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Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

... primary care physician thought there probably was nothing to worry about, Wolfe had recently lost weight – intentionally – dropping from a size 6 to a size 2. 'He knows that I'm a health fanatic and was very supportive of my insistence to do more testing without delays,' recalls Wolfe. To rule out any ser...

New Technique Identifies Unknown Genetic Mutations That Can Cause Cancer

...inases. Silencing four of the kinases with RNA did nothing – the cells still grew out of control. But with the fifth, the cells no longer became cancerous. "That left one gene to sequence. We found that the gene, called JAK3, had a mutation that drives the growth of leukemia cells in mice," said Druker. An...

Court Fines Newspaper for Revealing AIDS Orphan's Identity

...e Internet. His later insistence that he had done nothing improper outraged Jin Wei, an AIDS activist who supported the woman's education. After her identity was revealed the young woman's grades dropped sharply and she lost confidence in herself, Jin was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency. Source:PTI...

India Develops Test for Diagnosis of Deadly Livestock Disease

...s in India is not known. How ever this disease has nothing to do with humans. Similarly Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is one of the commonest causes of infectious abortion in cattle. It is also associated with a wide range of diseases from infertility to pneumonia, diarrhoea and poor growth. BVDV i...

MRIs Show Drug Treatment Slows Brain Deterioration on Road to Alzheimer's Disease

... testing is that if one tests positive for APOE 4, nothing can be done about it at present. Ongoing research is investigating potential preventive treatments for those at high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, he says. For those who know they are APOE 4 carriers yet have no signs of mild cognitive i...

Water–borne Diseases Takes Tw

...lage." Municipal officials had claimed there was nothing to worry on Friday. Additional municipal commissioner Vijaysinh Patankar had said, "This is common at this time of the year and there is no need to panic." Doctors and other health experts say that waterborne diseases are endemic to the city. Dr A...

Drug Trial Proves Nightmare for British Indian Student

...als on two previous occasions. 'Parexel has done nothing for us. Parexel has refused to get involved. They wouldn't even pay for the taxi to take us home from hospital,' he said. Reports say that on the day of the trial, he was the third of the guinea pigs to be injected with TGN1412. It was 8.30 a.m. an...

NICE supports application of advanced biological therapies as treatment option for acute psoriasis

...r many years, I tried every suitable treatment but nothing seemed to relieve the painful itching. As the itching got worse, I would get more stressed and this only made my condition worse. Following a treatment review with my doctor, I was prescribed a biological therapy and for the first time since developi...

Craniofacial Surgery Gives Tijuana Teen Chance to be 'Normal' Kid

...lowing her son’s initial surgery but was told that nothing further could be done to correct his deformity. Her eyes filled with tears of joy when Urata, who is an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a research assistant professor ...

MPs Demanded an Immediate Ban on Coke, Pepsi

..., Limca, Coca-Cola and eight other soft drinks was nothing but slow poisoning. Raising the issue during zero hour, Samajwadi Party MP Ramji Lal Suman said the soft drink companies have not been following the norms issued by the joint parliamentary committee last year. He alleged the government was bowing b...

Lebanon Fears of Epidemics as the Crisis Deepens

...ant to hospitals as you know. If there is no fuel, nothing works - refrigerators or water pumps," Mansour said. Health Minister Mohammed Khalifeh warned that some hospitals across Lebanon faced imminent closure if the fuel crisis continued. Hospitals across Beirut were already cutting power intake in order...

Researchers Find 'Secret Weapon' Used by SARS Virus

... members cause many common colds. But to there was nothing common about the lethality of SARS; clearly, this coronavirus had some nasty tricks up its sleeve. Now, in a discovery that suggests a possible new route by which scientists might fashion a vaccine against SARS, researchers at the University of Tex...

Doctors Wary after Shipman Affair

...the findings. He stated that doctors should have nothing to fear if they keep themselves up to date with th...ds of the decisions they have made, then they have nothing to fear.' ...

Bariatric Surgery: A New Hope for Treating Obesity

..."We tried everything from medicine to exercise but nothing worked. Ritubrata's food intake was little yet he kept gaining weight. Finally we opted for this surgery," Ritubrata's mother Soma Saha, a resident of Balasore in Orissa, told IANS. B. Ramana, a noted laparoscopic and bariatric surgeon, operated o...

Walkers Crisps Advertisements make Misleading Claims about Salt Content

...ices about our products." ASA, however has found nothing wrong with a poster campaign, fronted by Gary Lineker, which claimed that a packet of ready salted crisps only contained as much salt as the average slice of white bread....

Safe Sex and Good Sex is the Talk of AIDS Conference

...ssions are frank and open, because we feel we have nothing to lose. Many women say they never liked or have no interest in sex. Our culture teaches us to be guilty for feeling any desire," Rehman says. At a conference where many discussions centre around the sexual transmission of HIV and male and female s...

AMA Urges Doctors to be Upfront about Fees

... “But in most areas of medical practice there is nothing to prevent a significant rise in the IFC rate.” Dr Haikerwal said IFC was not just the responsibility of doctors or patients, with the private health funds needing to do more to ensure their products deliver value for patients. “Knowing the gap t...

Family of man who immolated himself seeks justice

... the Gaya dairy that he would immolate himself but nothing was done to clear his dues. Added Prabhakar: "We have documents to substantiate my father's claim that the dairy company owed him Rs.200,000." However, U.C. Verma, an officer at the Gaya dairy project, denied the company owed the dead man any mon...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

...ccording to his parents and doctors his success is nothing short of a miracle. While bowel transplants by themselves are extremely uncommon multiple organ transplants are still rarer, not mention dangerous as well. However Gairett was left with no choice. He suffered from improperly formed blood vessels in...

Family To Approach NHRC To Seek Justice

... the Gaya dairy that he would immolate himself but nothing was done to clear his dues. Added Prabhakar: "We have documents to substantiate my father's claim that the dairy company owed him Rs.200,000." However, U.C. Verma, an officer at the Gaya dairy project, denied the company owed the dead man any mon...

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