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New scalpel probes into cancer

... and valleys that clearly depict when blood pumped from the incision has been cleared of cancerous cells. ...scalpel situation, an aspirator would vacuum fluid from the incision to the microcavity laser enclosed in the scalpel's handle. Information would then be tr...

Hormone replacement Therapy a headache

Researchers from Sweden warn women undergoing hormone replacement ... hot flushes and night sweats, and to protect them from osteoporosis and heart disease.// Research has shown the drugs, which replace natural hormones that...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...re more likely for Cesarean delivery, says Dr.Bell from Duke University NC. Years ago, anesthesia had bee...fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indicates a range of body fat from healthy to a fatter proportion), the incidence was ...

Prevention is better than cure

...most 'common'illness during the change of weather from winter to summer. It is a disease that occurs wh...ells in the human nose and throat after travelling from the outer part of the nose or from the moist membranes of the eye via the tear duct.// People can c...

New FDA Approved Drug To Treat Migraine

...d. Axert is now an exciting new migraine therapy from Pharmacia, proven effective in the acute treatment of migraine....

The big brain in suicides

A study from England has found that people who commit sucide ha...phrenia, Parkinson’s and alcoholism.// Emad Salid from Liverpool University and George Tadros from the Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust were the fir...

Better prostate cancer detection

...ostate cancer, the doctor takes six tissue samples from the prostate gland. At Ohio State University, r...tended sector biopsy. They took 12 samples - six from the outer rim of the prostate and six more from the inside of the gland. They did this on a group of...

E Merck introduces Livogen Z with zinc sulphate

...umbai based company, E Merck had purchased Livogen from Glaxo India Ltd for Rs 8 crore. The plain Livogen tablet as well as the Livogen Z tablet are available in the market. E Merck had introduced the tonic version of Livogen Z even before the tablets. E Merck will have only one version of Livogen Z and ...

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...gen can also trigger a signal preventing the cells from dying thereby prolonging their lives and keeping the bones strong. This signal acts directly, much faster than gene expression, taking minutes rather than hours.The team developed a calss of compounds that produce only the fast signals. Rats, giv...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...small , it is hard to conclude anything definitive from the study. Surprisingly, however, people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables do not necessarily have high lycopene levels. A few fruits, such as watermelon, have very low amounts of lycopene. The tomato, however, appears to be unique in its conten...

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

...ar regimen of diet and exercise, according to data from the nation's first major clinical trial to compare...than 3000 participants. Participants ranged in age from 25 to 85 and generally sustained a 5% weight loss throughout the 3-year study. In this era of life s...

A better way to measure cholesterol

...have found a more accurate way of predicting death from heart disease. In a study covering 4,462 adults ag...erol levels were linked to increased risk of death from heart disease. Men with high levels were twice as likely to die compared to those with low level...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

... recommendation that pregnant women should abstain from drinking during pregnancy....

How much can exercise improve health?

...ll how much health-improvement pay-off will result from a given amount of work, or even if a workout will make a difference at all. I-Min Lee of Harvard Medical School, lead author of one of the 32 articles in a special supplement to ACSM's research journal, Medicine and Science in Sports and Ex...

Eye Saver

Patients suffering from a certain form of cancer of the eye need not have ...mm in height and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the size of a small pea to a bean.Half of the patients(657) underwent radiation therapy while the ot...

Simple Therapy

...ls to develop normally and specifically to refrain from attacking the islets.The once sickly mice have seen their blood sugar levels returning to normal and by most measures, the mice appeared to be cured of the disease....

Tea Tales

Tea derived from the plants Camellia sinensis contains polyphenols ...tioxidant properties.Polyphenols protect the cells from damaging physiological process known as oxidative stress. Oxidation produces free radicals th...

Pregnancy Blues

...ut a series of mood questionnaires, following them from 18 weeks into pregnancy through to 8 months after childbirth. The risky period was 32 weeks into pregnancy, with 13.5 per cent of women reporting symptoms indicating probable depression// at this time, compared to 9.1 per cent eight weeks after bir...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...late blood vessels. That dilation helps blood flow from the weakened heart. But it also can cause seriously low blood pressure. Two years ago, the FDA rejected approval of Natrecor because it caused so many cases of hypotension rates of 8 percent to 14 percent, depending on the dose used. Hence studies...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...ood and Drug Administration over a ten year period from 1990 to 2000.// Over this time, there has been an increase of 49 per cent in patients fitted with a pacemaker or defibrillator. Fifty two warnings were issued covering nearly half a million pacemakers and nearly 120,000 defibrillators, which resulted...

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