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Mr. Norris's Home Certified Anthrax-free

... traces of anthrax have been found at his home but minute traces of anthrax have been found in other properties, Smailholm Village Hall, near Kelso, and a workshop in Northumberland. These places will be decontaminated in early 2007. Dr Andrew Riley, the director of public health at NHS Borders, said: "...

Drug Coated Stents Under the Scanner

Drug-coated stents are minute coils implanted in the artery that gradually releases a medicine to ensure the artery does not clog again. It is estimated that drug-coated// stents have indeed saved the lives of more than six million people in the world. Drug coated stents were ...

India’s First Full-Fledged Trauma Center Read

...nd a proper trauma care is most crucial when every minute impacts the patient's chances of survival. Dr Shakti Gupta, expert in hospital administration from AIIMS, said: 'At least 40% deaths occur on the roadside due to delay in treatment. Earlier, the casualty ward handled trauma cases. Now, a separate h...

MRI Detects Early Heart Damages In Patients

...ng from heart problems. By using MRI to discover minute areas of heart damage before they grow larger, physicians may be able to take action to prevent sudden cardiac death, which is a leading cause of death in patients with sarcoidosis, the researchers said. Sarcoidosis is characterized by the formatio...

Sports Cheats Beware - New Test To Detect Synacthen Found

...oped a method that can specifically search for the minute traces of synacthen in a blood sample. Called immunological purification, this technique can find any synacthen molecules even though its concentration is 10,000,000 less than other proteins in blood plasma. There are severe penalties for any perso...

Fast food giant KFC to switch to trans fat free menus

... also occurs naturally in beef and also in milk in minute quantities. A diet rich in trans fat is potentially more dangerous than a diet high on saturated fats. Studies show that intake of about five grams of trans fats daily for many years at a stretch can increase the risk of heart disease by 25 per cen...

Caffeine not really 'filtered' out of decaf coffee

...3.9mg of caffeine in a 16-ounce cup which is very minute in comparison to a strong brew of regular coffee w...e per cup.br> Goldberger warns that even this minute percentage of caffeine should not be brushed off lightly as it may trigger off unwanted complication...

Standards of Home Care for Elderly Needs Change

...t time to build trust. The practice of giving 15 minute slots of help, before moving on to the next individual, was accused fo being "undignified and unsafe". The government said that although there had been improvements, issues still remained. Presently home care includes services like help with dressi...

"New" Clear Advantages In Nuclear Medicine

...e. Nuclear medicine involves giving minute quantities of radioactive substances to patients to study molecular processes within the body for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment of any disease thereby detected. This is a field which over the years has grown and evolved diversely. Today ...

Hooked on the Hookah, a’int no good

...alent of a pack of cigarettes in one typical 30-60 minute session with a water pipe, because such a large quantity of pure, shredded tobacco is used," said Christopher Loffredo, Ph.D., Director of the Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology program at Georgetown University Medical Center. His series of recently...

Cell transplantation - Potential treatment for blindness

... later, the spatial acuity or the capacity to view minute details was restored to up to 70% of that of normal rats. The research team is hopeful that if similar promising results are obtained in further studies, the treatment may be tried on human beings in 2 years time. GYT...

MRI And Breast Cancer

...l ductal component." MRI was able to detect even minute spread in certain cases, she added. "Accurate preoperative diagnosis of the intraductal component allows the surgeon to achieve a cancer-free surgical margin." RAS...

Prevalence of Self-reported Snoring, Sleep-disordered Breathing in Military

...eathing repeatedly during their sleep, often for a minute or longer and as many as hundreds of times during a single night. This is due to a complete obstruction of the airway. Excessive daytime sleepiness and obstructive sleep apnea are linked to cognitive impairment, a loss of memory, attention, and crit...

Transplant Cures Rats’ Type 2 Diabetes without Need for Immune Suppression Drug

...laced in a test tube releases pig insulin within a minute of being exposed to high glucose levels. "The link between the glucose-sensing and insulin-releasing machinery of the pig cells is established normally after transplantation of primordia, and they work just like a normal pancreas,” says Rogers. T...

Mind in a Bind – Alternative Intervention

...istered orally not intravenously. Dosages are very minute and based on the principle of ‘Similia Similibus Curentur’, which is Latin for ‘Like cures Like’. Its the functional symptoms of the patient that are to be primarily evaluated by a trained homoeopath whose observations should be as keen as a sensitiv...

Importance of knowing the source of our food

... eat? Shouldn't we have a right to expect that the minute a dangerous food product is identified that its source can be located and inspectors can have the opportunity to inspect those premises?” says Pritzker. ”I am a food safety lawyer. I represent people injured by food products contaminated with dead...

Cancer-Killing Compound From A Fungus

...hemical synthesis process that still yields only a minute amount," he says. "Now, after five years of effort, we've worked out a process that lets researchers finally produce enough rasfonin to really start investigating how it functions, and how we might harness it to fight cancer." In 2000, researchers ...

Chronic pain can be cooled off !

...ting things about icilin is that it can be used in minute concentrations and it is sufficient to just paint it on the surface of the skin where the pain is to cause a painkilling effect that could last for hours afterwards.'...

Post-tsunami trauma still haunts children

...rs where children stay. In some cases it is a five minute to eight minute walk from their shelters. The children find it difficult to use the toilets at night because they ...

Sleepy After A Heavy Lunch? Here's Why

...ly unknown mechanism is so sensitive it can detect minute changes in glucose levels - the type that occurs between meals for example," said lead researcher Dr Denis Burdakov. "This may well provide an explanation for after-meal tiredness and why it is difficult to sleep when hungry." Neil Stanley, director...

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