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Six More Bhopal Gas Tragedy Continues to Take Toll

...o have died in the past two months. 'The doctors fitted a respiratory pipe into my father's throat thatled to excessive bleeding and resulted in his death,' claimed NoorJahan, daughter of Abdul Hamid who died last month. The BMHRC, which has a corpus of nearly Rs.3.88 billion (about $83million), has bee...

Seconds Between Life And Death

...patients in transit and has the advantage of being fitted without any surgery. ...

Inner Ear Implants: Cure for Stammerers

...cutive Norbert Lieckfeldt said the device would be fitted in her inner ear. It mimics the user's voice. It i...ral thousand people in the USA had had the devices fitted and experiencing a new life....

New Device Developed For Treating Cervical Spondylitis

...cise and close to perfection," he added. "A cap fitted at the far end of the drill prevents drilling beyond the required measure and therefore minimises the chances of any complications often associated with the conventional Cloward technique," Dev said. --Edited IANS...

East London Receives World Class New Private Hospital Facility

...rts and two floors at the Royal London will not be fitted out until it is determined whether population increases in East London indicate that it is an essential service. This is expected to save ￡20 million a year which the trust has to pay. Ms Hewitt said that the two-month delay in approving the projec...

Berlin Heart Saves The Life Of An Eighteen Month Old Child

...2. Claudia was only the second small child to be fitted with a Berlin heart at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which first carried out the operation in November 2004. Berlin heart is a life-saving device that takes over the functions of the patient's sick heart until doctors find a suitable donor...

Heart Transplant Twin Recovering, But Brother Critical

...r continues to fight for life.// Nick Draper was fitted in with a new heart during a 5-hour operation last week at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. But due to healing difficulties, doctors were forced to keep the chest cavity open, but now they have been able to seal off his new h...

MP3s And iPods Can Damage Hearing

...t future generations of the machines might best be fitted with lights or some other notice of excessive decibel measures. Representatives at Apple and Sony, two of the biggest manufacturers of these appliances, did not respond to questions. But one industry association agreed with Kileny's advice. Jennife...

Visualization Found To Be Largely Dependent On The Brain

...ll the obtained information is accommodated and is fitted together like a puzzle to help in the interpretation process. The results of this fascinating study (funded by the National Institutes of Health) appear in the latest issue of the journal Neuron. One of the most striking observations in the study ...

Mobile Endoscopic Facilities For Health Screening

...ich becomes visible on a screen through the camera fitted on the endoscopic tubes in some conditions biopsy specimens can also be collected using endoscopic tubes. Though, most of the biopsy test results showed negative results this mobile endoscopic unit reduces the long wait of the patients for an endosco...

Improperly Placed And Heavy Backpacks Lead To Back Pain In School Children

...ool going children, aged 13. The participants were fitted with sensors attached to shoulder straps. The children were monitored while carrying standard, identical backpacks accounting for 10, 20 and 30% of their body weight in succession. Increase in weight of the backpack was directly associated to pain ...

Drug-Eluting Stents Ensure Patency Of The Saphenous Vein Grafts

...en a vein graft was considerably lower among those fitted with a drug eluting stent with the reduction rates...imating to 4 and 10 compared to 20 and 37 in those fitted with a conventional stent. Previous studies have already established that medicated stents are eff...

High Levels Of Noise In Work Place Found To Increase Blood Pressure

...blood pressure throughout the day by an externally fitted monitor was used. The frequency of the noise recording was one recording per minute while heart rate and blood pressure were taken every 10 minutes. At the end of the analysis, the following observations were made. Overall noise exposure had a sign...

Three In One Ultrasound Probe For 3-D Imaging Of Heart And Tissue Destruction Developed

... millimeters. As many as 200 tiny cables have been fitted into a 3 mm catheter due to the advancement in cable technology. The ablation beam emerging from the 112-transducer array is 50 times more energetic than the imaging beam. "The nice thing about ultrasound ablation is that you don't have to touch th...

Dentists Recommend Kids Use Mouthguard To Protect Them When Doing Sports

...d’s teeth, lips, cheeks and tongue, but a properly fitted mouthguard can help protect your child’s smile,” says Edmond Hewlett, D.D.S., an ADA consumer advisor and associate professor at UCLA’s School of Dentistry. “In addition to mouthguards, be sure your child wears all the appropriate protective equipm...

Drug Delivery Made More Patient Friendly And Safe

...e. The data is wiped from the wristband and can be fitted to a new patient. The wristband is held to be a really practical use of electronic-tagging in medical equipment design and promises for an extra level of security to both staff and patients, ensuring that the correct drug is being administered at th...

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident

...o his shoulders. Like most amputees, Sullivan was fitted with a traditional artificial prosthesis, relying on chains and buttons to move his arm. But then doctors at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago offered a "bionic" arm for his other lost limb, putting him at the forefront of biomechanical technol...

Analyzing The Side Effects Of Sirolimus Stents

...nary vasomotor response to exercise in 14 patients fitted with sirolimus-eluting stents and 11 control patients receiving bare metal stents. It was observed that after 6 months, the reference vessel showed an increase in exercise-induced vasodilation in both groups, with a mean increase in diameter of 13%, ...

Ayurvedic Therapies Cashing In On Medical Tourism

...n which lukewarm herbal oils are poured into a cap fitted on the head. Most of the major Ayurveda resorts have also formulate special ayurveda kitchens to enhance the effect of the oil treatment. Clients while going through the Ayruvedic experience are put on a strict vegetarian diet regime, which helps to...

Re –growing Brain cells destroyed by Parkinson’s disease

...ve patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease were fitted with a tiny catheter that delivered GDNF direct to the putamen, part of the basal ganglia in the centre of the brain. It was observed that some of the symptoms associated with Parkinson’s such as uncontrollable shaking and trembling were reduced in ...

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