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Cancer Therapy Based on Missile Detection

... less. The outpatient procedure uses a single tiny needle probe to sense and measure parameters during treatment. Side effects appear to be minimal. The first clinical study of the treatment involved 75 patients with early-stage breast cancer. Of the 34 patients who received the treatment prior to lumpect...

Simple Blood Test may Replace Invasive Prenatal Tests

...c fluid. Amniocentesis involves inserting a fine needle into the womb and drawing up amniotic fluid. Major drawbacks include the risk of miscarriage as well as the pain and trauma associated with the procedure. The new technique by Ravgen works by taking a blood sample from the mother, by a virtual...

Research on Vaccine Against Ebola Virus

...accine to the animals as the animals are averse to needle pokes. Hence an oral administration or a spray appears to be the only solution. This research has reiterated the necessity to protect the primate population from ebola virus by developing a vaccine. This would lend itself to the benefit of certain ...

Drug Treatment Seekers Likely to Use Needle Exchange

...y examined the connection between Baltimore City’s needle exchange program and drug treatment programs.// ...be HIV-positive females who use the Baltimore City needle exchange programs. The study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healt...

Einstein's Tea Leaves Inspire New Blood Separation Technique

...tiny amount of blood enters a fluid chamber, and a needle tip is placed close to the surface of the blood at an angle. A voltage is applied to the needle, generating ions around its tip that repel the oppositely charged ions close to it. This creates an airflow known as "ionic wind" that sweeps across the s...

New Scan to Spot Early Effects of Alcohol on Liver

...uld be accurately tested only by sticking a biopsy needle into the liver through the stomach wall. However, this could damage the liver, occasionally resulting in death, and therefore is not used for routine health screening. "But the new scan, which takes five minutes, is painless, non-invasive and risk-...

Down’s Syndrome Test - Advised in All Pregnancie

...hoice for prenatal detection was an amnio, using a needle to draw fluid from the amniotic sac, which may occasionally cause miscarriage. SRI...

Snake Like Robots Designed to Assist Surgeons

...ss this problem, the steady-hand robot can grasp a needle and move it carefully in tandem with the surgeon in a technique called cooperative manipulation. In tests of the device, the researchers have successfully injected a liquid into a chicken embryo's blood vessels, resembling structures in the human ey...

Gene Warfare and Lobular Cancer

...volves tests like mammogram, ultrasound scan, fine needle aspiration and needle core biopsy. Though it may not be considered deadlier than other cancers of the breast, there i...

Best HIV-Prevention Programs Help People Build Skills

...rvention strategies that are not included, such as needle exchange. The review authors acknowledge that previous research has shown needle-exchange programs to be effective, but the CDC doesn’t fund them.“This isn’t really providing guidance on what works in some absolute sense, or how societal resources ...

Self Hypnotic Relaxation Makes Breast Biopsy Easier and Less Painful

...udy was done on out-patients undergoing large-core needle biopsy (LCNB), the group was randomly divided into three and the first group received standard care, second received empathetic attention and the third group underwent hypnosis. The Unique Methodology of Hypnosis The procedure of hypnosis follow...

Measures to Prevent HIV in Railway Employees

...t Medicines are made available with in 24 hours of needle – stick injury. · Workplace Intervention Programme – Workplace intervention programmes have been initiated. · The sensitization workshops are organized for Administrators, community leaders and Trade Union representatives and Medical Officers. ·...

Homosexuality, drug abuse increasing HIV in India: study

...s," the global report warns. As of 2006, several needle exchange programmes are operating in the northeast region, West Bengal and Delhi. However, only one project using substitution therapy has been started in the state of Manipur. Taking a critical view of the interventions in India, the report states...

Spiritual Leaders Join Together to Fight Against HIV/AIDS in India

...g down HIV/AIDS infection from the use of the same needle by several people repeatedly. 'The health ministry is in consultation with the ministry of law and the home ministry on how to do this legally,' he said. Ramadoss added that the bill against discrimination of AIDS patients would be introduced in ...

New Genetic Test Predicts Eye-Cancer Patients' Futures

...r the first time, UCLA surgeons used an ultra-fine needle to collect cells from the cancer before surgery and send the sample to the lab for culture. After growing the tumor cells, a geneticist analyzed them to determine whether they were missing a copy of chromosome 3. Of the nine patients in the UCLA st...

'Muscle' Protein Drives Prostate Cancer

... the course of their lives, is mainly diagnosed by needle biopsy of the prostate gland after a blood test shows an increased level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). While the PSA test is now widespread and provides many men with early diagnosis and better chance of a cure, says Luo, it may not be sensitiv...

Ozone Treatment - A Good Alternative For Spinal Injury

...technique, ozone is injected in the spine with 22G needle under the fluoroscopic guidance, with 4ml of a mixture of ozone and oxygen at a concentration of 30 micrograms per millilitre. It causes shrinkage of the disc, thus reducing its volume and lessening pressure on the nerves. The treatment relieves pa...

Review Opens Bag of Tricks for Reducing Pain from Children’s Shot

...nd distress in children and teenagers undergoing a needle procedure. "This way, health care professionals, p...ntrolled studies that excluded children with known needle phobias. The procedures studied included vaccinations, lumbar punctures and bone marrow aspirations....

Thalassemic patient is now HIV positive due to faulty Diagnostic kit…

...s of the case. She could have been infected by the needle or some other way." In December 2005, Monozyme got the orders for supplying test kits to the West Bengal AIDS Control and Prevention Society. The company has supplied around 1.6 lakh units to test Hepatitis B, 75,000 units to test Hepatitis C and 5...

Now a Robot to Treat Baldness

...until we get 10,000 fold. Then we take a very fine needle and we inject them under the skin and a new hair will grow at each point of injection," said Higgins. He added: "The cell culture growth phase takes about three weeks and involves lots of steps but we can programme the robot to do all the steps, an...

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