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Intractable Seizures Can Be Handled By A Three-Stage Brain Operation, Neurosurgeon

...ion.’ Tuberous sclerosis produces tubers on many organs in the body, including the skin, kidneys, lungs, and eyes. In the brain, the hard calcified growths cause seizures. Mental retardation, autism, and other developmental problems can occur in as many as two-thirds of individuals with the disease, accor...

Grieving Relatives Reluctant To Give Consent For Organ Donation

...nt of families denied consent for their relatives' organs to be donated. The study, published in the Briti...ganisation, said that UK has a serious shortage of organs for transplantation, as does almost every country. The study looked at the possible number of donati...

Scientist Convicted As His Claims Were Found To Be Fabricated

... grown from embryonic stem cells to repair damaged organs or treat diseases like Alzheimer's. But all this and his fame were short lived when the Seoul National University panel found that the research was intentionally fabricated. He had received $42.2m from the government $4.35m from private foundations f...

Training in Australia's Medical Schools Inadequate

...mportant body parts even confusing// certain vital organs with each other. Senior doctors including pathologists, anaesthetists and obstetricians have raised concerns that medical students are not being properly trained. The doctors claim that the students are not properly trained in anatomy. According...

Organ Donation Rates Plummet In UK

... of 1 million only 12 come forward to donate their organs for transplant. The results of the study are publi...an countries UK suffers from a serious shortage of organs for transplantation. On the other hand Spain has a highest rate of about 33 donations per 1million p...

Sperm Cells attracted By Ovary Scent, Even in Weakened State

...ious compounds released by the female reproductive organs under various conditions might further our understanding of these processes." Understanding why, how and when sperm are attracted to ovaries may help scientists understand problems with human conception. "Defects in sperm chemotaxis may be a cause...

Study Offers Hope In Prevention Of Facial Paralysis

... into close contact with the inner ear and balance organs which also reside in the temporal bone. In fact, sometimes the facial nerve can be seen directly in the floor of the ‘middle ear space,’ the space just behind the human ear drum. Usually the nerve has a bony covering over it that helps protect it fro...

Bubble Technique on the cards For Treatment of Type I diabetes

... the UTMD technique, do not target the tissues and organs specifically." Currently, patients with Type I ...can be used to deliver therapeutic agents to other organs as well. Nationwide, more than one million people have Type 1 (juvenile onset) diabetes. Diabetes...

Study To Look Into Psychological And Emotional Effects Of Cervical Cancer

... also study the effects of the cancer on important organs like the bowel and the bladder....

Tiny Easy Fitting Pump May Be The Answer For Major Open Heart Surgery

...the heart by pumping oxygenated blood to the other organs in the body. The scientists said that with this new invention the patients would be able to leave hospital within a week and get back to normal life within days. As compared to the time taken almost about 2-3 months for a patient who has undergone ...

Birth Defects Caused By Deficiencies In Cell Signaling Pathway

...an result in problems in the formation of multiple organs during fetal development. br>...

First Beating Heart Transplant In UK

... Due to risks of damage and deterioration, removed organs are usually placed on ice and transferred to the r...an be kept for longer time in an alive state. Thus organs are usually cut and submerged in a highly concentrated potassium solution, and put in an ‘igloo’ to ...

Cardiogenic Shock is the Leading Cause of Death for Heart Attack Patients

...essure shoots up, the skin becomes cool and body’s organs stop functioning. It is said that cardiogenic shock is the leading cause of death for heart attack patients with nearly 60% of them will not survive. However, an important study published in 1999 by a group led by Judith S. Hochman, M.D., showed agg...

DIA-B: Barking up the Right Vine

...ulin has debilitating effects on a number of human organs when used over a long time.' Dr Ken Walder, leader of this research, spoke of the presence of this bark on several pacific islands. He explained how the properties influence cells in much the same way as insulin does, but it might take a while befo...

Manual vs. Automated Chest Compression After Cardiac Arrest

...ession device produces greater blood flow to vital organs and may improve outcomes. Al Hallstrom, Ph.D., of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues conducted a study to compare LDB-CPR with manual CPR during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The multicenter, randomized trial included 1,071 pa...

Mechanism of Stem Cell Regulation Identified

...such as neurological disorders and anemia. In most organs of the body, old cells are continually being repla...ied out on stem cells in the intestine, one of the organs in the body with the highest rates of cell renewal. ‘We also know that blood, brain and skin stem ce...

Approval of Drugs for the Treatment of Late-Stage Cancer

...atin. Cancer in this stage often spreads to other organs and is unlikely to respond to treatment with surgery or radiation. 293 patients took part in clinical trials with Hycamtin plus cisplatin and cisplatin alone. While most of the participants had undergone prior radiation therapy some had also underg...

Doctors Confused by the Manly Characteristics of a Five-year-old Boy

...of a grown man in his mid-20s and his reproductive organs too have developed like that of an adult. Abhishek, born in November 2000, is the third son of Pramod Kumar of Choti Balia, a village in Begusarai district, about 130 km from here, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. A worried Kumar has consul...

Latest In the Heart Transplant Field

...ransplanted. This machine is of great help because organs tend to deteriorate quickly after taken from the b...s kept in a functional condition and the number of organs available for transplant and the number of potential recipients could be broadened. Professor Bru...

Australian Surgeons Successfully Conduct Worlds First Triple Organ Transplant

...with a rare autoimmune disease, which attacked her organs rendering them useless. It was explained that six ...surgeons explained that almost immediately all the organs began to function....

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