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Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

...nit at all and this surgery may be undertaken as a day case surgery once it is perfected. Speaking about the other profound advances in the bypass surgery Dr.Zenati said, "Elimination of the heart lung machine so that our surgery is done now using beating heart techniques. Then we shrunk the size of the ...

Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver

...e a variety of different kinds of cells, might one day be manipulated to create custom-grown organ transplants. "The liver is an incredibly regenerative organ using its own cells," Dr. Neil Theise of the New York University School of Medicine, who led the study, said in a statement. So his team decided...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...h either saline solution or tri-iodothyronine each day after surgery until dopamine treatment was stopped or after 12 days, whichever came first. The treated children had an increase in cardiac index by than 20% (p<0.004) in the first 24 hours after the operation when compared to placebo-treated kids...

Want a Healthy brew? Have some Tea!

...ger, Ph.D., who sips a dozen odd cups of tea every day is, more than convinced of the drinks healthy attributes. As evidence he points out to studies, which suggest that tea helps prevent cancer and heart disease. Also researchers have found that tea helps women in the menopausal age group by strengtheni...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...r the event, the number of deaths among men on the day of the event was documented as being higher by 50% more than the normal statistics. This change, however is not evident in the women population. Mental or emotional stress may not be the only factors implicated as causes provoking cardiovascular eve...

Good sleep enhances task performance

...hes. Subjects who were sleep deprived on the first day showed no improvement in task performance but those who were allowed to sleep showed a substantial improvement. This type of sleep is required for memory consolidation. There are two types of sleep, slow wave sleep that predominates early and REM o...

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...onor for organ donation. Nearly 20 people die each day because they are unable to find a suitable match. A spokeswoman for Levis Strauss in San Francisco, said that the ad film was meant in good humour to show how attached some people are with their jeans. But respecting the popular opinion the ad is...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

...hat both the doctors were suspended on Feb. 21st a day after the surgery. While Dr. Kotzen performed the surgery, Dr. Chow prepared the patient but was not present during the surgery. A few years ago, the mother of Indian film star Shridevi was operated upon the wrong side of the brain in the United St...

The brain loves a surprise

...ine, while others thrive on never knowing what the day will bring, may have something to do with the brain's "pleasure centers," researchers have found. In the study, Berns and his colleagues gave the participants drops of water and fruit juice. Part of the time, the sequence of water and juice drops wa...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...unate patients who use the stick up to six times a day for more than ten to twenty years or so. The main obstacle of these tests is the pain and discomfort associated with them. But researchers and manufacturers have increasingly been developing new ways to minimize the pain from those finger pricks with...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...of Chicago said that thousands of people die every day due to sudden cardiac arrest, which is a different condition unlike a heart attack, where the heart stops beating suddenly. Many patients survive if they are resuscitated and if the heart starts beating in 3-4 minutes. The longer the time taken for ...

Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...iendly. But with the number of smokers increasing day by day and the number of diseases caused due to smoking also increasing, these nicotine replacement options...

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

...leeding. Researchers belive this study could some day be applied to treat other diseases such as diabetes. For thousands of hemophiliacs around the world, this treatment using gene therapy will come as a life saving blessing. However the researchers are cautious and feel more examination is necessary ...

Glaxo launches pills to help smokers quit in 7-12 weeks

...sed products and a dosage of 150 mg tablet twice a day is usually prescribed, said Dr. S.M. Chandrashekhar, Medical Advisor, Glaxo India Ltd. According to Dr. Chandrashekhar, a customized approach to the addiction was essential. "Just popping the pill is not enough, the complete treatment involves a com...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...sing substances, he added. So let us wait for the day wherein these novel approach of therapy is yet another weapon for combatting cancer....

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...suffer non-fatal strokes. But the question of the day is about the recovery - whether the patient would recover and if so how long would it take. Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Maryland devised a method which allows doctors to give patients and thei...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...ved the bacteria mixture. Shanahan predicted some day scientists would create organisms genetically engineered to produce vaccines and drugs to treat IBD and other diseases. Weinstock said even genetically engineered helminths are a possibility. But doctors face at least two potential hurdles before pr...

Risk of heart disease begins in teens

...fuel. Patients must inject insulin several times a day to manage the disease. Complications of diabetes include heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and limb amputation. According to the ADA, atherosclerosis accounts for roughly 1.5 million heart attacks and 600,000 strokes each year, in the general...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...hich included 75 stroke patients who were put on 5 day course of high- or low-dose acetaminophen or an inactive placebo. Twenty-four hours after treatment began, body temperature was an average of 0.4 degrees Celsius lower in patients taking a high dose of acetaminophen than in patients taking the place...

Risk of Cancer can be reduced to 40% with a High Fiber Diet

...howed that people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and drink more than a bottle of wine are 50 times ...sed to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day to achieve optimum health and avoid cancer. These studies give us a truthful picture of the relation...

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