Tag: "enhanced" at medical news

Fish Oils Supplements Could Cool Violent Children

...mproved short-term memory among primary pupils and enhanced achievements in reading and spelling. Source-IANS...

Estimated cost of lifetime AIDS treatment assessed to be $618,900

...duced in 1996 life expectancy of Aids patients was enhanced by 4 years. Ten years down the line it has increased commendably by almost 24 years .Researchers note that like most breakthrough treatments tend to be expensive owing to the mammoth resources that are poured in for the sake of research breakthrough ...

Periodontal Disease Not a Cause for Premature Delivery

... prone to a host of health problems, that includes enhanced chance of death, scientists thought it imperative to examine if treating periodontal disease in pregnant women could reduce premature delivery or influence pregnancy outcomes. In their study, the scientists analyzed 823 pregnant women suffering per...

Whole Wheat, Wholesome for Pregnant Women and Their Offspring

...while those fed defatted flax flour experienced an enhanced cancer risk. Oat flour did not influence the risk in any way....

Children’s Verbal Skills Are Sharpened by Positive Parenting Behavior

Positive parenting habits may be the reason for enhanced verbal skills among preschoolers, and the perceived superiority of breast milk// over bottle milk in influencing cognitive abilities does not really hold water, a new study has shown. The findings have been published in the Journal Pediatrics. The...

Memories Linked To Their Packaging In The Brain

...n region became involved. The researchers observed enhanced activity in the intra-parietal sulcus, a part of the parietal cortex. It appears that this region is responsible for binding together all the features of a particular memory so that contextual details, as well as more central aspects of the event suc...

Alternative Splicing - Molecular Cloning

...'Half of them were inhibited by Nova and half were enhanced in their exon use by Nova, and every one very clea...omponents of the splicing machinery; in another it enhanced the ability of this machinery to assemble the right way and use an alternatively spliced site that i...

New Treatment For Skin Cancer Using Body's own Immune System

...of skin cancer. //Patients whose immune system was enhanced by drugs lived longer and their malignant melanomas also reduced noticeably. Two research teams in the U.S. were able to improvise the immune system's attack on cancer cells. Both these studies were presented at a conference on cancer research at P...

Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, A New Technique For Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

...e that does away with mouth-to-mouth breathing, it enhanced the willingness to perform resuscitation in lay individuals. 'In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the brain and the heart need resuscitation, not the lungs,' said Gordon A. Ewy, director of UA Sarver Heart Center, where the new approach was develope...

Nanoparticles Used by Researchers to Attack Brain Tumours

...in less Photofrin exposure throughout the body and enhanced exposure within the tumor. This allowed a larger window for activating the drug with light. It would also eliminate a common side effect of photodynamic therapy, in which healthy skin becomes sensitive to light. In rat studies, researchers found th...

Sex Education Not Effective In UK

...dy reports that while teachers and students prefer enhanced sex education programs//, they did not affect preg... hands out information and discusses values, or an enhanced sex education class, where students and teachers role-play and work on skills like negotiating sexua...

Innovative Movies Show Real-Time Immune-Cell Activity within Tumors

...patient. The hope in these trials is that these enhanced T cell populations will specifically target and destroy the patient’s cancer. To date, despite a few remarkable successes, these trials have proven frustratingly uneven. Greater insights into the mechanisms of interaction between T cells and tumor ce...

Zinc – A New Key Player In Brain Circuitr

...it, altered transmission of visual signals, and an enhanced startle response to sudden noise. Electrophysiological studies of the mutant animals' brain and spinal neurons showed significant zinc-related abnormalities in transmission of signals at the connections, called synapses, among neurons. Betz and h...

Newly Cloned Wheat Gene May Boosts Foods' Nutrient Contents – Says A Researc

...fforts will soon translate into food products with enhanced nutritional value. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Best HIV-Prevention Programs Help People Build Skills

... such as when risky sex is on the horizon. “It’s enhanced education, where you actually build their skills and don’t just give them information,” said review lead author Cynthia Lyles, a prevention researcher at the CDC. Role-playing, for example, could help people learn how to avoid getting infected duri...

Drug Coated Stents Under the Scanner

...x, an anti-clotting medication, then he carries an enhanced risk of developing these life threatening blood clots. Yet, it is still unclear if the drug, Plavix, is safe to consume long term for stent patients. According to some doctors, the risk is not always detrimental, because an approximate 5 clots are...

Dr. Reddy's To Invest $100 Mn In Andhra

...y the end of 2007 and the capacity will be further enhanced to 16 billion tablets per year by early 2009.' 'This drug would reduce the heart attack risk by almost 65 percent as it is capable of reducing cholesterol level and control blood pressure. In India, our focus is to reach the masses by making it affo...

Skip the Drug, Pick Up Your Shoes

... in hormone regulation, decrease in free radicals, enhanced anti- tumor immune function and decrease in insulin levels. More research is needed in this subject such as prescribing and optimizing types of exercise, as oncologists would probably lack the knowledge and confidence of proposing such exercises. ...

Targeting a Single Gene Could Inhibit Bone Decay and Stimulate Bone Growth

... bone mass due to defective osteoclasts as well as enhanced bone formation. These findings may provide some clarity into the regulation of bone metabolism and show that targeting the function of a single gene could possibly inhibit bone decay while stimulating bone formation. “We have finally proven the the...

Addicts in India Taking to Pharmaceutical Drugs: UNAIDS

... of disposable needles and syringes should also be enhanced further so that the spread of HIV can be controlled," Reddy said. Source-IANS...

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