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Lasik Device To Correct Bifocal Vision Approved

...nd Radiological Health, the device will reduce the need for reading glasses for adults 40 and older, who have laser in-situ keratomileusis surgery to correct distance vision. The surgery encompasses a procedure in which the surgeon cuts a flap in the outer layer of the cornea in order to remove a small ...

Navigating Healthcare

...erage person to understand. They're wrong. People need information to make smart choices about medical care. They need to know that paying more doesn't ensure better results. And undergoing more procedures and tests doe...

Organ Donors Solicited During UKs National Transplant Week

...cked off recently aims to make aware the desperate need of organs , required to save thousands of lives across the UK. The campaign has been launched to raise organ donors too, not just for the 7,500 people currently on the transplant list, but also for the hundreds more who add their names every month...

Dengue Deaths in Cambodia This Year Exceed 2006 Toll

...g the issue so we cannot tackle this problem. They need to take better care of sanitation in their homes," he said. "Medical staff cannot clean their houses for them." Dengue fever is on the rise around Southeast Asia with neighbouring Thailand recording 19,000 cases and 18 deaths so far this year. We...

New Nano-power Could Make Biopsies Sensitive and Efficient

... so insightful and efficient that there will be no need to repeat these invasive tests. Biopsy results can be confusing and indefinite. Sometimes they can be negative simply because there are too few malignant cells in the sample to be detected. Now researchers have come up with a solution that harness...

Suven Seeks Permission for Trials of New Drug

...er's disease and Schizophrenia is an unmet medical need and Suven's primary focus is to discover drugs that address significant unmet medical needs,' said a statement by the firm. Suven is a Hyderabad-based life sciences company, which is involved in contract research and manufacturing services, drug d...

Pavarotti Has 'recovered' from Pancreatic Cancer, Says Wife

...the ties. We do not speak about death; there is no need to. He is filled with happiness," she said....

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

... plants are falling apart -- a third are in urgent need of repair -- so sewage gets blocked on its way and has to be pumped out, also ending up in the drains. The head of the Delhi Jal (Water) Board, which handles sewage as well, said his hands are tied by a court order. The water board is forbidden f...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

... The report recommends more than 25 actions that need to be takenby EPA, Congress, the President, the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and the nanotech industryto improve the oversight of nanotechnologies. In an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe on Saturday (July 7, 2007), Davies and EPAs...

Canada Daycare Looks After Elderly Parents While Children Work

...e. "Elderly care is becoming more prevalent as a need for people," he said. Some 1.7 million Canadians...ters, for the moment, do not seem convinced of the need for this peculiar service. During a recent visit by AFP, there were no pensioners on site. Sopik c...

Bak Protein Sets Stressed Cells on Suicide Path

...deficient mouse, they also showed that Bak and Bax need each other to successfully spawn cell suicide. "If you have Bak but not Bax, the mitochondria still fragment but they don't die; if you have Bax but not Bak, you still have punctures in the mitochondria but with low efficiency," says Mr. Brooks. ...

Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

...ral mechanisms are at work," said Depue. "Then you need to look at those same mechanisms in a clinical population and figure out why they aren't functioning properly."...

Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

... suffering from mental illness and deter those who need help from seeking it. The reforms (which can include the detention of potentially dangerous patients) followed a public outcry after a series of murders by mentally ill people. People with psychiatric problems commit around 60 murders per year. Yet ...

Walking Really is the Best Way to Keep Healthy

...an expert on obesity, who insists that all people need to do is walk to keep healthy. "Getting out the...for everyone," and the best part is that you don't need to shelve out a pretty penny to get into shape with this form of exercise. "Walking doesn't cost y...

Gender Equality, the Key Factor to Curb Foeticide: Dr. Ramadoss

...and also the illegality of sex selection, and the need to question old and outdated rituals and social behaviour. Speaking further he said that legislation like Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act (PNDT Act) alone cannot solve the problem of sex select...

Sun Protection Ignored Despite Warnings

...over up and take care not to burn." The growing need for consumer awareness has not gone unnoticed by the European Commission, which has started an information initiative this week that requires sunscreen manufacturers to amend all sunscreen labels by next summer. Professor Peter Rigby, Chief Executi...

Southeast Missouri State Provides High-tech Protection Against Staph Infections

...le celled microorganisms such as bacteria and mold need a few key things to survive- food, light and a comfortable place to live," said Craig Andrews, CEO of SportCoatings. "The SAS technology enables facilities to be inhospitable for bacteria to grown on." SAS is powered by the AEGIS Microbe Shield(R) ...

Researchers Develop Tool to Gauge Quality of Life of Hepatitis B Patients

...effectively treat hepatitis B patients, clinicians need to consider the social and psychological impact of the disease, as well as biological functioning, said Dr. Brennan M.R. Spiegel, principal investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Vetera...

Organic Farming Can Feed the World

...n important role in convincing the public that you need to have these inputs to produce food," she said....

Three Doctors Charged So Far in the UK Bombing Case

...e you are dealing with modern technologies, you do need time to be able to assess all of that material." A review of the laws by a retired judge found they were "substantially achieving the purpose for which they were intended". "I think the laws have been balanced and appropriate and, in a large measu...

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