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New device for ailing heart fitted into first patient

A hospital in New zealand had fitted the first ptient with a turbocharger for the heart called C-Pulse.// The special device is designed to help patients with moderate heart problems, who are still not ill enough to go for a heart transplant and its related side effects. These patient...

Household Pollutants Found To Increase Asthma Risk

...ves, cleaning products, polishes, room fresheners, fitted carpets, and cigarette smoke. Three-quarters of the children in the study had at least one parent with an allergy, and over half had at least one parent with asthma. Researchers observed that those children exposed to total VOC levels of 60 microgra...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

...ion between the trachea and esophagus that is then fitted with a small plastic //or silicone valve , researchers say this new surgical technique may help restore speech to head and neck cancer patients who have had their voice box and tongue removed. Researchers say that TEP, combined with post operative s...

Gene linked to 'Missing Eye' condition in newborns

...egnancy. Babies born with this condition are often fitted with prosthetic eyes to allow normal facial// development. Researchers from the Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh who published their study in the journal Nature Genetics, have discovered that at least some of the babies born with this condition have...

Assessment for hearing aid implants in the process

...es. Researchers in the US have surveyed 100 adults fitted with one of the implants. They find that 70 per cent reported improvement in the quality of life, and most retained their residual hearing. There were, however, a few adverse effect, such as dizziness, device malfunction and infection. On the whole, ...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...io. Alexandrov uses a hand-held ultrasound device fitted into a frame "like the frame inside a construction worker's hard hat," he said. Using a Food and Drug Administration-approved diagnostic frequency setting of 2 megahertz, the device focuses on the clot while the tPA is infused over a period of about ...

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...ociated with excessive sweating. The probe is also fitted with a cutter that is used to sever the nerve, thus stopping the signal from the brain to the hands. Since the nerves to the feet take a different route, the feet often continue to sweat after surgery.The side effects of such surgery are compensator...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...re has been an increase of 49 per cent in patients fitted with a pacemaker or defibrillator. Fifty two warni...population, it is likely that more devices will be fitted and it is important that manufacturers make sure that they are reliable....

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