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CT scan hope for head and neck cancer patients

...hers claim. These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. Stanley L. Liauw, M.D., a resident in radiation oncology at the UF Shands Cancer Center says that they have managed to identify four specific criteria to evaluate the progression...

Strategies To Boost Living Donor Kidney Transplants

...When results for 1993 were compared with 2003, the annual number of living donor renal transplants increased from 25 to 86, and the annual number of deceased donor renal transplants decreased from 108 to 63. The total number of kidney tran...

Promotion Of Medical Research In India Is The Need Of The Hour: ICMR

...s. The board has recommended doubling the ICMR's annual budget to atleast Rs 5,000 crore in the forthcoming plan. Promotional avenues should be available to all scientists up to level G and H, and provisions made to directly recruit eminent senior scientists into category G and H should be allowed, accord...

Under-Recognition Of Mental Disorders As A Cause Of Deliberate Self-Harm

...nd that among young people aged 7 to 24 years, the annual rate of emergency visits with self-harm was 225.3 per 100 000. The study found that only 56% of those who went to emergency departments to be treated for deliberate self-harm were diagnosed with a mental disorder and admitted to the hospital. A diag...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Relapse Linked To Marital Status

...can Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology annual meeting that is in progress in Denver. Researchers at the Fox Chase Cancer Center analyzed the data of various men who returned for radiation therapy for metastatic prostate cancer. They looked for the outcomes keeping in mind the marital status of ...

Vegetables And Garlic Confer Protection From Skin Cancer

The annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research has leaned in a big way towards eating up cabbages and smearing skin with broccoli and garlic after several studies presented at the meeting extolled on the virtues of the same.// After being ...

Prostate Cancer Preventable By Vitamin D Analogs

...the American Association for Cancer Research's 4th annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in...ce: American Association for Cancer Research's 4th annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in Baltimore....

Fairer sex Has A Better Chance Of Surviving Lung Cancer

A new study presented at the 71st annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), CHEST 2005, says that women have a better chance of surviving lung cancer than men even without treatment.// The study also found that in untreated patients wome...

Influenza Vaccination for children with neurological or neuromuscular disease

...ommendations that such children should be given an annual vaccination In the study headed by Dr. Ron Kere...cular diseases to the list of conditions for which annual influenza vaccine is recommended in children," the authors state. They add, "Neurologists and pri...

An unlikely contender for speedy surgery recovery: Chewing gum

...nducted in American hospitals and presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco reveals that those who chew gum after elective colon resection surgery recover sooner than those who do not//. The study involves 102 patients undergoing elective colon resection surgery....

Women Get A Raw Deal In Treatment of Heart Disease

... at the at the American Medical Association's 24th annual Science Reporters Conference in Washington, D.C on Thursday....

Statins Reduce Deaths And Strokes After Carotid Surgery

...ective chart review during a briefing at the AMA's annual science reporters' conference. Carotid endarterectomy is the most frequently performed peripheral vascular surgery procedure, with about 160,000 to 180,000 operations in the U.S. annually. Although an endarterectomy can significantly reduce the r...

Indian Government Keen On JE Vaccine Supply And Patenting Of Indian Medicine Formulations

...and proposals are being made to convert it into an annual event. Indian Traditional Medicine has been regarded to be the best with regard to prevention and promotive medicine. As a part of the promotional campaign, a Golden Triangle Project with a fund of Rs 120 crore has been initiated involving ICMR, C...

Low turnover by Diabetics for free annual checkup

...ith the amount of diabetic patients signing up for annual check up. The statistics show that only 60% of diabetic patients // had signed up for free annual check up for diabetics, which is a state, funded program. The President is not happy with the outc...

Diagnosis of Alzheimer's years before clinical signs emerge

...o presented their results on 14 // November at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC, say the tests allowed them to single out people who went on to develop the condition. If those results are repeated using larger study groups, doctors could start using the tests straight away...

India's Hospitals Among The Best, Says Renuka Chowdhury

...hury, who // inaugurated the India pavilion of the annual global tourism event, said: "Not only is India known for its hospitality, but also our hospitals, which are among the best. The Indians know how to do the best". Chowdhury released the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indian Healthcare Fed...

Controversy: Malaria Vaccine - Future Possibility Or Just A Dream?

...nst malaria. He presented his speech at the fourth annual pan-African malaria conference, organized by the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria, (MIM), held in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde. GSK presented trials of the RTS S/AS02A vaccine carried out on 1,442 children between one and four years of age in ...

AIDS Picture In India Not As Rosy As It Seems To Be

...ght to spotlight following the release of the U.N. annual global report on AIDS in New Delhi on Monday. Health officials from UNAIDS have expressed disbelief in the fact that India has only 28,000 reported infections and have said that this is something impossible. Various districts across the country had...

Experts Building Bird Flu Warning System

...ds and the places of rest they choose during their annual travel, United Nations officials said on Sunday.// The information can warn countries and communities about the arrival of wild birds that could be infected, and the local authorities could issue advice to those in areas at risk. According to Brita...

Hospital Noise Raises The Risk Of Medical Error: Study

...he researchers who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held recently in Minneapolis, say that the majority of hospital noise problems, particularly involving the air handlings systems, are not that easy to fix. (IANS)...

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