cellular Telephones as Risk Factors for ...

Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

...tient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that patients who are operated in this way may not have to go to the intensive care unit at all and this surgery may be undertaken as a day case surgery once it is perfected. Speaking about the other profound...

Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver

...ne, who led the study, said in a statement. So his team decided to look and see if other cells might get drafted in to help with this process. Writing in the journal Hepatology, they said they examined the livers of two women who had received bone marrow transplants from men. Bone marrow is rich in stem c...

Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs

...hed in the science journal Nature, Clapham and his team showed that even though the transgenic mice ate 15-54 percent more food than normal mice, their fat-tissue mass was 44-57 percent less.The mice experienced no side effects from the increased UCP3. They had 70 percent lower cholesterol levels than nor...

Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

A Johns Hopkins University research team has discovered a new family of genes that contributes to the process of malignancy, shedding new light on the abnormalities that give rise to the aggressive childhood cancer, Burkitt's lymphoma - as well as lymphoma, leukemia, prostate, ovarian, lung...

Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic

...s to be more effective than placebo. A multicenter team studied 50 patients with perennial allergic rhinitis. The subjects were randomized to receive either 30cc of a homeopathic preparation of principal inhalent allergen or placebo. In the third and fourth week after the start of treatment, the group com...

Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos

... many serious diseases including cancer. The same team had earlier cornered world wide fame and glory (and a lot of criticism!) for creating Dolly – the world’s first cloned mammal: Using the same nuclear transfer technology it is possible, according to these scientists to create human therapeutic protei...

General Anesthesia Safe For Children On Ketogenic Diet Suffering From Epilepsy

...blished on the issue, Dr. Ignacio Valencia 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 lev...

Patients With Filariasis More Prone To HIV Infection

...l agents. According to Dr. Ramya Gopinath and her team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, ‘Studies suggest that immune activation resulting from the high prevalence of helminth infection in the developing world may contribute to rapid spread and progressio...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

... and Pakistan! A recent report by a Dutch research team under Dr. Diederick E. Grobbee has revealed that there is an increased mortality due to stoke and MI [Myocardial Infarction] after a major game. As compared to the number of death 5 days before and after the event, the number of deaths among men on ...

Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

...so they say tobacco retards the immune system. The team advises that cancer incidence will come down not only through lesser exposure to sun light but also by avoiding smoking....

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

... the University of Nebraska in Omaha. His research team is working on developing other types of pancreatic cancer vaccines. For many the detection of pancreatic cancer means a sure death sentence. But with this innovative tool available at least there is a glimmer of hope remaining for these hapless peo...

Contraceptives via Internet

...tes located with commonly used search engines. The team found that male and female condoms, vaginal sponges and diaphragms were widely available. From Web sites based outside the US, the researchers were able to purchase oral contraceptives and levonorgestrel IUDs without a prescription. Many of the ora...

Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition

.... Rosé boom of the university of Amsterdam and her team have studied the occurrence of coronary heart diseases in children and correlated the findings to maternal malnutrition in the three trimesters of pregnancy. They opined that maternal malnutrition during the first three months of pregnancy (the first...

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...n unconscious man falling from a carousel horse. A team of medics approaches him and finds he has a jeans donor card. They take his pants, put them in a cooler like ones often used to transport human organs and take the package by helicopter to a man found cowering in his bedroom. The man dons the pants a...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain.

... investigator Dr. William H. Frey II said that his team used a nasal spray to deliver insulin-like growth factor-1, a natural substance that has been shown to protect rat brains from stroke, to tissue deep inside rat brains. In an interview, Frey said this finding is significant because researchers think...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...s of precancerous or cancerous changes. Sukumar's team examined samples of ductal fluid from women with breast cancer and women without the disease to detect signs of a process called methylation. The presence of markers for this process suggests that a woman has breast cancer or precancerous breast cel...

Be happy: live long

...s and the donation of their brains to the research team upon death. The study has produced evidence that stroke or head trauma can increase a person's chances of suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life. It also has shown that folic acid may help fight the ravaging affects of the dise...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

...uman body metabolises DDT to DDE. An international team of researchers took blood samples from 24 men aged 16 to 28 who had not been exposed to DDT in their work. In these men the high DDE levels correlated to low levels of testosterone, low semen volume and low sperm count. However some health experts ...

Fight arthritic pain with acupuncture

...gical cures for those suffering from arthritis. A team led by Dr. Jeanette Ezzo, Washington, DC, and colleagues conducted a study and research on the beneficial effects of acupuncture. Acupuncture was first practiced in China more than 2,000 years ago. According to traditional theory, the human body has...

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