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Single Women with Baby Cravings Can Actually Cradle their Own, Courtesy NHS

...r own are growing in number, and this has led to a novel scheme whereby single women in their 30’s and 40’s desirous of having a child are going to be given free fertility treatment on the National Health Service.// Hospital administration is re-working the policy to help women have children without the...

A simple answer to teen weight loss: Reducing sugary drinks

...diatrics, Children's Hospital Boston report that a novel intervention to limit consumption of sugary drinks –home deliveries of noncaloric beverages – had a beneficial effect on weight loss. // Cara Ebbeling, PhD, and David Ludwig, MD, PhD, in the hospital's Division of Endocrinology, led the randomized, ...

Australian Snake Venom Can Arrest Bleeding During Surgery And Trauma

...X has the potential to be exploited in a number of novel drug therapies. Further analysis of the different kinds of snake venom could provide for new components that could be used for human drug development....

Medical Boon in the Form of a Biofriendly Capsule

...ing, chemistry and physics said that it was a very novel technique. The hollow, deformable and biofunctiona...y attaching biomolecules to the capsule's surface, novel colloidal-size sensors could be produced. An additional use for stabilized lipid capsules is the stu...

Apprehension looms large over patient record system

The novel patient record system, designed to connect up 50 million patients' records, and the largest in civil projects, seems to be in trouble, according to reports. // The National Audit Office has been asked to check the veracity of reports doing the rounds...

Carotid Stenting Can Help Patients With Silent Disease

...al Center researchers are leading the discovery of novel therapies and advances to address a wide range of health conditions. http://www.cumc.columbia.eduNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital in the country. It provides state-of-the art inpatient, ambulatory an...

Cost-effective Meningitis Vaccine To Be Launched In Africa

...ity of developing cost-effective vaccines by using novel strategies developed by researchers in the developing nations represents a groundbreaking approach in the competitive area of drug development....

Mexi-Plan by Health Net, Expected To Be a Boon for Uninsured Latinos

... Mexico or the United States. // The company has novel schemes on the anvil, whereby, medical benefits can be availed for as little as $75 a month, paid directly by individuals and families without the intervention of employers. The plans will be available for use in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura count...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

...lobal strategy only calls for active research into novel treatment techniques and strengthening of local health services in underdeveloped and developing countries, which are hardest hit by TB. 'We must involve a much broader array of actors in TB control and adapt DOTS to HIV co-infection, MDR-TB and ot...

A New Focus For The Mechanism Of Nerve Growth

... the mechanism of nerve cell growth by identifying novel functions for a molecular "motor" protein, myosin-II, according to an //article in the March issue of Nature Cell Biology. As nerve cells develop or attempt to recover after damage, they extend growth cones, highly flexible extensions that act as env...

Breast cancer: Possible Link Between Asymmetrical Breasts and Cancer

A novel research has suggested that Women with disproportionate or uneven breasts have a greater likelihood of developing cancer. Fortunately// , the mammography is designed to record any alterations or changes in the breast, the study has revealed. A Uni...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

A social activist from Kolkata has conceived a novel method for healing women of Nepal those who were forced into prostitution and abandoned street children surviving abuse. // Sohini Chakraborty, director of Kolkata-based Sanved, received the prestigious Ashoka fellowship in 2003 as a tribute to her...

The heat is on: Warm up time for Malaria’s clim

...s could have instigated a rebound of Malaria//. A novel research by an international team places a certain importance to climatic change which can raise malaria’s spread, along with other factors like drug and pesticide resistance, changing land use patterns and human migration. University of Michigan the...

ADHD Risk Pronounced in Children with Extreme Personality Traits

A novel study by the Florida State University has thrown light on certain personality traits in children that presage a risk of an attention// deficit hyperactivity disorder or conduct disorder. Children with personalities that show up as aggressiveness, und...

New Research Points To Prevention Of Mad Cow Disease

...at it could eventually pave way for development of novel strategies to prevent Mad Cow Disease. Mad Cow Disease, was first identified in the UK in the year 1986. It is a potentially fatal brain-wasting disease that affects various aspects of the cow’s nervous system. The animal faces a severe restriction...

New Drug For Treating Chronic Shoulder Pain

...al Center researchers are leading the discovery of novel therapies and advances to address a wide range of health conditions. Souce: Newswise...

Sodium Hyaluronate Shows Promise In Treatment Of Shoulder Pain

A novel study conducted by Columbia University Medical Center has shown that sodium hyaluronate, originally intended for use in osteoarthritis, could be effective// in the treatment of chronic shoulder pain as well. Until now, drug treatment with Cox-2 inhib...

Internet Based Tool, BGEM To Help In Study Of Brain Development

...evel, eventually paving way for the development of novel anti-cancer agents that could revolutionize brain cancer treatment. Scientists would continuously update the BGEM web site. Out of the 25, 000 genes believed to be involved in the development of the nervous system, functional information about 30% ...

Bad Enzymes Found To Enable Brain Recovery Following Stroke

...ally, it could open avenues for the development of novel stroke treatment strategies and new generation drugs in treating the same. The enzyme matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) has been found to help in remodeling of the brain 14 days following stroke, in experiments conducted on animal mouse models by ...

Nanotechnology Promises Huge Medical Benefits

...f science and technology and the implementation of novel theoretical ideas to practice, the development of personalized medicine is very likely. After all, medical diagnosis could be even made as simple as carrying a nanotechnology medical device in one’s pocket. This is perhaps the most beautiful time i...

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