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Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

...using beating heart techniques. Then we shrunk the size of the incision. Now we are working on a robotic method that requires only 5-mm pin-size holes. We are basically eliminating incisions altogether, We are eliminating what is not necessary while maintaining the core of the procedure, which is the arte...

Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched

... giving Novartis a competetion. The current tablet size are big and makes it uncomfortable to swallow. The pharmaceutical company SangStat expects to launch significantly smaller cyclosporine capsule in Europe. The new cyclosporine capsule is significantly smaller than any cyclosporine capsule currentl...

Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002

... The big leap is expected to triple the industry's size from its 1999 value of one billion dollars. Biogenerics, biopharmaceuticals, agriculture, food and nutrition sectors are all poised for the big leap, both nationally and internationally. The report said the global industry was expected to grow by 1...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

... MRI to determine the severity of the stroke. The size of the stroke abnormalities in the brain as a result of blood clot can be measured using the MRI. Simple tests called the stroke assesment tests to asses the severity of mental damage through simple questions and tasks patients must answer or perfor...

Eye Saver

...ght and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the size of a small pea to a bean.Half of the patients(657) underwent radiation therapy while the other half(660) had their affected eye removed. Findings show that 82% of the former group and 81% of the latter group were living five yeras after initial...

Big and Bright

...s. The authors say differences in IQ of this size are trivial and of no clinical importance to individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

...g to determine a correlation between the shape and size of brain features and stuttering, the study soought to determine whether sex and hand writing preference influenced PDS. " Our data indicated that sex and hand writing seemed to be related to some anatomic features. For example, the Pars Triangular...

What we can learn from dogs?

... environment, and they have a similar age and body size range to humans (in relative, not absolute, terms). Vets have begun measuring blood pressure more routinely among dogs now (just as your physician should keep yours under observation if you are over 35). This has highlighted some differences between ...

Birth weight key factor in heart diseases

...d been the right birth weight and acheived average size by the time they were a year old, the amount of co...the tradition of keeping meticulous records to the size of babies so that they can assess the risks of later heart trouble....

Zydus Cadila and Kopran in strategic alliance

...res. "We saw Aten as a good fit in terms of its size and presence in the cardiac care market," Mr.Pankaj, Managing Director, Zydus Cadila said. Mr.Surendra Somani, MD, Kopran said, "while Aten would grow faster in the hands of Zydus, Kopran would be able to acheive higher growths through its strategy ...

Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

...already standard care for heart attacks. // The size of the benefit depends on how anemic people are. But even those with mild cases lower their risk of death by one-quarter during the first month of recovery if they get transfusions. The risk falls by two-thirds among the severely anemic. Anemia is ...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...ver, a reader in perinatal psychobiology, said the size differences recorded were small - around 12%. But she said research had indicated that even small variations could have a potentially serious impact on health in later life. Small babies are more likely to develop coronary heart disease, diabetes a...

Photographs for Diagnosis

...ogram to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and venuolar blood vessels, taking it back to the heart....

Photographs as a parameter

...ogram to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and venuolar blood vessels, taking it back to the heart....

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

...Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, said the size of the study meant its results were significant."There could be all sorts of explanations," he said. "Morning sickness is something to do with hormones - girl babies may produce different hormones, that could be part of the problem....

Radiofrequency Energy Cooks Tumors Without Surgery

...ts, it sizzles or cooks a 1- to 3-inch tennis-ball size area in 10–30 minutes, killing the tumor cells. Larger tumors can be treated by overlapping treatments. The dead cells are not removed, but become scar tissue and eventually shrink. Radiofrequency energy is electromagnetic and non-ionizing in natur...

The cancer-fighting gene

...becoming cancerous.// The protein is enormous in size and scope, with a chain of some 1,863 amino acids that comprises a complex, three-dimensional structure.Scientists have been focusing their investigations on the two ends of the protein, the C terminus and the N terminus.The focus of Glover’s work ha...

A new treatment for liver cancer

... per cent success rate in either reducing tumour size or the number of tumours. Till date, it has many patients have undergone this treatment with advanced liver tumours, who cannot be treated by any other means. TheraSphere involves injecting millions of microscopic glass beads containing the radioac...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

...od and Drug Administration determined - but is the size of a handheld computer. In fact, it's actually made from a Compaq hand-held personal digital assistant. Manufacturer MicroMedical Industries embedded that off-the-shelf PDA with miniaturized versions of the software and hardware that run full-size ...

Cut your puff's

... balloon angioplasty or stenting. The average clot size of those who smoked a cigarette in the six hours b... and 24 hours before their attack the average clot size was 10.5 square millimetres. And for those who had not smoked a cigarette within 24 hours of their a...

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