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Ultimate Destination of anti-depressant, Prozac

...doctoral fellow Juan Manuel Encinas.To address the controversy surrounding the use of Prozac in children and in pregnant women, Enikolopov’s group is currently testing the effects of the drug on brain neurogenesis in juvenile and pregnant mice. The results of those experiments may provide valuable information fo...

Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad

...any genetic disorder. A recent case that stirred controversy was the one involving Yvonne Watts, who got her hip replacement surgery in France, tired of waiting for surgery in UK. She had claimed the amount she had paid for the surgery (￡3,900) from Bedford Primary Care Trust. The court apparently ruled that s...

Sleep Apnea Patients Benefit from Breathing Mask

...id not affect blood pressure. ‘There has been some controversy over how sleep apnea causes elevated blood pressure,’ Dr. Norman said. ‘Doctors don't know if it is due to drops in oxygen levels or arousals from sleep. Our study indicated that correcting drops in oxygen levels alone may not be enough to reduce blo...

Pregnancy and Mode of Delivery May Be A Cause For Pelvic Floor Disorders

...l,” said Lukacz. Lukacz says that there has been controversy about whether it is pregnancy, mode of delivery or age alone that causes the pelvic floor disorders. “Previous studies have argued that there is a link between pregnancy and developing a pelvic floor disorder and others have argued that there is no...

'Fishy' Medicine Stirs Controversy

...set of monsoon – and continue for 24 hours. With controversy surrounding the efficacy of the medicine affecting... as claimed by the rationalists and doctors. The controversy appeared to have an impact on the turnout for the last couple of years. An estimated 40,000 asthma...

Administration of Fish Drug for Asthma Patients Begins in Andhra

... asthma patients began here Thursday amid a raging controversy over its efficacy //. Hundreds of people were seen standing in queues for their turn to take fish medicine, renamed as fish 'prasadam' or holy offering by Bathini Goud family to avoid any controversy. The administration of the medicine, touted as...

Functional Differences In Estrogen Receptor Could Be A Therapeutic Target

...at triggers estrogen signaling has been a point of controversy for a long time, the researchers said. The study showed that hER-?36, unlike other estrogen receptors, is predominantly localized on the cell plasma membrane that surrounds the cell cytoplasm; the receptor stimulates cell growth by estrogens and anti...

Seizure of Low Quantity of Heroin is No Ground for Bail: HC

... the wake of the recent heroin-cocaine consumption controversy involving Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan. According to the prosecution, the three accused - Prakash, Akhilesh alias Pappu and Nathu Lal - were nabbed by Narcotics Bureau sleuths on March 14, 2003 when they were allegedly tryin...

Bank of Stem Cells to Give Hope to Sick Children

...e. Collecting 'cord blood' would also bypass the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research. Josephine Quintavalle, director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said, "We support the idea of more cord blood storage. Given that we throw away cord blood there are no ethical objections to its use and w...

Host of Benefits from Erectile Dysfunction Drugs

...ntial impact on visual function became a matter of controversy when a suspected link between PDE-5 inhibitors and vision loss led to lawsuits filed last year against the maker of Viagra. According to the article’s authors, however, “analysis of clinical trial data in more than 13,000 men and on more than 35,000 ...

Male Students Entry in Women's College Creates Furore in Pakistan Assembly

... Jinnah University in Rawalpindi is embroiled in a controversy over the enrolment of male students. // Opposition members in the National Assembly protested allowing male students into the university, named after the sister of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. The university's vice chancellor, Na...

Renewable Oocytes of Mice created hope in Human Fertility Treatment

...epartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, has sparked controversy among biologists and challenged the theory, held for more than 50 years, that female mammals are born with a finite number of oocytes (eggs). Two years ago, international researchers speculated that mice could continue to produce eggs throughout pu...

How Does Leptin Work?

...hallmark of diabetes. ‘There had been considerable controversy as to whether Leptin controls glucose metabolism through STAT3 production or not,’ says Dr. Rossetti. ‘Using our technique for blocking STAT3, we were able to show that STAT3 is absolutely necessary for the acute effect of Leptin on glucose metabolis...

Stern action against AIIMS Medicos, warns Ramadoss

...irector, though Ramadoss insisted that the current controversy was not a feud between him and Venugopal. "The resolution was passed by 12 members favoring it and three against it," he said. Venugopal, a renowned heart specialist, filed a suit in the Delhi High Court that Friday stayed the execution of the reso...

Controversy Over Release Of Salaries Of Striking AIIMS Doctors

The controversy over the release of salaries of doctors participating in the anti-quota stir was likely to erupt again as a senior AIIMS offcial claimed// that the order to do so was issued on the direction of Director P Venugopal. The official said Registrar V P...

Supreme Court's Order is a Vindication of Our Stand: AIIMS Medicos

... salary as per the "no work no pay principle". The controversy was one of the main reasons that led to a public spat between AIIMS director P. Venugopal and the minister, who is also the president of the institute. In an earlier interaction with IANS, the health minister had said that the ministry would pay sa...

Is Nicotine Lozenge A Safe Smoking Cessation Product?

... can help many to initiate the habit. The existing controversy is that if these nicotine-replacement products are marketed by the wrong people then it would result in the encouragement of nicotine addiction. Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada said that some manufacturers of...

Too Much of Air in the Lungs Results in VILI

...y, it can be overdone. ‘There is still a lot of controversy and uncertainty about how best to ventilate the lu... Jason HT Bates of the University of Vermont. ‘One controversy is whether deep inflations, the ‘sighs’ that each of us takes periodically, should ever be given, an...

With Ban Imposed on Soft Drinks Tender Coconut may Finally Get its Due

...y in the state, sales have been low. Now, with the controversy over the pesticide content in aerated soft drinks from Pepsi and Coca-Cola creating a furore again, the government is going to redouble efforts to market the fruit. "We have already decided that this is the best time to vigorously promote tender co...

Indo-American Doctor Fired By Cleveland Clinic

...dav's dismissal is the latest conflict-of-interest controversy to hit the Cleveland Clinic. The clinic and its CEO, Toby Cosgrove, were in the spotlight and Cosgrove himself had to step down as a board director for AtriCure Inc after a hospital conflicts-of-interest committee called for stricter guidelines gov...

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