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Micro vascular Disease Enabled with a Superior Test, Courtesy: Women’s Heart Progra

Advanced diagnostic tests for micro vascular cardiac disease on the lines of what the ...ly in recent years have physicians become aware of micro vascular disease - a dysfunction of the heart’s small arteries - as a significant problem for women,...

Leprosy Cured People In India To Be Trained By Japanese Trust

...said that cured leprosy patients would be provided micro credit to start their own business and encouraged to start dairies and poultry farms so that they lead an "independent life of dignity". The philanthropist, who has been creating awareness about the disease in India for the last two decades, said th...

Eye Hygiene Crucial To Keep Fungus at Bay

...erting and removing the contact lens could cause a micro trauma. This may provide an opportunity for the fungus to enter, which can manifest on the lens as well as the lens cases. In his words "patients getting the fungal ulcers have poor contact lens hygiene, meaning they might be keeping disposable le...

Malfunction Of Key Growth Factor Increases Mortality Rate From Pulmonary Fibrosis In Blacks

...t thinking is that pulmonary fibrosis is caused by micro injury to the lung as part of the earlier diseases' progress. "But we also know that PF is a 'proteomic disease' – that is its pathogenesis depends on the imbalance in expression and communication between many proteins," Bogatkevich noted. Using the ...

Potential Benefits Of New Nanotechnology

...er static and dynamic conditions in both large and micro channels.” The researchers are talking to industrial partners about moving towards large-scale production. --Eureklert...

After micro and macro nutrients ‘Nanonutrients' Promise health benefit

...l foods are the order of the day. After mention of micro and macro nutrients// nanonutrients are the emerging concept. Remarkable achievements in nanotechnology show great potential for positively influencing human health. By enhancing solubility, improving bioavailability, and facilitating the controll...

TB: Hurdle To Indian Economy

... 11,000 intervention centres in the country at the micro level." According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 80 percent of all active TB cases in Southeast Asia are among the productive population, which has an adverse impact on the social and economic progress of the region. The rapidly growing ...

Lung cancer molecular profile discovered by researchers.

... collaborated in the study. As the name suggests, micro or miRNAs are small segments of genetic material called ribonucleic acid, or RNA, and are thought to control gene ex-pression. Two miRNAs — has-mir-155 and has-let-7a-2 — have been identified that could be used as prognostic indicators in patients ...

Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!

...p a multipurpose sensing platform consisting of 17 micro sensors and two nano sensors, connected through a local area network. The project coordinator Dr Evangelos Bekiaris puts the vision in words and says,” The sensors will allow you to sleep at home on, for instance, a mattress with sensors instead o...

HIV combater available at home: yogurt!

...a protein that protects the body from infection by micro organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. "One of the major hurdles in this area has been to be able to show that you can actually take these bacteria, engineer them to express the drug, or the inhibitor of the HIV, and then have it still be a...

Influence Of Heart Rate On Myocardial Oxygen Tension

...ns unclear. Since the introduction of flexible pO2 micro catheters to measure partial oxygen tension in a w...ascular Research, intraoperatively, a flexible pO2 micro catheter was positioned in the mid-myocardium of 8 male farm pigs. The heart rate was varied via an ...

A new anti diabetic drug on the anvil

...gnificant morbidity and mortality due to long-term micro and macro vascular complications, new drugs are required to combat it. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recently filed for Phase I clinical trials for GRC 8200, its leading DPP-IV inhibitor compound, with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory...

Good News For Cataract Patients

...e, designed to improve treatment of cataract, uses micro incision (700 microns) surgery and is minimally invasive. It allows quicker recovery and better results. About 300 leading ophthalmologists from across India watched on a giant screen as Agarwal along with P.K. Bakshi, eminent ophthalmologist and f...

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

...ns , thereby forming gold nanoparticles within the micro - organism's cells. The new work has been done by researchers from the National Chemical Laboratory (NLC ) and the Armed Forces Medical College ( AFMC ), both in Pune and published in the recent issue of Nanotechnology, the journal of the Institute ...

Now insulin can be inhaled

...ers. The manufacture of tiny protein coated micro crystals can pass through the lung wall and into the blood stream using dry powder inhalers similar to those used by asthma sufferers.// The scientists unveiled these findings at the Edinburgh international science festival last week.These res...

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

... placebos and another group that received 20 or 40 micro grams of parathyroid hormone every day. The women had to inject themselves daily with the hormone. Both the groups received vitamin D and calcium supplements. Dr. Robert M. Neer of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and his team co...

Artificial silicon retina

...arge data. He would be doing the implant of these micro chips in one woman and two men suffering from retinitis pigmentosa .The whole procedure would be about 2-1/2-hour and will take place in Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois, where two of the patients underwent procedures last year. FDA h...

New treatment for diabetics

A researcher from America has developed a micro capsule coated with silicon, which could save the diabetics from the usual insulin injection.This microchip works by absorbing nutrients from the body //and stimulates the insulin- producing cells.Some diabetics have to inject insulin more than onec...

Silicon eye implants

...arge data. He would be doing the implant of these micro chips in one woman and two men suffering from retinitis pigmentosa .The whole procedure would be about 2-1/2-hour and will take place in Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois, where two of the patients underwent procedures last year. FDA h...

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