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Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad

... the NHS are coming down. If only the Government reaches its target of 18 weeks (from the time of referral to provision of treatment) by the end of 2008, then perhaps the need for NHS patients to travel abroad for medical treatment would be drastically reduced. One reason behind the increasing inclinatio...

Tiniest Nanoscale Test Tubes Corked; Holds Promise In Cancer Treatment

...ng might not work as the tube could leak before it reaches its target, warned Sang Bok Lee, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Maryland. Edite IANS...

Testtube Babies Born in Kenya

...ultrasound-guided needle pierces the vaginal wall, reaches the ovaries and follicles aspirated. This is used by the IVF laboratory to identify ova which are then stripped of surrounding cells and prepared for fertilisation. The semen of the male partner is prepared for fertilisation by removing inactive cel...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

...h solar wind and causes geomagnetic storms when it reaches Earth, according to the American Geophysical Union. Kovac's study raised questions similar to those stemming from previous studies of biological cycles in Slovakia and the neighbouring Czech Republic. A group of scientists in 1992 discovered a s...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...by the fact that hardly any government scheme ever reaches these places and the elected representatives have no time to visit them. 'The people whom Akha looks after not only experience nature's fury every year in the form of devastating floods but are also deprived of the minimum treatment they deserve as...

Sensing The Health Hazard MP3 Makers Tone Down The Volume

...d from Braunschweig, near here. After class, she reaches immediately for her MP3 player. "I just have to hear music all the time," says Manks whose favourite music is hip-hop. She also has the earpieces on at home to her mother's exasperation. "My mom's always saying, 'Not so loud,'" says Manks, who does...

Pain Can Be Felt By Premature Babies

...me they have shown that the information about pain reaches the brain in premature babies. This they hope will help in managing pain in premature babies. Previously though assumed it was never proved. As the baby’s brains are so immature that it was difficult to genuinely know if pain was going to their brain...

Low-dose Aspirin Benefits Both Sexes

...nts adhered to the study protocol. Because aspirin reaches its maximal effect in the body at five days, the researchers say a longer study testing period was not required to determine the drug's effects on platelet function. Funding for the study was provided by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute...

Need For Low Cost, Heat Stable HIV Drug in Developing Countries

... means a potential delay of years before this drug reaches the people who can benefit from it most,'the MSF said. Based on the evidence that the new heat stable formulation is associated with a reduced cost of production, the MSF has urged the US based pharmaceutical company to manufacture the drug and mar...

Two in One Cell Offers Hope to Find a Cure for Cancer

...s "arms" to increase the amount of surface area it reaches to communicate and interact with other immune cells. Then, the cell dies and is replenished by the bone marrow. Researchers studied about these cells by fluorescent-tags and by infecting mice with bacteria called listeria. In assassin-mode, the IKD...

Baby Bottle Tooth Decay Affects Kids Physically and Emotionally

...ed out that the problem begins much before the kid reaches the school stage. Baby Bottle Tooth Decay affects more infants and two-year-olds these days than before. Also called as rampant caries, this syndrome is related to the amount of time that a infant is allowed to nuzzle on the milk bottle. What actua...

Heart Failure Rates In The US Soars

...g proper exercises should commence much before one reaches the age of 50 years. The research has taken the issue of women’s heart condition more seriously than the previous researches, and contributes towards enabling faster diagnoses in the case of women. Identifying heart ailments in the case of women i...

New fertility kit, analyzes the woman's ability to conceive

... that the fertility starts decreasing when a woman reaches the age of 35 years. After this age the woman finds it very difficulty to conceive naturally. The kit is marketed by Lifestyle Choices. It basically measures three hormone levels in the blood, two from the ovaries (inhibin B and anti-Mullerian horm...

The Cleveland Clinic Expands Its Services across the World via the Net

... prefer. This service is quick and the information reaches the patient within five to seven working days. The patient has to register and the process takes between 30-45 minutes which is a very short time when compared to the time spent in waiting for an appointment. The patient is expected to submit all t...

Anti-cholinesterase drugs for treating Alzheimer's not worth the price

...imer’s disease affects the brain tissues after one reaches forty years. Once affected, Alzheimer's gradually destroys the ability to reason, remember, imagine and learn. It is marked by abnormal clumps (plaques) and irregular knots (neurofibrillary tangles) of brain cells. For reasons not well understood, th...

Northeast Governments Warn Against Andhra Fish

...60% to 70% of the demand. "By the time the fish reaches markets in the northeast, it gets totally stale and rotten," said Mayuram Das, a fish wholesaler in Assam's main city of Guwahati. Both the Assam and Tripura governments are encouraging fish farmers to set up fisheries in an organized scale to mee...

Parental Knowledge Of RSV Infections Is Vital

...he end of November and the incidence increases and reaches a peak by the month of December. // Deborah Lehman, MD, associate director of pediatric infectious diseases and HIV at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center says that parents have limited knowledge about the disease and this situation has to change. Statis...

Rehabilitate Sex Workers - Mata Amritanandamayi

...and repairing an equal number of boats. Her help reaches beyond geographical boundaries of nations. Recently, Amritanandamayi's Ashram donated one million dollars to Clinton Foundation for relief to the victims of the recent Katrina hurricane in the United States. She says that her affection is for all. ...

New Portable Helmet Scanner To Examine Newborns

...and the detectors measure the amount of light that reaches them through the brain and the time the light takes to travel. A software package uses this information to build up a three-dimensional image. This can show which parts of the brain are receiving oxygen, where blood is situated, and evidence of bra...

Viscosity of Women cervix determines sex of child

...ty to swim faster through the thickened cervix and reaches the ovum which increases the probability of getting male child. ...

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