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Warfarin’s Anti-clotting Property May Cause Hemorrhagic Stroke

...988 and 1999 were examined by the study. The cases connected with the use of blood-thinning drugs soared to 4.4 cases per 100,000 people by 1999 from 0.8 cases per 100,000 in 1988.In comparison, the rate of hemorrhagic strokes associated to warfarin use, rose to 45.9 per 100,000 in 1999 from 2.5 per 100,000 in...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

... chair and several air- filled tubes and wires are connected to the chest and abdominal region. A cuff is placed on the upper arm to detect blood pressure. Galvanometers or fingerplates are attached to the fingertips of the candidate. When subjected to questioning, variations in the physiological responses of ...

Indian Students Thrilled to Talk to Sunita Williams

... answering their queries through a satellite phone connected at the American Centre. Leela, a student of Vivek High School, Chandigarh, was happy to be present. "Though I could not ask any question, I was happy to see three astronauts," she said. "We had read about zero gravity in books, but today we saw i...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

... The beavertail of fat that comes with the skin is connected to the base of the tongue to add bulk, and tolled upon itself, much like a jellyroll. The tongue is crucial to the swallowing process; the base of a healthy tongue acts as a piston that pushes food down the throat. With surgery, the reconstructed ton...

New Ideas on Developing Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs

...he signals to and from the electrode side, in turn connected to an electronic device. This system may one day be able to return function to people who have been paralyzed by a spinal-cord injury, lost a limb, or in other ways. "Whether it is a prosthetic device or a disabled body function, the mind could re...

Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

...nd limits the amount of food they eat. The ring is connected to a port that is placed underneath the skin at th...ach and reshapes it into a small pouch. It is then connected directly to the middle portion of the small intestine, bypassing the rest of the stomach and the upp...

Kalam to Commission India's First Tele-Radiology Network

...dent, the first network of its kind in the country connected Hyderabad's Care Hospital to the Maa Scan and Research Centre in Guntur and another diagnostic centre. It is proposed to establish connectivity with 10 diagnostic centres in a year and 50 centres across the country by 2009. Kalam will also deliv...

How Bacteria Generate Energy to Live?

...the cell," Barquera said. How the two machines are connected is one key question. In the first paper, published in the Journal of Bacteriology, Barquera tackled the question of how the structure of the enzyme is organized with respect to the two sides of the membrane. The problem is that the enzyme is not am...

More Money to Flow for First Responders at Ground Zero

...he treatment of those having respiratory disorders connected with exposure to toxic airborne particles at Ground Zero; the demolished site of the WTC. Borja Jr.’s case first became public when he was invited by senator Hillary Clinton to attend the President's State of the Union address in order to highligh...

Virus may Be the Cause of Mad Cow

...n humans. Human infection in recent years has been connected to eating infected meat. There have been dozens of fatalities over the years. The prion theory of mad cow disease proposes that a normal protein spontaneously misfolds, starting a cascade of abnormal changes in other proteins. In Manuelidis' prev...

Make Healthcare Accessible, Affordable, Urges Kalam

...s and Electronics Corp of India Ltd (ECIL). It has connected Hyderabad's Care Hospital to the Maa Scan and Research Centre in Guntur and another diagnostic centre. Eminent radiologist Kakarla Subba Rao said it was proposed to establish connectivity with 10 diagnostic centres in a year and 50 centres across I...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

... for a reconsideration of the regulatory mechanism connected with ultrasound technology. More stringent regulations and awareness efforts at social grassroots level are urgently needed. Source-IANS...

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

...mberg has called for more funds to flow, for those connected with the September 11 terrorist// attacks on New York City. He was speaking at a meeting where he released the first comprehensive profile on existing health needs of 9/11 victims. The 83-page script was released more than five years after doct...

U.S., U.K. Stem Cell Banks to Team Up

...ing year at WiCell Research Institute, a nonprofit connected to the University of Wisconsin, under a federal contract. The U.S. bank houses and distributes 13 of the 21 embryonic stem cell lines that can be used in federally funded research under President Bush’s policy limiting support to lines created befo...

Scientists Uncover Cause of Antipsychotic Drug Weight Gain

...ions like diabetes and heart disease. “We’ve now connected a whole class of antipsychotics to natural brain chemicals that trigger appetite,” says Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Our identification of the molecular players that link such drugs to i...

Convict Felled by Legionnaires

...nor Tom Woods says he does not think the death was connected to the bacteria. "The gentleman concerned had serious medical complications and was terminally ill."We haven't seen the post mortem results, he would have been with a low immune system very susceptible to different viruses and bugs. "Until we get t...

Mobile Phone Addiction may Cause Psychological Problems

...ocial relations and feel the urge to be constantly connected and in contact with others," the study says. Torrecillas says these people "can become totally upset when deprived of their mobile phones for sometime, regardless of the reason". "Switching off their phones causes them anxiety, irritability, sleep...

Circumcision May Lift HIV Risk for Women

... expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation who is not connected to the study. "We need to be particularly careful about anything that could put them at even greater risk." Researchers at the Rakai Health Sciences Program and Makerere University in Uganda and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in ...

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use

...t were done ‘in vitro’ (i.e., the equipment wasn’t connected to the patients), which also found minimal interaction from cell phones used in health care facilities. Dr. Hayes says the latest study bolsters the notion that cells phones are safe to use in hospitals. Other Technology-Related Proceedings Article...

Scent of a Rose may Give More Than Pleasure

.... They were then sent off to sleep with electrodes connected to their heads. This was to track the various changes occurring in the brain while sleeping. The rose scents were continued in timed bursts, via fitted face masks during sleep. Several tests later the next day, it was seen that in almost all the ...

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