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Individuals with sleep related breathing disorders more prone to heart disease

... A study by American national heart, lung and blood institute-funded sleep heart health study research group has shown that individuals with sleep related breathing problems were more at risk than those with no sleep related breathing problems by 1.5 times. Even though studies have not been ver...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain.

...unting aspects of brain research is overcoming the blood brain barrier. “This might be an option,” Gorelick said, but he noted what works in arat often fails in humans....

Now umbilical cord helps in stroke treatment.

...of America which says the stem cells from the cord blood could heal strokes almost 80% faster based on studies conducted on rats. Though the details are yet to be worked out and the project itself is in a primitive stage, the scientists are very excited about this prospect. Dr. Paul R. Sanberg from the un...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

...plications during the surgery doctors recycled the blood lost from the infant’s body back to his circulatio...was given drugs to stimulate the production of red blood cells. Recycling ones own blood is permissible amongst the Witnesses. The surgery is the first of it...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...e endotoxins, which can damage the inner lining of blood vessels causing atherosclerosis.However there is no need to cry over the latest findings, as this will enable us to be aware of the complications of chronic infections, which we normally tend to brush aside. Some lifestyle modifications like stopping...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...e endotoxins, which can damage the inner lining of blood vessels causing atherosclerosis.However there is no need to cry over the latest findings, as this will enable us to be aware of the complications of chronic infections, which we normally tend to brush aside. Some lifestyle modifications like stopping...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

... moment a patient registers at the hospital, every blood test and MRI will be recorded in a central patient record, and pharmacy visits will be tracked. All charting will be done at the patient's bedside, "getting the nurses' back to the patient's side" and making doctors more efficient.Oracle will provide...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

... match between donor and recipient isn't required, blood type must be matching. Dr. Elizabeth Pomfret, director of live donor liver transplantation at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts and her team, conducted a study into the post liver transplant scenario- from both the donor’s...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...ering one is the trauma of going through the daily blood tests. The worst part according to many diabetics is the finger stick. There are unfortunate patients who use the stick up to six times a day for more than ten to twenty years or so. The main obstacle of these tests is the pain and discomfort associa...

Hemopurifier may revolutionise AIDS treatment

...l trials, may be the in thing in AIDS treatment. A blood purifier, which separates the HIV from circulating...from several 10-milliliter samples of contaminated blood plasma. The inventor of the filter, Dr. Julian Ambrus, said this blood filtration could be used alo...

Be happy: live long

...reed to annual cognitive and physical assessments, blood tests and the donation of their brains to the research team upon death. The study has produced evidence that stroke or head trauma can increase a person's chances of suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life. It also has shown tha...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

... to DDE. An international team of researchers took blood samples from 24 men aged 16 to 28 who had not been exposed to DDT in their work. In these men the high DDE levels correlated to low levels of testosterone, low semen volume and low sperm count. However some health experts argue that the benefits of...

“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs

... in a seated position, there is a lot of stasis of blood (pooling of blood) in his lower limbs and this predisposes to clot formation in his long veins. This clot can get detached and become mobile and can result in fatal complications. This condition is called thrombo embolism. But this need not occur o...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...selves rather than being required to start pumping blood right away. At the Argonne National Laboratory in...reated slowly while a machine is used to circulate blood throughout the body. Once the heart is treated and is stable, then the cooling can be stopped and th...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...ent receives an organ transplant, the body's white blood cells often try to reject the new organ .It is here that ATG steps in. The rabbit ATG works to prevent this from happening without the problems caused by steroids. Unlike traditional long-term steroid treatment, normally used to reduce swelling and ...

Doctors advice early anemia tests

...Screening babies for iron deficiency with a simple blood test can prevent these problems, as they grow olde...led the study. Sheriff and her colleagues examined blood samples taken from 1,141 children when they were 8, 12 and 18 months old. These were compared to the...

Diabetes and Depression often go hand-in-hand

...te resistance to insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Insulin resistance is a precursor to type 2...blem not only improves the mood, but also improves blood sugar control. So cheer up. Fight depression and diabete....

Spouses and other partners lower blood pressure says new research

...rs seems to have a calming influence on a person's blood pressure. In a study that used portable monitors to track people's blood pressure, it turned out that the participants' pressure was lowest when they were with their partner...

Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

...lls. But at times these pellets can erode through blood vessels and enter other areas of the body. In more than 35% of the cases, these pellets end up in the lungs, causing increased risk of radiation to the patients. These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Associa...

Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes

...or cells. Lacking insulin, sugars build up in the blood rather than entering cells to fuel them. The resu...howed that vitamin E curtailed the inflammation in blood vessels of diabetics. Dr. Sridevi Devaraj, Asst. Prof. of Pathology at the University of Texas, Sou...

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