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Canada Funds State-of-art Infectious Disease Lab in Kenya

...or the Kenyans working at the lab, there are other advantages for up-and-coming researchers who will use the facilities. "This is one facility that will help in a small way, but it is a bold and a big step forward," said Dr. David Mburu, manager of the lab of the International Livestock Research Institute in ...

HIV Home-based Care Produces Positive Outcomes in Uganda

...l for the delivery of HIV care. It is thought that advantages would include the opportunity to provide support t...re facilities. However, set against these possible advantages are concerns that home-based care could lead to the identification in the community of HIV-positive ...

A New Technology for Safe Tumor Surgery

...d damage a nerve. ‘Our experience demonstrates the advantages of predictive imaging at the outset,’ says Dr. Spinner. ‘With an integrated team of surgeons from three specialties, and an experienced radiologist specializing in advanced peripheral nerve imaging using the 3-Tesla MRI, we have devised an approach t...

Loop Incision Treatment Enhances Premature Delivery Risk

...omen should be provided with information about the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of treatment and the importance of modifiable risk factors for subsequent successful pregnancy outcome.’ It is imperative that women are informed about the impending risks of cervix treatment using the LEEP meth...

Celebrating Christmas With Wine – The Elixir of the God

...t according to Renaud. Our ancestors knew of the advantages of wine when consumed in moderation. In fact alcohol is probably the oldest form of drug. The Apostle Paul suggested to Timothy to drink wine to help his continuous sickness and help his stomach. Benjamin Franklin, a well-known statesman, scientis...

Antibiotic Ear Drops Favored Over Oral Antibiotics for Ear Infections

...ent treatment. Previous research has shown other advantages to topical antibiotics for middle-ear infections as well: ? They tend to be more tolerable for children, so parents are more likely to comply with the whole regimen. ? They tend to cause fewer gastrointestinal problems, such as diarrhea, gastroent...

Sea Urchin Genome Similar To Man And May Cure Diseases

...underlying development offers several experimental advantages compared to the use of mice. Raising sea urchin embryos is easy and inexpensive. One female can provide up to 20 millions eggs. The embryos develop in just three days and are transparent. Also, single cells can be easily observed live in the embryos....

Older Medication May Be More Cost-Effective for Some Schizophrenia Patients

...n older agents, and many experts argued that these advantages justified the difference in cost. Robert Rosenheck, M.D., of Yale University, and colleagues analyzed costs and quality-of-life factors associated with each of the five medications used in Phase 1 of the CATIE trial—olanzapine, quietapine, risperid...

Studies Examine Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

... colorectal cancer, they continue. “Apart from the advantages of colonoscopy … the effectiveness of an FOBT-based screening program in clinical settings (as opposed to clinical trials) is unclear. The predominant use of FOBT for colorectal cancer screening in the VA, while strikingly different from other health...

E-Consultations Given Go-Ahead

...ctors are increasingly acknowledging the potential advantages that technology will add to medical encounters in ...d the Position Statement recognises the particular advantages of telecommunications in consultations for people who live great distances from their nearest doctor...

Skin-patch vaccines may replace injectable ones in future…

... the skin. This type of vaccine may have several advantages like, it will not required to refrigerate them, as it is needle-less, there won’t be a risk of reuse or contamination through needles. However, it is only in the initial stages. It will take a long time for it to prove its efficacy.There are studie...

Children’s Verbal Skills Are Sharpened by Positive Parenting Behavior

...Pediatrics. The study has found that some of the advantages in the brain attributed to nutrients present in breast milk, was beneficial in the improvement of verbal skills only when breast feeding was supported with positive strokes from mother to child. "The beneficial effects of breastfeeding on children'...

Low Folate Diet increases Colorectal Cancer risk

...associated with the development of tumours." The advantages of folate rich diet are known for years. Fortification of food like breads, cereals, flours, corn meals, pastas and rice with folic acid is mandatory in both US and Canada. GYT...

Innovative treatment for Skin Cancer

...ug that kills the cancerous cells. PDT has several advantages over surgery. There is no scarring of the skin, pain is less as a lower level of light is used and there is no need for hospitalization. Photobiologist Professor Ferguson, of Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, said: "This new device will have a major im...

Scans Aid in Early Lung Cancer Detection

...ves us greater confidence that screening may offer advantages in saving lives from lung cancer," said Dr Robert Smith, director of screening at the American Cancer Society, which, in addition to other groups funded the study. Lung cancer has been found to be the world's top cancer killer. Around one million p...

Virtual Colonoscopy in Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Screening

...cellent screening tests," Dr. Pickhardt said. "The advantages of virtual colonoscopy over optical colonoscopy at our institution are that it is safer, faster, less costly, more convenient, involves an easier bowel prep, and yet is just as effective for detecting important polyps and cancers." In April 2004, l...

Researchers Developing Office-Based Cancer Screening Test

...empleton says that the NCI understood other unique advantages at UVa. This includes easy coordination of data between the clinical labs and a database of clinical outcomes, called the clinical data repository (CDR). 'Our program is highly integrated. We are able to collect, process, and analyze sample data in a...

Cipla launches 3-in-1 AIDS drug in India

... need for 3 separate medicines. This drug has some advantages like, it is less burdensome and it can be taken along with tuberculosis medicine, which could not be done previously. This combination drug, that was previously available only in the U.S. and European countries, was first launched in India by Cipla...

Study IDs Protein That Inhibits HIV From Growing In Cell Cultures

...tentially these novel therapies would have certain advantages over current drugs, as the newer therapies would target the cell in which HIV can replicate and not the virus directly. Therefore, HIV should have more difficulty developing resistance to the effects of this protein," Xiang added. Xiang previously ...

Anti-smoking efforts bring down cancer death rates

...erent study in the journal Circulation reveals the advantages of efforts to control smoking. Pueblo, Colo., put into practice a smoke-free law in July 2003. This has brought down the heart attack rates by 27% from 257 per 100,00 people per year to 187 per 100,000. The study was conducted on 855 patients during...

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