Tag: "claim" at medical news

UK Scientists Plan To Create Human-Cow Embryos

...search more safely and economically. Researchers claim that they need access to thousands of embryos for this research by which the scientists could harness to treat diseases such as Parkinson's disease, strokes and Alzheimer's disease. Critics say it is unethical and potentially dangerous to continue ...

A Combination Of Drugs Used For Anti-Angiogenesis And Apoptosis More Effective

...erson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. The researchers claim that they are the first to establish the combined effect of apoptosis and anti-angiogenic therapy. Professor Andrea Hayes-Jordan reported Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Prague, states that treating sarcoma cells with iman...

Test Tube Koalas !

... diversity of koala populations. 'We don't want to claim the technique as the solution to koala conservation but more of a tool for genetic management and animal welfare, an extra insurance policy,' concludedJohnston. ASH...

Lice now dried to death by novel dryer

...re efficient than// chemical shampoos and douches claim researchers. The dryer capable of drying up lice and their eggs blows air at a slightly lower temperature than that of a regular hair dryer has been christened Louse Buster by the masterminds behind this invention who are optimistic about launching t...

Awareness about Women's Cancers- A National Concern

... induced abortion could lead to breast cancer, the claim has been dismissed by experts. Similar claims are made about using birth control pills and deodorants. The Internet also supplies a lot of information both correct and incorrect, so it is important that women are made aware of the actual facts. The...

Low Folate Diet increases Colorectal Cancer risk

... will be affected by colorectal cancer and it will claim around 8,500 lives. "Simply adding a supplement to your daily diet could have tremendous long-term benefits to the individual and the health care system," said Dr. Philip Branton, Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research. "The...

New chemo combination to fight breast cancer better

...dicine reports the latest research done in Britain claim that new frontiers have been crossed in treating early breast //cancer successfully after having studied over 2,400 patients. The researchers of two independent studies apparently looked into the effectiveness of adding the drug epirubicin to regular...

Brain stem Defects associated with SIDS

...nd and, ultimately, prevent these tragedies, which claim about 300 babies' lives each year in the UK." GY...

Innovative treatment for Skin Cancer

...oped a light-emitting sticking plaster, which they claim will cure skin cancer. Human trials have been conducted successfully. This// user-friendly device, which can be used by the patients themselves at home, consists of a portable light source that is powered by a pocket-sized battery. Physicist Profes...

Superbug C.difficile Causes Nine Deaths In Montreal Hospital

...ent and virulent strain to have emerged , but this claim has been dismissed by the leading expert on C.difficile infections and Quebec's top public health officer. Mark Miller, head of a national surveillance group on C. difficile for the Public Health Agency of Canada says that the strain is the same as t...

Hostility breeds against Homeopathy in England following new regulations

... have written off homoeopathy as ‘mumbo jumbo’ and claim that this move would only legitimise a form of treatment which is hypothetical and apparently without scientific backing. However the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency are unshaken by the uproar and seething remarks of over 700 GP...

Does Child pornography lead to Child abuse?

...aught with child porn on their computers typically claim that the material was sent to them unsolicited. "You can accept that if it's just one or two images," Temporini said. "But if it's 200 or they've created a special folder for the images, then such excuses aren't very believable." One thing that m...

British women more irritable than men at daybreak!!

...an for the council said, "Many more men than women claim to get a good seven nights sleep a week, so perhaps it is not surprising that more women than men get out of bed on the wrong side." The reason for the grumpiness was given as a disturbed night by 40% of the women and stress and worry were the reas...

Panic Phobias, Physical debility-“P’s”in a pd?

... least a day of disability. Although the authors claim to have weeded out some of the common biases and limitations that trickle into the research into such a study of mammoth magnitude, critics point out that even this study is flawed in not having looked into case studies of post traumatic cases and be...

Smokers Warned to Give up else Face Denial of Operations

...on the patient’s lifestyle. However the smokers claim that they are being discriminated against. Neil Rafferty of the pro-smoking group Forest says, 'This is blackmail, pure and simple. Smokers pay their taxes like everyone else. In fact, because of the very high duty on tobacco, they probably pay a lot...

UV light brings a ray of hope for asthmatics

...sed to harmful rays of the sun. The researchers claim that this study is the first of its kind which shows aco-relation between environmental and genetic factors which play a role in chronic disease.Australia itself is estimated to have about 2 million people suffering from asthma ‘One out of six Autral...

Improved Oral Health with Fluoridated water

... Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of bottlers’ claim of reduced risk of dental caries or tooth decay by...S. "Thanks to the FDA's decision, bottlers can now claim what dentists have long known--that optimally fluoridated water helps prevent tooth decay." The AD...

Escalation of Nursing industrial dispute

... to overcome the acute nursing shortage, that they claim exists. Australian Nurses Federation branch secretary Neroli Ellis said staff shortages were forcing nurses to work overtime and they were "sick to death" of waiting for the Government to act. Ms Ellis said, "Since the minister's actually brought i...

Face – off! This ain’t no Sci-i

...to be burdened with this whopping cost. Doctors claim that the recipient’s face will not completely change over to the donor’s face but would be a hybrid of the two. <B...

Remedy for Cervical cancer just a ‘shot’ awy

...r almost 75% of all cervical cancers//. Statistics claim that over 2,800 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and one-third of them succumb to it each year in the UK. A vaccine named Gardsil have been developed which has been proved effective in protecting humans from the most dangerous strains of the...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10