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Using Stem Cells To Treat Incontinence In Women

...patient's arm, culture them for six weeks, thereby yielding 50 million new muscle cells, and then injecting them into the patient's urethra wall. Researchers tested 20 women with stress incontinence. One year after the procedure, 18 of the 20 patients remained continent. According to researchers not only do ...

Watch Out! Pollution hazard from E-waste recycling in India & China

...etals, in the surrounding areas of recycling yards yielding reason for concern in India and China. // What is all the more alarming is that toxic chemicals are released during each stage of the recycling process into the workplace and in many cases into the surrounding environment. Concentrations of lead in...

With New Drug To Fight Against Sleeping, Your Increment Is Not Far Away

...ted regarding the safety and efficacy of the drug, yielding similar results. It is proposed to extend the study further into more specific disease conditions like Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s as targets. The decision has been taken after considering the fact that the drug activated areas also correspond to ...

Coaching In Labor Could Increase Bladder Problems

... labor period was shortened from 59 to 46 minutes, yielding a 13-minute reduction. A follow up study was conducted to investigate the long-term effects of coaching, with respect to the pelvic floor. Surprisingly, women who were coached during labor were found to have a reduced bladder capacity and a decreas...

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

...id deterioration in the health status of the aged, yielding a totally different representation of the actual scenario. In most instances, even when caring neighbors and welfare professionals are readily available nothing much has been achieved. “How can we criticise families that are struggling to care for...

Novel Technique Can Enhance Stem Cell Multiplication By 30 Fold

...can aid in the multiplication of adult stem cells, yielding a 30 fold enhanced harvest has been discovered.// This finding could eventually pave way for the development of refinement in bone transplantation and gene therapy techniques. The use of adult stem cells is encouraged to a great extent as it is ass...

Novel Technology For Early Detection of Gastrointestinal Cancer

...This light is however scattered to a large extent, yielding very little useful clinical information. The use of the narrow bandwidth surpasses the above-mentioned drawback to allow for enhanced visualization of even subtle details. Dr. Randhir Sud, Senior Consultant, Department of Gastroenterology, Sir Gang...

A Unique Technique To Visualize How The heart functions Developed

... voltage-sensitive dyes, which would be capable of yielding images of a cell as its voltage changes. They explained that the PGH dyes emit fluorescent light according to changes in voltage across cell membranes that are produced by activity of sodium and potassium channels, which open and close as the cell's...

PowderMed Announces Needle-Less Flu Vaccine

...ctured very rapidly and in large quantities, while yielding an efficacious immune response at low doses," said Dr. Clive Dix, chief executive officer of PowderMed. The vaccine duplicates the gene of the influenza virus or the currently prevailing bird flu virus and encloses it into small gold particles, whic...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

...y that funding dollars should be spent on projects yielding more immediate benefits for detection and treatment. 'These are good debates to have,' says Kenneth Kinzler, Ph.D., professor of oncology and co-director of the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins, but 'we are convinced that this kind of study will prov...

Novel Vaccine Shows Promise against Early Stage Breast Cancer

...t cancer and evaluates a potential vaccine that is yielding promising results for women who are at high-risk for the disease. Targeted immunoediting of critical pathways responsible for breast cancer development: treatment of early breast cancer using HER-2/neu pulsed dendritic cells. Multiple genetic tar...

Free HIV Treatment to Be Launched for Children

...t-course treatment strategy (DOTS), which has been yielding considerable good results. In the last six years, around 6.3 million people have been cured of tuberculosis, the minister stated. Source-IANS...

Generic Drug Utilization On The Rise

... that beneficiary choice and broad formularies are yielding even greater savings as the program has progressed. According to CMS Acting Administrator Leslie V. Norwalk, "Generics are as effective as more expensive brand-name drugs in treating chronic conditions and other health-care problems. That is why a...

Could Estriol Be Used as a Therapy for Treating MS?

... 10 non-pregnant women with MS were given estriol, yielding what she described as “pretty remarkable” results — an 80 percent drop in inflammatory lesions in the brain, a hallmark of the disease. This month, Voskuhl begins a much larger trial of estriol, one that will involve 150 patients at multiple locat...

A Sweet Step Toward New Cancer Therapies

...rriers, the researchers were able to do just that, yielding valuable structural information. In a project that continues to build on this line of work, Hakansson is collaborating with U-M Health System cancer surgeon Diane Simeone to investigate sugars attached to proteins in the membranes of pancreatic can...

Scientists Find Rice Gene for Grain Size and Yield

...ield, which could help scientists develop// higher yielding varieties of the world's most important food crop. Little is known about the genetic mechanisms that determine yield and seed weight in plants, despite tremendous efforts by agricultural scientists in the past decade. In a study published this w...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...nes in 2007 due to drought and frost -- the lowest yielding vintage for more than a decade. The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation has forecast the drought, coupled with rising export demand, will bring the national wine supply back into balance by 2008-2009, two years earlier than originally expected. ...

Replacing a Genome Boosts Race to Develop Designer Bugs: Study

...ely to speed research in this emerging discipline, yielding new developments in months, instead of years as was previously the case....

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