In Early Epilepsy Delay in medications Recommended
...reatment. The study comes in the wake of the long drawn controversy regarding early treatment being beneficial or not or the people suffering from epilepsy. The study was published in the current issue of The Lancet. Reference: The Lancet, June 2005...Delay medicine for early epilepsy, says scientists
...reatment. The study comes in the wake of the long drawn controversy regarding early treatment being beneficial or not or the people suffering from epilepsy. The study was published in the current issue of The Lancet....Drug addiction can be genetical, says study
...re sensations of the brain.The researchers who had drawn animal parallels had reported that mice deficient in the Clock gene had produced more dopamine when injected with cocaine, much more than the control mice that had the Clock gene. The first group also had more problems with their circadian rhythms wh...Mouth wash samples to predict bone marrow transplant results
...splant for the patients. The researchers who had drawn their conclusion from parallel mouse studies are currently experimenting with discovering an easy test that will help the mouth wash samples from the patients to turn color when the white blood cells will be detected in the sample. Reference: Bone M...Scientists Unveil Mechanism Behind Resistance to Severe Malaria
...died laboratory-infected red blood cells and blood drawn from children with malaria from the African nation of Mali and studied three phenenomenon and found how well parasitized red blood cells can be made to stick to one another, to uninfected red blood cells and to blood vessel walls. These phenomena — ...Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury
...University School of Medicine in St. Louis who had drawn parallels from a mouse study, says that pomegranate juice can prevent the condition of hypoxia ischemia in babies if their mothers have the juice when they are carrying them. Hypoxia ischemia is the condition of decreased blood flow and oxygen to the...Autism epidemic is a myth- says a new study
...tism. There were gross fallacies in the conclusion drawn in the California study. Another reason pointed out by the authors was the census authorities of US had not provided for any categorization of children as autistic till 1991-92. Hence the inclusion of the new criteria makes more children being incl...Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men
...ake their experience worse. The general conclusion drawn seems to indicate that there seem to be differences in how men and women think and feel about their pain. Dr Keogh. Suggests: “Our research has shown that whilst the sensory-focused strategies used by men helped increase their pain threshold and to...Antidepressants linked to reduced risk of heart attacks
...rom the research reports the conclusion that may b drawn is that in depressive patients who had heart attacks, use of SSRIs lower the risk of heart attack considerably. Reference: Archives of General Psychiatry, July 2005...Government Organisation Proposes Strict Guidelines For SubStandard Medical Devices
...stic reagents, diagnostic kits etc. The guidelines drawn out would prescribe the exact procedures to be followed and action to be taken against the manufacturers by every state drug controller. Officials say the current move is to make the existing system more comprehensive by including all kinds of drug...Risk of Breast Cancer Overestimated with Hormone Replacement Therapy(HRT) Treatment
...s, the Director of the Institute. The conclusion drawn was: "The reasons for taking hormone replacement therapy vary and decisions about its use must be made at an individual level. Our analysis provides women and clinicians with better information to make these choices,". Further Information on Meno...Research in mice has drawn a direct link between a human gene and the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.A team led by Professor Marco Polo from the National Centre of Investigative Oncology in Sweden found that genetically engineered mice with a mutation in t...New Blood Test To Detect Iron Level In Infants
... is simple, requires no extra tubes of blood to be drawn and involves no additional cost. Source: Newswise...Critically Ill Patients More At Risk Of Infection If Glucose Is Present In Their Lung Secretions
...reathing for more than 48 hours. The patients were drawn from medical and surgical specialties. Levels of glucose were measured in their blood samples and lung secretions (bronchial aspirates). The lung secretions were also routinely tested twice weekly, or whenever an infection was suspected, for the pre...Surgeons in India to Mend ‘Pakistani Hearts’ by treating 70 Childrn
Mumbai, Sep 18 India and Pakistan maybe daggers drawn on many issues, however one issue that is likely// to win many friends include the treatment in India of 70 poor Pakistani children later this month for heart treatment. This one gesture is likely to pave path towards many more similar gestures and...People warned against consumption of red meat due to risk of Flu epidemic
.... Following the alert by the WHO, a plan has been drawn to monitor 50 bird sanctuaries across the country for the bird flu virus. Mostly the Bar-headed Geese, Brown-headed and Pallas's Gulls and Great Cormorants birds would be watched in the sanctuaries. The preparedness of the Government to address the ...Attention Breakdown Is The Harbinger Of Alzheimer's Disease
...ng start fading. Participants for the study were drawn from volunteers at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University. The researchers studied 94 older participants, average age mid-70s, who were healthy control individuals or individuals diagnosed with very mild, or mild dementia of...First Human Bird-Flu Death Confirmed In China
...flu, but she was cremated and not enough blood was drawn beforehand to carry out the high level of testing that the World Health Organisation (WHO) requires to confirm a bird-flu infection.. However, China confirmed Wednesday that her nine-year-old brother, who also became sick, had avian influenza. He ha...Antibiotics can raise the risk of getting cancer!
...g 3,000 patients with NHL and 3,000 healthy people drawn from Danish and Swedish population registers. Antibiotic use was strongly associated with all subtypes of NHL. Heavy users of NSAIDS were more likely to have an elevated overall risk of NHL and the type of diffuse large B-cell NHL, but not any other......Amongst the study participants, blood samples were drawn from 281 individuals (all identified smokers), for testing their genetic constitution with respect to the CYP2A6 gene. At a follow up conducted 30 months later, nearly 30% of the identified smokers had become dependent on cigarettes. It was further...