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New Laser Techniques cure degeneration of the eye

...d the Photodynamic Therapy, which has a lower risk rate of damaging the retinal tissue. This is a two-step process, a combination of a drug and brief exposure to a laser. This therapy is not a total cure, but it halts the progression of the disease. This treatment is quite expensive, since it requires tr...

Shock it to Heal!!

... for 3 months, it was found that the ulcer healing rate was about 65%. Though it is not clear, electric stimulation works in enhancing the blood flow to the affected area and hence enhance the immune system. The device should be used in combination with other measures. According to the study, author Dr....

Alerts for safety of heart device

...errors. There was a sharp increase in the annual rate of warnings between 1995 and 2000. As the rate of manufacturing of devices increase, they are getting more complex and more chances to malfunction....

Young womens woes

...age has an important effect on long-term mortality rate after myocardial infarction (heart attack)", the authors said. Cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, ...

Young women's woes

...age has an important effect on long-term mortality rate after myocardial infarction (heart attack)", the authors said. Cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, ...

Depression and heart failure

...n. Patients who were not depressed had a mortality rate of 5.7%at three months and 13.7% at one year. For the depressed patients, the rates were 13% and 26.1%. Depression also increased the risk of being re-admitted to hospital. While 36.5% of non-depressed patients were re-admitted within three months,...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...th weight or preterm births, it did cause a higher rate of miscarriage. Ironically, low doses of another NSAID, aspirin, is used in preventing miscarriage in a small group of women who have an immune disease which blocks implantation.With this low dose, very little gets into the general circulation. Most ...

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spraying.It was also found that such methods adopted to eradicate the mosquitoes had no toxic reactions in any animals, and deltamethrin, the insect...

Need for Colon cancer screening

...he Finland Affairs Medical Centre in the US, death rate from colon cancer has been decreased due to the ro...ths. After completing both the tests the detection rate up to 76 %. The researchers feel that people need to follow-up and repeat testing to be sure they ha...

Stay young the Chinese way

... free radicals in the human body and so reduce the rate of oxidation. The anti-oxidation function of OPC is 50 times as effective as vitamin E, or 20 times that of vitamin C, the professor said. The scientists made the drug developed from OPC more powerful by adding the rare Chinese medicines of lucid g...

Air pollution affects the heart

...an air sampler -to check PM2.5 level - and a heart rate monitor. There was a 2.6 per cent decrease in heart rate variability for every milligram per cubic metre increase in PM2.5s. People may think your heart sh...

Supplement helps cardiac surgery

...k undergoing heart surgery. After every operation, rate of infection is a common risk, especially for patients who have impaired immunity.Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh report on the use of a nutritional supplement which enhances the immune system in patients undergoing surgery.// A group o...

Acupuncture for conception

...jects embryos that aren't developing properly, the rate of miscarriages among women over 40 is high, about 52 percent. Older women also have a higher chance of having a baby with Down syndrome. And older women are more likely to have problems like fibroids, scarring from past infections, or be with a part...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer recurrence

...rove the patient's quality of life by reducing the rate of cancer recurrence at or near the original tumor...atients in the surgery-only group had a recurrence rate of 8.2%. They concluded that radiation before surgery can improve local control of the disease. Drs...

Coronary stent leads to complications

It is believed that the rate of clot formation inside a coronary stent is three...ed out by doctors which revealed that the clotting rate was three per cent more. Their investigation covered a larger group of patients who were, on the who...

Starving leads to obesity

...lowed the Nazi occupation.// They found that the rate of obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population. Many of these women had increased amounts of body fat in the abdominal area.This particular depostion of fat is associated with "metabo...

Digital mammography proves effective

.... The digital method may also reduce the call-back rate by giving a clearer result for women with suspicious lesions. But before switching women to the digital method, a large scale trial comparing the two methods is essential. Fifty thousand women will receive both a digital and a standard mammogram an...

Humour inherited

... of fraternal twins, to go into separate rooms and rate five cartoons on a scale of 0 to 10.// A zero deemed the cartoon "a waste of paper", while 10 meant "one of the funniest cartoons you have ever seen". Identical twins, who have exactly the same genes were no more likely to agree on this than fratern...

The effect of heart rate in middle aged men

...ATISS Project have come out with a view that Heart rate appears to be a strong independent predictor of ca... Upon calculating the hazard ratio ,for each heart rate increment of 20 beats per minute , they found that for all-cause mortality the hazard ratio was 1.52...

Wishes of unspoken patients

...a physician visit. And 30 physicians were asked to rate the visit itself. Nine per cent of patients reported there were requests they wanted to make of the doctor, but had not. These included asking for a referral to a specialist, asking for a specific diagnostic test, or wanting help with paperwork. In...

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