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Robotic Model To Teach Surgical Skills

...ing methods now more than ever. This research work represents a strong effort toward this." Hager's other collaborators include Sanjeev Khudanpur, a Johns Hopkins assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Izhak Shafran, who was a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the university's Cente...

India’s Need for Specialization in Infectious Diseases Urge

... Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, which represents 41,000 doctors, told IANS. A team of five US specialists led by Akshay Shah, and six from India will be making a joint presentation to the National Board of Examinations, an autonomous institute under the ministry of health and family welfare, abou...

Brain Images Show Hysteria Not an Imaginary Disorder

... Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “To our knowledge, this represents a novel result that may help explain the differing results in the few studied articles devoted to this topic.” Ghaffar says one possible explanation for why this happens could be that bilateral stimulation acts as a distraction, shifting the patien...

Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer In Singapore

... awaiting approval in the city-state. The vaccine represents a major health breakthrough, said Tay Eng Hseon, a doctor at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, which was part of the multi-centre trials. "It is approved to prevent not only cervical cancer but also genital warts," the Straits Times quoted Tay...

Researchers Find Two Biomarkers With Potential to Predict Breast Cancer Spread

...ver-expression of protein peaks at 4,871 Da (which represents the molecular weight of the protein) and under-expression of a protein peak at 8,596 Da were highly predictive of lymph node metastasis. Patients with two or more positive lymph nodes were significantly more likely to show over-production of 4,871 ...

Researchers Make Progress in Studying Genetic Traits of India-born Populations

...ing 15 different Indian populations. This study represents the largest study of Indian genetic variation performed to date, in terms of the total number of sites in the human genome that were surveyed. The researchers found that populations from India, and more generally, South Asia, make up one of the ma...

Researchers Find Stem-cell Therapy Effective in Targeting Metastatic Cancer

...rs that metastasize including neuroblastoma, which represents 6 percent to 10 percent of all childhood cancers worldwide, with higher proportions in children under 2 years of age. "The results are especially important in the case of high-risk neuroblastoma, because treatment-resistant cancer returns in as ma...

Indians Make One Major Human Race: US Study

...ne of the University of Southern California (USC), represents the largest study of Indian genetic variation performed to date, in terms of the total number of sites in the human genome that were surveyed. Her group is using this study as a foundation for future studies on the genetic basis of various common di...

Glucose Sensor That Controls Glucose Metabolism Identified

... environmental signals. This discovery, Saez said, represents the first signaling pathway where a carbohydrate activates a nuclear receptor, although the precise mode of binding remains unknown. As part of the study, mice were put on exclusive sucrose or D-glucose diets; all diets were devoid of cholesterol ...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

...s millions of neurons together make the music that represents a vivid conscious experience,” added Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern and co-investigator of the study. Source-Newsise SRM...

Beyond Bifocals: Wavefront Technology Benefits Patients With Presbyopia

... McDonald said wavefront-optimized lens technology represents the state of the art in spectacle lens correction for presbyopes. “Just about 50 percent of all Americans with presbyopia are still wearing bifocals, a 220-year old technology invented by Benjamin Franklin,” said Dr. McDonald, who was among the firs...

Hybrid Molecule Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct

...n animals or humans. Nevertheless, they believe it represents a promising new strategy for fighting the deadly disease. “For a long time, cancer researchers did not pay much attention to the use of sugars in fighting cancer,” said Gopalan Sampathkumar, a postdoctoral fellow in the university's Department of ...

Benefits of Diachrome for People With Type 2 Diabetes

...hool of Medicine. "Chromium picolinate with biotin represents an adjunctive strategy to conventional oral diabetes therapy for improved blood sugar control and cholesterol metabolism." A larger 400 patient, 90-day randomized placebo controlled study to determine the effects of chromium picolinate/biotin on he...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

...ker.' The basal epithelial breast cancer subtype represents 17 to 37 percent of all breast cancers and is more...roduce a tremendous amount of nestin, which likely represents an abnormal expansion of the basal epithelia.' DiRenzo said. 'If it is indeed specific to regenerati...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

...ker.' The basal epithelial breast cancer subtype represents 17 to 37 percent of all breast cancers and is more...roduce a tremendous amount of nestin, which likely represents an abnormal expansion of the basal epithelia.' DiRenzo said. 'If it is indeed specific to regenerati...

Redundancies Boost Mental Health Problems for Those Who Keep Their Jobs

...scription for a psychotropic drug after downsizing represents “a great burden, not only on the individual, but also on society,” comment the authors. “Our findings imply that work conditions should increasingly be recognised in large scale preventive strategies for psychiatric disorders,” they add. Source:...

New International Study to Test Exercise in Heart Failure Patients

...training ever performed,” Kitzman said. “The trial represents a critical step in establishing exercise as a ther...around, even for a few steps. “Exercise training represents an intervention that if proven beneficial should be accessible to most heart failure patients due to...

FDA To Reconsider Standards for Reviewing Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives

...ives have instigated the agency to reconsider what represents an "acceptable failure rate" for new drugs. The agency uses a measurement called the Pearl Index, which calculates a contraceptive's failure rate by measuring the amount of time women are exposed to a given product and the number of unplanned pregnan...

Americans Neglect Health Insurance

...n 46 million Americans lack health insurance. This represents nearly 16 percent of the population including college students, staff of small businesses and children. Rendell's plan is called the 'Prescription for Pennsylvania,' and is intended to increase access to inexpensive health care coverage, perk up th...

Forcible Detention and Isolation Needed for XDR-TB Patients, warn Experts

...roup of people." Yet says Jerome Singh, "XDR-TB represents a major threat to public health. If the only way to manage it is to forcibly confine then it needs to be done. "Ultimately in such crises, the interests of public health must prevail over the rights of the individual." The World Health Organizatio...

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