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New Pill to Suppress Menstrual Bleeding Indefinitely

... Pill formulations, or to switch to a non-hormonal method of birth control. Breakthrough bleeding is most commonly caused by an excessively thick endometrium (uterine lining). This is not a dangerous condition, though the unpredictable and often lengthy periods of bleeding are unpleasant for the woman. Br...

Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration

...f the central nervous system neurons. The second method from the University of California, Berkeley uses a...y induced neurite outgrowth may provide a possible method for bypassing the inhibitory interface and the tissue beyond a CNS related injury. Using optic nerve...

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...This study shows that an easy-to-implement heating method can kill the HIV in breast milk," said Kiersten Is...milk, there has been little research into a simple method that a mother in a developing country could use. Studies by this research team have shown that fla...

Researchers Document First Case of Virgin Birth in Sharks

...y Demian Chapman of the, used a DNA fingerprinting method akin to human paternity tests. The technique was determined to identify the mother. When they deducted the mother's input from the pups DNA to determine the father, to their surprise there was nothing left. "In this particular case, after we subt...

$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease

... lead to clinical trials. The first will develop a method to help ALS-affected nerve cells generate more of the molecules called growth factors that might keep them healthy. Dr. Feldman and her team have already succeeded in creating a genetic snippet that can encourage cells to increase the number of tim...

Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Underused in Zambia

...ing overtreatment of malaria. The most widely used method to confirm a diagnosis of malaria is microscopy, according to background information in the article. Davidson H. Hamer, M.D., of the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues from the Zambian Ministry of Health, the Kenyan ...

Using Drugs as Weapons can Never Be 'non Lethal', Say Doctors

...rug and a poison except the dose. Using drugs as a method of law enforcement may constitute a violation of international conventions which prohibit the use of chemical weapons. This is of great concern to the BMA. The BMA is keen to alert doctors to the fact that medical knowledge may be called upon for t...

US Consumers Warned Against Toxic Chinese Fish

...y chefs to stop promoting the deep-sea fish as the method most used to harvest it (beam trawling) is damaging underwater habitats. Puffer fish is becoming an increasingly popular delicacy in the US. But the country most people associate with the puffer fish, also known as blowfish, is Japan where it is ca...

Scientist Observes real Time Generation of Neurones in Mammals

...d dynamic and capable of continuous change. His method provides a mechanism for observing how neurones develop into a rich and complex cell, and how already developed neurones are maintained in the highly active and changing environment of the brain. Dr. Mizrahi notes that the research may some day le...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

...even used in an ordinary combustion engine. The method hinges on a mixture of 13 enzymes, normally found separately in plants, rabbits, bacteria and yeast, but never together in nature. According to Y-H Percival Zhang of Virginia Tech University, when the enzymes are added to starch and water, "they u...

Researchers Make Insulin from Human Umbilical Cord Bloods Adult Stem Cells

... to divide. Then they used a previously successful method in which complex signals produced by the embryonic mouse pancreas were used to direct adult stem cells to begin developing, or differentiating into islet-like cells. They found that these adult stem cells showed evidence of a characteristic, or ma...

New Insights into Chronic Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

... the study's spokesperson, Ivana Hollan, M.D. "Our method of tissue examination allows the condition to be diagnosed in patients undergoing CABG surgery without increasing the preoperative risk." Despite the limitations of its small sample size, this groundbreaking study of aortic inflammation in patients...

Choice is a Key Element in Success for Smokers Who Want to Quit

...ve participation in the plan." Williams said the method has also proved successful for patients managing diabetes, weight loss, and dental care. Along with Ryan, who is a professor of psychology, psychiatry, and education, Deci, the Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences, and Williams, Rochester researc...

Fecal Bacteria, a Source of Contamination

...d state environmental laws in 2004. The tool box method of testing was more conclusive in pinpointing the source of contamination than testing with a single method. Effective pollution-control strategies can be developed only if researchers can identify the source of the contamination. In collaboration ...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

... problem that we face right now is that there's no method to track veterans coming home," said Rieckhoff, who served in Iraq as a platoon leader in the first year of the war. "There's no system. There's no national registry." More than four years into the war, the government has little information on suic...

Researchers Training Rats To Diagnose TB

...dged that there are challenges associated with the method but said that "out-of-the-box thinking can really revolutionize things." Other animals have shown potential diagnostic capabilities, such as dogs that appear able to detect cancer in humans. It is unclear which molecules the animals are detecting, bu...

Significant Scientific Breakthrough in Stem Cell Banking

...(DE) have developed a new scientifically validated method to collect adult mesenchymal stem cells ("MSCs") from the lining of umbilical cord tissue. This revolutionary new approach allows the collection and cryopreservation of very high quantities of valuable mesenchymal stem cells without invasive surgery...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

... at which passive smoking can be done and the only method to protect non-smokers is by eliminating smoking. ...ly among the yet-to-be-initiated groups. The other method is to activate the long arm of the law and to universally ban public smoking . This is to save the ...

Panacea Announces the Availability of PC Detect(sm) for Prostate Cancer Screening

...PC Detect(sm), a CLIA laboratory service, is a new method for screening a patient's serum to help determine the likelihood that prostate cancer is present. PC Detect(sm) provides information to differentiate prostate cancer from benign conditions and to help guide both the physician and the patient regardin...

Blood Test may Help Signal Tumor's Remission, Return in Throat Cancer Patients

...H strives for. Roughly 20 years ago, the primary method for treating throat cancer was to surgically remove the tumor. Because this treatment can severely impair a patients quality of life by damaging voice, speech, and swallowing, in many cases physicians and their patients are now opting for a combinati...

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