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NEW ROBOTIC SURGERY ARM APPROVED BY FDA

...ystem, Intuitive Surgical is developing a training program for surgeons in collaboration with FDA....

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

...unds ($14.21 million) to fund a five-year research program into the effects of alternative medicine. The world is now sitting up and taking notice of holistic medicine and Prince Charles’s support to fund research in this field has come as a shot in the arm for these crusaders of integrated medicine. Charle...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...roject. University officials ultimately expect the program to have 12 lead scientists and between 120 and 200 researchers and graduate scientists...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...d they do not know how much the expanded 50-nation program would cost. However, they said that expenses of the project, called the Diflucan Partnership, would include drug manufacturing, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...d they do not know how much the expanded 50-nation program would cost. However, they said that expenses of the project, called the Diflucan Partnership, would include drug manufacturing, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

..., said Zafar Adeel, the U.N. university's academic program officer on environment and sustainable development. The world bank has given huge funds in support with this, to preserve rain water to filtering off pond water....

Early detection of prostate cancer

...le test that is sufficiently accurate to justify a program of screening all men in this age group. Current guidelines, set by the NH&MRC, advise that only men with symptoms (such as problems with urinating, or blood in the urine) be tested. The first stage of testing includes both a rectal examination and ...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...ttsburgh School of Medicine found that a treatment program that focuses on reducing women's concerns about we... Another group received the same smoking cessation program plus diet advice to prevent weight gain (i.e. weight control). The third group received the standard...

Photographs for Diagnosis

...e seen with the naked eye. He developed a computer program to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and venuolar blood vessels, taking it back to the heart....

Photographs as a parameter

...e seen with the naked eye. He developed a computer program to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and venuolar blood vessels, taking it back to the heart....

Genes for Vision discovered

...ified when Cepko began his study. Using a computer program that compares snippets of genetic material taken from mouse retinal tissue with a huge genetic database from the mouse and human genome project, the researchers identified approximately 300 photoreceptor genes - five times the number that were previo...

Baby Talk Better Than Adult Speech

...y were able to show this by using a computer-based program to "listen" to how adults pronounce vowel sounds w... to each other, the researchers used this computer program to pick out key vowel sounds in English. They chose "o", "oo", and "ee" because these sounds were fe...

Keys to good bone health

...orosis, make sure to review your strength-training program in advance with your physician or physical therapist....

Exercise lowers Risk of Ovarian Cancer

...n, and it is one more reason to maintain a regular program of moderate activity throughout life. Exercise is not the only way a woman can reduce her risk of ovarian cancer, although it is probably the easiest. So this study is yet another motivation for women to start exercising....

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

...dia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program supported the work. Sandia is a multiprogram labor...es are distinctive to a detector. A small computer program correlates the amount of mass of each ester emitted in the analyzed gases at particular times - a pr...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...ft Palate Team at the MUSC dental school, heads a program to bring dental care to individuals with special health care needs.“In a follow-up study, we examined data from 65 more patients and found similar results,” Dr. Salinas says. “We need to continue to look at this. The patients we studied originally we...

Pig cloning for organs

..., in two to three years we'll be able to develop a program to test the organs in small numbers of human patients," said Julia Greenstein of Immerge BioTherapeutics, a company created to lead the research project. Initially, researchers think the piglets' hearts, lungs and kidneys could be transplanted into h...

Interference helps Heart Patients

...ults. Moreover, the researchers said the low-tech program was more effective at lowering re-hospitalization ...dies to drug treatment. Riegel said the phone-call program is being used at one of the Sharp network hospitals and is being studied at another....

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

According to a new research, a computer screening program can accurately diagnose a heart attack even when some information required by the program is missing. In a study of more than 1,000 adults who went to the emergency department for chest pain...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

... associate director for basic sciences in the AIDS program at the National Institutes of Health's Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., said the research was done in a test tube and adjusting metal ion concentrations in the body could have completely different results. Dieffenbach t...

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