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New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...with a low score of 0-2 recovered, but 47% who had medium scores and 93% with the highest marks recovered....

Eye Saver

...ost of the eye's melanocytes .All the patients had medium sized tumours (2.5- 10mm in height and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the size of a small pea to a bean.Half of the patients(657) underwent radiation therapy while the other half(660) had their affected eye removed. Findings show that 8...

New hope for eye cancer

...ost of the eye's melanocytes .All the patients had medium sized tumours (2.5- 10mm in height and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the size of a small pea to a bean.Half of the patients(657) underwent radiation therapy while the other half(660) had their affected eye removed. Findings show that 8...

Help Quit Smoking

...ancer in addition to an addiction quiz proves as a medium to understand why a child smokes and what the child requires to do to help quit smoking. The program provides parents with newsletters on steps to help quit smoking. It provides a better platform for parents to communicate effectively to their teens...

Bones repair themselves with bone marrow cells

...mbination with titanium mesh formed a good culture medium for new bone growth in the case of bone damage. This bone growth was further improved dynamically by the researchers by 'sowing' the cells onto the mesh that lies on a turning plate. The researchers who tested three differently coated pieces of mesh...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...ge of reliability and the hormonal computer in the medium range. But, the mini-microscopes had a very low estimated efficacy. Hence there is an “urgent need” to test the systems that met their basic quality index standards....

The Best Way To Get Your Childs Attention

...iting young children’s exposure to television as a medium during formative years of brain development ... may reduce children’s subsequent risk of developing attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ....

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

For light to medium smokers, daily intake of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) may reduce the risk of having oral cancer.// Norwegian scientists, who had conducted the studies, had said that people who took NSAIDs for extended time period have 65% less cha...

New kidney test a better predictor of health

...nguishes three types of cardiovascular risks: low, medium and high. The new test revealed that 20% of the population tested has a high level of cystatin-C. This makes them at 50% higher risk of cardiac attack and stroke compared to those who have lowest levels of the cystatin-C. The same participants when w...

Researchers Present Ways To Reduce The Risk Of Dementia

...her factors, both low and high levels (compared to medium levels) seemed to be associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment. For example, too low or too high caloric intake, blood sugar, diastolic blood pressure, as well as too low or too high levels of antioxidants (particularly vitamin E) and dr...

Digital Mammogram For Detection Of Breast Cancer In Women With Dense Breasts

...mmograms. Development of digital mammograms with a medium cost, which is comparative to film mammograms, is required to popularize the use of digital mammograms in breast cancer screening. SOURCE: The New England Journal of Medicine, September 16, 2005....

Get stressed to be spared of breast cancer risk?

... asked about their routine levels of stress - low, medium or high. Symptoms accompanying the stress included tension, nervousness, anxiety, impatience and sleeplessness. Over the study period, 251 women diagnosed with first-time breast cancer. Women reporting high levels of stress were 40 per cent less li...

Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...buying intellectual property rights from small and medium enterprises around the world and turn them into higher value products in collaboration with MNCs. Visalakshi’s study of 229 Indian biotech companies concludes that 20 years after setting up DBT, India still has no clear definition of biotech. “Everyt...

Lipoma Arborescens: A Rare Tumor Of The Knee

...may lead to resolution of symptoms in the short to medium term. In the case described above, Yttrium treatment gave relief of symptoms for 2 years before surgical treatment was required. The surgical treatment of lipoma arborescens is complete excision. Formal open synovectomy is held to be curative with on...

Prose Memory Deficits Found To Be Associated With Schizophrenia

...hers from China recently used memory of prose as a medium and studied how the illness differentially affected the various processes of contextual verbal memory. It was speculated that patients with schizophrenia would have a poorer performance compared with healthy controls on all constructs studied, with...

Cabbage And Genes May Protect Against Lung Cancer

...e amount to none, as opposed to a high amount to a medium amount. Professor added, 'The risk a regular smoker will getting lung cancer is 20 times that of a non-smoker. So even if eating these vegetables cut that risk by half, smokers would still be at a much higher risk.' (BBC News) Surgery, radiother...

Orissa found to be worst affected by the killer disease, AIDS

... 11 and 9 nine districts as the highly vulnerable, medium vulnerable and low vulnerable respectively. Of all the districts, Ganjam has been found to be the worst-affected district and is closely followed by Kendrapara, Puri, Cuttack and Koraput. Orissa State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) has undertaken tar...

Sperm stem cells could be an alternative to embryonic stem cells in future

...in this study was the development of a new culture medium to grow the cells and the incorporation of a tag, the green fluorescent protein to help enable easy identification of germ cells from a mixture. The findings of the present study have valuable clinical implications. It can pave way for the developm...

Animal Cruelty free Test Kit

...rum. The new alternative test kit uses synthetic medium and the cost and accuracy is not found to vary from the conventional animal serum test kits. The cruelty-free kit is expected to sell particularly well in Europe, where laboratories are concerned about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow diseas...

Twin Babies Help Charity

...2 pounds at birth. // The Internet was chosen as a medium by their father Martin to keep his friends and family informed with regard to the progress of the babies who are battling for their lives. A charity drive is also on to get additional funds for further research regarding premature birth. Over ￡ 3 m...

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