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Fewer Women Having Inpatient Breast Cancer Surgery

...ntire breast and some of the lymph nodes under the arm – accounted for 70 percent of breast cancer surgeries in the hospital. Lumpectomies, which remove the malignant tumor and some surrounding tissue, comprised 14 percent. * Between 1997 and 2004, inpatient mastectomy rates decreased by 32 percent , a...

Ingenious Biodegradable Heart Stent May Dictate Advancements in Heart Stent Technology

...nt for a temporary condition? If you have a broken arm you don't have a cast on it for ever." Before the stents are implanted in the affected artery, they are coated with an anti-clogging drug. The stents are intended to work for 30 days and then designed to completely disintegrate within two to three ...

Fighting cancer - Multiple Myeloma with long-term therapy

... was 87 percent. Patients in the pamidronate-alone arm had a 74 percent survival probability compared with those not receiving therapy at 77 percent. Thalidomide, however, is not for everyone. The drug was originally dosed at 400 mg per day, but after 15 months, the median dose was decreased by half beca...

Fresh Water, HIV Biggest of India's Six Challenges: Chidambaram

... Indian Industry (CII) and Global Risk Network, an arm of the World Economic Forum, are: * Loss of freshwater (quantity and quality) - Is India running out of freshwater services? * Oil peaks - How vulnerable is India to an oil price shock? What oil price level would risk derailing India's growth? ...

Microbicides, Need of the Hour, to Aid the Fight Against HIV

...roduct developed by Population Council, a research arm of the Rockefeller Foundation, called Carraguard may be available in India by end of 2007....

Tennis Elbow is Not Caused Due to Improperly Sized Tennis Racket Grip

...o five different muscles in each player's dominant arm to measure the firing pattern of their muscles (electromyogram, EMG). After a warm-up period, players then performed three single-handed backhand strokes using identical model rackets with three different grip sizes: the "recommended" grip size, a "s...

Delhi Hospital Reattaches Amputated Penis

...he preservation of the organ. While an amputated arm can be reattached if it reaches a hospital within four hours, an amputated hand and finger can be reattached within eight and 12 hours respectively. The SGRH has conducted such reattachment surgeries upon 250 patients in the last 10 years of which ...

A Collaboration to Find New Tools to Fight Leukemia

...tment --only one genetic defect (deletion of the p arm of chromosome 17) was found to prevent complete response or nodular partial response; the other risk factors did not diminish treatment effectiveness. Also, the researchers found that the regimen was equally effective in young and elderly (over age 7...

New Study Shows Efficacy of AROMASIN on Early Breast Cancer

...Aromasin. The majority of patients on the Aromasin arm (72%) continued with the trial. In addition to ...acebo – 28 patients with fractures in the Aromasin arm vs. 20 in the placebo arm (P=0.33), and no differences were experienced in a range of quality of lif...

Black Cohosh Does Not Treat Hot Flashes

...tudy began in 2001 and stopped the hormone therapy arm of the trial after the Women's Health Initiative found in 2002 that estrogen plus progestin increased risk for breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes and blood clots. "Whether or not the black cohosh findings are bad news for women depends on how yo...

Role Of Faith In Healing Process

...ensity of the heat stimulus was turned down on one arm without informing the volunteer. Subsequently the ...a reduction in the pain intensity in the "treated" arm only, another third in both arms and the remainder's intensity-ratings not being influenced by the a...

Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease

...out…It's not like analyzing movement of your right arm or color vision. We're talking about understanding how we read others' minds. The philosopher in me sees the opportunity to really learn something interesting about human nature, here." Still, he says, "It's the neurologist in me that brings me to ...

Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

... intricate structure. It is the fish version of an arm or leg. The question of how cold-blooded animals re-grow missing tails and other appendages has fascinated veterinary and medical scientists. They also wonder if people, and other warm-blooded animals that evolved from these simpler creatures, might...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

... interrogated. Some Polygraphs also record leg and arm movement. The subject sits on a chair and severa...nd abdominal region. A cuff is placed on the upper arm to detect blood pressure. Galvanometers or fingerplates are attached to the fingertips of the candid...

Humble Cold to Combat Cancer

... been carried out, use of virotherapy as the third arm of cancer treatment, along with radiation and chemotherapy is still several years of research away, says Seymour. The scientists plan to begin trials of the coated virus on human liver tumors this year. Being the preliminary stage, the study will ...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...ge was prevented. Yeda, the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute, now holds a patent for this method, and a new company based on this patent, called “Braintact Ltd.,” has been set up in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and is currently operating within the framework of Meytav Technologica...

New International Study to Test Exercise in Heart Failure Patients

...se training or “usual care.” Those in the exercise arm will receive 36 supervised exercise training sessions at a facility, using either bikes or walking. After the first 18 sessions, the patients will start home-based exercise, and will exercise exclusively at home after the second 18 sessions. They’ll ...

New Tool Improves Prediction of Stroke Risk

...use acute symptoms such as loss of vision, leg and arm weakness, slurring of speech and loss of consciousness. A TIA is sometimes called a mini-stroke because symptoms are the same as a stroke. The severe symptoms of TIA normally last up to a few hours, and all symptoms disappear within 24 hours. Because...

Muscle-Building Exercise Improves Response to Flu Shot

...ietly or performed eccentric exercise of the upper arm for about 25 minutes. Six hours later, all participants received an injection of flu vaccine, which was donated by GlaxoSmithKline, UK. Participants had their blood tested repeatedly over the next five months to measure the cellular immune response...

A Young Girl Loses Her Leg Due to Surgeon’s Carelessnes

..., he added. However, a doctor claimed the girl's arm and leg on the right side were affected by cerebral palsy. "We did what was essentially required," said S.L. Gupta, the surgeon who operated on the girl. Laxmipriya was operated in a free polio operative camp organised jointly by the Sarva Siksha...

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