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One-Third of Scottish Pregnancies, a Mishap

...duce unintended pregnancy. This survey needs to be repeated in other settings and, if the findings are similar elsewhere, a strategy will need to be developed to improve contraceptive use. We need to find ways to raise awareness of the real risks of pregnancy associated with lack of use of contraception or wi...

Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease

... eye infections. Blinding trachoma is caused by repeated eye infections that cause scarring, which result in the eyelashes turning in-wards. Bacterial infection develops as the eyelashes scratch the surface of the eye, which eventually heals by scarring, resulting in blindness. Previously, the organism w...

Diabetes Linked to High Stress Levels

... the body susceptible to a host of infections like repeated fungal infections, gangrene, delayed wound healing etc. Homeopathic medication acts as an immuno-booster controlling early complications of diabetes such as nerve and eye problems and chronic skin problems, as well as prevents gangrene and infections...

Fighting cancer - Multiple Myeloma with long-term therapy

...iagnosis means, high-dose chemotherapy followed by repeated //treatments with each relapse of the cancer – a watch and wait approach. Recently, a team of international researchers from France, Switzerland, and Belgium explored the possibility of providing patients with continuous therapy to keep the cancer at...

An abused child may grow up to be an abusive parent

...s that they watched how their mothers parented and repeated their behavior or whether their early experience produced long-term changes in brain processes that regulate emotions. We also noticed that about half of the babies exposed to abuse became abusive parents, whereas the other half did not. This is also...

Gene Variant associated with Schizophrenia identified

...It is a relatively small study and will have to be repeated on a much larger scale, but if the results hold true the findings would be significant. "The next stage would be to understand how a defect in this gene causes schizophrenia so as to understand the neurobiology of the disorder and design treatments...

Depression Symptoms Less Likely in Kids with Accurate Self-Perceptions

...ntrating and sleeping problems. The experiment was repeated six months later. The average age of the children at the start of the study was 9.4 years old. Prior to about age 8, children’s self-perceptions tend to be glowingly positive and unrealistic, according to Kistner. As children’s cognitive abilities ...

WHO calls for big investment in tests for TB

...ess only to conventional microscopy which requires repeated testing, may miss half the cases, and which works especially poorly for HIV co-infected patients,' he added. Sputum smear microscopy is the most commonly available test that detects only 2.2 million TB cases in a year. The rest are diagnosed thro...

Scans Aid in Early Lung Cancer Detection

...n 1993 and 2005, with the vast majority having had repeated screenings a year later. Some 13% of those initially screened and 5% who had repeated screenings were found to have suspicious spots. Biopsies were performed on 535 patients; 484 were di...

Virus Infections Could Affect Cognitive Impairment in Latter Adulthood

...ccumulative loss of hippocampus function caused by repeated infection with common and widespread neurovirulent picornaviruses." The findings of the study are published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease....

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

...t of children and adolescents. "Symptoms include repeated hand washing, checking behaviors, orderliness and various rituals that are not age-appropriate," O'Kearney said. "Children with OCD can also show generally high levels of anxiety that is managed by the need to perform particular behaviors. These chil...

Methamphetamine may Protect Neurons after Stroke Attack

...ty on the lungs. The result was surprising and was repeated in further attempts. The research was done on thin slices of rat hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for learning functions. They were kept in culture for nine days. The next step was to produce conditions similar to a stroke, achieved by...

Rescuing Injured Hearts by Enhancing Regeneration

...le sustain progressive damage to their hearts from repeated minor infarctions. In this study, rats were treated soon after injury. Second is the need to develop a safe delivery method. Because FGF1 stimulates angiogenesis, it has the potential for serious side effects if it goes to places other than the hea...

56 New Dengue Cases; Delhi Govt. to Review Situation

...e the sanitary conditions are very bad. Even after repeated efforts by the civic authorities, there has not been much change," said Negi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had visited AIIMS Sunday to meet dengue patients as well as his two grandsons Rohan (11) and Madhav (17) and a son-in-law Vijay Tankha, who ...

Travails of a Teenager's Tryst with Mental Health Care

...rist's appointment was absolutely necessary. After repeated effort, the family turned lucky only the seventh time, when the girl was able to avail counseling from an ACC specialist counselor. Thereafter the girl’s health is showing promise. This is an eye-opener, necessitating urgent improvements in mental...

Radiofrequency Ablation Useful in Treating Ovarian Cancer Metastasis

...ced ovarian cancer can survive longer if they have repeated surgery to remove recurrent or new disease, said D...if we could use radiofrequency ablation instead of repeated open surgical resection for some of these patients,' she said. The study found that, after a singl...

Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

...nts' clean fingertips for virus. Then participants repeated the hand washing/drying procedure before using their fingertips to touch the three contaminated sites as instructed to simulate natural daily life activities. Following touching, the investigators tested the participants' fingertips for virus. Throu...

Prototype Bandages Developed that Could Detect Fractures

...s the same bones, usually those in the shin, under repeated pressure. Source-IANS...

HIV RNA Level Seen As Little Value In Predicting Treatment

...ng women and ethnic minorities. The study included repeated analyses of 2 multicenter groups, with observations beginning in May 1984 and ending in August 2004. Analyses were conducted between August 2004 and March 2006. The participants included antiretroviral treatment–na?ve, chronically HIV-infected pers...

$67m to Tackle Obesity

...itudes also have to change. The message has been repeated many times and Shape concedes that there is a danger the public might turn off the healthy message. It is for that very reason that he says it is more important to get the community to buy in to the changes as well as influence the long term behavior...

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