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Good news for those of you wanting to live longer

...God, Klotho, who is held to control controlled the length of human life. Mice that were specifically designed to produce large amounts of the hormone were found to have an increased life span of 31 % and 19 % when compared to normal mice. The hormone has been found to act by increasing the body's resistan...

Stents That Release Medication To Check Artery Narrowing

...enoses (vessel diameter of 2.5-3.75 mm with lesion length 30 mm or less). More than 55 percent of lesions currently treated with these bioactive devices may fall outside this range. Researchers of Columbia University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York had conducted a study (t...

Dental Cysts Can Cause Infections In Head And Neck

...lture results, medical and surgical treatment, and length of hospital stay. These results were then compared to previously reported data for these cysts. The study concludes that head and neck infections are not the most common presentation of dentigerous cysts. However, the researchers found that 2.1 perc...

Small Kidney Malfunctions Can Increase The Risk Of Deaths

...of dying in the hospital and have a longer average length of hospital stay, with increased hospital costs. Source: Newswise...

Cell molecules behind neuro degenerative diseases

...correlation exists between polyglutamine expansion length and nerve cell death, or disease. They hypothesize... to form a beta helix increases as glutamine tract length becomes longer. Source: Newswie...

Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields for children

...en’s RF exposure can be reduced by restricting the length of calls or by using hands-free devices to keep mobile phones away from the head and body. Because of widespread use of mobile phones and relatively high exposures to the brain among children and adolescents, investigation of the potential effects ...

Strategies to prevent the rising tide of the epidemic of chronic diseases

...illing India's development. The article talks at length about the interventions to combat the rising tide of the burden of chronic diseases, suggesting comprehensive strategy to integrate actions, minimizing exposure to risk factors at the population level, and reduce risk in individuals at high risk, and...

Mobile phones may influence normal brain functioning

...ber of telecommunication devices available and the length of time spent using mobile telephones has aroused interest for possible interactions between humans and radio-frequency (RF) radiations.// It has been proposed that a precautionary principle should be adopted, particularly for children even if, at pr...

Resilin Protein from Flea can be used for cardiovascular disease

... stretched to more than three times their original length without causing any damage or break in the resilin. The artificial resilin is found to have the similar properties to the natural one and can be used in therapeutics in the field of medicine. One of the most important uses of resilin would be in th...

Novel Technique For Targeting Small-Cell Lung Cancer

...ts. Nineteen conjugates differing in core peptide, length of alkyl linker and fluorescence moiety (rhodamine and fluorescein) were tested in vitro, using a receptor binding assay, and nine of the more promising conjugates were tested in vivo by fiber-optic spectrofluorimetry and quantitative spectral imagin...

Remote Robotic Surgery Using Miniature Robots

...searchers.// The robots are about three inches in length and about a cm wide and have wheels on them. They can be slipped through a small incision into a cavity and surgeons in different locations can operate a remotely controlled computer. The robots perform different functions – some have lights and ca...

Misdiagnosis of cataplexy

...y but their usefulness has been limited because of length or current lack of psychometric data. Used effectively even these screening tests require the interpreting physician to have an understanding of the typical features of cataplexy. Most physicians encounter patients with cataplexy fairly infrequentl...

FDA Approved Nerve-Stimulation Therapy Now Available In New York

...eficial efforts of the therapy over a considerable length of time. In addition, is it associated with better patient compliance and fewer side effects...

Embryonic Genetic Testing Is Boosting IVF Pregnancies

...diseases that develop in childhood that reduce the length and quality of life. However in recent years researchers have identified numerous disease-causing genes, allowing doctors to pinpoint the chances of developing a disease such as breast cancer later in life. An Infertility Treatment Authority sympos...

Clinical Renal Trails Do Not Have Sufficient Women Participants

...ealth of women. Dr. Lewis is scheduled to speak at length on a topic titled “Gender Issues in Large Clinical Renal Trials,” during a symposium entitled, The Pathophysiology of Progressive Renal Disease and Hypertension: Importance of Gender and Ethnicity. The meeting is being held from November 8-13 at th...

Children’s Stress Levels Directly Related To Maternal Job Satisfaction

...els of cortisol remain elevated for a considerable length of time. This chronic elevation in the hormone levels can have disastrous consequences on the health of an individual. In addition, children from families that were either highly expressive or reserved also had higher than the normal levels of the ...

New device to help spinal cord injury cases walk

...g skills by improving their step frequency, stride length and overall walking speed. "This is a group of patients in which recovery is not expected," says Professor Milos Popovic of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the study's senior researcher. "We got them on a treadmill and...

New Device To Help Patients Walk

...d gradually increased their step frequency, stride length and overall walking speed. The last part of the treatment focused on helping the patients learn how to make their leg muscles work without the help of the machine, and one of the researchers, Milos Popovic, said the results were encouraging. They...

Muscular Dystrophy May Be Cured By Gene Therapy

... the introduced dystrophin spread along the entire length of the muscle cell, which can be many millimeters long in mice or inches long in humans. Edited (ANI)...

More The Usage More The Growth In The Adult Brain.

...wth only after weeks of no growth. The increase in length was from 7-90 microns. When compared to the growth of the neurons during the development of the fetus the growth that was tracked is very slow and insignificant. But what is important is that the neurons are still capable of growth. Till now it w...

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