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Radiation Preferred Over Surgery for Patients With Some Stages of Lung Cancer

...s study, as well as the challenges that each group faces in trying to treat this disease. "Accordingly, these data will be thoroughly parsed by surgeons, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists alike to assess how each specialty’s contribution might be improved and the negative aspects minimized," t...

Delhi Kids to Be Immunized Against Polio

...om just one case in 2005. 'The only threat Delhi faces on this front is from certain neighbouring states, which contribute substantially to the huge migration into the capital,' she said, adding the floating population was a headache for her government. Calling for a success of Pulse Polio Programme, s...

FDA Decision Encourages Lamictal Generics

...is not due to run out until 2009. Lamictal already faces generic competition in Europe, where its patents have expired. Lamictal (lamotrigine) is an antiepileptic drug indicated as adjunctive therapy for partial seizures in adults and pediatric patients. It is also approved for conversion to monotherapy...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

...t are completely different. While an urban woman faces issues such as divorce and sexual discrimination or abuse at work, her ‘ country cousin’ faces issues like illiteracy, early marriage and childbirth, female infanticide and a decreased access to ...

Simple Act of Brushing Your Teeth can Trigger an Epileptic Fit, Say Experts

...rushed the sides of their mouths, and caused their faces to jerk and twitch. One patient salivated vigorously while another couldn't let go of the toothbrush during the seizure. Says D’Souza: “ In one patient we [removed the lesion] because the patient wanted to try and stop the seizures and not need m...

New Hope for Regenerative Medicine

...l therapies. However, uniparental ES cell research faces the biological hurdle of genomic imprinting, in which specific gene expression patterns are dictated by the parental origin. Uniparental cells only have the imprinting marks for one parental type (or "from one parent") with unknown consequences if ha...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...t Saranya the art of threading eyebrows, bleaching faces and doing facials. Among the first graduates from this beautician's course in 2005 were Vidhya, Saranya, Ashwariya and Dyana. Today there are at least 36 trained beauticians among them, many with their own parlours. TAI's Kavya is a folk art group...

'Cancer Prevention' - In Your Hands

... – A disease that could wipe the smile// off many faces and cause the deepest anguish is preventable. It is not an exaggeration that 43% of all cancers are preventable. Sunday, 4 February 2007, is World Cancer Day, embodying the theme - “Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s World” will focus on strategies for a c...

New Approach Needed To Restore Faith in Pharmaceutical Industry

...and withdrawn from the worldwide market. Merck now faces legal claims from nearly 30,000 people taking Vioxx who experienced a CV event while taking the drug. In the course of the litigation and in dealings with medical journals it was revealed that Merck had obscured critical data on the drug's toxicity...

Cartoons Superimposed With People's Faces Help Autistic Children Learn Emotions

... find it very disturbing to look at other people’s faces and hence are unable to learn to understand and ex...dren to overcome their fear of looking at people's faces so that they can start learning about how expressions arise. This is a way to ease them into reading...

Oral Hygiene Can Prevent Tooth Decay for Patients With Cleft Conditions

A child with cleft lip/palate faces predisposing factors to acquiring dental tooth decay.// A new study reviews the literature and provides strategies for early prevention. The study is published in the latest Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal. Cleft lip/palate is the most common cong...

More Americans Die Due To Side Effects From Prescription Drugs Every Year: Report

...sonalized medicine into everyday clinical practice faces significant hurdles, the authors wrote. These include scientific uncertainty about the validity of data, social concerns about the potential uses of genetic information, and economic concerns about the costs and benefits of pharmacogenomics. These ...

Latest Research on Visual Skills is an Eye Opener

...etween separate objects, determine depth, localize faces amongst a background of natural scenes, and match faces by their identity. This case demonstrated that a person can acquire visual function even after being...

Law Professor Finds Home Health Care Workers Have Few Legal Protections

... workers," said Smith. "The problem the government faces is, how do you regulate the employment relationship of someone who works in a private home?" The issue will become increasingly important in the future, as Baby Boomers will need increased healthcare services as they age and their health declines. ...

Sutherland Pleads Guilty and Convicted

... ago. Having being pronounced guilty, Sutherland faces a sentence of 400 hours of community service, two years probation and surrender of the consultation fees. “Dr. Sunderland violated the fundamental rule that government employees cannot accept payment from interested private parties without the perm...

WHO Urges Shah Rukh Khan to Stop Endorsing Tobacco Products

... it vehemently. It's really horrible to see public faces not showing enough responsibility," said Robert Beaglehole, director of the chronic diseases and health promotion at the WHO, in an interview to IANS. He said players like Michael Schumacher or some Indian film stars should not associate themselves...

India-Born 'Dr Death' Faces Civil Suits

...Jayant Patel, referred as "Dr Death" by the media, faces manslaughter charges in Sydney, Australia followed by further investigations //on the death of another patient of the doctor. It has also been revealed that some of Patel's victims have instructed Nicol Robinson Halletts, a Brisbane based law firm,...

Patient Advised to visit Exorcist

...ng contraception advice to go and see an exorcist, faces a disciplinary hearing today. // Dr Joyce Pratt, from Birmingham, who works at several London family planning clinics, had allegedly told the woman she 'had something awful inside her' and was under a black magic spell. The GP, is then said to ...

Smoking in cars-highway to death

...s in children .With this evidence staring at your faces parents cannot ignore the death knell that tolls far away MST...

Green Signal given to Full-Face Transplants

... surgeons reporting that bereaved families offered faces to transplant co-ordinators since Ms Dinoire's surgery. NL...

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