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Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...linois, Becker and his colleagues are developing a material that could be injected into the lungs of cardiac arrest victims to rapidly cool their hearts and brains. Types of this material, a liquid-solid mixture called "slurry," are already being used to cool buildings. They have eight times the cooling abili...

Coronary stent leads to complications

...nd probably use stent coated with an anti-clotting material in future....

Doctors not to accept gifts from drug companies

...ays. The AMA on Monday began mailing informational material to doctors, which includes a list of the drug-company sponsors. The campaign also includes a new Web site about the guidelines....

Decision making made easier

... issue of concern is to ensure that the quality of material on the videodisc is of the highest possible standard and thus serving the purpose....

Genesis of SUPAC

...ortance of factors like variation in supply of raw material and their response to processing and variation in instrumentation type. Problems crop up during scale up because at R&D scale the product is developed using fairly standard equipment and under controlled conditions compared to production level. The u...

New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...n sprayed together, solidify to form a bright blue material which breaks down gradually over about a week. The company which has developed the gel, Confluent Surgical in Massachusetts, says that 60 patients have so far been treated with it. In open surgery, biodegradable dressing sheets can be applied to in...

NPIL withdraws Parkinson’s dru

...t Nicholas Piramal India Ltd which imports the raw material and manufactures Madopar, Parkinson’s drug, locally has ceased its production in both vial and tablet form following price control. The company had approached the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) to reconsider its price revision. How...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...n introduces a slight risk of error in the genetic material of the new sperm, which is then passed on to the child. Mutations are tiny, and difficult to spot without knowing in advance what mutations to look for. Any abnormalities in women's eggs can be picked up more easily, as almost all divisions in a wo...

Hormone Deficiency Results In Miscarriage

...other foreign invader. Indeed, half of the genetic material of an embryo is foreign to the mother's body, as it came from the father. And the new findings from experiments with rat and human cells suggests that some women who cannot sustain a pregnancy may be unable to control these immune reactions. The st...

Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

...ers who produce medicinal plants to ensure the raw material itself meets standards. The first meeting of a rec...d manufacturers of drugs making use of plant-based material will be asked to submit a list of materials used to the state drugs licensing authorities. This will...

Genes for Vision discovered

...computer program that compares snippets of genetic material taken from mouse retinal tissue with a huge genetic database from the mouse and human genome project, the researchers identified approximately 300 photoreceptor genes - five times the number that were previously known. Two hundred and sixty four of t...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...l methods. And it does not require an injection of material to make the X-ray visible....

Relief from common back pain

...nergy that heats the area, evaporating the nucleus material inside the disk. Dr.Chen feels that the goal is to decrease disk pressure so it doesn’t pinch the nerve and so the pain is taken away.Lower back pain is one of the most common ailments affectig adults; as many as four out of five Americans experien...

A new vaccine for leukemia

...mour cells from a patient, and isolate the genetic material which identifies the cells as foreign bodies.This material is then multiplied in the test tube and combined with part of the toxin which causes tetanus. It is...

Organs made from cloned embryos

Using building material from cloned cow embryos, scientists say they have constructed miniature kidneys that appear to function similar to genuine organs. Embryos contain master cells called stem cells that have the potential to grow into any tissue in the body.// In this c...

Knee fat turns into cartilage

... problem could find themselves with a ready repair material created from their own cells....

Interference helps Heart Patients

...either usual follow-up care or printed educational material and an average of phone calls from a nurse checking on their health and offering advice. Calls began within five days of hospital discharge. Hospital readmission rates for heart failure were 30 percent lower among patients who received the calls. A...

Smart Plastic As Surigical Thread

...rm the appropriate implant. He said that sine the material has a memory, it could be threaded into an incisio... knot. When it warms o the body’s temperature, the material remembers its designed shape and size and shrinks to tighten the wound. Later, after the wound is he...

DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

...of Cincinnati-based DNA Analysis Inc., the genetic material could also be used in gene therapy, a process by which doctors would replace an existing, deficient gene in a living person with a better gene. When a family requests the service, the D'Esopo Funeral Home in Connecticut collects DNA samples from the...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...rly large influence on birth weight, since genetic material in cell powerhouses called mitochondria, which are found in the cytoplasm, are inherited only from the mother. Many factors are known to influence birth weight, such as nutrition, smoking, drug use and stress, but according to Ha, the results sugges...

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