Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery
...multiple gestation pregnancy, and those who suffer from diabetes and/or hypertension. The current approach...ing the routine screening of asymptomatic patients from 22-30 weeks' gestation, and for women with symptoms of pre-term labor from 24-35 weeks' gestation. H...Genetic Dentistry: Your Dentist may be able to grow you a new set of Teeth.
...e successfully regrown mouse teeth in a petri dish from single mouse cells - and they think humans are nex...the direction where they could take initial tissue from a [human] patient, put it in a culture dish and grow a tooth for them.To accomplish this seemingly f......o insulin, the hormone that removes excess glucose from the blood and deposits it into cells. In a test tube and in animal studies, the spice appeared to increase glucose metabolism by about 20 times. While it is too soon to recommend the spice as a regular treatment for type 2 diabetes, patients can try ...Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments
... red blood cell's hemoglobin, it must get the rest from outside the cell. The parasite creates tiny channels in the red blood cell membrane, through which it can absorb nutrients. In fact, each infected red blood cell have a thousand or more such channels, which are not present on normal, uninfected red b...Drug May Make Breathing Easier for Millions
...ntal drug could make millions of people suffering from smoker’s lung breathe much easier. Chronic Obstru...is. In tests involving 500 people who had suffered from COPD for more than a decade, the drug appeared to be safer and better at improving breathing and at ...Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with CAD
...a requiring hospitalization, MI or premature death from heart disease in women receiving HRT and women not... were 15.6 and 12.6 per 100 patient-years. Results from the PHASE study also seem to indicate an increased risk of thromboembolic complications, such as str...El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks
...as monsoons and seasonal temperature changes, came from a hospital in Bangladesh that had tested all incoming patients for cholera for 18 years, from January 1980 to March 1998. The Ellner model took into consideration recent frequencies of cholera c...Long-Term Survival can be Predicted by a Simple Lung Test
... 550 men and more than 640 women who varied in age from 20 to 89 years at enrollment. They have been participating in the Buffalo Health Study from 1960 to 1962. Last year, after Twenty-nine, researchers gathered data to determine whether or not pa...Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population
...complications, and every second newborn discharged from a maternity clinic is suffering health problems. The number of normal births declined from 45.3 percent in 1992 to just 30 percent last year, said Olga Frolova, head of the statistics departm...Endangered species may be successfully cloned in another animal's womb
...who engineered the feat has managed to clone cells from an endangered animal (Asian Gaur) and successfully impregnated an Iowa cow with the clone. The scientific journal Cloning has reported in its upcoming edition that the Iowa cow is expected to deliver the cloned Asian gaur sometime next month. The ...Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with Coronary Artery Disease
...a requiring hospitalization, MI or premature death from heart disease in women receiving HRT and women not... were 15.6 and 12.6 per 100 patient-years. Results from the PHASE study also seem to indicate an increased risk of thromboembolic complications, such as str...Cough Syrup Ingredient Linked to Stroke
...risk of stroke by 23 percent. Dr.Ralph I. Horwitz, from Yale University's School of Medicine, says, "Case reports have linked exposure to PPA to the occurrence of hemorrhagic stroke." A hemorrhagic stroke results when an artery wall ruptures and prevents blood flow to the heart and brain and causes pa...More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies
...ancer. The free PSA helps you discern those people from the people who do have cancer. Free" PSA levels are lower in men with cancer than in those without. The test catches 95 percent of cancers while sparing men without the disease painful, expensive biopsies"....Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer
...our or more cancerous lymph nodes can best benefit from post-surgical radiation. At this point the panel s... with three or fewer cancerous lymph nodes benefit from radiation. Patricia Eifel of Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said to one of the medical news ag...Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma
...uality of life, " he added. The only side effect from the inhaled corticosteroids was a slight, but temporary, reduction in growth rate. In the first year of the study, the average increase in height in the children treated with was about 3/8 of an inch less than that of the other children. However, aft...Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking
...ell known. Besides causing 160,000 deaths annually from lung, mouth, bladder and other cancers, smoking also increases the risk of death from cancer of the colon or rectum, according to results of a large new study from the American Cancer So...General Anesthesia Safe For Children On Ketogenic Diet Suffering From Epilepsy
...ildren. In many cases the anesthesia times ranged from 1 to 10 hours with procedures ranging from central line placement to hemispherectomy. There is however light at the end of the tunnel for the...Patients With Filariasis More Prone To HIV Infection
...nced in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from individuals with untreated filarial infection compared to PBMCs from infected patients treated with antifilarial agents. According to Dr. Ramya Gopinath and her team at...Spirulina may be the next immune boost on the block
...edicine and Medical Center collected blood samples from 12 healthy volunteers and incubated the samples with dilutions of spirulina made from 429 mg capsules of dried, powdered spirulina. After 72 hours they analysed the cytokine level change......commended against insemination of women with semen from men infected with HIV. Current data from programs in Europe would suggest sperm washing to be a safe risk-reduction option for heterosexual c...