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Using Heart Stents Tends to Form More Clots

...ac arteries by surgeons.Stents may be medicated or non medicated that are coated with drugs are more liable to suffer from internal blood clotting. The risk is four to five times greater when compared to patients who use stents that are not medicated. This was gauged on the basis of a large study conduct...

Scientists Trace the Roots of the World's Healthiest Wines

... drinkers of red wine, score better at health over non drinkers. This protective effect is due to the presence of antioxidant chemicals called polyphenols, which give a protective cover for the blood vessels....

Prevention of AIDS in Armed Forces

... also been laid down which include use of condoms, non indulgence in unprotected sex etc. This information was given by the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a written reply to Shri Ravula Chandra Sekar Reddy in Rajya Sabha today. Source-PIB...

Drugs Delivery Revolutionized by Extremely Stable Glass

...CNR). Pharmaceutical compounds can now be made in non crystalline forms that are readily absorbed by the body, said the researchers. Recent research have been striving to develop such amorphous pharmaceutical compounds to enhance drug delivery to specific targets in the body The new technique entails ...

Operations Put Off Due to Dearth of Clean Equipments

...cancelled in Great Britain. This has been due //to non availability of sterile surgical equipments. This was disclosed by Grant Shapps, Conservative MP. According to him the paucity of funds in the NHS is the sole reason for this sorry state. This in turn has affected the health care of patients. Acc...

Donate Kidney And Get Released From Jail Soon

...round 7000 of these people die annually due to the non availability of organ donors. Earlier federal law passed in 1984 on organ transplant is reported to be contradictory to the present recommendation on organ donation. But Senator Anderson is very optimistic and feels that this legislation will be pa...

Sunburnt Holiday-makers Boost Their Chances of Fatal Skin Cancer

...osed with both malignant melanoma on her cheek and non melanoma skin cancer on her nose. She said: “I was left with a hole the size of a 10 pence piece on the side of my nose. My doctor confirmed that the cancer was caused by too much sunbathing without proper protection.” “When I was young I used to...

New Invention to Detect Blood Clots

...ial NIR light absorption of bleeding as opposed to non bleeding parts of the brain. The signals are then sent back to the scanner. The new device showed that the patient had large clot. This was then confirmed by the CT scan. This shows that the reading by the new scanner is quite accurate. Dr Alok Sha...

Cancer – Flushes Flesh and Fund

... ruling to allow patients pay up for effective but non funded drugs is only nine-months old; it came as a breath of fresh air to the many who would otherwise need to avail the treatment from other places, like the United States. Though the decision was embroiled in controversy, yet it seemed to be the be...

Alcoholism Develops Cognitive Problems in Women

...emale alcohol drinkers. The test revealed that the non drinkers fared better in a series of computerized tasks. The test evaluated the ability to match patterns in shape, remember location of stimuli and name colors when compared with contradictory information. And here it was the women drinkers who fare...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...stroys the parasite by building up toxic levels of non crystalline heme. But because of the overuse of chloroquine, isolates of P. falciparum from around the globe have developed genetic mutations that make them resistant to that drug as well as other similar agents. Not all mutations found in all re...

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...or pancreatic cancer which is being developed as a non patient-specific "off-the-shelf" pharmaceutical product. All patients underwent extensive surgical resection of their tumors. The immunotherapy was administered as an intradermal (under the skin) injection before and after standard post-operative adj...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...herited disorder. HIBM is a genetic disease with non life-threatening symptoms that emerge in adulthood and lead to slowly progressive muscle weakness. Most patients develop symptoms while in their early 20s and become wheelchair-bound by the time they reach 40, as their arm, hand, leg and core muscles...

Using Drugs as Weapons can Never Be 'non Lethal', Say Doctors

...ement situations, in the belief that these can be non lethal. The use of drugs as weapons1, produced by the BMAs Board of Science, concludes that it is impossible to deliver the right drug in the right dose to the right individuals in a way that is both effective and does not cause significant deaths....

Sacked Employee Says Stress Led to His Sex Addiction

...s to trial, it could affect how employers regulate non work-related internet use or how internet overuse is treated as a medical condition. A recent study by Stanford University found that up to 14 per cent of computer users reported neglecting their work, school, families, food and sleep to surf the ...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...t of this should also set up a health clinic and a non polluting employment center for the health and economic rehabilitation of the affected workers. Having suffered from HLLs lack of understanding of a well known toxin such as mercury, we sought information on toxins in household products such as s...

Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...destroy cancer cells by damaging their DNA. When non small-cell lung cancer cell lines were treated with rosizitaglone alone, there was no effect on growth. Carboplatin alone reduced growth of the cancer cells by about 60 percent. But when both drugs were administered, cell growth was reduced by 80 per...

Non Communicable Diseases to Be the Cause of Deaths in Poor Countries by 2115-World Bank

...s in order to curb the diseases. It has to prevent non communicable diseases to the greatest extent possible, and in doing so, promote healthy aging to avoid premature death. The Government also has a role to play in dealing with the pressures that this will impose of health care services. Allocations mu...

Personal Disclosure by Physician may Harm Patients

...hird of patient visits. The disclosures were often non sequiturs, unattached to any discussion in the visit and focused more on the physicians needs than the patients needs. The disclosures interrupted the flow of information exchange and valuable patient time in the typically time-pressured primary c...

Pubs Propose to Sell Nicotine Gum Patches

...d hand smoke. Second hand smoking would increase a non smoker's risk of lung cancer, bronchitis and asthma. Public Health Minister, Caroline Flint said "A smoke free England will see the single biggest improvement in public health for a generation." The Department of Health estimates that half of smoke...

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