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Multi billion-dollar suit filed against cell phone firm for causing brain tumours

...id to have developed brain tumours after using the instruments made by Verizon wireless. This case has raised eyebrows not only because of the high profile names involved but also because this will be a landmark case whatever be the verdict. Vodafone has in the meanwhile announced that a British government fund...

Doctors needed urgently in Gujarat

...eering to help arerequested to bring with them the instruments they might need in theirtreatment. All doctors volunteering to help are asked to contact these numbers AHMEDABAD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 079- 6588775 079- 6587498 THE MOBILE NUMBERS ARE <spanstyle='mso-bidi-fo...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...nion City, California. Over the years, arthroscopy instruments have become smaller and techniques improved. Arthroscopy has a number of benefits compared with conventional surgery in treating damaged ankles, including eliminating the need for large incisions. "To do anything in a joint requires that you are abl...

New pancreatic surgery

...y involves a tiny incision through which miniature instruments are inserted. The surgeon uses a computer screen as a guide through the operation. // It's an advance to use keyhole surgery on the pancreas. Doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Centre, in New York City, describe 19 cases of this kind of operation invo...

Music aids in curing dementia

...volves professional musicians and patients playing instruments and making music. The trials have found that the therapy is popular with patients and can help them to communicate. scientists at Imperial College London are planning to carry out a study to see if they can prove that this therapy has long term ben...

Robots craft medical history

...ity and precision. The system includes two holding instruments and another containing a laparoscope, or a tiny ca...a monitor. With a computer interface, the surgical instruments replicate the surgeon's actions at the operative site in real time, the company says.In addition, th...

Computers may become surgeons

...le of providing updated images during surgery, the instruments still have to be held and manipulated by humans. The researchers believe their work could have a significant impact on the emerging field of image-guided surgery, in which doctors use sophisticated imaging technology to perform surgical procedures....

Laser to help in root canal treatment

...rlase may reduce the need for anesthesia and fewer instruments can be used for treatment, according to Biolase. P...E are always interested in the introduction of new instruments and materials that may improve the quality of endodontic care provided to patients."...

Music Makes you Smarter

...ry test. All of the participants had been playing instruments for one to five years. There was a direct relationship with the number of years of playing and the verbal memory skills. Children who had only been playing for one year were better than their peers who did not play. However, those children who played...

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

... assessed using standard arthritis research survey instruments and measurement tools, such as the Western Ontario McMasters Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC). Patients' progress was assessed at 4, 8, 14, and 26 weeks. By week 8, participants receiving acupuncture were showing a significant increase in function and by...

Improved procedure to do laproscopic esophagectomy discovered

... the abdomen of the patients to insert fiber optic instruments to be positioned in the esophagus with the help of the camera. This method was infinitely better than the previous procedure of cutting open the abdomen of the patient. Yet this procedure required extreme competency and is thus done in only a few cen...

Women cured of anorexia nervosa have redistributed body fat after weight gain

... got back their healthy body weight. They had used instruments like dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, anthropometry, and whole-body magnetic resonance imaging to find out the body fat distribution in them versus in typically healthy women of the same age. The results of the study show that in the short term, for...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...ic techniques were performed with tiny cameras and instruments in tubes inserted through small incisions and have...ate the cancer. With both the hand and laproscopic instruments doing the work, the surgeon has more control over the operation and a sense of depth and sensation t...

Mini motor for micromedical applications

... endoscopic instruments. Currently, catheters with instruments to break up kidney stones, must be about 3 mm in diameter to accommodate the instruments. The 1.8 mm diameter motor would allow the catheter to become smaller and consequently more comfortable. The motor itself has sufficient power to break up kidney...

Lessening operation and recovery time

...ic techniques were performed with tiny cameras and instruments in tubes inserted through small incisions and have...ate the cancer. With both the hand and laproscopic instruments doing the work, the surgeon has more control over the operation and a sense of depth and sensation t...

New combined therapy for Knee Joint pain

...py comprises homoeopathic medicines, physiotherapy instruments and special manipulations for the knee. In physiotherapy, electro magnetic waves from short wave diathermy and vibrations from the ultrasound machine remove the osteophytes from the joint. By doing isotonic, and isometric exercises we can increase th...

Glucose may support in Cardiac Arrest

... heart attack either by widening the arteries with instruments or dissolving the clot with drugs. The latest study involved 900 patients treated at the De Weezenlanden Hospital in Zwolle in the Netherlands. Half the patients also got an infusion of the high-dose glucose mixture. They got about 4.1 pints of the ...

Musical Instruments Pleasing To The Ear But Rough On The Skin

People who play instruments are at an increased risk of developing a variety o...rosin -- which is used to wax the bows of stringed instruments -- and to the cane reeds used in clarinets and saxophones. The researchers also found that flautists...

Benefits Of Robotic Prostate Surgery- But At What Cost?

...s, but some surgeons find the lack of contact with instruments disconcerting. So far, patient demand, not evidence, is the driving force behind the rise in robotic-assisted prostatectomy, with many willing to travel for the robotic procedure. However, patients have to rely more on surgeon experience and effici...

Taking Music Lesson To Reduce Stress

... part were trained musicians, who had been playing instruments for at least seven years. The remainder had had no musical training. Each participant listened to short tracks of different types of music in random order, for 2 minutes, followed by the same selection of tracks for 4 minutes each. A 2 minute pause ...

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