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Robots craft medical history

...n. The system includes two holding instruments and another containing a laparoscope, or a tiny camera embedded in flexible tube.With Zeus, the surgeon controls the instrument handles and views the operative site on a monitor. With a computer interface, the surgical instruments replicate the surgeon's actions...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...ary artery bypass surgery uses a blood vessel from another part of the body to reroute blood around narrowed or clogged arteries in the heart. A buildup of substances such as fats or plaque causes this narrowing, known as atherosclerosis. In the new study, Scottish researchers compared hospital records for...

Science of swooning

... blood pressure. The tests were then repeated on another day after the subjects had drunk two to three beers. During the alcohol-free tests, vessels constricted normally and blood pressure did not significantly change, except with extreme negative pressure. After drinking alcohol, blood pressure dropped su...

Immune cells halt round in space

...ace flight might trigger immune-altering hormones, another possibility is that the weightlessness of space might be affecting the immune cells directly. To investigate this, NASA has developed a "rotating bioreactor" which allows researchers to investigate the possible effects of microgravity on individual i...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

...eeks, then crossed over to the other treatment for another two weeks. Blood flow increased in the arteries for those consuming the arginine bar as did exercise capacity. Quality of life also went up, although there was no obvious improvement on these patients' ECG scores. These findings propose it would be...

Undertaking the obesity epidemic

...ategy falls down, so it's interesting to note that another study by doctors shows that completely sedentary people who start to exercise have even more to gain, health wise, than those who are already physically active and choose to exercise more. A team of doctors had some very practical tips to help inc...

New Birth Control Pills increase the stroke risk

... gain. Hoping for the best, pill makers issued yet another formula in the 1980s that combined low estrogen levels with the less harsh progestogens desogestrel or gestodene. Third-generation birth control pills haven't been used in the US long enough to monitor women most at risk for stroke. However, Europe...

The brain wave

...t others. A 3-year old feels empathy and will pat another child in the shoulder or comfort his mom when she’...ncreased activity when the subjects were imitating another person. When the subjects were being imitated by the other person, however, the right inferior par...

Exercise lowers Risk of Ovarian Cancer

Research says that women have yet another good reason to exercise regularly. We know that re...h it is probably the easiest. So this study is yet another motivation for women to start exercising....

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

... patients survived their operations and half lived another 40 months or longer. "This is not just doing surgery for sake of keeping people alive," Rosengart said. "It's allowing them to have a meaningful existence." Among the 45 patients available for follow-up interviews, 71% reported major improvements in...

Pharmacia may take 51.5 percent Abbott stake

...d Abbott would retain its 58.2 per cent holding in another Indian subsidiary, knoll Pharma....

Screening device for ovarian cancer

...ng blood samples. They then used this knowledge on another group of women - of whom 50 had ovarian cancer (some of them at the very earliest stage that is hard to detect) and 60 did not. The proteomics technique could identify those women who did, and did not, have cancer with 100 per cent sensitivity and ...

Dietary advice for diabetes

...ated fats. Polyunsaturated fats should account for another ten per cent, and its advised that people keep saturated fats below 15 per cent. There's a new emphasis on a high fibre intake, too. Dr Garg's research has shown that people who eat 50 grams of fibre in their daily diet, from fruits and vegetables,...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

...nts -- such as dying of heart disease or suffering another heart attack is quite impressive," said Dr. Patric...eart attack or will need to have bypass surgery or another angioplasty within five years." In reporting the results of the LIPS trial at the annual meeting of...

Drug dilemma confronts users of painkillers

...ition to the more common osteoarthritis. Vioxx and another popular competitor, Celebrex, work differently than older, cheaper painkillers known to cause stomach ulcers. Merck had fought for over a year to be allowed to say Vioxx is gentler to the stomach. Finally, the FDA agreed that an 8,000-patient study...

Pill may replace exercise

...e, or CaMK. When this protein is activated, it and another protein, calcineurin, trigger the physical changes that muscle cells undergo after intense exercise....

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...ells into one, and not from one cell changing into another type. Scientists said that such hybrids have doubl...w." "This discovery of fusion in a dish is simply another issue in our evolving understanding of stem cell behavior that needs to be considered, examined and ...

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...se against osteoporosis, it will probably be given another name....

How brain works

... demonstrated that UNC-13 is necessary for helping another protein named syntaxin to send signals to the adjacent neurons.In a series of experiments, Jorgensen showed that without UNC-13, the syntaxin protein remins closed and cannot help the nerve cells to release neurotransmitters.Thus, the UNC-13 protein ...

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

Many scientists have drawn another blank in their search for a universally applicable genetic explanation for schizophrenia, binding the case for new approaches to researching the illness. A paper by Douglas F. Levison and colleagues report that despite earlier findings to the contrar...

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