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Researchers Develop Device For Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaques

...the condition of atherosclerosis. Now, in a study involving laboratory rabbits, a device that stimulates, collects and measures light emissions from body tissues has been able to detect the presence of inflammatory cells that are associated with critical atherosclerotic plaques in humans – plaques that are vu...

Antidepressant Medication Leading To Suicidal Thoughts

...lts through an extensive clinical trials programme involving 24,000 patients, or through the use of this medicine in tens of millions of people around the world....

Natural Sulfur Can Treat Pain From Osteoarthritis

...lement is popular, few studies have been conducted involving patients. The study was a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial. Fifty men and women, aged 40-76 with documented knee OA and arthritis pain were enrolled. Patients with any other type of arthritis or chronic pain were excluded. Twenty...

Brain Plays Vital Role In Maintaining Bone Density

...cture is impaired. The results of this research, involving a study of the activity of the protein interleukin 1 in the brain, comprise not only a breakthrough in understanding the regulation of bone density by the brain but also hold promise for the development of future treatment for osteoporosis, the resea...

A Scientific Explanation For Out Of Body Experience

...t-of-body experience (OBE) at some time, typically involving a sensation of floating and seeing the physical body from the outside. It isn't uncommon for people to have more than one OBE, which may also be experienced in certain life threatening situations. Dr.David Wilde, a pioneer in the field is bent upon...

New X-ray machine launched by GE Healthcare

...ic market after extensive trials in the past year, involving about 81,000 patients in select corporate hospitals in Bangalore, Mangalore and Chennai. The company plans to market the product in international markets in the next two years to boost export sales from the subcontinent. The company generates about ...

They Call It PMS Because Mad Cow Disease Was Already Taken

...ble-blind, randomized clinical trial was conducted involving 450 women with symptoms of PMDD. The participants were given either the oral contraceptive or a placebo. Women who were given the oral contraceptive had significantly greater improvement (48.4 percent compared to 36.1 percent of women on placebo) in ...

Physicians Need To Treat Patients With Respect For Treatment To Be Effective

...issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. “Although involving patients in decisions is an important part of respecting their autonomy, it is equally important to respect patients more broadly by treating them with dignity,” says Mary C. Beach, M.D., M.P.H., lead author and an assistant professor of medicine. S...

Time for A.R.Rahman to rock the Tuberculosis Awareness Programme

...g awareness about the disease among the masses and involving the patients in the campaign. The newly formed network will closely work with both NGOs and patients and advise them about different kinds of treatment available. It will also fight the stigma attached to the disease.Stop TB Partnership is an initi...

Competitive Sports: Is the heart Sportive Enough?

...r study by the Centre for Sports Medicine of Padua involving nearly 34,000 athletes less than 35 years old, over 1,000 were disqualified from competing on health grounds, 621 (1.8%) because the tests revealed relevant cardiovascular abnormalities. ECG is abnormal in up to 95% of patients with hypertropic cardi...

Calcitriol [Vitamin D] with combination of painkillers for cancer treatment

... for cancer treatment. In a tissue culture study involving tumor cells, the administration of calcitriol reduced the prostate cell growth by 25 percent and combining painkillers like ibuprofen and naproxen with calcitriol killed 70 percent of the prostate cancer cells. ...

Fruits And Vegetables Have Arthritis Risk Reducing Property

...iversity of Manchester, analyzed data from a study involving more than twenty-five thousand participants from 1993 to 2001 to determine if there is an association between dietary carotenoids and arthritis risk. The participants were followed to assess the occurrence of arthritis affecting multiple joints. Du...

Combined modality approach for effective treatment and enhanced survival in bile duct cancer

...approach that offers greater chance of survival by involving a combination of liver transplantation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy may be beneficial to these patients according to research. The five-year survival rate for patients who received a liver transplant after radiation and chemotherapy was 82 percen...

Some See A Hopeless End, While Others See An Endless Hope

...ping breast cancer. A variety of treatment options involving surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are available for treatment. Time and over again, we have been surprised about the ability of the human mind. After undergoing a battery of tests, visits to numerous specialists, episodes of agony waiting for tho...

Sitagliptin, Under Investigation For Type 2 Diabetes

... with type 2 diabetes. Clinical phase II studies involving Sitagliptin, an investigational diabetes drug, appears to control blood sugar with a low incidence of hypoglycaemia and with a neutral effect on body weight. Sitagliptin is expected to lower blood glucose levels by increasing the level of active in...

Tarceva Found To Benefit Older Lung Cancer Patients

... new drug has shown promise in the clinical trials involving lung cancer patients and it has even been proposed...tment of advanced lung cancer rather than approach involving conventional chemotherapy....

Plastic Dilators for normal sex after cancer treatment

...men undergoing treatment for gynecological cancers involving vulva and vagina. Joan Thomas, is Macmillan Nurse specialist who has worked most of her career for cancer patients, the new Femmax dilator may help about 234 000 women who are suffering from gynecological cancers. These devices can be used in diffe...

The Science of Solar Eclipse

...erable stories about phenomena such as eclipses // involving the three. Eclipses have occurred often in mythology and literature of different cultures and different ages. Eclipses have long been regarded as a sign of bad omen. It would have remained so if not for the dawn of a new era called astrophysics. It ...

Improved parent-physician communication to prevent hospitalizations for childhood asthma

...ildhood asthma and the need for a coordinated move involving both the family and the physician. The areas that would require specific attention in this regard include means of keeping away children from asthma triggers such as cigarette smoke, dust and pests and the importance of medication that is to be tak...

A first for India - IVF baby born of surrogacy

...te for Fertility Research. In this unique process involving three people besides the doctor, one oocyte donor woman was counselled and used for the collection of eggs and was given hormone injections to produce multiple eggs.The maturity of the eggs was monitored by serial transvaginal ultrasound and blood oe...

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