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New Standards Could Cut Number of Malnourished Children on Feeding Programs

...ge of the median. Most aid agencies use the median method to determine a child’s eligibility for admission o...a therapeutic feeding program although the z score method is also used infrequently for this purpose. The research team used both methods and found marked d...

Foot Deformity Could Be Corrected With Minimal Surgery

...ue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. His method has caught the attention of pediatric orthopaedic ...n the United States and internationally to use the method successfully. The difference between Dobbs' method and casting techniques tried in the past is in ...

Canadian Researchers Raise Hopes of Treatment for Memory Loss

... a pill could be generated, it might provide a new method for treating people with memory-related disease such as Alzheimer's," said Dr Costa-Mattioli, whose study appears in the journal Cell. "While a drug that worked in this way wouldn't cure the disease itself, it might rescue the symptoms of memory l...

Combining Therapies can Improve Survival for Early-stage Breast Cancer Patients

...ith early-stage breast cancer who receive a single method of treatment—either tamoxifen, ovarian suppression, or chemotherapy. Two international studies by the Adjuvant Breast Cancer Trials Collaborative Group were designed to test whether combining these treatments would provide additional benefits. Ju...

Are Computer-aided Mammogram Reports Reliable?

... Computer-aided mammogram, a diagnostic evaluation method to detect breast cancer may not be completely reliable, and often needs a biopsy// for confirmation, a report states. In the United States alone, almost 24 million mammograms take place annually. During a study, researchers from The University of ...

Gene Study To Reveal Radiation Poisoning

...e. Yet the group is in the process of refining its method by homing in on a set of 25 genes that could be reliably checked to determine within 12 to 24 hours not only whether exposure took place, but also the relative dosage received. AN/L...

Genetic Technology and Eugenics

... modern world is in a hurry to forget. The olden method of selective breeding to produce better beings has given way to modern techniques like Preimplantation genetic Diagnosis (PGD) done on an embryo, prenatal testing done on a fetus and the genetic testing done on adults. All these tests, co...

U.S. Navy Offers Intralase No-Blade Lasik for Servicemen

...s predictability," says Dello Russo. "The no-blade method was met with much resistance by blade Lasik surgeo...tary had been reluctant to approve the traditional method in which Lasik is performed using a blade. The new announcement, which was published in the last iss...

It's Never too Late to Get It Back! Aging Interrupted

.... Spindler and his colleagues used their screening method to search for drugs which cause pre-cancerous and cancerous cells to commit suicide and to replace those cells with new, healthy cells. It is thought that the body does this because it normally kills some cells like damaged and rogue cancer cells to ...

1-visit Screening, Prevention for Cervical Cancer Holds Promise

A method of screening women in Ghana for early signs of cervical cancer and providing //preventive treatment at the same visit appears to be safe, acceptable to women and feasible, according to a study by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medi...

Penn Scientists Engineer Small Molecules to Probe Proteins Deep Inside Cell Membrane

...ed from this approach are a long way off, but this method allows us to now study these interactions that are so fundamental to the way in which cells cooperate to carry out essential functions," says Bennett. "In the future, this knowledge can provide insights for identifying novel drug targets." Source-E...

A Sweet Step Toward New Cancer Therapies

...ates or sugars have been added, the identification method breaks down. "If sugars are attached, for instan...ECD) instead of the usual "shake-it-til-it breaks" method to fragment proteins. But that method requires the presence of at least two positive charges, which ...

Campaign To Combat Medical Errors

...working with different groups to ensure a reliable method that permits the doctor who writes the orders to have a thorough knowledge of patient’s disease history and the drugs that has been prescribed. The subsequent step for the SHN campaign is to engage top management of hospitals and health care teams...

Hungarian Researchers Claim Cancer Breathalyzer Breakthrough

...er, that the device could offer a simple and cheap method to detect cancer early. "There are a lot of questions - for example how small a tumor it can detect, so far however it has not given a single erroneous positive result," she told the newspaper. The device works by searching for "biomarkers" in hu...

Detection of Malignant Breast Tumors Made Simpler and More Effective

...rd Medical School claim the discovery of a simpler method to distinguish benign breast tumors from malignant...society. When used with a non-invasive imaging method that relies on harmless light instead of X-rays, the contrast agent could help doctors diagnose dise...

Cellulose Nanocrystal Research Paves the Way for Newer Vaccines, Computer Inks

...if inhaled. The ink jet printing allows for a safe method of deposition of the nanocrystals. Source-Eurekalert SA...

MIT Biologists Solve Vitamin Puzzle

...search course taught by Walker resulted in a novel method for identifying mutant strains of a soil microbe that could not form a symbiotic relationship with a plant. Walker's team has now found that one such mutant has a defective form of an enzyme known as BluB that leaves it unable to synthesize B12. ...

Specially Developed Proteins Could Help Resist Ageing

...e Royal Society of Chemistry: 'I don't expect this method to furnish the elixir of life. Don't stop eating your vegetables, just yet.' GP...

Use of Oral Fluids to Diagnose and Treat Disease

...ndance as in blood. Proteomics is a relatively new method of studying the amounts and types of protein in cells and body fluids on a much smaller scale than was previously possible. The analysis of oral fluids using proteomics has opened new doors for the study of oral diseases and links between oral and sy...

Postnatal Health and Sexual Problems Persist Even After a Year

...health issues covered by this study, this delivery method is associated with other problems that have a negative effect on women's quality of life, like adhesions and wound infections. "We believe that our study points to the need for health professionals to provide ongoing support for women who have giv...

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