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Metal In Medicines Can Fight Diseases Effectively

...nd viruses are emerging. The new molecules, called metal coordination complexes, mimic the activity of natural enzymes that break apart DNA, RNA, and proteins in the body. Researchers had tailor-made different complexes to break apart portions of RNA that enable HIV and Hepatitis C viruses to function, a...

Be Wary Of Heavy Metal Poisoning From Ayurvedic Medicines

...ts. It is important to recognize symptoms of heavy metal poisoning so that appropriate treatment can be ins...urvedic products in the UK. The concern over heavy metal content first surfaced in December 2004 with the publication of an article in the Journal of the Ame...

Making MRIs Safe for Patients With Implantable Heart Devices

... the electromagnetic fields of the MRI may heat up metal components of the device, dislodge it, and cause t...This is due to titanium being the most widely used metal for modern pacemaker casings, which is almost nonmagnetic. Tough scar tissue also forms around heart...

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

... its cells continued to multiply normally , as the metal ions used were not toxic to the cells . This eco- friendly step is important as more gold would be formed as the cells multiply. " This (the nanoparticles) is much more uniform than the particles formed using other biological methods. Having uniforml...

Bypassing open heart bypass surgery...

...ge with the use of the stent, which is basically a metal mesh which props open a narrowing artery. According to Dr Upendra Kaul, Cardiologist, and one of the pioneers of non-surgical heart procedures, that this is as important a finding as the first case of angioplasty. It should allow cardiologists to do...

Expandable metal stents used in digestive cancers

...eated a break through of sorts by using expandable metal stents in the digestive tract of people afflicted ...ncer and expanded to create a tunnel, and then the metal becomes imbedded in and eventually becomes part of the wall of the organ be it the esophagus, the st...

Ban On Indian Ayurvedic Drugs In Canada

...Ayurvedic drugs of containing high levels of toxic metal content. Health Canada has also stated that it wo...ers of Ayurvedic medicine may be at risk for heavy metal toxicity, and testing of Ayurvedic HMPs for toxic heavy metals should be mandatory. However a spok...

Analyzing The Side Effects Of Sirolimus Stents

...t to the treated vessel that is not seen with bare metal stents. Sirolimus-eluting stents are widely used...ting stents and 11 control patients receiving bare metal stents. It was observed that after 6 months, the reference vessel showed an increase in exercise-ind...

Arsenic poisoning reactions can be traced to genes

...hat may be responsible for varied reactions to the metal called arsenic. Arsenic exposure had long been associated with health hazards like cancer of the skin, lungs or bladder, circulatory problems, and neurological disorders. It can enter the body through water that gets polluted by toxic wastes of the ...

Trans fatty acids increase the risk of gallstone disease

...ities by heating vegetable oils in the presence of metal catalysts and in the process the poly unsaturated fatty acids are removed. Trans fatty acids increase LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) and decrease HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol)thereby increasing the risk of heart disease. A prospectiv...

Researchers developed world’s smallest toothbrus

...e usually made of animal hairs, polymer fibres and metal wires. Thesehave problems of corroding, wekening and melting. But the new toothbrush will have no such problems. This unique feature will probably give them an advantage to be motorised as well. The researchers who had designed the brushes, have mad...

Trans fatty acids increase the risk of gallstone disease.

...tities by heating vegetable oils in thepresence of metal catalysts and in the process thepoly unsaturated fatty acids are removed. Trans fattyacids increase LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol)and decrease HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol)thereby increasing the risk of heart disease. A prospective ...

Improving Lighting Could Bring About A Change In Alzheimer's Patients

...before by adding new skylights and fluorescent and metal halide fixtures so that the inmates could go about their daily lives without any change in their routine and still be exposed to the lighting. Researchers say by having more light coming into the individuals eyes it suppressed the flow of melatonin i...

New Tooth Paste Is Here To Fill In Dental Cavities

...ected part is removed and the gap is filled with a metal alloy or resin. At times such a procedure may require removing a part of the healthy tooth as well. The new paste will not require removal of tooth, whole or in parts, as it can be applied even in case of minute gaps existing in the early attack of d...

Stent Effective In Keeping Arteries Open

... 15 received standard stents. Standard stents have metal mesh tubes used to keep vessels open after balloon angioplasty opens the clogged artery. Everolimus also has promise in preventing heart and kidney rejection after transplantation....

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

...standard balloon angioplasty then inserted special metal stents to keep the arteries open. These new stents are coated with the cancer drug paclitaxel, also known as Taxol. "When we look at these stents six to nine months later with ultrasound, we see a perfectly pristine stent with no scarring," says ca...

Drug-Coated Stents – Proven to be More Effectiv

...s with comparable blockages were treated with bare metal stents. Results of the one-year study show 9.7 p...ed with 14.8 percent of patients treated with bare metal stents. Only 3.7 percent of patients with drug-eluting stents experienced renarrowing of the treated...

Stronger Backing for Drug-Coated Stents

...s with comparable blockages were treated with bare metal stents. Sixty-eight percent of the patients in thi...ed with 14.8 percent of patients treated with bare metal stents. Only 3.7 percent of patients with drug-eluting stents experienced renarrowing of the treated...

Brain aneurysms can now be treated with a less invasive procedure

...ted non-surgically by filling it with lots of tiny metal coils that divert blood flow away from the aneurys...the bulge is wide, it is removed surgically as the metal coils would fall out and perhaps trigger a stroke by blocking the vessel. Researchers at the Univer...

Biosensor chip to help drug development

... Neuro-Chip is based on a standard complementary// metal oxide semiconductor technology extended with additional process steps to realize the capacitive sensors array. Researchers successfully demonstrated the chip by connecting it with living nerve cells and reading electrical signals produced by the cell...

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