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World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...ol seizures, transplanting stem cells, and using a device that could predict seizures up to 3 minutes before they begin. In addition, researchers are continually improving MRI and other brain scans. People with epilepsy often report impairments in their memory, language, attention, concentration and inf...

Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives

...e up to 22. The number of infected intra uterine device (IUD) users has also risen sharply, by over 67 percent, from 1134 to 1900. The number of people infected from sex workers has also increased to 4421 from 2994. However, fewer sex workers have been infected as compared to clients. In 2005, their numbe...

New Device Developed to Eliminate Superbugs Within Minutes

British researchers claim to have invented a device that mimics the naturally disinfecting quality of ...actical," said David Macdonald, co-inventor of the device and chief scientific officer of Inov8 Science, which developed it. Macdonald and co-inventor Derek...

University of Zurich Announces Worldwide Clinical Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

...on of the heart as a pump. This can be helped by a device therapy called CRT. CRT has been proven effective as an adjunct to drug therapies in patients with advanced heart failure and dyssynchrony indirectly assessed by changes in the electrocardiogram or ECG, specifically a wide QRS duration of more than 1...

US Supreme Court Could Protect Medical Equipment Manufacturers from Law Suits

...r. Riegels condition and that the surgeon used the device in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. Both...at three appeals courts reviewing the same medical device made by the same company have reached two different conclusions about whether patients could bring a...

Angioplasty may Damage Kidneys

... blockages are cleared by inflating a balloon-like device inside the vessel (angioplasty) and inserting a st...8 angioplasty cases, researchers used a protection device to temporarily block the vessel at the site of the angioplasty and stenting. After the procedure, an...

Virus Claims Harry Potter is Dead!

...t to hop between different computers each time the device is inserted. Its other effects are creating a host of new users on the PC using character names from the books like Harry, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. It also changes the computer's internet homepage to a spoof of book-seller Amazon.com displ...

Apple Launches IPhone; New Yorkers Line Up to Buy Gadget

...ve Steve Jobs hope the iPhone, a sleek lightweight device which fits in the hand, will prove as popular as i...um features, however, come at a premium price: The device costs about five times more than a conventional cell phone. The four-gigabyte model retails at 499 d...

Defective Defibrillators

...there is an increased cost to repair or remove the device and many a times it can cause death. It is a big p...f about 20% in the past decade. The failure of the device was a major public health concern. It's a very serious problem, because if the leads [wires] have ...

Now the Blind can hear What They Cant See or Read

A group of IT students here have developed a device that can enable the blind to hear what they cannot...a College team that took six months to develop the device and the software to go with it was led by R.K. Sharma and included his assistants Karan, Mayank, Aks...

New Critical Path Report Highlights Research Needed to Foster Generic Drug Development

...nges exist in moving a promising drug, biologic or device along the critical path from discovery, or proof of concept, to a marketable product. Solving these challenges will require the expertise and input of many groups, including scientists from universities, patient groups, government, industry, associat...

Researchers To Test Whether ADHD Medication Helps Young Adults While Driving

...study, driver performance will be measured using a device called DriveCam. This video system will be mounted inside the vehicle and will measure and record all audio visual signals. When there is a marked change in driving force, DriveCam will store the 10 seconds before the change and the 20 seconds follow...

New Laser Offers Alternative to Surgery in Treating Voice Disorders

...ulsed potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser, the device uses energy and heat to shut down and starve blood vessels on the voice box (larynx), or vocal cords, rather than removing them surgically. That's good news for those singers, teachers, lawyers and constant cell phone talkers who have recurrent voice...

Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart

...terial infection that started several months after device implantation. The patch was removed and all 3 patients had successful surgery to repair the rupture. Even in such cases, the VSD patch serves its purpose by allowing patients to regain enough strength to withstand surgery, Dr. Martinez said. "Surge...

walk and Work Desk Could Help Obese Workers to Shed Weight

... Designed by the authors, the steel frame of the device is shaped in the form of the alphabet H and held by four locking rubber wheels, so that it can be moved about easily. The frame has a Plexiglass panel on to which two adjustable arms are bolted. One of the arms holds the computer screen and the oth...

Stand Up And Get Back To Work!

...e exercise increases appetite, employees using the device would have to guard against eating more, "which would bring them back to zero," Sharma opines. The vertical workstation, designed by Levine and his team, costs about $1,600 US and is available for purchase....

Smokeless Cannabis Delivery Device Found Efficient and Less Toxic

A smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device delivers the same level of active therapeutic chem...The research team looked at the effectiveness of a device that heats cannabis to a temperature between 180 and 200 degrees C, just short of combustion, which ...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

...s. A few years ago, Zanni's team built the first device capable of designing infrared laser beams with a c... this time, however, he says the automation of the device itself is a tremendous achievement. 'In time, automated 2-D IR spectroscopy will become a common an...

New Electro-chemical Biosensor to Check Food Contamination

...l signals. By measuring these electric signals the device can determine the concentration of contaminants in the sample. The sensor will allow the detection of doses of atrazine at levels of 0.006 micrograms per litre, much lower than the maximum concentrations allowed by European regulations (0.1 microgr...

Floida to Electronically Track Alzheimers Patients

...erity or likelihood of these risks. "Any medical device approved by the FDA has potential risk factors listed in the approval letter. VeriChip is no different," said Silverman, who had an RFID chip implanted in his arm in 2002 -- more than two years before the FDA first approved the chips -- and has exper...

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