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Indian Hospitals – A Destination For Quality Medical Care

... variations in access to services and unacceptable differences in the quality of clinical practices. To conclude, with the ever increasing demand for medical attention it is particularly important to ensure that that the right people are being identified and referred for the right treatment at the right time. ...

Brain defect may play role in stammering

...nces. Foundas felt that they found that there were differences in the anatomy of some of these gray matter regions in (the brains of) adults with persistent developmental stuttering. We did not study the white matter connections. This German study, she added, did not study gray matter anatomy, so it may be tha...

Soy, Omega 3s convalesce artery health

...er the diets. Study results showed no significant differences in blood lipids and blood pressure between the high- and low-isoflavone soy protein diets. Low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol -- the so-called "bad" cholesterol that clogs arteries was lower after the soy diets compared to the dairy-and-egg...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

... They also observed that there were no significant differences in regard to treatment in the screened and unscreened groups due to the fact that stage II breast cancers, although classified as 'late stage', are treated similarly to early stage cancers. However, Buseman concluded that the study did not address po...

Cut meat to cut blood pressure

...out how various eating styles were associated with differences in blood pressure, compared the blood pressures of...h eaters and vegetarians were in the middle. These differences remained even after the researchers considered that the meat eaters tended to be older and heavier, ...

Brain of Cocaine Addicts Smaller In Size

...d imaging techniques reveals unexpected structural differences in the brains of cocaine addicts. For the study researchers compared detailed images of the brain structure // of 27 cocaine addicts to that of similar images obtained from 27 healthy patients. Results showed the amygdala -- a key structure in the b...

Reconsideration Of Heart Transplant Eligibility

...s showed no statistically significant success rate differences between the 50 patients older than 60 who received a heart transplant and the 125 transplant patients younger than 60. The factors found hindering heart transplant eligibility were smoking, drug and alcohol addiction, excessive weight and mental dise...

Different Types Of Multiple Sclerosis May Be Treated Differently

...om the Mayo Clinic had demonstrated that there are differences in pathological subtypes of multiple sclerosis that may react differently to treatment. Only those multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with evidence for antibody deposition or complement activation // -- immune cells that can cause tissue destruction --...

Trained Counselors Counseling Pregnant Smokers To Quit May Not Work

...itting or cutting down. There were no significant differences in change in smoking behavior in the intervention group compared with the control group, although fewer women in the intervention group reported smoking more. Seventeen (4.8%) of the women in the intervention group stopped smoking compared with 19 (...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

... July to September 2002. There were no significant differences in the general health, age or body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) of the two sets of patients. All patients were women. The researchers compared surgical times as well as the ratio of the...

Adolescents Who Walk To School Are Fitter, More Active

...easons for increased physical activity may include differences in appreciation of activity, and walking in the mo...l facilitation, they suggest. Understanding these differences would enhance health promoting school and transportation strategies, they conclude. Source: Newswis...

Heart Attack Patients Reaching Hospital During Off-Hours Have Increased Risk Of Death

...educed by 43 percent when researchers adjusted for differences in reperfusion treatment times, suggesting that the higher off-hours mortality was due in part to longer reperfusion treatment times. The researchers add that this study demonstrates that delays to PCI during off-hours are common to all types of hos...

Natural Sulfur Can Treat Pain From Osteoarthritis

...s in WOMAC pain and physical function. No notable differences were found in WOMAC stiffness and aggregated total symptoms. The changes in the placebo group were non-significant. This study showed that MSM 3g twice a day for 12 weeks improved pain and physical function in patients with knee osteoarthritis pain...

Sensations Generated By Cocaine And Methamphetamine Abuse Are Not Same.

...emistry and Behavior. Researchers said that these differences help explain patterns of use by addicts. Methamphetamine users, for instance, report using the drug daily throughout each day, while cocaine users typically engage in binges that occur most often in the evening. In addition, the study results may i...

Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack

...of Medicine. "This finding, along with evidence of differences in treatment, requires attention and remedy." T...tech, Inc. The team evaluated whether race and sex differences in treatment that had been previously reported in heart attack care had changed in subsequent years....

Have You Ever Wondered Why Male And Female Voices Differ?

...aluation of male and female voices found startling differences in the way the brain interprets the two sounds, wi...s actually more complex than the male voice due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between women and men and also due to women havi...

MS Patients Improve With Telephone Therapy

...e retained during the 12-month follow-up, however, differences across treatments were no longer evident. The sample of MS patients had impairments that affected their ability to engage in social roles, as evidenced by the assessed functional impairment and the fact that 74 percent of the sample was not in the ...

New Drugs For High Blood Pressure Better Than Old Ones

...ers from Imperial College London, UK had looked at differences in blood pressure and other variables in patients ...ffect on stroke events, but other factors, such as differences in cholesterol, were more important for coronary events. Source: Newswise, The Lance...

New ultralight hand with better functionality and flexibility developed

...nd which weighs on average 500g). One of the key differences between mechanical, artificial, limbs is that they aren’t able to sense pressure or touch in the same way human limbs can. The next stage of the research is to integrate the latest sensors technology with the Remedi-Hand to create a 'clever' hand whi...

Human Diseases May Have Clue In Human-Chimp Genome Difference

...ences// in them. Researcher had described genetic differences between the species: one, the discovery of the first human-specific protein that is also expressed in brain cells associated with human brain diseases; the second, a single oxygen atom difference that makes humans and chimpanzees resistant to each ot...

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