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Angioplasty may Damage Kidneys

... a stent to keep the vessel open. The procedure is performed on about 40,000 to 80,000 people a year. Bypass su...utes of Health, will compare results in procedures performed with and without a protection device. The goal of the research is to determine the best way to condu...

Naps in the Afternoon may Harm Your Kids

...ids were going to be later in the night. Such kids performed worse on the puzzles. In another study, Dr John Harsh and colleagues from the University of Southern Mississippi found that kids who took long daytime naps fell asleep at night an average of 39 minutes later, and slept later at the weekend. Thes...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...ltimodality Oncology in Rome. The study itself was performed by Professors Zamboglou, Tunn and Baltas from the University Hospital in Offenbach, Germany. By uniting a multidisciplinary team of urologists, radiation oncologists and clinical physicists working closely together, they were able (and continue) to a...

Lets Care For Our Physicians A Salute to Them on Doctors Day!

...entistry, to name a few. Our eminent surgeons have performed successful surgeries on complex cases. Patients from neighboring countries have made a beeline to our hospitals to avail superior healthcare facilities. Their well-being stands testimony to Indias brilliant team of white coat individuals. Today, J...

Avicena to Advance Huntington's Disease Clinical Program into Phase III

...potential to slow HD. Earlier preclinical studies performed by Dr. Flint Beal of Cornell Medical Center and Dr. Robert Ferante of Boston University, HD-02 have shown significant neuroprotective effects such as improved motor movement and increased survival rate. Avicena intends to collaborate with Dr. Hersch...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...history of diabetes, blood sugar testing should be performed at the beginning and throughout treatment with INVEGA. Complications of diabetes can be serious and even life threatening. If signs of high blood sugar or diabetes develop, such as being thirsty all the time, going to the bathroom a lot, or feeling w...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

...to realize that fertility-sparing surgery could be performed safely and without compromising a woman's curabili...the importance of having fertility-sparing surgery performed by a board-certified gynaecological oncologist who understands the clinical behaviour of ovarian ger...

Britney Claims She was 'forced' into Rehab

...shaved her hair off when she left rehab, has since performed several comeback gigs in the US....

Alternative Treatments for Arthritis

...hree pivotal Rottapharm studies (two of which were performed by Reginster and his colleagues) showed results that were consistent and as clinically valid as other OA treatments. Scientists should be careful when interpreting studies such as the one by Vlad and colleagues, Reginster concludes, adding that al...

X-ray Mammography Aids in Breast Cancer Detection

...cer Society's recommendation that screening MRI be performed on women at very high risk for breast cancer, including those with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. This screening should be in addition to, not in place of regular mammography, Lee said. Although it has not yet been shown that mortality from breast cance...

UN Agencys Checklist on Health Care Error

...ven to the wrong parents; Ensure operations are performed on the right body parts; Double-check similar-sounding medication names and resolve the problem of illegible prescriptions; Ban reuse of needles to prevent transmission of viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis; Ensure medical workers communi...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

...r Organ Sharing on all adult liver transplantation performed in the U.S. between January 1991 and October 2001....5,708 HCV patients and 16,116 non-HCV patients and performed multivariate analysis to determine the impact of confounding factors on survival. The proportion ...

Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain

...ers (more than 14 drinks per week). MRI scans were performed and used to measure brain volume, which can be thought of as a measure of brain aging. The study found the more alcohol people drink on a regular basis, the lower their brain volume. "Research has shown that there is a beneficial effect of alcoho...

Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma

...ental risk factors such as smoking." The authors performed their research using a large nationally representative database of 92,000 households in India, where domestic violence is highly prevalent. Each respondent was surveyed in a face-to-face interview in one of 18 Indian languages. Respondents were aske...

WHO Launches Effort to Stop Spread of HIV, Other Infections from Hospitals

...ty patient identification; ensuring operations are performed on correct body parts; double-checking similar-sounding medication names and addressing the issue of illegible prescriptions; ensuring medical workers communicate about patients' care and conditions when passing treatment responsibilities to others; ...

Irish Teenager Fights for the Right to Abort

...en in to the constitution. Abortions can only be performed if a mother's life is at risk, which includes the threat of suicide. The law does not permit abortion on grounds of fetal abnormality. Most women seeking an abortion get around the ban by going to England. But Miss D has been in the care of the Hea...

Eyeing a Good Memory - Not an Exercise in Futility!

...tudents who had moved their eyes from side to side performed better -10 per cent more than the rest. In contrast the up and down eye movement did not prove beneficial to memory recall. Dr Parker said: The problem is to determine the source of ones memory real or imagined. Bilateral eye movements may help us...

Hemangioblasts New Tool Of Stem Cell Technology

...e time she cautions that all transplantations were performed in mice and rats, not people, and were short-term. Lanza agrees but says that if safety studies show progress, his team may seek approval for human testing in 2008. In theory, hemangioblasts could create large numbers of "universal donor" blood ce...

Human Rights Activists Sleepless In Seattle

...ublished accounts of an operation; a hysterectomy, performed on Ashley, which they granted approval to believin... their daughter, they as well as the hospital that performed the operation have been under fire. The suit against Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...tters and quickly flashed on a screen. As subjects performed the task, their brain activity was recorded with electrodes placed on the scalp. In some cases, two target numbers appeared in the series less than one-half second apart - close enough to fall within the typical attentional blink window. The resear...

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