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Mother’s Milk may have no influence on child’s Q

...ical Journal online. "While breastfeeding has many advantages for the child and mother, enhancement of the child's intelligence is unlikely to be among them." However, the study revealed a direct association between the mother’s IQ and the chances of her to breastfeed. Mr Der said: "The fact that there are bi...

Better Ice Creams And Artificial Snow, Courtesy Bacteria

...ht to be tolerant to cold and could therefore have advantages for making snow in artificial environments such as ski centres, and in waste-water purification. "Selecting for rare microbes that seem to stick to ice has been fun, but now the real work begins to find out what genes are responsible for this attra...

Allen Brain Atlas – a 3-D gene map of brai

...ll aid doctors and scientists in investigating the advantages and possible side effects of drug treatments. The current study at the Allen Institute for Brain Science is on particular areas of human brain. GT...

Dying for Data

...ously wherever you seek treatment. The potential advantages are enormous: having a cradle-to-grave view of a patient will allow doctors to focus on preventive care, rather than on just treating diseases. For employers, insurance companies, and the government, electronic medical records promise to help reduce ...

Prenatal Multivitamins to prevent risk of Brain Tumors In Kids

...eam in 1993. Hence, they conclude that the obvious advantages could not have occurred by chance. However, the study revealed that taking multivitamins later in pregnancy did not much reduce the child's risk of medulloblastoma and PNET. "Our findings suggest that the time close to conception may be a critical ...

Test Helps Identify Patients with Breast Cancer

...mor cells, then, may have both growth and survival advantages if p66 Shc levels are low.” Chemotherapy-mediated killing of tumor cells, however, does not require p66 Shc, Frackelton said, suggesting that patients whose tumor cells have low p66 Shc might respond well to chemotherapy. To test this idea, the re...

Transplant Cures Rats’ Type 2 Diabetes without Need for Immune Suppression Drug

...k just like a normal pancreas,” says Rogers. The advantages of transplanting insulin-producing cells has also led to decades of research into transplantation of human pancreas and islets, the cells that produce insulin. Unfortunately, donor organs are so scarce that transplantation is an option for only a ten...

Rae unveils Health-care Strategy

...e efficient and cost-effective.” “There are real advantages to creating a national plan,” Rae said. “There are significant savings in terms of how you manage the formulary, how you calculate the deductibles and linking the work that goes on across the country into one plan.” Establishment of transparency a...

First Implantable artificial heart gets FDA’s approva

... transplantation from human donors, which has many advantages over the artificial heart," said Dr. Byron K. Lee, an assistant professor of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco. "Nevertheless, this will give those patients who do not qualify for traditional heart transplants an opportunity f...

Alternative therapy – an alternative to HRT

...ific risk factors, a clinician should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of alternative therapies compared to those of traditional HRT.” "Interactions with commonly used medications such as warfarin and anti-depressants can cause potentially fatal results." A spokesman for Prince Charles' Foundation fo...

Celebrex- pros and cons

...with the help of their doctors should consider the advantages of these drugs against any likely risk. But for pa...high dose, is approved for the treatment. But the advantages of Celebrex is overshadowed by the risk of heart problems in these people, because they are at a ver...

RMIF Boost a Boon for Rural Health

... are an attractive alternative. “They offer many advantages to doctors seeking short to medium-term work in rural areas, and can also encourage more doctors to practise in the bush for the long haul. “The increase in the funding cap from $200,000 to $400,000 is a welcome move that properly recognises the si...

Diabetics to get Relief from Cheaper Drugs

...xt three years. These drugs have several medical advantages over current subsidized treatments. Daily injections are needed by all type-one diabetics and some type-two diabetics to control their blood sugar levels. Presently about 210,000 Australians with type one and type two diabetes will qualify for t...

Teens and Pregnancy

...edge that they lack preparedness believe there are advantages in attaining motherhood early in life. Researcher...mation and included open-ended questions about the advantages and disadvantages of being pregnant as a teen-ager compared to waiting until they were older. Wh...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

...are counterbalanced to a substantial degree by the advantages of producing vitamin D from solar UVB irradiance. Insufficient UVB irradiance and vitamin D costs society about 10 times what excess solar UVB does, and excess UVB irradiance is not required for optimal vitamin D production.” Cedric Garland said “vit...

Minimally Invasive Procedure Restores Sagging Facial Skin without Heavy Lifting

...e is a technique that can provide many of the same advantages of a facelift without the downtime and risks. Speaking today at ACADEMY ’06, the American Academy of Dermatology’s (Academy) summer scientific meeting, dermatologist Victor A. Neel, M.D., F.A.A.D., director of dermatological surgery, at Massachusett...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

...immune system. Breastfeeding comes with economic advantages as well. Certainly cost-effective as compared to formula milk, it assists in preventing medical bills by equipping the child with the potential to fight infection later in life. Further, when a mother breast feeds, Prolactin, which is the milk produc...

Orchid to Buy out Bexel Pharma, US

...sued at the company and Bexel, while retaining the advantages of having a discovery front-end in the US and a discovery-cum -developmental back-end at the company in Chennai." As part of the agreement, Orchid Pharma would grant 6.50 lakh stock options to Bexel's founders and key employees for subscription at a ...

UCLA Researchers Transform Stem cells From Fat tissues Into Smooth Muscle

...out future applications.” Rodriguez notes the many advantages of using a patient's own fat stem cells for organ re-growth and tissue regeneration, including no need for anti-rejection medications. In patients with a diseased or absent organ, who cannot use their own organ tissue for regeneration, adipose stem c...

AIIMS Acquires Four-Armed Robot to Assist in Surgeries

... two-day conference from Monday. Speaking of the advantages of new machine, Ashok K. Hemal, professor urology, said the robot increases the comfort level of the doctors and "further minimises the chance of technical and human error". "It can perform with better accuracy cancer surgeries and of blockages in ...

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