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Indian Surgeon Conducts 70 Surgeries During His Holidays In England

...proved recently under the Labour government. The latest waiting list figures for England show that waits of six months or more for operations are decreasing, but have not yet been abolished. At the end of June, there were 43,200 patients waiting longer than six months for treatment - down 31,600 since J...

Neonatal Risk Of Death Is More For Babies Born At Night

...es of the day said a new research published in the latest issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. Researchers for Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University, who had done the research, said that this risk is more for babies in their first month of life than later. Researcher...

Research Fraud By Doctor – Probe Demanded

... fraud," said C.R. Soman. He was referring to the latest issues of the two British medical journals in which they have expressed concern on research papers by Singh, a private practitioner in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Alleging fraudulent activity, The Lancet referred to Singh's publication, 'The Indo-Medi...

Insight for Hot Flashes In Postmenopausal Women

Researchers in the latest issue of Harvard Women’s Health Watch had explored the physiology// of hot flashes experienced by some women in their menopausal or postmenopausal age. Hot flashes are well known to most menopausal women—and to many who are in peri-menopause, the tr...

Revolution in Genetics to Open Avenues for Treating Cancer

...ry of genes linked to the disease. Thanks to the latest DNA microarray technology, which has enabled scientists to analyze the expression of many genes at the same time and search for the breast cancer genes. This cutting edge technology is believed to trigger a parallel increase in the speed at which new...

Indian Hospitals – A Destination For Quality Medical Care

India is now emerging as the choice by many for latest and quick medical treatment .A British mother// is flying her fourteen-year-old son, Elliot Knott to India for treatment after discovering he would have to wait months for an operation in the NHS. The decision to seek treatment in India has been t...

Older People May Not Need Multivitamins To Prevent Infections

A recent research that is published in the latest issue of BMJ said that multivitamins //and multi-mineral supplements do not prevent infections in the elderly population. At least 10% of older people have a vitamin or mineral deficiency, which can lead to poor immunity and increased risk of infect...

Schizophrenia Gets A New Diagnostic Tool

...e researchers who had their paper published in the latest issue of the journal Psychiatry Research said that this may make the diagnosis of these disease much more cost effective as their tool can safely distinguish between the two disorders which may at times have somewhat similar symptoms. The researchers...

New Insight In Periodontal Disease In Postmenopausal Women

...isease at bay. Their research was published in the latest issue of Journal of Periodontology.// Researchers who had studied 106 postmenopausal women had found that in an average of 11 years, at least 57% of the participants lost one tooth. Their research says that alveolar bone loss is one of the most impo...

With More Appearance Conscious Consumers The Need For Slimming Products Is Rapidly Rising

...mand for slimming products among consumers shows a latest survey conducted in Belgium.// The survey also shows that slimming products in Belgium grew by 14 per cent in value over 2004 to reach a retail value of €29 million. Despite the drive by both doctors and government authorities to increase awarenes...

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

...ted the study and the findings are reported in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Previous research has suggested parathyroid hormone may stop and even reverse bone loss. One recent study showed that parathyroid hormone coupled with estrogen replacement worked better than estrogen...

OCT - Optical Coherence Tomography - the buzzword in cardiology

The latest in cardiology is OCT, which expands into Optical Coherence Tomography. This breakthrough has made many cardiologists sit up and take notice and is revolutionizing angioplasty. This has been developed by Dr. Brett Bouma an assistant professor at Harva...

Pause as you please

...published by American and German scientists in the latest issue of the journal Human Reproduction. // It could not only benefit women who find having a period uncomfortable or inconvenient, but also bring relief to sufferers of abnormal conditions such as excessive bleeding or endometriosis (where the uter...

Gene in Melanomas

...cancer-causing agents. Their results appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Cancers.// Seventy four per cent of the Cdk4 mutant mice developed melanomas after being exposed to carcinogenic treatment, the authors report.The finding gives a better understanding of the body p...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...blood pressure, diabetes and osteoporosis. But the latest study is among the first to find evidence earlier in human life. Scientists believe that when a fetus is undernourished, it diverts resources to areas it really needs at the time, such as the brain, at the expense of organs it will need later in lif...

Glucose may support in Cardiac Arrest

...nstruments 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 fluid intravenously over 8 hours. Overall, the...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...e sperm. The third-generation pills, which are the latest in the market, changed the type of progestin to desogestrel or gestodene so that cholesterol-raising effects and tendency to promote weight gain were reduced. This has helped third generation pills to cut heart attack risk in half in comparison to se...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

...e is still on. Buseman and her colleagues, in the latest study, looked at 247 women diagnosed with breast cancer between the ages of 42 and 49. While 105 of the women had received a mammogram in the two years before being diagnosed, 142 had not undergone screening. They found that those women who had been ...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

...h by 36 percent as compared to abstainers. In the latest experiments, which were conducted without industry funding, researchers in Italy first determined the antioxidant levels of dark chocolate and milk chocolate in the lab. Dark chocolate had twice as much, in part because milk chocolate contains only a...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

It's the latest wrinkle in research toward finding a pill that will help protect and even treat hearing loss from exposure to loud noise. While the effort is hardly new, experts say it has picked up steam in just the past few years.// Starting in a few months, a gr...

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