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1-visit Screening, Prevention for Cervical Cancer Holds Promise

... detect early signs of cervical cancer. Those with abnormalities on the Pap smear are called back for follow-up tre...sfied with the procedure. Of the 427 women who had abnormalities removed, most experienced some pain, but only 5.6 percent of women came back to be seen for a proble...

Heart Failure Medication Provides Some Symptom Relief

... tolvaptan treatment, at least in patients in whom abnormalities in fluid and electrolyte balance and/or renal function are difficult to manage by other means." Source-Eurekalert...

Postnatal Health and Sexual Problems Persist Even After a Year

...y began and all had a live baby with no congenital abnormalities at the time of the survey. "Our research has raised a number of issues" says Amanda Williams. "For example, it has highlighted concerns about the long-term health effects resulting from forceps deliveries and the variations in ill health between w...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

...des sold grounds for further study on the physical abnormalities present in dyscalculics’ brains. It’s an important step to the ultimate goal of early diagnosis through analysis of neural tissue, which in turn will lead to earlier treatments and more effective remedial teaching.” Using neuronavigated transcrania...

New Screening Techniques for Cervical Cancer in Chennai Government Hospital

...opy is a diagnostic tool to determine the cause of abnormalities found in Pap smears. Pap smear is collection of cells from the cervix for examination under a microscope. It is named after George Papanicolaou an American anatomist. It is used to detect changes that may be cancer or may lead to cancer. It can s...

Autism a Complicated Genetic Problem

...rent genes. It turns out many different genetic abnormalities could finally result in autism and this certainly complicates the search for the specific genes contributing to autism, says. Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute for Mental Health. Autism is marked by a variety of difficulties in s...

Brain’s "Default Mode" Awry in Schizophreni

...rk. 'In addition, the extent of the default mode abnormalities correlated with the severity of auditory hallucinations, delusional thoughts, and attention deficits that are hallmarks of schizophrenia,' Pearlson said. Although the exact role of the default network is unknown, it is thought to involve response t...

Researchers Study Safety of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

...re have been very few studies of potential genetic abnormalities resulting from these methods. The results of our study in mice indicate that these methods do not lead to any increased risk of mutations,” said John McCarrey, UTSA professor of biology. McCarrey and his graduate student, Patricia Murphey, along wi...

Single Slice MRI- Handy Tool to Identify Children at Risk

...g children to adult diseases. "Because metabolic abnormalities appear to be more closely associated with intra-abdominal fat tissue, it is critical to be able to reliably and accurately assess this fat tissue in order to identify children at risk," said the study's lead researcher Marilyn J. Siegel, M.D., profes...

Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects

... identified over 120 children born with congenital abnormalities that can be attributed to exposure of their parents to MIC from the award money they got in 2004. The Trust organizations like the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh (BGPMSKS), Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha (BGP...

Irregular Heartbeat Linked to Genetic Mutation

...from myocardial or coronary artery disease, or any abnormalities of the heart as best doctors and medical science could determine. Yet, she complained of heart palpitations and dizziness nearly to the point of fainting. For the patient in this case study, her symptoms first appeared 10 years ago and they persis...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

...f New York (SUNY), is the first to have found that abnormalities in eye movements and attention can be used to divide people into two groups in relation to schizophrenia-related risk. “Schizophrenia affects one in every 100 people,” said Lenzenweger, who considers it the costliest form of mental illness known to...

Once-daily Nevirapine Has More Side-effects Than Twice-daily Dose

...f side-effects. More patients experienced liver abnormalities in the once-daily group compared with twice-daily nevirapine (14% versus 8%; p=0.036). Also more patients in the once-daily group temporarily or permanently discontinued therapy because of rash (12% versus 7%). Other smaller clinical trials were c...

Still Births: Three Times Higher Risk for Older Moms–to–e

...er excluding maternal complications and congenital abnormalities in the fetus. It was observed that women who give birth between the ages of 40 to 44 were at three times the risk of stillbirth than women aged 25 to 29. This was based on the data from the US Centers for Disease Control, which registered the d...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

...o see if there is a link between smoking and lipid abnormalities and cardiovascular disease in patients taking antiretrovirals. “The public health message on smoking remains clear - tobacco is not good for health”, conclude the investigators. However, they acknowledge that stopping smoking may not be a priority ...

Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation

...enes along the cohesin pathway also cause specific abnormalities during human development. “In these cohesin complex proteins, the strongest effect seems to be in brain development,” said Dr. Krantz. Drs. Krantz and Jackson together maintain the world’s largest database of patients with CdLS. The current study ...

Hope for Noninvasive Prenatal Test

... examined the samples of fetal DNA for chromosomal abnormalities by analysing an array of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced "snips")--tiny variations in the DNA sequence of individuals. The researchers established the ratio of SNPs on different chromosomes, which enabled them to determine whethe...

Researchers Analyzes Risk Between Hodgkin Disease and Heart Attack Mortality

...cer survivors should be monitored for late cardiac abnormalities throughout their lives. The goal of keeping these patients alive has been achieved; the next challenge is to continue to reduce the toxicity of curative treatments and to make long-term survival as disease free has possible, breaking as few hearts as...

Condition That Causes Irregular Periods Can Lead to Fertility Problems

...ive age, making it one of the more common hormonal abnormalities women experience during their reproductive years. Women often notice that something is wrong when they have irregular bleeding – either infrequent and very light or more frequent and heavy – and often excess hair growth, says Dan Lebovic, M.D., M.A.,...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

...ound was indispensable for ascertaining congenital abnormalities and the health of the baby and the mother. They added that the petition deliberately emphasised only one aspect of ultrasonography - determination of foetal sex. The above argument is contrary to facts and opinion of experts. The economic aspect o...

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