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Artificial Tanning Causes Concern

... a release. The Tanning beds are the most common method used by the teens for tanning. "People think tanning beds are controlled but their rays are the same (type as the sun). It causes damage to the skin which is preventable," according to Gomes. Fabutan, the largest chain of sun tanning salon in Canad...

Execution by Lethal Injection Questioned

...d Lancet in 2005. This injection is the foremost method used for execution in 34 states and federal govern...t as a result of ethical debates. The three-drug method has one drug to induce sleep, the second to stop breathing and the third to stop the heart. As a hum...

Scientists Identify Critical Gene Factor in Heart Development

...d maintenance. "Knocking out" a gene is a favorite method for figuring out what a particular gene does in a cell by selectively removing it. "Development of the heart requires very careful regulation of many factors, and that's one reason that microRNAs are so exciting to us," said Dr. Srivastava, GICD D...

Better Drug Delivery Method to Fight Cancer Developed

Researchers have developed a new method of delivering drugs to fight cancers - by transporting the drug through nanoparticles - which they say would be less// physically traumatic to patients, the team said Friday. The team at the National University of Singapore's department of chemical...

No-scalpel Vasectomies by Skilled Surgeons may Speed Recovery

... how to do vasectomies using the standard incision method may not be interested in learning a new technique....looked at two studies that compared the no-scalpel method of vasectomy to the traditional method. The studies arrived at conflicting results. The review ap...

DHA in Diet Helps Delay Onset of Alzheimer's

...mulation, exercise, and a good diet with DHA, as a method to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. This study is published in The Journal of Neuroscience. SV...

Popular Herbal Supplement Hinders the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...ugh a process called apoptosis – the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted or unneeded cells. This process often is faulty in cancer cells. Results of the study, abstract number LB-142, are being presented in a late-breaking session at the annual meeting of the American Association for Canc...

Method to Screen Prostate Cancer Less Effective

A common method used to diagnose localised prostate cancer, one of...he period after the diagnosis is insufficient as a method of distinguishing with any certainty the men who will develop a fatal cancer from those with a slowe...

Magic of Motherhood Through Egg Donation

... patient-specific embryonic stem cell lines. This method is mainly employed in therapeutic stem cell research to find cures for innumerable diseases. The young and the nubile are in demand as egg donors. The most sought-after donors are the ones between the ages of 21-30 years. Those with above-average h...

Californian Baby Creates History - Born from a Frozen Egg and Sperm

...ver the world ow their existence to this fertility method that employs frozen eggs and sperms....

New Invention to Detect Blood Clots

...f head injury the CAT scan is the usual diagnostic method for detecting bleeding in the brain. But this device is huge and expensive and is not available at many hospitals locally. Thus many head trauma cases are not treated quickly to save the human life. This portable infrascanner makes possible speedy ...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...ne in a physician’s office. This makes it an ideal method to screen elderly individuals for the earliest indication of this common scourge of late life.” The researchers employed signal processing and automated neural network analysis of event related potentials (ERPs) of the EEG signals, monitoring how t...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...t, the district administration tried an innovative method to make use of toddy to generate gainful employment. The project started in November 2004 in Bhavari village in Alirajpur. "We gave training to one Bhim Singh and his family, who owned 10 toddy palms, to make palm gur (sugar) out of toddy," said Ra...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

...n. Although telephone counseling was the primary method of delivering information about exercise and nutrition for all of the studies, most interventions also offered participants nutrition and exercise information via an initial face-to-face meeting and printed materials. One reviewed study aimed to i...

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

...the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, used a novel method of three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (M...human subjects, said Bearden. “We used a novel method for brain imaging analysis that is exquisitely sensitive to subtle differences in brain structure,” ...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...ive consequences. Television serves as an indirect method of smoking advertising.” With the ban on smoking in public places now in place in Wales, and the wish by thousands of smokers to kick the habit as a result, children and young adults will see less smoking around them. However, they are still expos...

Early Estrogen Therapy May Reduce Cardiovascular Risks

...al estrogen. Researchers have speculated that this method may be safer since transdermal estrogen does not go to the liver in high concentrations and has been shown to have little or no effect on clotting disease. “The WHI was instrumental in providing a roadmap for the next phase of research to examine w...

Multivitamins Improve Birth Outcomes Among Children Born With HIV

...rease in cost and would be a highly cost-effective method of improving birth outcomes in developing countries," said Fawzi. Source-Eurekalert/...

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

With a newly discovered method of assembling organic molecules, a team of Princeton University chemists may have found a way to sidestep many of the expensive// and hazardous barriers that stand in the way of drug development. The new approach allows scientists to synthesize mol...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...on chemistry professor Bob Hamers to demonstrate a method for controlling the growth of nanomaterials, the original NanoBucky is so tiny that approximately 9,000 of him can fit on the head of the pin. Though Greenberg and Farhoud's plaster 3-D models are several inches long and tens of thousands of times la...

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