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Tag: "machine" at medical news

Complications In Kidney Failure Patients Linked To Heparin

...odialysis, the patient’s blood is passed through a machine to clean it, similar to what the kidneys might do ...d to prevent clotting of the blood in the dialysis machine in order to safely perform hemodialysis. At this time, there are no other widely used alternatives t...

Exubera could mean the end of an insulin injection era for diabetics

...nsulin-powder cloud inhaled via a handheld plastic machine similar to the inhalers used for asthma and allergy. The drug has been in development for a decade and is now backed by a joint venture between Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis and Nektar Therapeutics. Pfizer presented several studies showing Exubera controll...

Device For Improving Bone Mass In Osteoporosis

...r the data required for FDA approval, although the machine will be marketed in other countries by the end of this year. Harvard Women’s Health Watch cautions that even if the device becomes available in the United State, you shouldn’t put away your walking shoes—exercise conveys many other health benefits ...

Saliva Can Now Be Used For Hepatitis C Test

...ney functions whose blood must be passed through a machine to filter out waste products, reported science portal SciDev Net. Such patients have a high incidence of Hepatitis C. The researchers reported 100 percent success at detecting Hepatitis C in the saliva of patients who had symptoms of the disease. T...

Our Gain US’s Loss in the Health Care Facility

...es used are FDA approved and the 64 slice CT angio machine manufactured by Toshiba is the same as that used at John Hopkins Hospital, New York. Doctors (41000) of Indian origin are working in US and are considered the best in the world. All these questions would not have arisen if the US provided their pat...

Injury to aorta during surgery may cause cognitive loss

...uld reduce injury to aorta by using the heart-lung machine along with heart lung machine which reduced the movement of aorta during surgery by using a single clamp that produced less injury...

Handy Touch - A Wand to Bust Stressful Situations

...mechanisms and interests. Further, an MRI scanning machine was used to record and map emotions related to pain, excitement, threat perception, and negative emotions. The positive effect of a soothing touch from a beloved was easily perceptible in the scan readings, especially during an emotional situation, ...

Quality Platelets and Improved Blood Availability No Longer a Pipe Dream

...tack to the platelets. With the help of this novel machine coupled with conducive storage practices, it will ... student, has fabricated the prototype. The DLS-PM machine has been patented by the Canadian blood services. According to Maurer, with the help of this device,...

Twins in Double Trouble , Desperately Need Heart Transplant

...octors, Nick Draper's new heart was connected to a machine to assist in the beating, following the heart’s incapacity to beat on its own. Doctors fear that he might need another transplant, if the condition becomes worse, as a life saving measure. ...

Life Or Death: Parents Await High Court Judgment

..., involved in the treatment has requested that the machine be turned off to let him die in peace. The parents are however interested in the provision of surgical treatment for his life threatening condition, hoping that it would ensure a improved quality of life. He might survive if tracheotomy can be perf...

Novel Device Developed To Help Autistic Individuals Communicate Better

...ther than a solitary expression. She trained her machine to detect such subtle changes in human expression by showing it more than 100 video clips of actors, expressing different emotions over an 8-second period. No doubt the device is sensitive enough to pick up the emotions right in actors and normal peo...

Liquid Respiration Respirator For Premature Babies

...developed a new liquid respiration respirator. The machine is supposed to stimulate placentary respiration by... and introduces the next oxygenated dose. The same machine carries out the removal of CO2 from the perfluorocarbon and adds oxygen to it. Because of the liquid...

Progressive Genetic Diseases Can Be Detected By A Simple Blood Test

...esearchers said. The group estimates that a single machine should be able to process 85,000 screenings a year. This would be enough to cover the state of Washington, for example. A screening which could look for up to 20 different enzymes at a time should cost as little as five cents after the purchase of...

New Lease Of Life For Baby With A Heart Transplant

...ed heart needed the assistance of a heart and lung machine for a few days, the body initially had difficulty in accepting the transplant but three days later the body accepted it, making the transplant a success. Dr. Juan Alejos, medical director of the hospital's paediatric heart transplant program feels th...

Fuel demand to be met by Bio-diesel

... innovation, Kumar said: "We are patenting the new machine but have not decided on the marketing aspect of it." "However, we are ready to help rural people set up units for their personal use." ...

Dead End: Aged, Ailing and Alone In Death

...h emotions, feelings and spiritual needs, not as a machine that needs fixing." Equity in healthcare that is devoid of discrimination is the much needed change in the mind-set, which would then reflect in the policies of the health care providers. It is also imperative to spruce up training and support that...

Technology at its nano best: hand-held lab-on-a-chip for blood tests

...light and in clinical settings.” The blood-count machine will separate and identify components of blood such as red and white blood cells, lipids, proteins or oxygen. The blood sample is pulled into a mixing chamber where anti-coagulation chemicals are injected. “In this case, white blood cells will be s...

Doctor Caught Red-Handed For Conducting Sex-Determination Test

...Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act. The ultrasound machine of the private clinic owned by Bhargawa was sealed by health officials led by Haryana's Director General of Health Services N.K. Sharma and six other senior doctors. The team raided Bhargawa's clinic after she conducted the test. Haryana has one ...

Brachytherapy Shows Promise for Cancer Treatment

... pregnant women. The high-dose-rate afterloading machine allows radiation oncologists to complete brachytherapy quickly, in about 10 to 20 minutes. A single, potent radioactive source is often sent through one or more catheters to the tumor for a particular amount of time. In contrast low-dose-rate afterlo...

Better Communication Ensured Between Humans and Computers

Computers still are considered to be a high tech machine and are not user friendly by some even today. Hence manufacturers are working hard to make it otherwise//. There is a big generation gap which leaves some in a state of despair and confusion. Dr J?rg Voskamp, from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute plans...

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