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Beyond Bifocals: Wavefront Technology Benefits Patients With Presbyopia

...when reading a newspaper means holding it at arm’s length or fumbling for reading glasses, wavefront-optimized //lens technology may offer a better solution, according to data presented at the recent American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2006 Joint Meeting. According to Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, progre...

Getting Nosey About Cold

...me popular after its product helped in cutting the length of cold bouts by 75%. But the company is facing a big blow in the form of a $12 million lawsuit due to complaints of side-effects from another product, nasal spray.For the moment, researchers assure that if you have a cold, just take lots of rest, co...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...hilled the marrow of fair-minded people across the length and breadth of the country. These men, who are the proud owners of a sick mind, are a blot on the species and everything needs to be done to ensure that they are brought to book. Most criminals, like the above mentioned, deny the crime they are cha...

High Hospital House Staff Workload Associated With Worse Patient Outcomes

...tient admission days was associated with increased length of hospital stay, total costs and risk of inpatien...ct on patient outcomes—such as death, readmission, length of stay and total costs. However, there are few studies that address these topics. Michael Ong, M.D...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Affects Penile Length

... were measured before and after the treatment. The length of the penis was shortened by almost forty percent... is the first of its kind to report changes in the length of the penis after treatment of prostate cancer. He also feels that the patients should be fully inf...

Got a Short Telomere-Watch Your Heart

...men, in the age group 45 to 64. A study into the length of their telomere (sampled from white blood cells) found that a shorter length was associated with a higher risk of coronary heart diseases. Telomere is currently known to be as...

Watchdog to Be Set on Oral Chemotherapy, Warns Experts

...ercent required a patient's treatment schedule and length of treatment; and only 9 percent required a patient's body surface area calculation, which is used to determine correct and safe drug dose. The researchers found that almost 70 percent of the centers used handwritten orders for most of the oral che...

Inflammation in Amniotic Fluid Detected

...ion was sought. These results were then related to length of time until delivery, presence of placental inflammation after birth, and whether there was evidence of infection in the babies. In line with findings from their previous studies, women with a higher MR score gave birth sooner. There was also ag...

Sanitation Emerges as the Winner

...ntibiotics. Doctors and scientists had talked at length about each of the momentous inventions at an award ceremony conducted in London. Later on the results of the poll were announced. Anne Hardy belonging to University College of London felt that the discovery of sanitation methods and devices helped ...

Training Breathing Muscles Improves Swimmer's Performance

...me per minute to produce energy for exercise), and length of time they could swim at a moderately high speed. The men then were randomized to one of three training protocols: RRMT-resistance respiratory muscle training; ERMT-endurance respiratory muscle training; or PRMT-placebo respiratory muscle traini...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...-degradable domestic generated litter. The entire length of the river apparently has only one water treatment plant, but this does not have adequate volume capacity. In the process, the river has no fish as a potential food source and is odorous and also a source of disease vectors such as faecal pathogens...

Scientists Map Key Landmarks in Human Genome

...spherical packing units for DNA. They consist of a length of DNA wrapped around a core, like ribbon around a spool that is made up of proteins called histones, and the nucleosomes are located along the chromosomes like beads on a string. Nucleosomes have multiple functions, including allowing several feet...

Common BP Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy

...ase-Duchenne muscular dystrophy-that improves both length and quality of life," says Cohn. "For so many reasons, we're excited about these studies and their potential to transform the care of patients with both Marfan syndrome and Duchenne muscular dystrophy," says Dietz. "First, this treatment strategy ...

Coffee Could Help Cure Baldness

...riment, it was found that caffeine had boosted the length of the hairs by 33-40 percent. Other test tubes containing hair follicles mixed with testosterone showed that they grew at a much slower rate. The scientists believe caffeine affects hair cells in such a way that they are able to resist the dam...

Rapid Flu Testing Decreases Antibiotic Use in Hospitalized Adults

...oups in the number of days taking antibiotics, the length of hospital stay or complications arising from antibiotics. Antiviral use was more common among those with positive test results (73 percent, or 63 out of 86 patients) than those with negative or no test results (8 percent, or six out of 80 patients)...

Shop Till You Drop Heroin - Plan to Provide Incentives to Drug Users

...ther, the rewards would gradually go up as per the length of abstinence. On the same lines, if a sample showed positive for drugs, the rewards would drop to the former level. Nearly 5,000 drug users from the United States have participated in schemes which go with a reward. According to Stephen Pilling, ...

Moderate Coffee Does Not Affect Pregnancy

.... The birth weight of 1,150 newborn babies and the length of pregnancy for 1,153 of the babies were analyzed...fferences were found for mean birth weight or mean length of gestation between women in the decaffeinated coffee group (whose mean caffeine intake was 182mg l...

Risk of Hemorrhage Increased in Vaginally Born Babies

...ither the size of the baby or the baby's head, the length of the labor, nor the use of vacuum or forceps to assist the delivery caused the bleeds," Dr. Gilmore said. "The bleeds are probably caused by pressure on the skull during delivery." In a newborn, the bones of the skull have not fused together, so ...

How Bacteria Generate Energy to Live?

...ra attached labels at significant points along the length of the protein and then determined whether these labels appeared inside or outside the envelope of the cell membrane. The results showed that the cofactors — important parts of the enzyme’s machinery — are all located on the inner side of the membran...

Esophageal Cancer Rates Climb With Obesity

...tions. After comparing measures such as hospital length of stay, infection and mortality, the researchers found both groups had comparable outcomes. This suggests the THE procedure is safe to perform in obese patients. The study authors stress, however, that the results may be influenced by the high volum...

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