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Shot Supply: Reduced Dosage of Seasonal flu Vaccine, Works!

...s helped in expanding the supply of the vaccine, a boon during any shortage in availability of vaccine. Dr. Kathryn Kirkland of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, said,” Although these results are preliminary, we found that the reduced dose administered intradermally -- unde...

Support and Care to Grieving Parents Can Offset Suicidal Tendencies

...eally in need of additional research that can be a boon to families, who need all the support and strength to tide over a difficult period in their lives. Source: Eurka...

Heart Attacks Can Be Stopped By The New Cholesterol-Reducing Drug

...diac arrest, which when hit the market// will be a boon to millions of patients who are suffering from heart disease. The health of more than two million people in Britain is thought to be affected by arteries narrowed by the build-up of fatty deposits, which can lead to potentially fatal conditions incl...

Delhi Sees Sharp Decline In Chicken Prices

...ing out." But the rock bottom prices have been a boon for the scores of menial workers at the Gazipur market. They usually only handle the fish and poultry products but were seen carrying home the live birds bought at throwaway prices. Said Rashid, a worker who makes around Rs.50-60 per day by sloggin...

New Hepatitis B Vaccine

...pel the hepatitis virus more effectively. It is a boon for those who respond poorly for the current hepatitis B vaccines, including people with immunodeficiency, diabetes, elderly people and people with kidney disease. This has come about to prevent the death of about one million people who die from li...

Premature Babies Give It Their Best Shot To Overcome Difficulty

...dds. The results of the present study come in as a boon for parents who are much concerned about their child. The two-year-old study has been conducted amongst a group of 166 infants with very low birth weight (1.1 to 2.2 lbs). 145, healthy, normal birth weight infants were included as controls. Differe...

Quality Platelets and Improved Blood Availability No Longer a Pipe Dream

...y gauge the quality of blood platelets- A definite boon considering that there is no method of testing or evaluating the quality of platelets. Guidelines dictate that platelets are required to be used within five days to avert a possible bacterial attack to the platelets. With the help of this novel machi...

New fertility kit, analyzes the woman's ability to conceive

...ch is termed as the Plan Ahead kit comes down as a boon for those who are in a dilemma and helps them to decide about their pregnancy//. The kit is very simple and was successfully launched in the market after completing all the necessary tests. It gives them a clear view about their biological cycle. ...

Malaria Detecting Watch May Become A Health Hazard

...s a potential public health threat as opposed to a boon to mankind,' New Scientist quoted Peter Scholl, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Health in Baltimore, Maryland, US. This was, however, contradicted by Lubbe who stressed that doctors can change the needles of the watch...

Drug Firms To Produce Single Pill AIDS Treatment

...veloping nations, it may well turn out to be a big boon for them. The pill which has not yet been named is targeted to hit the European and the US markets towards end 2006. The three drugs to be combined into a single pill are being marketed under the Emtriva, Viread and Sustiva brand names separately as ...

Parenthood can have adverse mental health

...ere parenthood and children’s are considered a big boon to life and these results are views of a particular country and the study results cannot be accepted universally. <br...

Mystery Of The Placebo Effect, Yet To Be Solved

...nt of the disease and get well soon. Hence it is a boon for the patients. On the other hand the placebo effect is very confusing for the researchers who are trying to point out the exact site of action of the placebo. Two different experiments were conducted one in which Dagfinn Matre showed that ther...

Silence Can Be Heard

...of Psychiatry also agreed that these studies are a boon in finding the treatment options and in studying the diseases such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She says that the participants can be trained to focus their brain activity and thereby help in combating the disorder....

Snappy Mobiles Known To Cause Snappish Behavior in Families

...flip side to cell phones as well! The Cell Boom, a boon to communication has turned a bane to family relationships, according to a recent study.// As part of the study, more than a thousand steady mobile phone users were tracked for over 2 years. The study revealed a definite decline in satisfied fami...

Femara: The Wonder Drug to Prevent Relapse of Breast Cancer.

...g post menopausal breast cancers. This drug is a boon and very useful to all these women suffering from breast cancers which have spread to the lymph nodes and also for women who are done with their chemotherapy. The main point to be clearly understood by both the patients and clinicians is that th...

New Cardiac Angiography Technique For Improved Imaging Of Coronary Veins

...ealed a superior performance. It is perceived as a boon "for individuals undergoing surgical procedures on the heart and particularly the coronary veins," by Aachen University Hospital researchers. An adequate or rather a complete knowledge of the cardiac anatomy is a prerequisite for optimal planning o...

Bony Vitamin D a boon for lungs too

...lungs as well.// Vitamin d has been found to be a boon for respiratory functions. It is good for lungs and so offers great hope for smokers, asthmatics and other people with respiratory problems. The researchers found people with higher levels of the vitamin in their systems showed better lung function ...

Wonder drug Dasatinib gives hopes to leukemia patients

...ete elimination of the leukemia cells. This is a boon to all those patients who do not react to Gleevec which is the treatment for Leukemia. This drug will soon reach the markets by the end of the current year or the beginning of the next year. Gleevec was a Swiss product and in 2001after approved b...

Chlamydia Screening To Be Offered With Emergency Contraception

... majority of cases, and timely diagnosis will be a boon for women concerned about sexually transmitted infections....

LINK Applied Genomics Programme Promises To Revolutionize Healthcare Systems

... stimulating nerve regrowth, which could be a huge boon to affected patients. This research could pave the way for stimulating regrowth and repair in damaged nerves. * Personalized cancer treatment - researchers from KuDOS pharmaceuticals, Imperial College London and the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge are e...

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