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Medical Records - Direct to Home With the New NHS IT System

...n the home PC is no longer a far fetched idea, but forms the core of the novel NHS IT system, slated to span the whole of// England. The medical electronic records, spearheaded by ‘Connecting for Health’ seeks to improve the quality of patient care, enabling access to personal medical records from the conf...

Hepatitis Rates Plummet in the U.S

...s A, B and C are the three most commonly occurring forms of acute viral hepatitis in the United States. Hepatitis B and C can lead to liver cancer and death. From 1995 to 2005, new cases of reported acute hepatitis A plummeted by 88 percent to an incidence rate of 1.5 per 100,000 people. During the sam...

You may Be Risking Fatal Blood Clots Even While Reading This

...osis, or DVT, is a condition in which a blood clot forms in the deep veins of the legs. The condition can be fatal if part of the clot breaks off and blocks a blood vessel in the lungs. The condition has been linked to long-haul flights and dubbed "economy class syndrome," because passengers traveling c...

Parents Should Do Their Homework to Aid Autistic Child's Education

... to ensure that your child is being taught several forms of communication. Since nearly half of all children with autism may never develop functional speech or language, it is important to give them outlets for expression. Even children who have some speech may find it difficult to interact using language ...

MSU Research Strengthens Link Between Smoking, Pancreatic Cancer

... with cancer of the pancreas, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. // In research published in the recen...er.” Pancreatic cancer is one of the more deadly forms of cancer, with an average survival rate of only about a year. It’s projected that more than 37,000 ...

Doctors Put on Their Dancing Shoes to De-stress

...the Apollo Hospital here. Learning various dance forms like merengue, cha cha, jive, waltz and, of course, the more famous salsa, Vohra is among the many doctors who are stepping on the dance floor to de-stress themselves from their physically and mentally taxing schedules. 'Doctors are probably the mo...

Bacterium Could Treat PCBs Without the Need for Dredging

...ompounds are mixtures of 70-90 different molecular forms that vary in the number and positions of chlorine atoms, making them difficult to degrade. To date, the most commonly used method to remove PCBs from the environment is to dredge and then deposit the sediments in a landfill. In order to detoxify PC...

Gene Hunters at Johns Hopkins Close In On Lou Gehrig's Disease

... developing the disease. Genes behind inherited forms of ALS--responsible for about only 5 percent of all cases--were discovered a decade ago, but no genetic roots had been found for sporadic ALS, which occurs in people without a family history of the disease. In the Johns Hopkins study, described in ...

All Forms of Ill Treatment Cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-PTSD

...report based on detainee interrogations finds that forms of ill treatment during captivity that do not invo...which of 54 war-related stressors and 46 different forms of torture they had experienced. Each participant then rated each event on scales of zero to four fo...

Dance to De-stress

...the Apollo Hospital here. Learning various dance forms like merengue, cha cha, jive, waltz and, of course, the more famous salsa, Vohra is among the many doctors who are stepping on the dance floor to de-stress themselves from their physically and mentally taxing schedules. "Doctors are probably the mo...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

... for skin color, and is one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer. Having unusual moles, exposure to sunlight and being fair-skinned are thought to place people at higher risk. The use of oral or injected chemotherapy drugs to kill melanoma cancer cells can be effective if the cancer is diagnosed ...

Study Finds Fat Type That can Protect Against Weight Gain and Diabetes

...gans and as visceral fat – one of the most harmful forms of abdominal fat. Brown fat, on the other hand, contains small lipid droplets tucked behind tiny energy factories called mitochondria. These cells are most prevalent in the necks of infants and between the shoulder blades in mice to help their bodies...

Rare Mutation Causes Early Heart Disease and Metabolic Syndrome

...known to be involved in development and in certain forms of cancer. The mutation changed one amino acid in the protein, which the team showed altered the activity of the protein encoded by LRP6. “The reason for the observed association of multiple risk factors with one another has been a mystery,” Lifton...

Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector

... been made to bring Indian and other complementary forms of medicines into the mainstream. ? The finance minister has also announced a strategy to popularize condoms and make the accessibility of blood screening universal . ? The recent budget has also removed the service tax on clinical trials...

Widely Used Hepatitis B Drug Spurs HIV Drug Resistance

...rch 2005, has been a leading treatment for chronic forms of hepatitis B, which can be fatal to almost a quarter of those infected if it is left untreated. The drug’s label information currently states that is has no clinical effects on HIV. According to Thio, some co-infected patients decide first to tr...

Pichkaris Not So Popular in Jharkhand

...rs, traditional pichkaris were replaced with other forms such as guns or airplanes but the sale was good. In the last few years its been steadily going down." The price of sprayers varies from Rs. 5 to Rs. 90 depending on the shape, make and size. He admitted that health conscious people now prefer not...

Irregular Heartbeat Linked to Genetic Mutation

...ty to successfully treat patients who have genetic forms of atrial fibrillation. "This case is a fine example of individualized medicine in practice, highlighting the benefit of translating molecular technology into an understanding of disease processes in the clinical setting," says Andre Terzic, M.D.,...

Role of Cholesterol in Alzheimer’s Disease Unclea

...Harvard Men’s Health Watch. There are two major forms of dementia: vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Vascular dementia results when blood vessel damage deprives the brain of oxygen. Brain cells die as a result, and mental function suffers. Some studies link high cholesterol levels to an increas...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

...ogists didn't know why the amount of two different forms of MAPKs increased during this event. Only one of them, called Fus3, appeared to be in charge of the courtship process. "The role of the second type of MAPK was unclear," said Saurabh Paliwal, lead author of the Nature article. "Through experimen...

Treatment Extends Survival in Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

... eat, and move. They usually die by age two. Other forms of SMA are not as severe, but still cause significant disability. While some symptoms of SMA can be alleviated, there is currently no treatment that can change the course of the disease. SMA is caused by mutations in a gene called SMN1. Investigato...

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