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Indian Prime Minister has successful Knee Replacement Surgery

...overy room. He is not on any sedative. I talked to him after the operation.'' Dr. Ranawat was assisted by two surgeons....

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...from a carousel horse. A team of medics approaches him and finds he has a jeans donor card. They take his pants, put them in a cooler like ones often used to transport human organs and take the package by helicopter to a man found cowering in his bedroom. The man dons the pants and seems elated to have t...

Stem cell research- now Nobel Laureates join the debate

...g a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush asking him not to block stem cell research in any way. The debate on stem cell research is reaching a feverish pitch with both sides slamming each other on the pros and cons of stem cell research. While those who oppose it call the research as immoral, those su...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...Dr Nirmal Joshi, who put 15 years in the US behind him towork as medical director at Max, agree. ``I have been wanting to come back to India for the last two years, but didn'tfind a decent hospital that I would be comfortable working in. The Fortisfacility is top of the line. Its like having a US hospita...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...A few weeks ago the American patent office granted him a patent on this technique. Dr. Matapurkar was able to regenerate organs like the uterus, urethra and ureter in animals and experiments are on to regenerate organs like kidneys and parts of the intestine. Certain large tendons in humans have also b...

Cancer Inheritance

...veral relatively rare genes. The new model led him to a very different conclusions; cancers are genetically influenced; rare cancers are more common cancers; and cancers with an early onset are more likely to be inherited than those that develop later in life....

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...able to speak. He has been on a ventilator to help him breathe. Tools also suffered gastrointestinal bleeding again last week. Similar bleeding during the first two months after the heart implant kept doctors from giving Tools blood-thinning anticoagulants that reduce the risk of clots, which can cause s...

Sex exploitation connected to Schizophrenia

... affect its ability to handle stress. According to him some people are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia because of their genes....

Undertaking the obesity epidemic

...er than the lift, walk the dog rather than letting him out of the back door, and do your own yard work, rather than pay a gardener....

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

... ultrasound monitoring, emergency room nurses told him patients "were getting better really fast." At that point, he decided to initiate a pilot study to determine if ultrasound could boost the clot-busting or thrombolysis ability of tPA, he explained Friday during a news briefing at the 27th Internation...

Sleep disorders can have anomalistic sexual acts

...tient's own "strict religious convictions" had led him to abstain from sex and other behaviors he thought inappropriate, the researchers report. The good news, according to Guilleminault's team, is that the abnormal sexual behavior was "eliminated" in most patients when their sleep disorders and psychia...

Gene treatment for macular degeneration

...f some forms of macular degeneration. According to him it is the use of gene therapy to treat some forms of macular degeneration. Researchers have recognized the gene responsible for some cases of macular degeneration quite recently. With this knowledge, and the advances in gene therapy, they are able...

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

...the subject quit smoking completely, but also help him become a more pleasing and positive person. The money that a smoker spends on cigarettes over a period of three months is estimated to be Rs. 4,000. This includes the cost of the imported non-nicotine cigarettes, and the herbal drops used as a metho...

Mountain biking connected to infertility

...lion/ml and a motility of 50 percent. According to him both are statistically significant. Further analysis by Dr. Frauscher and colleagues suggests the reduction in count and motility may be related to vascular damage caused by continuous trauma to the testicles.The ultrasound images taken during the s...

Something to relieve the pain in your neck!

...ok easy, but a slip five years ago could have cost him his life. The slip happened because his belayer, the person whose job it is to keep the safety rope taut, had stopped looking up, due to the strain on his neck. Following this episode, Darrell Poole developed the product along with his company Promax...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

..., and later led to breathing trouble that rendered him unconscious. Doctors saved the patient by administering blood-thinning drugs. Dr. Beasley said that this case was an interesting one as it indicated that DVT is not only associated with the aged as the patient was relatively young. The researchers sa...

Brain Temperature Tunnel dicovered

...ature and thermal energy measurements that allowed him to determine the precise positioning of sensing systems at the main entry point of the tunnel. His research,shows that the measurement of brain temperature in humans and animals at the brain temperature tunnel area can be accomplished in a non-invas...

Better Prostate Cancer Test

...a biopsy. Miles hopes the test will help men like him avoid future biopsies.Researchers say larger clinical trials are still needed before the test is available to doctors and their patiets....

Skin Cancer “Reflection” Detectin

...of melanoma. He’s lucky doctors were able to treat him despite a delayed diagnosis. "They never found a primary, which is what you call the skin cancer as it first forms on the surface of the skin. It had already gotten into my lymph system,” he says.// Now, technology called photonics may help doctors ...

Reviving the Immune System

...gnosed with lymphoma at age 14 and Doctors offered him an experimental treatment. In Ed Bauters case , doctors remove white blood cells and bring them to the lab. Here, they're multiplied and mixed with beads attached to a protein. When the new cells are put back into the body, they're better able ...

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