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Nanoparticle Research Offers Hope of Artificial Retinas, Prostheses

...such things as new ways to connect with artificial limbs and other prostheses, and revolutionary new tools for imaging, diagnosis and therapy. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Treatment for Diseased Limbs

...reatment method to explore in patients whose lower limbs are at risk for amputation because of poor// circu... alpha (HIF-1a) gene as the basis of treatment for limbs damaged by compromised blood flow. Though the trial largely focused on the therapy’s safety, “the bo...

Indonesians to Be Fitted Jaipur-made Artificial Limbs

At least 350 Indonesians who lost their limbs due to disease, accident or disasters like the tsunami will be fitted with Jaipur-made artificial limbs in Jakarta//. "On the invitation of a non-resident Indian association, we are organising a 15-day c...

Robotic Suit to Assist Easy Movement for Elderly

...botic suit, which is designed to assist the user's limbs and could be in use by next year. The suit, developed by professor Yoshiyuki Sankai and students of Tsukuba University, helps the user walk more easily and avoid muscle strains. It also helps the person lift objects as heavy as 20 kg. Sensors on th...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

...ed therapy may help rewire the brain and make weak limbs move better long afterwards.” Previously, robotic devices have improved post-stroke shoulder and leg function. Cramer said this study is one of the first attempts to specifically aid hand function. Cramer presented HOWARD study findings yesterday a...

Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation

...h, heart defects, feeding problems, deformed upper limbs and distinctive facial features. In the current study, mutations in two genes of interest cause mental retardation, but with less pronounced facial features and none of the limb defects, such as missing hands or fingers, that are hallmarks of class...

World Leprosy Day – Easing Pain and Giving Hop

... complication occurs. The lack of sensation in the limbs could cause wounds to worsen on the hands and feet. In later stages, deformities in the face and limbs become apparent. This may cause the victim to face stigma and alienation from society. Leprosy is...

Avoid Diuretic Pills During Pregnancy

...racterized by high blood pressure, swelling in the limbs or face, and protein in the urine. The high blood pressure can affect the brain, kidneys, liver, and lungs. Diuretic drugs were prescribed widely in the 1960s to women in order to avoid dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy. Women who ...

Proactive Measures for Diabetes at Edmonton

...itself as blindness, kidney failure, amputation of limbs etc. Hence at an early stage, management of this disease becomes easy. As high glucose levels are the indicators of this disease, doctors, chemists and nurses could advise such people to adopt an exercise regimen combined with proper diet. People ...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...branes, resulting in the loss of fingers, toes and limbs and damage to eyes. Fu Pochu used to work as a nurse at Nam Lang Hospital in Hong Kong. After a leg injury, she was given artificial hipbones in an operation and decided to retire in 1997. Her first experience of leprosy came in a leper village i...

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Stimuli from Nervous System

...ision, cardiovascular complications, amputation of limbs and kidney failure. In the studied done, laboratory mice were used that were already susceptible to Type 1 diabetes. The researchers discovered that there is a perceptible link between islet cells of pancreas, and the associated nerves that sense pai...

Brain Images Show Hysteria Not an Imaginary Disorder

...ensory region of the brain, while stimulating both limbs did,” said the study’s author Omar Ghaffar, MD, MSc, with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “To our knowledge, this represents a novel result that may help explain the differing results in the few studied articles devoted...

Hysteria Has Palpable Underlying Causes: Says Canadian Researchers

...the brain failed to respond to touch. But when the limbs on boyh sides were stimulated the brain area did...ted. The patient seems to get distracted when both limbs are stimulated said lead researcher and author of the study Dr. Omar Ghaffar, in Toronto. Yet anot...

Indore Surgeon Offers New Hope for Erectile Dysfunction

...peration, I had saved over 1,000 gangrene suffered limbs by the same omental transplantation technique," he claimed. Source-IANS...

Limb Regeneration Exists Innately In All Vertebrates – Says Researc

...als have lost the ability to replace their missing limbs unlike salamander's leg, which has the ability of ... embryo – a species not known to be able to regrow limbs - suggesting that the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including ...

Gene therapy Beneficial in Parkinson's Disease

...haracterized by severe tremors and rigidity in the limbs with loss of muscle control. Its cause although unknown yet has been presumed to be the result of the death of brain cells that produces a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine plays a key role in transmitting commands from the brain's muscle-co...

Doc at a Distance

...r-stricken areas, allowing faraway doctors to save limbs and lives. Source-Newswise SRM...

ABCB6 Is Key to Production of Heme in Hemoglobin

... problem that triggers pain in the chest, abdomen, limbs or back, as well as paralysis, cramping and personality changes or mental disorders. 'Also, people with porphyria can suffer sudden, acute attacks if they take certain tranquilizers and other drugs that interfere with this system,' Schuetz said. 'So ...

Doxycycline to treat Elephantiasis

...ing to scientists.It causes severe swelling in the limbs or scrotum. // A team of scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine found that doxycycline gave some relief to patients in the advanced stages of the disease. In addition, the antibiotic killed the causative worms. Lymphatic Filariasi...

Bionic Women –No longer the Stuff of Science Fictio

...ry often patients fitted with high-tech prosthetic limbs give up after a while and revert to simple devices which although look good have little functionality. However engineers still try to achieve the ideal, a limb controlled by the brain and works well looking like a normal limb. Mitchell, 26, is only o...

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