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New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...carried out each month at one cremation ground are performed on a Mokshda unit. "It is good from the religious point of view and also from the point of view of the pocket," said Amir Singh Bhatia, who runs the city's Seva Samiti Swarg Ashram cremation ground. Mokshda hopes its projects will eventually be reg...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

...ated many benchmarks since its inception. "We have performed more than 59,000 heart surgeries with a success rate of 99.6 percent," he said. Apollo Health City is equipped to create a global talent pool of medical professionals. It will have institutes of PG education for doctors, nursing school and college,...

Laser Driven Stem Cell Surgery in Spain

...uclear cells, among which were the stem cells, was performed with a system of re-vascularization. This breakt...diac muscle and inject the cells. The medics who performed the surgery presented the results Tuesday at a press conference, in which they identified the patien...

Lizard Mothers Dress Their Progeny to Ensure Success in Later Life

...trations in the egg yolks. The researchers then performed experiments in breeding enclosures, each holding one male lizard and three females. The numbers of orange- and yellow-throated females in each enclosure were experimentally varied, and throat colors of the males varied randomly. Lancaster tested eggs...

Radical Gastric Bypass Surgery Heightens the Effects of Alcohol

...is also one of the most common obesity operation performed in the United States with about 177,600 people undergoing the procedure last year. Federal guidelines say a person should be at least 100 pounds overweight and should have tried traditional weight-loss means before choosing surgery. Bariatric surger...

Researchers Developing New Therapy to Re-activate Silenced Genes

...e deacetylase. Kozikowski said the new findings, performed in collaboration with Dr. Brett Langley at the Bur... for pancreatic cancer, while yet another, in work performed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, may be effective against malaria. "This is a new ar...

Intensity of Rheumatoid Arthritis Significantly Reduced by Pregnancy

...ty Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who performed this research, said. It is also interesting to note the existence of a complex interaction between female hormones during pregnancy and the epidemiology of RA, which may contribute to the development of new prevention and treatment approaches, he a...

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 ...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

...en 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 comm...

Pistachio Nuts Keep Away Heart Diseases

... student in integrative biosciences at Penn State, performed a study by giving subjects a pista feed after a typical American diet which consisted of 35 percent total fat and 11 percent saturated fat, for a period of two weeks. The experiment included diet variants such as the consumption of 1.5 ounces or 3...

Dementia – Worse With a Dull Life. Keep Busy, and Active to Improve Memory, Study Recommend

...tant stimulation with toys, company of other mice, performed well in the memory tests, corroborating the finding that it is possible to regain the lost memory with a certain amount of mental stimulation and training. Study leader Dr Li-Huei Tsai said: "This recovery of long-term memory was really the most rema...

Renal Transplantation in Children Younger Than 6 Years Old

... group concluded that renal transplantation can be performed with good long term results in children younger than 6 years of age. Source-Newswise/N...

Primary Urinary Tract Infection in Infants

...h a DMSA study including ultrasonography should be performed in infants who come in with a diagnosis of UTI. A c- reactive protein level may have been more helpful than a white blood cell count in these infants. The results of the DMSA scan may lead one to correct vesicotueral reflux if it is present. In the a...

Lead Removing Drug Improves Muscle Function in Lead-Exposed Children

...nces (NIEHS). Postural balance and gait tests were performed only after each child—then 5 years old—had completed the succimer or placebo therapy. Tests were designed to eliminate or challenge factors that help maintain postural balance, such as eyesight and visual context. “Our statistical analysis reveal...

Treatment Cost for Arthritis on the Rise: Study

...merican College of Rheumatology. The study was performed in response to a growing concern about the escalating costs of arthritis care as the U.S. population ages, according to Ed Yelin, PhD, a professor of rheumatology in the UCSF School of Medicine and lead author of the study.“Arthritis can be a highly ...

Teens can Perform CPR as Well as Adults and Should Be Taught from an Early Age

...uate compression depth. Only the 13-14 year olds performed chest compression as well as adults in other studies. Although the younger children were not strong enough to compress the chest sufficiently, they learned the theory of the technique (correct hand position and correct rate of compressions) just as...

Low Dose Aspirin Does Not Protect Women Against Cognitive Decline

...as some suggestion that women in the aspirin group performed better in the category fluency test than women in the placebo group. However, the authors stress that this result should be interpreted with caution. They conclude: “In this study, we observed no apparent benefit of low dose aspirin in slowing cogn...

Sleep Makes Your Memory Strong

...at people who slept after learning the information performed best, successfully recalling more words. Those in the sleep group without interference were able to recall 12 percent more word pairings from the first list than the wake group without interference. With interference, the recall rate was 44 percent h...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...lcoholics – when compared to the male alcoholics – performed worse on tests of visual working memory, spatial planning, problem solving, and cognitive flexibility." These deficits fall under the category of executive functioning, she added, which are also called higher-order functioning because they involved t...

New York Doctors Remove Gallbladder Through Vagina

...er people will fare better if abdominal surgery is performed through natural openings in the body rather than c...sian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, had performed the first human cases of removal of the appendix through the stomach. Then the “no-scar surgery”...

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