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New Genetic Biomarkers Could Predict Coronary Heart Disease

... replicates. When the telomeres reach a critically short length, the cell stops dividing and ages (senesces) which may cause or contribute to age-related diseases. Telomeres are essential regulators of the cellular lifespan and chromosome integrity, however it has recently been shown that telomeres may als...

Cryoablation: A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients

...t makes their hospital stay and recovery time very short and surgical stress is minimal.” He cautions that this procedure is not ideal for everyone, noting that it is an option for only a relatively small subset of patients. Percutaneous ablation uses needles to penetrate the skin and deliver directly to...

Patients Buy Untried Cancer Drug On Web

...e remedy for their illness//. The drug called DCA, short form for dichlroacetate has been reported to decrease the size of tumors in rats. But it has not been tested in humans so far. Understandably, terminally sick patients do not want to wait for the research in humans and it has been reported that aro...

Follow Screening Regimen for Early Cancer Detection

... problem with that study is that it focused on too short a time period to assess the decrease in lung cancer deaths, which starts to be evident after the first five years of screening.” Dr. Henschke recommends that smokers and former smokers considering CT screening should talk to their physicians and, i...

China Solicits More Organ Donors

... medical institutions have also contributed to the short supply of human organs and also has harmed the safety of recipients. Hunag cited that people should be educated on organ donations and their perspectives changed for the better. An information network should be established for the registration and ...

Growing Older Has Its Own Positive Effects Too

...ects of life. The viewing was restricted to a very short time. They were asked to classify these images and their brain reaction was observed. It was found that while older people were inclined to give equal importance to emotionally positive information, the younger group stressed more on emotionally ne...

Improved Platelet Life Span Increases Better Patient Care

...and for high quality platelets, coupled with their short shelf life of only five days, presents major logistical challenges in clinical practice. The scientific team has found that two specialised molecules act in opposition to each other to control platelet life span by regulating the process known as "...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

...o bring about dyscalculia in normal subjects for a short time while the subjects completed a maths task that involved comparing two digits, one larger in physical size than the other and the other larger numerically. For example, the subjects compared a 2 and a 4. The 2 was in a larger font than the 4 and ...

Wheelchair Raises A Furore

...d, the Deputy Health Minister, the significance of short term funding should not be taken too lightly. Mean...announced by the health minister could only have a short term benefit. But the health minister responded to the arguments laid out against the short term f...

Two New Anesthesia Positions Promise to Ease Surgery Queue

...846 of them are anesthesiologists. The province is short of nearly 114 anesthesiologists. AV...

Head Injury Awareness Day

...ze head injuries include wearing helmets; even for short distances, supervising children and providing them with safe areas to play, obeying traffic rules, not mixing drinks with driving and wearing seat belts. Helmets are arguably the best means of preventing head injuries. Motorcyclists are more p...

Malaria-curing Herb Must Be Carefully Farmed - WHO

... "The availability of these treatments still falls short of what is needed." Resistance to conventional anti-malarial drugs such as chloroquine or amodiaquine have triggered great demand for artemisinin therapy which the WHO has recommended since 2001 in combination with other drugs as a malaria cure. ...

Brazilian Boost for Bird Flu Vaccines

... that current global production capacity falls far short of the demand expected during a pandemic. It estimates that about 12 billion doses are required to vaccinate the entire world's population with the two-doses needed to protect each person. Current capacity is estimated at less than 400 million dos...

Seated Immobility Causes Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

...VT and suggests that desk bound people should take short breaks whenever possible. JYT...

UK Study Wants Uniformity in Child Heart Drug Doses

...iquid Captopril for use in children. But in the short term, pharmacists working in hospitals and the community should ensure that children were given the same formulation of Captopril wherever it was dispensed, Pandya added. SR...

Beware of High Sugar Levels Even If You are Not Diabetic

...cautioned about elevated blood levels, even those short of levels indicating diabetes. This is referred to as pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes is a condition in which the body has an impaired ability to use glucose. Glucose levels build up in the blood, but don’t reach levels needed for a diagnosis of diabet...

Inhaled Anesthetics Accelerate the Onset of Neurodegenerative Diseases Like Alzheimer's

...s clearly affect cognitive ability at least in the short term, but the growing concern is that inhaled anesthetics may affect a person well beyond the perioperative period, even permanently. Several factors appear to play a role in this subtle loss of cognitive ability, most notably age. A specific effec...

Health Benefits Of Cocoa

... to improve blood supply to the brain and increase short term memory. JYT...

Epidural Steroid Injections Do Not Provide Long Term Relief

... epidural steroid injections, on the average, fell short of the values typically viewed as clinically meaningful,” said lead author Carmel Armon, MD, MHS, Chief, Division of Neurology, with Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Professor of Neurology at Tufts University School of Medic...

Health Care Systems for Critically Ill Patients Need Restructuring

... needs, they explain. For example, patients with a short period of decline most need continuity of care and aggressive symptom management. Those with chronic organ system failure most need disease management and advance planning, while those with long-term dementia or frailty most need support services rat...

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