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Snake Like Robots Designed to Assist Surgeons

...is the team's snakelike robot. Currently, a doctor performing throat surgery must insert and manually manipulate long inflexible tools and a camera into this narrow passageway. The snakelike robot would provide an alternative. It could enter the throat with two thin rods tipped with tentacle like tools capable ...

Abstinence from Alcoholism Pays Off, Says New Study

...the nerve cell marker correlated with the patients performing better in a test of attention and concentration. Only one patient seemed to continue to lose some brain volume, and this was also the patient who had been an alcoholic for the longest time. "The core message from this study is that for alcoholics a...

Use of Mammograms in Men

...their male patients have developed gynecomastia by performing a thorough examination and taking a good medical history,” she says. “Mammography may still be necessary if there is uncertainty about the clinical diagnosis. But it is not necessary to confirm gynecomastia through a mammogram.” SourceNewswise SRM...

A Study Questions the Effectiveness of High Speed Colonoscopies

... England Journal of Medicine says that the doctors performing the procedure too rapidly may miss out some polyps...howed different results given by different doctors performing the procedures, proving how wrong the assumptions could be. It was found that the doctors spending s...

Hospital Performance Measures May Not Make Much Difference When It Comes to Mortality

...ion in risk-adjusted death rates between hospitals performing in the 25th percentile versus those in the 75th percentile was 0.005 for inpatient death, 0.006 for 30-day death, and 0.012 for death at 1-year. For the heart failure performance measures, the absolute death reduction was smaller, ranging from 0.001 ...

Art of Living Foundation to Set Up University in Orissa

... management, agriculture, spiritual activities and performing arts. SSRVM Trust was founded in 1999 as a charitable spiritual and educational public institution to impart value education in a stress-free and child-friendly environment. It has established 59 schools and five institutions of higher learning ...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...re-cancer in families who inherit the disease. “By performing surveillance on many of the Family X members, the research team identified which ones had the initial stages of pancreatic cancer” said Brentnall. “We then compared DNA samples from the family members with pre-cancer to those who did not have the dis...

Elderly Lung Transplant Patients More Likely to Survive

...remains unresolved,” Smith said. “Some centers are performing more BLT on older patients and believe that to be the appropriate approach. At some point, the collective experience, including this study, will be reviewed and the guidelines will be adjusted accordingly. Sorce-Newswise SRM...

Self Hypnotic Relaxation Makes Breast Biopsy Easier and Less Painful

... that a health professional has to cope with while performing a breast biopsy is the stress of a woman and this can be well controlled by an old technique called// hypnosis, which not only controlled the anxiety and pain faced by the patient but is also cost effective and avoids side effects. Research At Be...

Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million

..."This is an impressive group of scientists who are performing state of the art research on an important problem." According to the lawyers, their client is a victim of "irrational prejudice" of Delhi Unit's director Virander Singh Chauhan. They point out that although the whole group was being closed, only M...

Review Urges Restricted Use Of Devices To Keep Heart Patients Alive

...ed States, heart failure programs are increasingly performing heart pump implantations, because there is no other alternative when these patients become unresponsive, Miller said. "These people are critically ill and would otherwise die without the heart assist device. So when you start with that group, it i...

Octogenarians Are Not Too Old for Cancer Surgery

...s the deciding factor was a valid argument for not performing a radical prostatectomy, and we proved that it is a safe option for some men.” One in six men will eventually be diagnosed with prostate cancer, reports the American Cancer Society, and more than 27,000 men will die from prostate cancer this year i...

Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, A New Technique For Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

...ug overdose.' Studies have shown that bystanders performing CPR take much longer to deliver rescue breaths in between chest compressions than previously thought – an average of 16 instead of the presumed 4 seconds. Research by the UA Sarver Heart Center CPR Research Group revealed that even highly enthusiasti...

Human Uterine Transplant In Near Future

...hnique and wanting more research to be done before performing on humans, Professor Giuseppe Del Priore, of Downtown Hospital, insisted it is now technically possible. 'If a person walked in tomorrow and requested a uterine transplant I am cautiously optimistic we could be successful,' he told New Scientist maga...

New, Minimally-Invasive Surgery for the Morbidly Obese

...hat transoral techniques would also be feasible in performing cholecystectomy, a gallbladder surgery that is the most common elective abdominal surgical procedure in the United States. The team created a transgastric and transvesical combined approach to perform cholecystectomy in seven anesthetized female pi...

Gene therapy Beneficial in Parkinson's Disease

...ters. Same technology was used by both teams for performing gene therapy, wherein a desired gene is inserted into a common virus called adeno-associated virus, which is known to readily infect humans. This virus has never been shown to cause disease. The genes used by both teams were quite different. The te...

Chemotherapy's Effects on the Brain

...n metabolism rate was, the more difficulty she had performing the memory test." The scans revealed that blood ...ubstantial leap in activity when the patients were performing the memory exercise," said Silverman. "In effect, these women's brains were working harder than the ...

Chemotherapy causes mental fog

...ubstantial leap in activity when the patients were performing the memory exercise," said Daniel Silverman, the UCLA associate professor who led the study."In effect, these women's brains were working harder than the control subjects' to recall the same information," he said in a statement. According to the st...

No Clear Evidence for Ultra-Low Cholesterol Targets?

...n the October Annals of Internal Medicine. After performing an exhaustive review of existing research on LDL cholesterol and heart health, they conclude that there is no scientifically valid evidence to support the ultra-low LDL target of 70 milligrams/deciliter for very high-risk patients that has been advoc...

Black tea alleviates stress

...g of relaxation was observed in tea drinkers after performing stress-level raising tasks. Andrew Steptoe, of the department of Epidemiology and Public Health of UCL and one of the report's authors, said, "The findings can have important health implications. Slow recovery following acute stress has been assoc...

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