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Road Traffic Accidents Kill 4,000 people in Delhi

...ior Delhi Police official. "This city has a road length of around 1,500 sq km and it is difficult to control and coordinate the traffic if the standard of driving is not up to the mark," Qamar Ahmed, joint commissioner, traffic, said. He also said that about six million traffic rules violations had been ...

GSK’s New Anticancer Drug A Huge Success In Drug trail

...pment of the cancer, which could almost double the length of time patients live without the disease. The trials were stopped much ahead of schedule last month because Tykerb worked exceptionally well. With the clinical trials to test Tykerb on early-stage breast cancer will probably take several years to ...

Number of Children, Teens Being Treated for Mental Disorders is on Rise

... the patient’s age, sex and race or ethnicity; the length of the visit; the physician’s specialty and whether the patient received psychotherapy. The number of outpatient health care visits during which patients between the ages of 0 and 20 years received antipsychotic medications increased six-fold betwee...

New Technique For Science Experiments

... components, or monomers, of the polymer along the length of the substrate. The dense polymer brush provides a controlled interaction surface at the top while effectively masking the underlying substrate. The heart of the NIST technique is a combined microfluidic mixer and reaction chamber. The two compon...

Campaign To Create Awareness For Following A stricter Drug Regime For Osteoporosis

...eatment and stay upright afterwards for a specific length of time. It was also reported that a more convenient once-a-month dose for treatment was introduced recently and this does presents a way to solve the adherence gap. But as this drug should be taken only once a month, patients are expected to adhere ...

Reports Characterize Fungal Eye Infections Among Soft Contact Lens Wearers

...ge of 67.1 days. Two cases required surgery. The length of time between the first symptoms and the beginning of antifungal treatment appeared to be related to treatment outcomes; those patients for whom seven days or more passed between symptom onset and treatment had infections that took longer to cure. ...

Repeated Heart Surgery with Older Blood Transfusion Pack More Death Risk

...f death. 'In terms of mortality, kidney damage and length of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital, we saw the rate of risk increase with each successive quartile,' Bennett-Guerrero said. Specifically, the in-hospital mortality rate for patients who received the 'freshest' blood was about 4 percent...

Older Adults could be Benefited from Chinese Martial-Arts

...the single leg stand, or SLS. The SLS measures the length of time an individual can stand on one leg, with eyes closed and eyes open. ‘With eyes open, we saw an 83 percent improvement after two months,’ Yang said. ‘With eyes closed, we did not see results – 29 percent improvement – until the end of six mo...

Earlier the Cochlear Implants Used Better the Speech

...ochlear implants and compared those results to the length of time each child had his or her implant. They found that with increased implant time, children's vocabulary was richer, their sentences longer and more complex and their use of irregular words more frequent. The researchers' work was reported in th...

Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy Proved Effective in CAP Cure

...in levels were found to be associated with reduced length of antibiotic treatment for hospitalized patients with community-acquired //pneumonia (CAP) – Study finds. A biomarker of infection, procalcitonin appeared to be a good indicator for early discontinuance of antibiotic therapy as compared with other...

Biomarker Reduces Length of Antibiotic Treatment

...lcitonin, a biomarker of infection, can reduce the length of antibiotic //treatment by an average of seven days. The study, which is the first research trial of its kind, appears in the first issue for July 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Th...

Researchers Warn That Whooping Cough Is Still Very Prevalent

... lasted at least 14 days. Researchers recorded the length of time that they had been affected by the cough, and its severity, they also checked the child's immunisation records. Blood samples were taken to test for Pertussis infection and the parents and children were asked to make a diary on the history of...

BJP Seeks Tougher Laws Against Pre-Natal Sex Tests

... to my daughter," Swaraj said. Also, she spoke at length about tricks used by doctors to covertly announce the sex of unborn babies to their parents. Swaraj, accompanied by Mahila Morcha leaders later submitted a memorandum addressed to President A P J Abdul Kalam, expressing their concerns over female fo...

New Cell Lines Cuts Down the Cost and Time in the Production of Flu Vaccine

...uenza vaccine production methods, particularly the length of time to produce a new vaccine and the amount of vaccine that can be produced on short notice,’ said Coussens, who also is the director of the MSU Center for Animal Functional Genomics. Building on work done by graduate student Amin Abujoub and ass...

Significant Increase In Heart Diseases Found In Older People Living Alone

...n 44 to 65, found a direct association between leg length and intimal-medial thickness (IMT), a measurement of the thickness of blood vessel walls used to detect the early stages of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. They concluded that longer a persons leg, thinner would be their carotid arter...

Long Legs Reduces The Chances Of Heart Disease

... to 65, and found a direct association between leg length and intimal-medial thickness (IMT), which is the m... the American Journal of Epidemiology that the leg length is strongly affected by factors very early in life. The studies for example had linked breastfeeding...

Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

... incision that's about four or five centimeters in length and two or three other half-inch incisions, put a TV camera lens in the chest, and do the same operation on the inside." Noting that all surgical procedures produce some degree of pain, McKenna says the advantages of VATS are clear. This is a major...

Enzyme Urokinase Better Option In Empyema For Kids

...ere found between each treatment group in terms of length of hospital stay after intervention, failure rate ...o treatment groups. A second concern is that the length of stay after intervention, total length of stay and failure rates are surrogate outcomes, subjectiv...

Atherosclerosis and its Mechanics

... They then stretched the cells 10 percent of their length 60 times per minute to simulate the rhythmic flexing of an artery in response to heart beats. Cells that were stretched back and forth along one axis exhibited a healthy response: the level of JNK rose and quickly returned to basal levels as the ce...

Age difference: Gaping 'age' divide between the rich and the poor

...evident when the researchers compared the telemore length of 1,552 women twins in Britain, categorized as per the National Statistics' Socio-Economic Classification and in the 18 and 75 age bracket. The study found that, after considering factors like obesity, smoking and exercise, which can have a beari...

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