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Fine Polymer Scaffolding – a Boon for Skin Reconstructio

...a-fine, 3-dimensional scaffold, which is made from specially developed polymers, looks similar to tissue paper but has fibres 100 times finer. Before it is placed over a wound, the patient's skin cells (obtained via a biopsy*) are introduced and attach themselves to the scaffold, multiplying until they eventua...

Cherry Juice Could Reduce Muscle Damage Pain

...ated the efficacy of a fresh, highly concentrated, specially processed tart cherry juice blend in a random study on 14 male college students. The study participants were asked to either drink a bottle of the cherry juice blend twice a day for three days before exercise and for four days afterwards, or to dri...

Campaigners and Health Officials Fight Against Polio in Namibia

...Every village is covered by mobile teams which are specially allotted 800 vehicles. But minor problems are witnessed said the health ministry official Ithindi Shipanga due to the delay caused by some of the volunteers. Others did not have transport and in few places the centres ran out of vaccines. At the sm...

Vegetarian Diet Prevents the Development of Atherosclerosis

...prevent heart attacks and strokes.’ The study used specially bred mice that rapidly develop atherosclerosis, the formation on blood vessel walls of fatty plaques that eventually protrude into the vessel's opening and can reduce blood flow. The mice have elevated low-density lipoprotein ( LDL), or ‘bad’ chole...

City Surgeon Appointed Adviser To Armed Forces

...es, here confirmed the appointment and said that a specially made plaque and order had been handed over to Sabapathy by the Air Marshal, H S Garkal, Air-Officer-incharge, Administration, Delhi, recently at a function here. Source:PTI News...

Co-op to Stop Marketing Diabetic Food

...it. Squash drinks, chocolates, jam and marmalade specially made for diabetics will be withdrawn from around 380 Co-op food stores and pharmacies from today. According to the Co-op such products aren't required because diabetics should be following the same healthy eating advice just as everyone else. This we...

New Program Reduces Nursing Home Residents Out Of Emergency Care

...These people are trained in a similar way as those specially trained nurses. This has reduced the incoming of patients in to the emergency care by 50%. Dr. Mark Loeb, a professor of pathology and molecular medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario said that the program is a big success. Nursing ho...

Prostate cancer risk pronounced with selenium-protein deficiency

...nal Academy of Sciences on research findings using specially bred transgenic mice that suggest it is the level of selenium-containing proteins in the body that is instrumental in preventing cancer, and that dietary selenium plays a role in stimulating the body's level of these selenoproteins. Two genetically...

Need for More Talking Therapies for Treating Depression

...pen to all adults of working age although it would specially target at the one in three people on Incapacity Benefit who have depression in a bid to help them back to work. In November last year, Lord Layard, a Labour peer and director of the centre for economic performance at the London school of economics,...

Promise for Soya Allergy Sufferers

...liance, went through two stages. First, using a specially developed immunochemistry approach, Hymowitz's post-doctoral assistant Leina M. Joseph examined 100 lines of soybeans per day for nine months from the UI-based collection. Seeds were crushed, treated and placed on a membrane for screening. A second s...

Bicycle-Powered Portable Water Filter System For Disaster Zones

...ngapore dollars ($3,125), as some parts have to be specially fabricated. --Edited IANS...

Where Mother's Skin Turns Into Food For Offspring

...ther. They say the teeth of its young appear to be specially designed for eating its mother's flesh. The doting limbless mother transforms its skin into a nourishing, fat-rich meal for its newborns to eat, they say. There's nothing (in the animal kingdom) that peels off the skin and eats big chunks of ...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...ed equipment. 'Technologically speaking, it is a specially made boat for this purpose. It is also equipped to deal with emergency situations like floods,' said Sanjoy Hazarika, C-NES member and the driving force behind the one-year-old project. 'It has space for on-board treatment of basic health problems ...

Malaria Claims 35 Lives In Assam

...ency operations. "We are providing soldiers with specially designed medicated mosquito nets and insect repellents as a precaution against malaria," an army commander said. During the past five years, at least 50 army and paramilitary troopers have died of malaria in Assam. --Edited IANS...

Poor Housing May lead to Poor Health

...s conducted by fluent speakers of Spanish who were specially trained for the project. Participants were from households that contained at least one adult farmworker with at least one young child. Most of the primary contacts were female, and the majority of the occupants of the households were from Mexico. T...

Large Ambulances To Handle Obese patients In Vegas

...t would be providing a special, oversize ambulance specially equipped to handle specially equipped to handle massively overweight and morbidly obese patients who weigh 500pounds or more. //T...

Nanotechnology Promises Huge Medical Benefits

... inside our pockets or the life system extended by specially designed molecules that mimic the living systems. British Scientists are now involved in the development of next generation nano-scale X-ray machines, that would allow doctors to tract the movement of specific molecules such as bacteria and virus. ...

Welcome to ‘Stand Only’ Classrooms That Exercise The Brain And The Bod!

...by school were taught their normal curriculum in a specially deigned classroom. Instead of sitting at conventional desks, children used "lean and move bays", where they used a laptop , white boards and vertical screens. The pupils spent an average of five hours a day standing. "In this environment, children a...

Cholesterol mystery solved through research mice

...e first tools to address these questions." These specially developed mice have mutations in a gene (ABCA1) involved in HDL production. In one group of animals, the ABCA1 gene is selectively deleted in the liver – which means their livers cannot produce HDL. It was through studying these mice that the scienti...

UK Biobank Set Up To Understand the Links between Genes, Lifestyle Environment and Illness

...lyze large amounts of sample. Biobank would use specially designed robots for blood sample separation and for storage, retrieval and tracking of blood and urine samples. They must be kept at between -80°C and -200°C for several decades in two huge filing cabinets which is in the size of a tennis court. P...

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