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Australian Govt's Health Budget Unsatisfactory

...infrastructure of the health system. They turned a blind eye towards the needs of the ageing population and the next generation. But the treasurer Peter Costello argued that the budget looks in to all the aspects of health. He said that Australian scientists have made many breakthroughs such as the bionic ...

Eyeing Trouble! Doctor in a blind spot.

...k Chitkara, 46, from Liverpool, found himself in a blind spot after he inserted "untested" lenses into patients' eyes as part of a study. Following this, Mr. Chitkara, lost his job at the Rosen Eye clinic, but has since started his own practice. It is understood that the firm Lenstech had appointed Dr ...

Secret Herb Could Tackle Hot Flushes And Night Sweats In Breast Cancer Patients

...me it as he and his team are carrying out a double blind trial (neither the patient nor the doctor is allowed to know whether they are in the group taking the herb or a placebo). The women are taking hormone treatment to lower oestrogen and progesterone levels as these affect the growth of some breast ca...

IIT Delhi To Display Its Technological Innovations In 'Open House'

... The gadget designed to be a great asset for the blind can detect bus on road through a user-triggered wireless identification system and use vibration as a warning signal while commuting. Also on display will be products like eco-friendly sanitary napkins, television antenna holders, robots with weigh...

Hi-tech Walking Stick Developed For Visually Impaired

...nd commuting easier for the country's nine million blind population. // Called "smart cane", the stick wi...ow that the current white stick is not helping the blind community much, as they can only navigate up to knee level within a range of one metre," said projec...

Superfoods make super healthy humans??

...hat superfoods are the best conflicting researches blind the image. Still eat healthy to stay healthy should be the mantra!...

Proper Diagnosis Could Augment Speedy Recovery Of Haglund’s Syndrom

...n. This is the real advantage of ultrasound, since blind injections into the tendon can further weaken it, predisposing the tendon to rupture." A surgical option may also have been considered requiring longer rehabilitation, with several months of restricted activity. “Using ultrasound technology as a ...

Love is blind and Seeing is not Believing – Parents Don’t Believe Their Children Are Overweight!!

Britain: Parents are blind to their children’s obesity, say some researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth. Obesity rates have gone up in recent times, and nearly half of Britons come under the overweight category.// Apart from alarming obesity rates, perhaps w...

New findings, throw light on obesity

...found that children born with BBS are obese and go blind and develop kidney failure. Eight faulty genes are thought to be responsible for this disorder. Professor Peter Beales from University College London Institute of Child Health, working with colleagues from Canada, France and the US, has discovered ...

Blue Light Keeps A Person Alert

... person. The eye’s light receptors work even where blind people are concerned, and this enables a person to differentiate between daytime and night. The subjects studied in the research were placed for a period of 6.5 hours under green and blue lights. The wavelengths of blue colored light are reportedly s...

Grandma Recovers Eyesight Miraculously

...ter suffering a massive heart attack. She had been blind for the past 25 years, and appears to have miracul...have changed.' Joyce Urch, from Coventry, has been blind since 1979, and has never been able to see her five children properly. Now, for the first time, she ...

Scientists Identify Gene Responsible For Depression

...archer Per Svenningsson. The researchers used a blind screen called a yeast two-hybrid screen to identify proteins that associate with the serotonin 1B receptor. They found an association with a protein called p11, a protein previously identified as a regulator of the localization of several proteins on...

‘Never Say Die’ Spirit of Visually Challenged - Makes Him a Role Modl

... both in spirit and kind//. Srinivas Jena became blind at the age of five years old. Many of his neighbours suggested that he should take to begging for his family's survival, however he was inspired by a radio programme took to cashew plantation. Today he earns handsomely for his entire family. He be...

Milk Thistle Not An Effective Cure For Liver Disease

...rtaining to 6 different placebo-controlled, double blind studies were taken into consideration. Following analysis, no beneficial effects of thistle milk could be found with respect to rate of mortality or complications associated with liver disease. Infact, it was nothing more than a placebo. When the...

Colorblind Individuals have expanded color vision

...ng suggests that although these individuals may be blind to some colors accessible by color-normal individuals, they also have a sensitivity to a "color dimension" that is inaccessible to those with normal color vision. The researchers point out that because deuteranamolous colorblindness is caused by a...

MSM: A ray of hope for arthritis patients

...g. The clinical trial was randomised and a double blind study. Twenty-five arthritic patients were assigned three grams of MSM twice a day for twelve weeks. The patients receiving MSM experienced significant relief in pain and improvements in their physical function compared to the patients receiving a pl...

Genetic Cause For Farsightedness Discovered

...th nanophthalmos, an Amish-Mennonite woman who was blind in one eye, came to the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1998 for treatment. By reconstructing the woman's family tree, the researchers discovered that several living relatives also suffered from nanophthalmos, and four deceased relatives had been part of the...

An Eye Opener for the blind

...pment of an artificial vision system for a totally blind person,with an ability to deliver a visual acuity of about 20/400. The system uses a sub-miniature television camera and an ultrasonic distance sensor, both of which are mounted on a pair of eyeglasses. The sensors connect through a cable to a mini...

Combing Hair More Effective Than OTC Medicine For Head Lice

...ter (OTC) treatment. Researchers have used single blind randomized controlled trial for comparing the Bug Buster kit with over the counter insecticide treatments against head lice in United Kingdom. Fine combing of wet hair is far more effective than current over the counter chemical treatments for elim...

9-PCV vaccine found to be helpful in invasive Pneumonococcal infection

Randomized double blind placebo controlled trial was done by Felicity cutts and colleagues in Gambia on the efficacy of // a Nine Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (9-PCV) against radiologically confirmed pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disesase in children immunize...

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