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Kalam Appeals to Eradicate Hearing Disability

...sting less than Rs.1 lakh, Kalam said, adding that defect free hearing and speech for all should be our national mission. President Kalam very few people are aware has been involved in the indigenous development of a cochlear implant to benefit children with profound sensory, neural and hearing loss, using...

Risk Of Birth Defects Slightly Increased Due To IVF

...l analysis done revealed a 6.2%, 5% and 4.4% birth defect rate in children born through IVF, IUI and natural...conception respectively. The fact that the birth defect rate is comparatively higher in the IUI group prevents the researchers to arrive at a definitive con...

Risk Of Birth Defects Increased Due To Anti-Depressant Medication

...ompared to other pregnant women. The risk of birth defect was significantly higher compared to pregnant women who took other forms of anti-depressant medication. In the studies cited by the FDA, the risk of congenital heart defects is about 1 percent overall, which rose to 1.5 to 2 percent in infants born...

3-D Projection Of Heart For Diagnosis Of Cardiovascular Disorders

...ges were in such a way that it represented a heart defect that affects the shape of an inside part the heart. Images of healthy hearts were also given for comparison. The doctors who learnt to use the equipment were able to 'cut through' the heart to see inside, using a virtual pointer, within ten minutes a...

Guidant sold defective defibrillators with full knowledge

...lawed devices and did not notify doctors about the defect until last spring, when the problem was about to be made public. One of the Guidant records shows that the company projected in May, before disclosure of the defibrillator's problems, that about 0.15 percent of the units - or 15 units out of every 1...

New cure for Osteoporosis

...itain, have found that mice with a particular gene defect have a lower bone density. This breakthrough is making...

Govt Hospital Surgeons Perform A Rare Cardiac Surgery

...erformed surgical correction of a congenital heart defect in a 30-year old woman under 'spinal epidural anes...ongenital heart disease (CHD) called atrial septal defect (a hole between two atriums of the heart). She was suffering from severe breathing related problems,...

Down’s Syndrome Is The Leading Birth Defect In the U

...oblems and Down's syndrome happens to be a leading defect across the globe. Additionally cleft palate and cleft lip are also prevalent birth defects in modern times....

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

...two systems, take appropriate plans to rectify the defect and finally to ensure effective implementation of the proof read system. In some families, the family members even deny or restrict access to patients in need and under most circumstances much time is wasted circumventing this barrier before any a...

Novel Protein, Staufen2 Important In Maintenance Of Nerve Synapses

...subsequent transport to synaptic junctions. As any defect in this process (due to missing Staufen2 protein) has been found to result in structural and functional inhibition of the synapse, it is logical to assume that the protein also plays a major role in the process of learning and memory retention. Thi...

Parkinson's Disease Has Genetic Roots

...nts. The study goes to prove that a single genetic defect may be responsible for the Parkinson's disease in certain races of people. ...

Helicobacter pylori effectively killed by Sodium nitrite

...ropean origin, is an inherited disease caused by a defect in a gene called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Affecting the airways and many other vital organs and processes, cystic fibrosis is chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal, mostly as a result of respiratory failure....

Baby Underwent A Heart Surgery Inside The Womb

...the surgery. The baby was diagnosed with a heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) inside the womb. When she was 30 weeks the doctors placed a stent in the developing fetus on November 7, 2005. She was born on January 10 and the doctors performed the first part of the definitive three...

Designer Babies- To Create Or Not To Create!

... a-thalassemia and b- thalassemia depending on the defect involved. Varying degree of anemia, heart failure, fluid accumulation in the body, bone defects, liver and spleen abnormalities are common presenting features. In worst cases, it can lead to stillbirth. It is now possible to identify such defects in ...

Mystery Behind The Déjà Vu Phenomenon Yet To Be Resolvd

...earchers have found that it is nothing more than a defect in the memory process. Though all of us have experienced similar feeling in our day-to-day life, for some people, this kind of a feeling is constant. A man who presented to the memory clinic at Leeds University, saying that he had already witnessed...

Need For Early Recognition Of Stroke In Children

...ain damage. Children with sickle cell anemia (a defect in which the normally round red blood cells become sickle shaped) are at an increased risk of stroke as a result of obstruction in the normal blood flow. It is also likely to occur in children with whiplash injury to the neck as a result of arterial ...

The Little Known Facts of Junk DNA

...g disease (congenital megacolon) is a common birth defect marked by bowel obstruction. MEN2 is an inherited predisposition to neuroendocrine cancers. Mutation in enhancers plays a role in human disease progression. But enhancer mutations are difficult to locate as enhancers are located in the 98 % of the hu...

Researchers Create Bladder In The Lab

... children in the study were suffering from a birth defect called spinal myelomeningocele, which means that the spines have not been properly fused after birth. This meant that the protruding nerves used to impinge on the bladder thus weakening it and leading to incontinence. The usual treatment in such case...

There is light at the end of the blind tunnel: prosthetic retinal cells offer hope!

...e with photoreceptor deficiency that resembles the defect in such inherited human disorders as retinitis pigmentosa. The light-sensitive protein they used, called channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), is found in green algae. The introduced protein rendered the retinal neurons sensitive to light. Writing a review ...

Why All the Fuss about Folic Acid?

...fortification has been introduced, the neural tube defect rate has been reduced. Apart from this the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) has also suggested that folic acid prevents low birth weight, help conditions such as heart disease and stabilize blood pressure. According to a study pub...

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