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Tag: "controller" at medical news

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...er in a control box at the side of the road. The controller may simply count the number of cars that pass by a...ignal on the on-ramp. But Coifman knows that the controller boxes can do much more. "The basic technology of these devices is very reliable, and such detector...

Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

... their asthma. It focused on three core behaviors: controller medication adherence, rescue inhaler availability and smoking cessation or reduction. To our knowledge, our program is the first tailored, web-based multimedia asthma program for urban high school students evaluated in a non-clinic community settin...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

...mergency room visits and greater use of both daily controller and as-needed rescue medications was more common in obese patients with asthma. Further, obese patients were less likely to be in asthma remission compared to non-overweight patients. As demonstrated in previous studies, the associations of asthma...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...ming systems, the new Nintendo Wii uses a wandlike controller that requires players to physically perform the action they want to see on-screen. The system gets users off the couch, but it's still not like playing soccer or jogging, Storch said. On the other hand, research has shown that Dance Dance Revolutio...

City Kids With Asthma Lose Out on Preventive Treatment

...ent of the 180 got the recommended amount of daily controller medication, which is six or more refills in a 12-m...re times a month to use inhaled corticosteroids as controller drugs to curb inflammation and prevent acute attacks. 'It's clear that kids who need preventive d...

Medication Not Available On Time To Inner-city Children

...ent of the 180 got the recommended amount of daily controller medication, which is six or more refills in a 12-m...re times a month to use inhaled corticosteroids as controller drugs to curb inflammation and prevent acute attacks. “It’s clear that kids who need preventive dr...

First Implantable artificial heart gets FDA’s approva

...oss 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 patient can be free from extern...

Indian Scientists Develop New Drug to Control and Cure Depression

...rkets in the near future. "Clearance from the drug controller will be sought only after two more rounds of human trials," the scientist said declining to be named. Nearly 16 percent of the world's population is affected by depression, with most in the 20-25 age group, according to a CDRI study. Ever since t...

Researchers Have Linked Rett Syndrome to Mitochondrial Gene

...s shown that the protein made by MECP2 is a master controller of other genes, turning them on and off, and scientists have been searching for these genes. Several have been identified, the best known being brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, which normally promotes neuronal growth. To find other genes t...

Guru’s Supporters Clash With CPI-M Me

...ral Government has referred the matter to the drug controller of Uttaranchal. Ramdev, best known for his programs on several spiritual TV channels, has denied Karat's charges against him. He said he would welcome any inquiry into the contents of his ayurvedic medicines. Karat, a Rajya Sabha MP, asked the St...

Healthy Brains Depend Upon Survival Genes

... drug taking. The turning on of the master genetic controller CREB results in the survival genes getting turned on. The research also targets at identifying the CREB-controlled genes which contribute towards the longer life of the brain, and make it more trauma resistant. The project is being funded by the Roya...

Proteinomics Research holds Key to Stomach Cancer

...hat, in mice, hyperactive Stat3 shuts down a vital controller of stomach cell growth, called TGF beta, and this allows cancer formation, and this mechanistic link is a world-first. Also, the gene differences identified in human stomach cancers are similar to those we would predict if the same thing, Stat3 hyper...

Drugs Banned worldwide still available in India

... aged under1 year. All are unapproved by the drugs controller and therefore illegal. The drugs controller general of India, Ashwini Kumar, has said that the government was appointing a committee to look int...

Drug regulatory officials giving the nod for sale of Unapproved drug formulations in India

...ever are still available in the market. The drugs controller general of India has however blamed the states’ drug regulatory officials for issuing manufacturing licences despite the absence of marketing approvals from the central health ministry. The drugs controller’s office has also stated that they have ask...

Justifying the use of letrozole for inducing ovulation

... by the Drugs Controller hence they feel that drug controller can introduce a new drug for marketing, or ban a particular drug from being sold but should not be given the right to designate a particular drug for a particular disease, to be prescribed by a particular section of doctors. Letrozole could be pres...

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