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Alternative to the Conventional Seizure Treatment

...for surgery. TNS, however, holds several potential advantages over VNS, DeGiorgio said. Unlike VNS, the TNS stimulator can be tested externally to gauge results before implanting the device. Patients treated in the clinical trial wore the stimulator on their belt. Wires from the stimulator were passed under clo...

Gap Exists between Medical School Teaching and Physician’s Practic

...e characteristics that may be perceived by some as advantages while others consider them disadvantages. For instance, Dr. Jennings says, the fact that natural family planning requires a woman to pay close attention to her body on a daily basis is attractive to many women, while others find it unacceptable. The ...

New Low-Risk Eye Surgery Option at AIIMS

...patability develops in the patient. Among the many advantages of this technique is a lower risk of side effects, he said. The new surgical procedure is being demonstrated at the ongoing national meet of opthalmologists at the AIIMS. Source:PTI News...

New Laparoscopic Surgery to Correct Vaginal Vault Prolapse Is Effectual Than the Conventional Surgery

... can hardly walk."The new laparoscopic surgery has advantages over the traditional repair, open sacrocolpopexy, according to Dr. Elliott. These include: ? Less overall recovery time? An overnight hospital stay only, rather than two to four days? Potentially lower risk of post-surgery bleeding ? Markedly less pa...

Bausch & Lomb Launches New Vision Correction Technology

... Lasik technology to Zyoptix Aspheric to bring the advantages as soon as possible," Kheong said. Source:PTI News...

Include folic acid in bread to reduce neural tube defects in new borns

...ral defects begin to hamper the baby's growth. The advantages of consuming Folic acid, a B-group vitamin, at least eight weeks before and 12 weeks after conception, is capable of bringing down the risk of NTDs by almost 70%. It is estimated that nearly 93 babies are affected in Ireland with NTDs every year, th...

Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria

...g the month after the second SP dose. One of the advantages of the treatment is that it proposes a simple oral administration, does not require a new infrastructure, and is cost-efficient compared to other options. Each SP administration has an approximated cost of 2 US dollar, including the cost of the drug,...

Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

...ures produce some degree of pain, McKenna says the advantages of VATS are clear. This is a major operation. But the difference is you can feel bad, or you can feel really, really bad and have a big incision and take a lot of pain pills for a long time and have a much slower recovery. Although Wolfe was eager ...

'Awake cardiac surgery' performed at Madurai hospital

...ed cervical epidural anaesthesia. One of the main advantages of the procedure is the absence of an irritating tube in the throat (used for anaesthesia) for the patient. According to Kumar, another advantage is that the blood pressure variation during the surgery is reduced to minimum and patient is spared the...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

... withstand surgery to correct it. “One of the real advantages to endovascular treatment of aneurysms and AVMs is...nd the U.S. and Canada is trying to determine what advantages and disadvantages the two different treatments might have for patients who are candidates for either...

Cheaper Vaccines From Tomatoes To Fight HIV, Hepatitis B

..., which pose an infection risk. These would be big advantages in poor countries.'...

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in Bollywood

... World title in Poland in September. "I think the advantages for me in this country is I have adopted some western values and being a Muslim I have eastern values too," the Sydney university student said, adding "as long as I believe in the right things and treat others well... it shouldn't matter what religio...

Internet Dating Spares None

... are older than 50," says Biller.He emphasises the advantages of online portals like his own: Internet dating provides more potential partners to choose from, even while keeping the inhibition threshold for initiating a conversation low, since all members have similar chances.Elke also learned to value the bene...

Beer to Ward off Osteoporosis

... Recent years of research has attributed several advantages of moderate consumption of beer including a 30-40% lower rate of coronary heart disease compared to those who don’t drink. Beer has been known to contain a similar amount of polyphenols, widely acclaimed for its antioxidant property, as red wine and...

Female Condom – Confidom Launched in Indi

...al Rings, Indictable and now the ‘Confidom’. The advantages of Female condom over the male condom are several- 1. Women can control the situation herself 2. Can be inserted much before intercourse and removed when convenient after the intercourse. 3. Can be safely used for both Vaginal and rectal intercour...

Nitiol Stents A Better Alternative for the Conventional Stents

... who are at risk of having a limb amputated. The advantages of these stents are that they can bend, twist and even regain their shape after being crushed. Martin Schillinger and his co-researchers at the Medical University of Vienna found that patients with the nitinol stents could walk further on a treadmill...

PET-CT Scores High On Precision for Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer Recurrence

...of recurrent ovarian cancer. “When you combine the advantages of the excellent anatomical depiction that CT gives us and the amount of functional information that PET give us, doctors are better able to monitor cancer patients and manage their treatment accordingly,” said Dr. Sunit Sebastian. The full results...

Loneliness to Lead to Hypertension

...ge. The research has only underscored the health advantages of friends and family. However according to Louise Hawkley lonely people often found it difficult to strengthen existing relationships as well as make new ones. She also brought into attention the fact that loneliness was sometimes unrelated to the n...

Older child’s dominance in intelligence over; younger siblings not far behind

...that's only because larger families don't have the advantages of smaller families," he said. "When examined within families, there is no evidence of any significant association between birth order and intelligence. It's not your birth order that is important - family environment and genetic influences are the r...

Technology Can Help Fight Health Care Costs

...g to the FSU study, even though there are definite advantages with the IT for health care facilities, adoption of technology in health care has lagged behind as compared with other major industries. Dr. John Halamka, chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network, and chairman of the He...

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