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Potential Of Epilepsy Surgeries Are Not Fully Harnessed Say Brain Specialists

... candidates. Most have two to five seizures a year despite medication, and have been told to live with it instead of being sent to an epilepsy center that specializes in complicated cases, says a frustrated Gumnit. That may not sound like many seizures, but it means the people can't drive or perform certa...

Single-tablet With Two Drugs may Help Control High BP Better

...ere were few side effects in the study volunteers, despite the fact that doses were increased steadily. Only 1.8 percent of patients had an episode where their blood pressure dropped too low, which is a potential effect of aggressive BP treatment. "These data suggest strongly that single tablets containing...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

...alt and reverse the spread of the disease by 2015, despite the increasing number of cases worldwide. U.N. m...are and prevention services. The report noted that despite progress, the number of HIV-positive people has increased in every region of the world since 2005, X...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...d could help bolster the supply. But, incredibly, despite ongoing shortages of blood that can and do cost lives, and no artificial substitute on the horizon, the FDA is letting prejudice and fear not science determine whether gays can give blood, regrets Arthur Caplan. At one time, long ago, the gay-blo...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

...icans, many of whom have poor long-term prognoses, despite recent therapeutic advances....

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...etter offspring. Showy males escape from predators despite their highly conspicuous ornaments and behaviorsproof of their superiority. "In our study of fiddler crabs, the strength of female preference for a male signal that increases her own survival increases with her perceived risk of predation. That a f...

Essential Tones of Music Rooted in Human Speech

...e about 50 different speech sounds this way. Yet despite the wide variation in individual human anatomy, the speech sounds produced by different speakers and languages produce the same variety of vocal tract resonance ratios, Purves said. The lowest two of these vocal tract resonances, called formants, a...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...viest drinkers are at elevated risk for mutual IPV despite the context of their neighborhood. While heavy drinking has consistently been linked to an increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), a new study has found that both drinking patterns and neighborhood characteristics can contribute in diffe...

Vaccine Hope for Malaria

...into contact with the parasite. This meant that despite making a promising antibody vaccine that worked against the parasite in a lab dish, the team could not test it in a living animal. In a new study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens an open access journal published by the Public Library of Sc...

Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

... getting more injuries, or not stopping exercising despite hearing family and friends expressing concern about ones exercise regimen. Dr. Fessihi insists that people who believe that have an over exercising disorder or at risk for developing an over exercising disorder, must seek help from a trusted adviso...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...ht infants in the study were born at such centers, despite the fact that more than 90 percent of the births occurred within urban areas with at least 100 very-low-weight births. The move away from regional centers is growing as increasing numbers of neonatal ICUs spring up at community hospitals around the s...

Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?

... severe persistent asthma who remained symptomatic despite taking regular asthma medications. Compared to p...atients with severe, refractory asthma people who despite taking state-of-the-art medications are still experiencing the disruptive and distressing symptoms o...

Panacea Announces the Availability of PC Detect(sm) for Prostate Cancer Screening

...t routinely recommended to have prostate biopsies, despite the fact that almost 24% of men with PSA levels of 2.1 to 3.0 ng/mL will be diagnosed with prostate cancer as will almost 27% of men with PSA levels of 3.1 to 4.0 ng/mL, according to a study by Thompson et.al., published in 2004 in the New England Jo...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

...how. The Dutch health authorities countered that despite the media attention, there was no noticeable rise in the number of people registering as donors. And the Dutch transplant foundation has vowed that a possible kidney transplant stemming from the show will not be carried out in one of its nine speci...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Apologizes, Lung Surgery an Option for Him

...angerous, extensively drug-resistant strain. And despite a specific warning the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention not to fly on commercial planes, he chose to take a commercial a flight to Montreal and then drove across the US border on May 24 at Champlain, New York. He said that he took the ri...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

... across the globe, including Iraq and Afghanistan, despite being linked to serious illnesses and even death among US service members. Quite conveniently, the quarterly analysis of medical care data for vaccinated service members was ended in 2002, critics charge. Several lawmakers who were briefed on the W...

Now Viagra Oysters Could Appease Your Appetite and Boost Your Libido!

...ut we haven't been told we can't harvest them here despite a number of conversations with the food authority," the Daily Telegraph quoted May, as saying. "Other countries have different regulations so we will be selling overseas. I'm happy to change the name but they are going to have a real David and Go...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

...hat the disease was not controlled in 55 percent, despite the fact that most had health insurance and visited their health care providers regularly. "Even more shocking was the finding that 38 percent of controlled asthmatics and 54 percent of uncontrolled asthmatics reported having had an asthma attack d...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...eatment was well-tolerated, with few side effects, despite its delivery via an injection into the penis. Although the primary goal of the study was to determine its safety, it also showed the therapy improved erectile function in some of the men. Dr Melman said: 'This is an exciting field of research becau...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...nine percent annually over the last five-six years despite high tariffs and entry barriers on foreign brands....

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