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NOTE surgery – to combat obesit

...it a lower-risk, lower-cost proposition and may be applicable to patients who are less obese than those who are currently considered for surgery,” said Dr. Philip Schauer, head of bariatric surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, which is hosting a three-day meeting on obesity. All surgical procedures have undergone...

Old Wine in New Wine Skins!

...re being made to the same old bait to make it more applicable to the present day scenario. The present government has promised parents who live in rural areas annual payments when they attain sixty years if they are parents of a single child or in the case of multiple offspring the norm is to have only two gi...

Popular Antiaging Supplement Has No Beneficial Effects

...man primates. But studies involving rodents aren’t applicable to humans, as rodents have very low levels of DHEA, the authors say. The study also involved administering low-dose testosterone to elderly men who had low testosterone. The authors found testosterone offered minimal beneficial effects on bone dens...

3-D monitor vision test Developed for Children

...uracy of the test was found to be 95 percent. If applicable to preverbal children, the new test may permit study of the development of stereovision under natural conditions since no glasses are necessary to see the stimuli. The new test may be useful for the objective measurement of the sensory outcome follow...

NYC health agenda: Dishing out calorie content of items on the menu

...egulatory policies,” Whipple said. The rule may be applicable to only one in ten restaurants, which may come into effect in July next year if the votes turn in favorably. <BR...

Child Rearing May Make Men Smarter

...itself. She cautions that the work isn't directly applicable to humans, although other research has linked parenting with increased brain activity in humans. If nothing else, it could provide new dads with the ammo needed to extend their paternity leave. Source-IANS...

Systemic Pre-Surgical Treatment Can Prolong Survival Of Kidney Cancer Patients

...ngs indicate that this treatment approach might be applicable to a wide range of patients with renal cell carcinoma, and that we might be able to use systemic treatment, before surgery, to treat many more people with metastatic disease successfully. It could become a new paradigm of treatment for the disease, i...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...a new way to screen for disease that appears to be applicable to pancreatic cancer, and potentially, to other cancer types." The assay contains the largest panel of blood-based biomarkers to be examined simultaneously in pancreatic cancer. It consists of proteins known to be secreted by pancreatic tumors as w...

Exercise In Childhood Provides Lifelong Benefits

...e adage of 'use it or lose it' may not be entirely applicable to the skeleton,' said the study's principal investigator, Stuart J. Warden, assistant professor and director of research in physical therapy at the Indiana University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at IUPUI. Researchers exercised th...

Study Focus on the Need for Vigilance in Two Key Areas Among Adolescents

...deal body weight percentages, neither of which are applicable to prepubescent girls who may have already stunted their height by denying themselves needed calories. "They may not be less than 85 percent of their ideal body weight according to a standard growth chart," she said, "but it's very possible that, w...

Come July 2007, England to Enforce a Ban on Smoking in Enclosed Public Places

...fear a blow to their business. The ban will not be applicable to adult care homes, hospices, offshore installations and submarines. The British government is optimistic, that the ban will bring about a change in about 600,000 people, who might quit smoking altogether, after the ban is effective. SA...

Jamba Juice Co. Cautions Consumers On Smoothie Contamination

...rawberries//. The company said that the warning is applicable to all the strawberry smoothies that have been purchased from the stores in Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California within the period of November 25 – December 1 2006. The warning was announced after one of its suppliers, Cleugh’s Frozen ...

Limited Calorie Intake Holds the Key to Delay Ageing

...Researchers speculate that the same results may be applicable to monkeys as well. Caloric restriction was started in 13 young adult monkeys, between18-23 years, on a long term basis. Results elicited thus far prove a more compatible reaction from the immune system, with improved T-cell production, reflected b...

Ways to Fight Childhood Obesity

... This surgery is termed bariatric surgery would be applicable to people who are physically mature at least above puberty and their BMI has crossed 40. Very rare cases of having the BMI above fifty would be advised this surgery as the first option, as suggested by Professor John Wilding who holds an obesity cl...

Researchers Create Genetically-Matched Embryonic Stem Cells for Transplantation

...em cells are made from eggs, the technique is only applicable to females. (Methods exist for deriving embryonic stem cells using sperm from men, but these techniques are as technically challenging and inefficient as somatic cell nuclear transfer, Daley says.) There are also potential safety concerns. Embryoni...

The Cup That Cheers and Cures

...n cell cultures and results may not necessarily be applicable in humans, according to the authors, the results “suggest that consumers may benefit more by drinking both green and black teas.” SR...

Risk Of Soft Tissue Sarcomas In Hereditary Retinoblastoma Survivors

..., and she notes that some of these findings may be applicable only to patients who received treatments that are no longer used. "Improved treatment can be expected to reduce the incidence of soft tissue (and bone) sarcomas associated with radiation," Meadows writes. "The importance of this [new] report lies i...

Vitamin D Tablets to Cure Prostate Cancer

...t it may be that the Asentar will eventually prove applicable in the earlier stages of the disease. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Prostate cancer kills one man every hour in the UK. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Scientists Explore Possible New Way to Fight AIDS

...ure exists. "I don't think one solution will be applicable to all the patients. It's possible that IL-7 (interleukin 7) may benefit some patients and do nothing in other cases," Lusso said in an interview Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Doctors to Be Exempted from Written Tests for Recruitment

.... The exemption from written examinations would be applicable only for doctors appointed on contract. The government had earlier appointed nearly 2,000 allopathic doctors on a similar arrangement. Source-IANS...

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