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Heart may pull Cells from Body to Self-repair

...echo those of a group of researchers who published similar results in January. Dr. Michael Bohm from the University of Texas and colleagues obtained the biopsies from men who had undergone transplantation with a heart from a female donor. For comparison, the researchers used tissue from one non-transplante...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...cannabis, can trigger hallucinations and delusions similar to symptoms often found in schizophrenia. Prior st...thought and lack of motivation. These symptoms are similar to psychotic behavior sometimes triggered by severe cannabis abuse, which could mean the marijuana r...

Photographs as a parameter

... Wisconsin in Madison reasoned that a narrowing of similar blood vessels in the retina should be a good indicator of these changes. "We assume the changes in the vessels on the retina are the same as any in the brain, " he says. The team photographed the retinas of 12000 people and monitored their health fo...

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

...benefits of suppressing the male hormone androgen, similar to the more commonly known male hormone testosterone, among 400 patients in advanced stages// of their prostate cancer, meaning their chances of survival were deteriorating. The international study involved patients throughout Europe as well as in Ca...

Lymphoma's Link to Hepatitis C

...her the treatment could help other patients with a similar diagnosis. Nine patients who had splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes, a specific type of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the hepatitis C virus infection were treated with interferon either alone or in combination with the drug, ribavirin. O...

Suicide risk high in 12-17 Age Group

... White, black, Hispanic and Asian youths reported similar rates of suicide risk, the report said. Youths in Western states were the most at risk - almost 10 percent - followed by young people in the South, 13 percent; the Midwest, 10 percent; and the Northeast, 11 percent. In all, the study showed that 9 pe...

Morphine may excite cancerous tumors

...e is no scientific data that indicates morphine or similar pain medications will lead to increased cancer gro...f Minnesota Cancer Center found doses of morphine, similar to doses given to cancer patients to manage severe pain, provoke signals in endothelial cells, or ce...

Psychiatric issues common in brain disease

...sion, personality disorder or dementia. They found similar rates among patients with other diseases of the cerebellum. In a way this is hardly surprising - who wouldn't be depressed if diagnosed with degenerative brain disease? What's new here is that the researchers believe that the cerebellum may be involv...

Breastfed babies grow rapidly

...lth are not known. By 12 months, all infants were similar in weight, length and head circumference, and conformed to standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Infants weaned in the first month were falling behind in their growth, the st...

Comparing Breast surgery techniques

...2 women with lymph node involvement - who received similar treatment. There were no significant differences in survival among the three groups of women who started off with their lymph nodes free of cancer. Nor were there differences in the groups who had positive nodes....

Comparing heart disease treatments

...er stenting. The death and heart attack rates were similar in both groups. Bypass surgery was more likely to achieve freedom from angina than stenting, but adverse events occurred more often in the bypass surgery group. The researchers conclude that both procedures are effective and worthwhile but maybe by...

Tremors connected to Body Mass Index

...tremor and then compare them to those of people of similar ages without the condition. The study involved 70 ...thy patients. Although average caloric intake was similar for the two groups, the average BMI for the ET patients was 5 percent lower than in the healthy grou...

Brain damage affects artistic skill

...r or worse is open to debate! For amateur artists, similar changes of style are often seen and it's important to note that artistic ability often persists when other cognitive skills - like memory - have deteriorated. The surprising part is the emergence of artistic talent, following brain damage, among thos...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

... for patients. Reddy said it was planned to launch similar centres in Delhi and Hyderabad in the near future and other key metros later. He said that it was estimated that four out of every five people suffer from back pain which was the single largest reported lifestyle related disorder....

Injection supports Heart Devices

...flow rather than a pulsing one. The advantage over similar devices is smaller size and less noise. Researchers felt that the smaller size seems to have reduced the incidence of thromboembolism, or a blood clot that moves through the blood stream before blocking an artery. Researchers studied 20 patients who...

Hepatitis shots is promising

...ron.It could be approved for U.S sale next month.A similar drug was also lauched last year and both of which are given with daily antiviral pilscalled ribavirin....

A boon for smokers to quit

...kers quit the dreadful habit.//The drug produces a similar kind of pleasure which is offered by nicotine in the cigar. It has also been found out that stimulation or blockage of a chemical called DOPAMINE can have a significant alteration in a smoker's behaviour.Blocking dopamine is found to induce more sm...

Brachytherapy for breast cancer

...r. Follow-up suggested that five year outcomes are similar to those for the more conventional external beam radiotherapy. However, longer term follow up will be needed to fully assess the effectiveness of the brachytherapy approach to breast cancer. <b...

Shunt for Alzheimer's Disease

...nts did not receive the shunt. The two groups were similar in age and severity of dementia. Researchers found the shunted patients experienced stability in their cognitive function while the group without the shunts had a "fairly robust" decline in cognitive function over the 12-month study. Researchers cau...

Caesarean may aid twins

...y these absolute risks are high in comparison with similar data for singleton term births in Scotland over the same period. Researchers say planned caesarean delivery may offer some protection. Previous studies show second twins are vulnerable to complications during labor and delivery....

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