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A boon to epileptics

... found. Researchers at Gottingen in Germany used a coil which was placed on the side of the head to direct// the magnetic pulses to the brain. The use of high-frequency pulses has been blamed for triggering epileptic seizures, and this is some of the first work using low-frequency magnetism.The ten pati...

Usage of coil better in brain haemorrhage

According to researchers in UK inserting a coil into a weakened blood vessel offers a survival ben...een developed, which involves threading a platinum coil through the artery to the weakened area to prevent further bleeding. This is a less invasive option ...

Strong Magnetic Stimulation Can Help Treating Severe Depression

...) has few side effects. In TMS the doctors place a coil on the patient's forehead and for several minutes this produces a strong pulsating magnetic field, which in turn produces a flow of electrical current. The magnetic current is weak and it does not trigger an epileptic fit like ECT. The patient remain...

Platinum Coils To Replace Brain Surgery

...liminary findings. Minimally invasive endovascular coil treatment of ruptured brain aneurysms, when a patient is in good clinical condition and the aneurysm is suitable for coiling, is more likely to lead to independent survival at 1 year than neurosurgical clipping. Source: Newswise, The Lancet...

Treatment Of Brain Aneurysms By A New Non-Surgical Approach

...roach combining the use of intracranial stents and coil embolization to strengthen the artery has been pro...4mm, the "wide neck" of the aneurysm prevented the coil from staying in place on its own and the aneurysm was very likely to return. The introduction of f...

New Test to Diagnose the Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

...sh-pedal machine in an MRI scanner. A spectroscopy coil in the MRI then took readings of the phosphocreatine level in the legs every 15 seconds for several minutes afterward. 'If the blood flow is poor,' Kramer explained, 'PCr recovery is slow, because the muscle is not getting the energy sources it needs...

Researchers Develop An Electric Device For Relief From Migraine

...delivers a strong electric current through a metal coil that creates a strong magnetic field for about one millisecond. This electrical charge is theorised to interrupt the neural phase of migraine before it starts to produce a headache. It was explained that currently patients are given painkillers or tr...

First Implantable artificial heart gets FDA’s approva

...ch is a 2-pound mechanical heart. A power transfer coil charges the system across the skin and recharges the internal battery. A controller and an internal battery are implanted in the patient’s abdomen. The functions of the controller are to monitor and control the device and also its pumping rate. The...

Good News for Infertile Men

...nting it towards the varicocele. A tiny platinum coil put in at this point stops blood flow through the faulty veins and hinders it from entering another passage. This procedure was performed on 173 men who were considered infertile and results showed that twenty-six percent of the men or 45 couples w...

New Analytical Tool to Unravel the Cause of Diabetes

... from an unordered mishmash into flat sheets, then coil into fibers. "No matter how fast they're moving, we can take pictures of them. We need tools that not only allow us to probe the molecular structures, but also look at how the structures change in time," says Zanni. Though often depicted as sta...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

... from an unordered mishmash into flat sheets, then coil into fibers. 'No matter how fast they're moving, we can take pictures of them,' says Zanni. Without their automated method, he says, such experiments would be nearly impossible. The technique also has potential application in other human disease...

This is Why DNA Has Its Famous Helix Shape

...res," Marszalek said. Single strands of adenine coil in a fairly regular fashion to form a helix of their own, while thymine chains take on a more random shape. The pure adenine strands exhibited an even more complex form of elasticity than had been anticipated, the researchers reported. As they stre...

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