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FDA Approves Expanded Use for Surgical Sealant

...ontrol technique of applying pressure to a plastic covering (graft) placed over the open blood vessel. Eighty-three percent of those who received Evicel stopped bleeding within four minutes, compared with 39.7 percent in the control group. Adverse events, such as anemia and graft site infection, were genera...

Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart

...es heart tissue to grow over the discs, completely covering them during healing. Before implantation, the flexible double-disc patch is pulled into a catheter, collapsing and compressing it lengthwise. It is then threaded through a vein into the right ventricle and across the rupture into the left ventricle...

Aspirin can Prevent Bowel Cancer, Says UK Study

...ancet - which examined data from previous research covering more than 7,500 people. Each year, around 35,00...ials carried out in the late 1970s and early 1980s covering over 7,500 people which had given some people 300, 500 or 1,200mg per day doses of aspirin or a dumm...

Bioparasite Envisioned To Control Terror Of Fire Ants

...ion. Fire ants have been detected in 13 states and covering an area of 320 million acres. With no natural predators to keep them in check, fire ants have spread across the U.S., where their numbers are now 10 times greater than in their native South America. Yet researchers of the US Department of Agricult...

Denim, Not Cotton, Apt Wear for Summer

...rt blocks the UV radiation sufficiently.' While covering up and staying out of the sun may well be the best...n the sun is hottest - between 11am and 3pm - plus covering up with a T-shirt, hat, and sunglasses and using a factor 15 plus sunscreen....

Meningitis Shots for Teens

...are disease involves the inflammation of membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It is a more serious infection than viral meningitis. The disease is often misdiagnosed in its early stage because symptoms resemble those of the flu, including fever, headache, nausea, vomiting and stiff neck, said Natio...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...anitation Campaign (TSC) launched in November 2005 covering five districts. But most the 180-strong population preferred the old way of heading for open fields to ease themselves, reports Grassroots Features. Fed up with the stubborn refusal of villagers to use their private latrines, Sarpanch Dinesh Kaush...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

... of the boys was dead. He had "thousands of flies covering his body, unable to move any part of his body, you know we had to actually hold his head up and tilt his head to make sure that he was okay," Gibson said. "The only thing basically that was moving was his eyeballs," he added. "Flies in the mouth, ...

Doctors Remove Tumour from Heart in a Rare Surgery

...ia was rebuilt with his own pericardium, the outer covering of the heart, creating passive, bag-like receptacles to channel blood returning from the lungs into the ventricles, the heart's main pumping chambers. "The newly constructed heart is responding to the treatment and functioning well," said Manohar....

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed at Czech Turkey Farm

...r, told AFP that a Russian ban on Czech poultry -- covering live birds, meat, eggs and equipment connected to the poultry industry -- "will be introduced in the next two to three days"....

Generic Competitor for Plavix Blocked in US

...re and work relentlessly" to invalidate the patent covering clopidogrel bisulfate, the active ingredient in Plavix. Sanofi obtained the patent in July 1989, naming two employees as inventors. In Tuesday's opinion, Stein said Sanofi had shown it was likely to suffer irreparable price erosion, loss of goodwil...

UK Hospitals Failing Hygiene Standards

...st year. In total there are 24 core NHS standards, covering everything from clinical effectivness to governanc... standards. Trusts did best in meeting standards covering professional codes of practice, whistle-blowing and openness. There was also a rise in the number of...

WAG Wedding Extravaganza for England Footballers

...itain's press, with tabloids and broadsheets alike covering who wore what, who attended, how much the events cost and which celebrity magazine snapped up the photography rights. Terry's bash -- although described as "low key" by one newspaper -- was rumoured to have cost one million pounds (1.5 million euros,...

Life Insurers in India to Launch Health Insurance Policies

...claim policy has also increased the time frame for covering exclusions from second to third year of the policy, and has put a cap on the daily room rent at one per cent of the sum insured and two per cent in ICU, and increased the minimum sum to Rs 50,000 from Rs 15,000 besides introducing several other restr...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...s position that foreign media were sowing panic by covering the food product scares. "Most reports have been factual, but some fail to present the full story," he said. In a sign of the growing foreing concern, top Japanese government officials and business leaders were to hold an emergency meeting Friday...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

... sophisticated meta-analysis of 17 research papers covering 136 nuclear sites in the US, Canada, the UK, Franc... Four studies covered the UK, with a further three covering just Scotland. Three covered France, two looked at Canada and there was one study each from the USA,...

Millions of Births Still Go Unreported in India

...esently the registration wing of the department is covering about 63.8 per cent of the births taking place in the country. The level of registration varies substantially across the states. Among the low performing states, birth registration in Rajasthan has gone up from 61.43 percent in 2005 to 78.01 percen...

Health Sector Has to Keep Pace With Countrys Development: Ramadoss

...aching changes, he said. A series of initiatives covering areas of infrastructure, manpower, logistics, management, decentralisation and community participation have been launched. Ramadoss said: The process of change is a gradual one and it is necessary to move cautiously, taking the various stakeholders...

Rivers in China Shrinking Due to Climate Change

...hai-Tibet Plateau used to boast of 36,000 glaciers covering an area of 50,000 sq km. In the past 100 years, their area has shrunk by 30 percent....

President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

...onal Budget Office says is too little even to keep covering the number of children enrolled now. The program is going beyond the initial intent of helping poor children, Bush said at an appearance in Cleveland last week. Its now aiming at encouraging more people to get on government health care. I think it...

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