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Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...to avoid penetrating healthy tissue, including the sensitive urethra running through the middle of the prostate, and the neurovascular bundles (on either side at the base of the prostate) that control penile function. After surgery or conventional teletherapy, between 40-100% of men will be left impotent, and ...

Highly Effective Method for Screening Drug-resistant Forms of HIV Developed

...ng is available, most screening techniques are not sensitive enough to analyse small populations of drug-resistant strains of HIV. With a view to increase the sensitivity of HIV screening techniques and decrease the time and cost of the tests, Dr. Bushman examined seven samples of mutated strains of HIV, in...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

...tudy shows the need for mechanisms to provide time sensitive information on the effect of conflict on disease incidence. He added that strong and comprehensive prevention program needed to be set up to protect refugees against HIV when they were in such vulnerable situations. Furthermore, he emphasized tha...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...ect of INVEGA is known. INVEGA may make you more sensitive to heat. You may have trouble cooling off, or be more likely to become dehydrated, so take care when exercising or when doing things that make you warm. INVEGA should be swallowed whole. Tablets should not be chewed, divided, or crushed. Do not be ...

Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

...t, the child's leg was plastered so tightly that a sensitive nerve got pressed, leading to insufficient blood supply in the limb. Pushpa, Jai's mother, said: "On Jan 21, we noticed boils peeping out of the plaster and immediately rushed to hospital." When the plaster was cut open, the child's leg was cover...

DNA Repair Proteins Monitored at Double-strand Break

...could lead to novel ways to make cancer cells more sensitive to therapy by blocking their ability to repair double-stranded breaks caused by chemotherapy or radiation. It could also suggest new strategies for enhancing repair of double-stranded DNA caused by radiation, natural oxidants in food or the body and ...

Report Examines Medical Students' Perceived Readiness To Treat Diverse Patients

...lieve it is "very important" to deliver culturally sensitive care, many said they did not feel prepared to care for patients with specific cultural characteristics, according to the report, by Joseph Betancourt, director of the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital; Joel Weissman, an a...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

...e findings point to the period before puberty as a sensitive phase when changes in environmental conditions positively impact on key developmental stages. Put very simply, the female body seems to monitor its environment throughout childhood and before puberty, to gauge when and at what rate it will be best to...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

...en the ages of 28 and 53. Despite using the most sensitive methods available, we found no evidence of any egg stem cells in human ovaries, demonstrating that Dr. Tillys findings in mice do not apply to women, Dr. Keefe said. Dr. Tilly likely was seeing non-egg cells which resemble eggs. Another reason his fi...

BMA Urges Against Merging Fertility and Transplantation Regulatory Bodies

...fferences in the areas they cover. The complex and sensitive issues that surround reproduction and embryo rese...ch are very different from the equally complex and sensitive issues that relate to the retention and use of organs and tissues after death. The BMA is very con...

A Fresh Alternative to Painful Chemotherapy Developed in UK

...nefit the most. Many types of breast cancer are sensitive to hormones produced naturally by a woman, includi...ere effective only where a tumour was proven to be sensitive to oestrogen. The study authors said that the results proved that this was an additional, effecti...

Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem

...lish scientific and legal methods to protect these sensitive ecosystems and minimize the potential environmental impact of this industry. Imposing regulations after operations begin would prove very difficult, and some of the governments in the jurisdictions targeted by this industry have a poor record of mini...

DNA-damage Test Could Aid Drug Development

... cells cultured from that bone marrow, proved more sensitive to the toxic agents than were the cultured cells from normal mice, further confirming the results. With the new assay, 'instead of testing one chemical and one dose in one animal, you'll be able to take one animal, get the bone marrow out and test ...

New Brain Neuromarker May Shed Light on Autism and Schizophrenia

...ric disorders. The phi complex may prove to be a sensitive probe or neuromarker of neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia where the inability to have harmonious social interactions is problematic. In addition, this research opens up many new and untapped possibilities to identify the neu...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...ough it, and expectations are that he will soon be sensitive to smell and touch, his surgeons say. Scarring and swelling will naturally reduce for a year, while minor sculpting and contouring procedures are done at an outpatient clinic, but his long days recuperating in the hospital are done, says lead surg...

Scientists Develop Toothpaste That Rebuilds Tooth Enamel

... a liquid form of calcium and can help in treating sensitive teeth by rebuilding the tooth enamel. People with sensitive teeth experience pain and discomfort after consuming hot or cold food, liquid or breathing cold air....

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

...logical pressure. * The lack of public policies sensitive to gender equity in health and establishment of barriers that hinder the formulation of such policies by fundamentalist sectors. * The absence of laws within countries that legally recognize sexual and reproductive rights and guarantee that all in...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

...the hearing is yet to take place. "Yes this is a sensitive issue, this is the reason we are here to desensitize it by showing it, by writing about it and by singing about it" said Diepiriyesa, an American writer. "This is basically an issue made out of the thing which is not an issue. It is very natural an...

Washington Post Examines Increase in Minorities Seeking Cosmetic Surgery

...nority plastic surgeons who can provide culturally sensitive care, the Post reports. Harris said, 'Half the world's going to be brown-skinned by 2050. We're not going to close our eyes to all those patients'....

Ayurveda Resorts in Kerala Gear Up for the Monsoon Season

...hese standards are necessary because ayurveda is a sensitive tourism product. If there are any violations, we might lose tourists forever. The department will try its level best to ensure that the best is offered," he said. The state health department has also got strict measures in place to check fraudulent...

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