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Smart Plastic As Surigical Thread

...ants such as stents or bone screws. The material, made of thermoplastic polymers that an be absorbed by t... blocked arteries to allow easy blood flow. Stents made of thermoplastic polymer material with a memory could be inserted as a small thread or string and wo...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...ls of Emergency Medicine. Based on telephone calls made to patients a month after they had been treated in the emergency department, the screen was almost 95% accurate at detecting heart attack, identifying100 to 150 cases. Thus the author concludes that the artificial neural network has the potential to...

Drug trafficking via Internet a growing threat

...tories has become so widespread, they’re now being made by people who are not college-educated chemists - often resulting in injury-causing explosions and fires. “In the past, drug recipes were closely guarded secrets, but with modern computer technology and chemists’ increasing willingness to share their...

Leptin linked to Blood Clots

...ssing the gene for the leptin receptor, which also made them leptin deficient. Like the first group of mice, the second group also took a long time to clot, about 60 minutes. When they injected leptin into the mice, however, clotting times dropped to normal, around 40 minutes. The findings are published...

Clotting Protein plays a role in nerve repair

... role in repairing damaged myelin. The researchers made the discovery by studying mice that lacked the protein. After an injury to the sciatic nerve (located in the leg), myelin regenerated much more rapidly in fibrin-free mice than in normal mice. Strickland's team describes fibrin's role in the repair ...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

...t the Hopkins University, working with yeast have made the unexpected discovery the metal manganese can block the replication of HIV inside cells, a finding that could lead to a whole new class of treatments for the virus that causes AIDS.//A team of researchers at Hopkins University in Baltimore found t...

FDA considers nicotine lollipops illegal

...ate health risk to adult smokers, because they are made with a different form of nicotine than is found in nicotine gum, patches or other approved products. That form of nicotine has not been tested for safety. That alone makes the lollipops and lip balm illegal to sell, but the Internet pharmacies also h...

Changing stem cells to liver cells

...s. They produce albumin, the most abundant protein made by liver, urea, which is specific to kidney and liver, and P450, the liver's detoxifying enzyme. It's an exciting development, for liver cells have a range of potential applications. They could be used to help patients with genetic liver disease. T...

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...stead to produce an embryo that has stem cells are made specifically for treating a specific patient's disease....

Assisting stroke patients to recover balance

...c lenses to patients with postural problems. These made objects appear 10 degrees farther to the right or the left than they were. As expected, when the patients were asked to point to objects they pointed too far to the left or right, depending on the lens. But when they took the spectacles off, the r...

Developing HIV fighter

...s - small interfering RNA, or siRNA . Sharp's team made two different siRNAs that targeted cell surface proteins essential for the HIV virus to infect a cell. They targeted the parts of the virus that make the protein as well as a regulator protein. According to Sharp, in both cases we were able to show ...

Greater volume hospitals better for stroke

... volume hospitals. Despite this, few referrals are made to high volume departments. The findings on SAH mirror those seen for other complex medical conditions such as coronary bypass and carotid endarterectomy (a surgical procedure done on patients at risk of stroke caused by blood clotting)....

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

Researchers made a new study which suggests hormone suppression therapy could increase substantially an advanced prostate cancer patient's chances of living free of the disease.Michel Bolla, a professor at Grenoble University Hospital, examined the potential benefits...

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

...wer cholesterol levels in young men. Rresearchers made thirty-four male college students participat in the four-week study. The men all had increases total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels. One group ate ground beef each day that contained phytosterols while a second group ate non-supplemented grou...

Preventing 'white coat' hypertension

...able readings were acquired when measurements were made by the nurses, or the patients themselves, at home. Doctors can prescribe or change medication, but they should not be the ones to take the blood pressure measurements if they want to make the right decisions on treatment....

Innovative device aids in advanced heart failure

...se patients. The device consists of a small jacket made of polyester fibre, which is placed around the failing heart and encourages it back into a normal shape. In animal research and limited human studies, the CSD could prevent heart enlargement, decrease leakage of the heart valves and improve, or at ...

Vacuum device increase breasts

...not worth the relatively small gain (one cup size) made in breast size. According to Greco, a few patients dropped out because we could not make a definite statement as to whether or not this tissue growth stimulation would increase their likelihood of breast cancer in the future. The r...

A simple way to do surgery

...y ill patients. In the operation an opening is made in the wall of the trachea,the passage leading to the lungs, to pass a tube.This procedure needs to be done accurately as even a slight diversion can puncture the oesophagus, which is a part of the food pipe.This will result in conditions like septic...

Leeches help in tissue transfer

Researchers at the University of Michigan, made a new study which showed that an odd medical approach may help patients after head and neck surgery. Ann Arbor say leeches are an effective addition when trying to salvage tissue transfers.Patients who have surgery// to remove cancer in and around ...

New Vitamin K Recommendations

...und most commonly in leafy green vegetables and is made by bacteria //in the intestine.Since newborns do not have bacteria established, they need supplemental vitamin K. An Adequate Intake level of 120 micrograms for men and 90 micrograms for women was set. Because no adverse effects have been reported ...

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