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Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

...places an inflatable silicon ring around the upper portion of the stomach, creating a smaller stomach, which ...pouch. It is then connected directly to the middle portion of the small intestine, bypassing the rest of the stomach and the upper portion of the small intesti...

Dental Researchers Test No-Needle Anesthesia, No-Drilling Cavity Care

...ozone, Inc. and Kavo Dental Manufacturing Co. UB's portion is $400,000. Ciancio, who also is the UB principal investigator on this study, said the ozone delivery device currently is being used in Europe. "If the U.S. studies are successful, it should be available in this country in about two years," he sa...

Activation of a Particular Brain Region Predicts Altruism: Study

... said. This region, which lies in the top and back portion of the brain, is generally activated when the mind is trying to figure out social relationships. The researchers then characterized the participants as more or less altruistic, based on their responses to questions about how often they engaged in d...

Clues to the Cause of Difficulty With Swallowing

...me patients. The esophagus is the soft tube-like portion of the digestive tract that leads from the back of the mouth to the stomach. In patients with EE, the disease leads to scarring and narrowing of the esophagus, so that food can't readily pass through it. "We set out to find whether the kind of stru...

Study Finds Link Between Smoking and Increased Risk of Tuberculosis

...ng countries where TB is prevalent, a considerable portion of the global burden of TB may be attributed to tobacco. Importantly, this also implies that smoking cessation might provide benefits for global TB control in addition to those for chronic diseases.' The HSPH researchers, Hsienho Lin, graduate stud...

Heart Defect Is Linked to Some Cases of Migraine Headache

....D., Ph.D., who oversees the Washington University portion of the migraine/PFO study. “If the pressure gets too high on the right side of the heart, the PFO can open, and blood can travel from the right to the left side. We think something usually cleared out by the lungs is in that blood and can trigger mig...

Can Prunes Reverse Bone Loss After Menopause?

...00 grams. The other half will consume a comparable portion of dried apples, which also have known health benefits. For instance, several studies indicate that a daily helping of pectin-rich apples can help lower triglycerides and cholesterol levels," he said. Participants in both treatment groups will be ...

A New Therapy for CFS

...-6 Foundation, which has helped fund a significant portion of the preparatory work for the clinical trial. "These viruses have been suspected in CFS for decades, but researchers couldn't prove it because they are so difficult to detect in the blood. If Montoya's results are confirmed, he will have made a rea...

A New Test to Detect Drug-resistant HIV Strains

...resistant strains only when present in significant portion in a person's bloodstream. This new test is expected to be of great help to doctors in choosing medicines for patients afflicted with drug resistant strains. HIV drug-resistance poses a major problem in management of the disease in patients who h...

Skin Patch Relieves Parkinson’s Symptoms-stud

...opment for Parkinson's patients. For a significant portion of patients, this may offer real advantages. But for newly diagnosed patients, especially younger patients who are going to be treated for a long time, this may be even more important." Approval from FDA is expected, after which the patch can be us...

The Best Christmas Gift

...peaking to newspersons, Dr. Susan Gilmour said the portion of liver transplanted would grow to a full sized one that will function normally. That of the toddler’s father will regenerate in 6 to 12 weeks approximately. She attributed the success of the operation to the large number of pediatric liver tran...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...eukemia. It has also been shown that a significant portion of the total lifetime exposure to PAHs and other toxins, including PCBs and dioxins, is transmitted to the fetus across the placental barrier and during nursing. In laboratory studies, researchers exposed pregnant mice to a single high dose of one...

New Study Challenges How Regulators Determine Risk

...udy provides the strongest evidence yet that a key portion of the traditional dose-response model used in drug testing and risk assessment// for toxins is wrong when it comes to measuring the effects of very low doses. Edward J. Calabrese, a scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The findings...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

...eukemia. It has also been shown that a significant portion of the total lifetime exposure to PAHs and other toxins, including PCBs and dioxins, is transmitted to the fetus across the placental barrier and during nursing. In laboratory studies, researchers exposed pregnant mice to a single high dose of one ...

Conjoined Twins Ready to Leave Hospital & Could Be on Their Way Home

...ctors said that though the girls appear to share a portion of a brain, they have also begun to demonstrate distinctive personalities. The new born girls come under the category of Craniopagus twins’, meaning they’re joined at the head, a rare condition that may only occur once in every 2.5 million births....

Autism: The Brain Digs Its Own Grave

...and the reduction in the size of the amygdala, the portion of the brain in charge of response to emotions. This has tickled scientists’ thinking, to probe if the brain in autistic patients is overly strained that it begins to dig its own grave, by igniting a battle with its own cells. To understand the co...

The Deadly Duo – Why Malaria and HIV Coexist in Afric

...ons and million occurrences of malaria in just one portion of Kenya. Therefore the epidemic needs a double-edged combating strategy. Scientists have always nurtured a hunch that the two diseases inspire one another to thrive. The new study shows how the attraction is fatal for the people living in the mala...

Dusted and Polished

...lude those on the suggestions of certain foods and portion sizes. He says inadequate emphasis has been put on...om the public are confusion over what a serving or portion of food denotes. All concerns are valid and will be addressed in the revamped edition says Bush. F...

Detection of Neurological Disorder is Just a Sniff Away!!

...being connected to the frontal lobes, which is the portion of the brain responsible for analytical skill and the persons emotions. Professor Pantelis said, "What we're finding is that individuals before the onset of psychotic illness show a loss of brain matter in that very region that is relevant to smell...

High Consumption of Salt by Kids is Making Their Lives Sour

...80% in processed foods as they contribute to a big portion of the food consumed by kids. Many manufacturers are under exceeding pressure to reduce the salt, saturated fat and sugar from their products to get approved by the Heart foundation. KL...

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