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New ECG screening Promises Reduction in Sudden deaths in Athletes

... heart problems by using the patient's history and performing a physical exam and electrocardiogram. Thiene said, "The screening was able to identify people affected by concealed disease and disqualify them from sport activity." The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...

At School Twins Perform As Well As Other Children

Danish researchers have found that twins are performing on par with other children from single births for the first time. Previously the performance of the twins// has been found wanting and they fared less better than other average students. Researchers felt this was because twins receive less attention ...

High-Speed Internet2 Link Revolutionizes Global Medical Education

Imagine Johns Hopkins faculty members performing microsurgery in Tanzania from a computer terminal in a Baltimore operating room, or health care experts// in Vietnam presenting an avian influenza patient to medical students gathered in the Hopkins outpatient center. These are some of the possible a...

16 Common Myths About Breast Cancer

...d mammograms are painful, talk to the technologist performing it. The amount of compression used can vary, so the technologist can ease up on the squishing if it’s unbearable. Just keep in mind that more compression leads to a better image for the radiologist to read – so there’s a payoff to that bit of discomf...

Fertility Clinics Allowing Parents To Select Gender

...at 186 out of 415 fertility clinics in the US were performing procedures to identify presence of birth defects. ...c Policy Center in Washington DC. "PGD clinics are performing sex selection just to satisfy parental preferences, and embryo screening is being used for late-onse...

Don’t have time to workout? Yes, you do

... training. The new study was conducted on 16 men performing 6 training sessions over 2 weeks. Half of them performed 4-6 half-a-minute bursts of "all out" cycling separated by 4 minutes of recovery during each training session. The other half performed 90-120 minutes of continuous moderate-intensity cycling e...

Upgrading Donor Lung Quality to Improve Availability

By performing simple clinical maneuvers to improve donor lung quality as part of the San Antonio Lung Transplant (SALT) protocol, researchers significantly increased the// number of available donor lungs and transplant procedures without compromising recipient pul...

Campaign Against Cosmetic Surgeries Performed By Less-Skilled Non-physicians Launched

... cosmetic surgery from less-skilled non-physicians performing the procedures.// The surgeons have cautioned th...e people should ask about the training of a person performing the procedure, about any complication that could be associated with the procedure, and even ask if w...

Reforms Suggested By TN Doctors’ Foru

...neither will it exempt the government doctors from performing their assigned tasks, such as night shifts. The association has also requested the Government to look into the deficiency of staff in non-clinical postgraduate courses, and to focus on re-designating assistant professors, with 5 years experience te...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

...ct,' says Vogelstein. Future research will include performing similar analyses on other tumors types, charting the pathways through which each mutant gene acts, and looking for common mutations that can be targeted with cancer drugs or used to detect the disease earlier. Source-Newswie SRM...

Fight Back Against Inherited Sudden-Death Heart Condition

...rom many families. Day and her colleagues are also performing laboratory research to understand why HCM gene mutations cause heart muscle to thicken, and to test new strategies for reversing or slowing the process. Until genetic treatments are available, HCM patients and their family members have many options...

Doctor Slipped into Coma after Being Beaten by Crowds

... a snake bite. He reportedly died while Sharma was performing first aid. This enraged the villagers, who arrived at the clinic in large numbers and destroyed his office. The crowd then chased the doctor and snatched his licensed revolver before beating him black and blue. The police, after arriving on the t...

Prenatal Test and Miscarriage

... time practitioners have become more proficient in performing CVS procedures." When the researchers controlled for gestational age and maternal age, they found that there were no differences between the losses from CVS or amniocentesis. Over the past several years, non-invasive screening tests for birth defe...

Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion

... Indian Australian doctor has been found guilty of performing an illegal abortion but was cleared of a charge of manslaughter of a premature baby.// Dr. Suman Sood was charged with manslaughter in November 2005 for allegedly failing to follow the procedures that make abortion legal in the state of New South W...

Survivors of Childhood Polio Do Well Decades Later As They Age

...gical testing, strength testing and timed tests of performing basic functions. They found modest declines. Each patient also completed questionnaires about symptoms of progressive weakness at the beginning and end of the study period. Though the majority complained of progressive weakness during the time they...

Depression In Pregnant Women Not Being Treated

...creening tests; the new study goes much further by performing a detailed psychological assessment using the criteria of the DSM-IV, the standard text for diagnosing mental health conditions. Their results show no significant depression or depression-treatment differences among pregnant women of different race...

Assam Heat Wave Claims Five.

...f the state were taking recourse to superstition - performing frog marriages in an effort to appease the rain god and end a near drought like situation in the region. Source : IANS...

MRI Scans in Premature Infants Can Predict Future Developmental Delays

...an at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has found that performing MRI scans on pre-term infants’ brains assists dramatically in predicting// the babies’ future developmental outcomes. Terrie E. Inder, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, of radiology and of neurology at Washington University School of Medicin...

No therapy for most of the pregnant women with depression

...creening tests; the new study goes much further by performing a detailed psychological assessment using the criteria of the DSM-IV, the standard text for diagnosing mental health conditions. Their results show no significant depression or depression-treatment differences among pregnant women of different race...

Biological Basis Behind a Couch Potato

...id. The researchers drew their conclusions after performing a series of experiments with obesity-prone and obesity-resistant rats. The obesity-prone strain was developed for obesity research by breeding obese rats with other obese rats. The obesity-resistant rats were developed by breeding lean rats with lean...

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