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Diagnosing Prostate Cancer is Harder in Obese Individuals

..." said lead investigator Dr. Stephen Freedland, an assistant professor in Duke's department of surgery-urology. He added that doctors should be aware of this when returning a negative diagnosis of prostate cancer. Dr Freedland and his team examined the medical records of 1,400 men who had undergone prostatecto...

US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science

...-Stanford-IBM Center for Probing the Nanoscale and assistant professor of physics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Goldhaber-Gordon was chosen "for his fundamental studies of electron correlations in mesoscopic structures." NAS Award in Molecular Biology, an annual award carrying a medal and a prize of...

Junior Doctors Put An End To Strike

...ith immediate effect. Meanwhile, K.K. Singh, an assistant professor in KGMU, believed to be the mastermind behind last week's violence and arson, was arrested bringing a sobering effect on the agitating junior doctors. At least 10 unattended patients were reported to have died during the course of the prese...

Genetic Therapy Could Solve Parkinson’s Puzzl

...dge of the disease," said Mohan K. Sapru, research assistant professor of pediatrics and a co-inventor of the gene-based technology. "It may also be useful for other diseases of the brain, such as dementia with Lewy bodies, a disease also characterized by Lewy bodies in the brain." Jonathan W. Yates; Shea H...

Gene Therapy To Cure Parkinson's Disease

...dge of the disease,' said Mohan K. Sapru, research assistant professor of pediatrics, who is first author on the study and co-inventor of the gene therapy technology. 'It may also be useful for other diseases of the brain, such as dementia with Lewy bodies, a disease also characterized by Lewy bodies in the...

Vaccine to protect birds against avian flu, engineered

... the Journal of Virology. Andrea Gambotto, M.D., assistant professor in the departments of surgery and molecular genetics and biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and lead author of the study said that the vaccine stimulates several lines of immunity against H5N1. Dr. Gambotto and h...

Free HIV Tests Brings Crowd to the Testing Centers

...sitive. The researcher John Crump, M.D., a Duke assistant professor of medicine who works full-time at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania said that people are flocking towards the testing centers as they want to know if they are infected. The reason for these huge crowds to visit the testi...

Free HIV Tests far more cost effective than small fee

... said senior study author John Crump, M.D., a Duke assistant professor of medicine who works full-time at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania. "One reason is because there is much greater access now to antiretroviral therapy." As stated by Thielman , "Cost is probably the biggest barrier, bu...

Dogs Were Domesticated Recently Only

...00 and 14,000 years ago. Christyann Darwent, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California at Davis, agrees with Morey’s time window for domestication theory. The bond between man and dog could have existed before, but manipulating their breeding and domestication came about later. ...

Quality Platelets and Improved Blood Availability No Longer a Pipe Dream

...owes its birth to Elisabeth Maurer, a UBC clinical assistant professor of pathology and a Canadian Blood Services scientist, who have ingeniously designed the instrument. Keddie Brown, a fourth-year UBC engineering physics student, has fabricated the prototype. The DLS-PM machine has been patented by the Canad...

Bird Flu Threat Prompts Tightened Security Across Hong Kong Border

..., or they will face prosecution,' said Chow Kwong, assistant commissioner of Hong Kong's boundary and ports authority. A chicken brought inside Hong Kong from China has been detected to harbor the avian influenza virus, much to the concern of health officials. The potentially lethal virus has claimed the liv...

Placing a Finger on Responses to Placebo Types

...ects of different types of placebos. Ted Kaptchuk, assistant professor of medicine and associate director of the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies and the Osher Institute at Harvard Medical School has called it an “upside down research," further explaining ...

FDA Approves Novel Creation of Imitrex? Injection for Migraine

...eadache Center at the University of Pittsburgh and assistant professor of neurology, said, “ Imitrex Injection is now an effective option for patients with certain types of migraines and Migraine patients who experience nausea or vomiting with their headaches, often require an injection, since oral treatments...

Demand For Diet Drugs On The Rise

...sements. Christopher Gardner, a nutritionist and assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, says that it is very difficult to make people understand the philosophy of weight-loss by a pill. It is only by eating less and exercising more that one can reduce the problem of obesity. Orlista...

Nature Cures The Best, Say WIC Clinic Clients

...co-authors are Jodi L. Stotts, Penn State research assistant and former instructor at Kansas State, and Jennifer R. Priebe, a clinical dietitian with San Luis Medical and Rehabilitation. As part of the study, which is the first of its kind, the researchers conducted a survey of 2,562 caregivers of children li...

Indian Doctor Establishes His Name In Germany

...vately. He started his career in the country as an assistant doctor at the Essen University Medical College in 1978. He obtained a German MD in radiology only 1986, and he also went in for a German citizenship. The doctor gives much of the credit for his success to his wife, who had stood by him through thick...

Help at home for the elderly would be beneficial

...t this suggests is that if a homemaker or personal assistant helps these frail elders for a few hours a day, they would be less likely to experience medical conditions such as hunger, dehydration, falls and skin problems that occur when disabled older adults do not receive needed help with daily tasks." Sands ...

Babies Are Born With Readymade Numerical Sense!

... and not related to any sense organ. Brannon is an assistant professor in Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, while Jordan is a graduate student at lab....

Americans Not Interested In Choosing Sex Of Child: Survey

...lection for non-medical reasons,' said Tarun Jain, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and senior author of the study report. The findings, published in the February issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, are the result of a ...

Wake Up Call: U.N Takes Stock to Curb Fake Medicines Racket

...g targets of a nefarious network. Howard Zucker, assistant director general for Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals at the WHO, drove the grim reality home , when he said People don't die from carrying a fake handbag or wearing a fake T-shirt. They can die from taking a counterfeit medicine. International ...

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