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Voice may be improved by surgery

...their voice was unchanged. But you don't hear your own voice as others do. Friends and relatives thought that surgery had significantly improved the subjects' voices. A similar effect was seen in patients having surgery to treat sinus and tonsil problems....

The right is responsible

...er a morphed computer image blending the patient's own face with the face of a famous person. After the ...orillas) are the only species that recognise their own faces in a mirror," says Keenan, who began researching self-awareness as a graduate student. "It has...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...ps decided to get into retailing, by opening their own outlet or chain of outlets, which was seen by the ...ies have either started or planning to start their own retail outlets. Mr. Shah claims that Subiksha Group from South India has already firmly entrenched i...

The cocaine danger

...ed, the complement proteins build up on the body's own cells, causing massive tissue damage.Michael Davies of St George's Hospital said the research could explain why some cocaine users develop heart failure, where the heart becomes floppy and pumps blood less efficiently. The chest pains which many coc...

E. coli strains resistant to a common antibiotic

... mostly from inadvertent contact with the victim's own feces. Urinary tract infections are common, especially among women, and cause painful and frequent urination. // The new research found that a single, genetically identical strain was responsible for outbreaks of urinary tract infections among wom...

Wound healing made faster

...of a number of key hormones involved in the body's own tissue-repair system by assembling them into a wound-healing "complex". The researchers believe that although the complex occurs in nature, a current established opinion that hormones operate independently have prevented it from being recognised.//A...

New gene for hairloss

...ivated by thyroid hormone, so it may influence its own activity as well as that of other genes targeted by the hormone. It may be a key factor in the hormone's effects in both brain and skin....

Gas Masks Don't Always Fit an Emergency

... self-contained breathing apparatus, which has its own oxygen canister, good for about a half-hour of breathing time. First responders also wear impermeable clothing designed to protect from agents that penetrate the skin. The second-most protective masks are those that fit either over the full face o...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

...advantages of this procedure were use of patient's own tissue from the healthy eye to treat the diseased one avoiding the risk rejection, which is generally the case with cadaveric tissue....

Cyclosporin A Treats Leukemia Complications

...is complication due to an immune response to their own tissue. The patients were treated with 300 mg/day of cyclosporin A. While on the drug, more than 60 percent of the patients with thrombocytopenia had an increase in the number of platelets. Also, more than 60 percent of the patients with anemia had a...

New Way To Treat Lupus

...ng the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own tissue. New research into lupus suggests how the immune system goes awry in the disease//--a discovery scientists say could lead to better, more targeted treatments for lupus in the next few years. The new study suggests how this misguided immune sy...

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

... the basis for a brain implant using the patient's own bone marrow. This would sidestep ethical and technical problems around using embryonic stem cells....

The alarm clock in you

Human beings have their own natural alarm clocks which can be set subconscious...research has shown that people's bodies have their own rhythms which can help them wake at regular times each day, but - says Professor Born - this is the ...

More Elderly Take Inappropriate and Harmful Medications

...than one in five elderly Americans living on their own takes a medication that could put them at risk for injuries and illness. According to the report, more than 21% of elderly Americans--representing nearly 7 million// individuals--had received at least one of these 33 potentially inappropriate medicat...

Ibuprofen weakens aspirin's effect

...ygenase-1. Aspirin gets stuck and cannot reach its own active site inside the enzyme. The study found no conflict between aspirin and three other arthritis drugs: rofecoxib, diclofenac, and acetaminophen, which is in Tylenol. But the researchers suggested that other drugs with structures like ibuprofen...

Predictable genes

...." Every woman, he said, might be able to have her own "genetic profile" which would closely predict her risk of breast cancer. He added: "Established risk factors are very important, but they are not good discriminants of risk for the individual."It's been shown that if you take a series of 10,000 wom...

Artificial lenses- Boon to cataract patients

...eople are given artificial lenses to replace their own lenses when they become clouded by cataracts. But these consist of a single, fixed-focus lens, so patients can only focus at a set distance. He has now patented a device containing six overlapping lenses arranged like the petals of a flower.Like ot...

Control of inflammation

...bacteria or viruses, injury, or reactions to one’s own tissues. Chronic inflammation is characteristic o...matoid arthritis. Little is known about the body,s own mechanism for controlling inflammation and the tissue damage that accompanies it. According to Dr.Si...

A novel augmentation

...ts would be engendered by cloning from a patient's own cells and would therefore have no problems of negation. Makoto Asashima, who led the team, said the technology could provide an option to donor transplants. His team refined thousands of embryo cells in a retinoic acid solution for five days to dra...

Organs made from cloned embryos

... that are genetically identical to the recipient's own body. This would eliminate the need for ordinary transplants and avoid the use of drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ....

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