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More Women Opting for Caesarean, Unaware of Consequences

...l anaesthesia is no longer necessary. Peridural or spinal anaesthesia allows the woman to remain conscious. "It's a good opportunity to ask that the child not be washed and dressed, but simply warmed. As soon as the mother comes out of the operating room, it can immediately be laid naked on her skin," Mikol...

Stem Cell Research Lab Coming Up in Jaipur

...roject. The research projects sent to ICMR cover spinal cord injury, cancer, plastic surgery, urology, the cornea and multiple sclerosis. Revised projects would be taken by ICMR in its next meeting scheduled in the third week of this month. Stem cells are primal cells common to all multi-cellular organi...

Does Anti-TNF Therapy Control Ankylosis ?

...ating condition that ultimately results in loss of spinal mobility and function severely affecting a person's quality of life. Currently, inhibition of tumor necrosis factor á (TNFá) is the most effective strategy for controlling the painful symptoms of SpA and slowing vertebral joint destruction. But doe...

Incidence of Neurological Disorders on the Rise

... Nearly five out of every 100,000 have a new onset spinal cord injury each year. As for childhood neurological disorders, the study found nearly six out of every 1,000 children have autism, with two out of every 1,000 children having cerebral palsy. This review looked at currently available literature, wh...

Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors

...o avoid having bacteria in our eyes, urethras, and spinal columns, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University would like to change that.// They have figured out how to glue S. marcescens to micro-robots for the delivery of drugs to hard to reach areas of the body. One of the main challenges in developi...

Carbon Monoxide Protects from Multiple Sclerosis

...causes degeneration of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord, leading to various symptoms including muscle// weakness and pain. Most individuals with MS go through cycles of disease and remission, leading to the suggestion that there are regulatory mechanisms that counter the disease-causing inflammati...

Federal Plan: Strategies to Cut Down Wait Times for Children’s Surger

...ted are cardiac and cancer care, neurology, sight, spinal deformity and dental treatment which needs anesthesia. The second stage of the project will concentrate on evolving a treatment plan for children who are unable to cope with undue waiting times. A conference is scheduled to take place in February w...

'Hooded Horror': Death by Hanging

...ing is designed to break the neck and rupture the spinal cord causing instant death. A 'Hangman's fracture' occurs when the second cervical vertebra is fractured followed by the disruption of the transverse atlantal ligament. There is hypertension of the head when the prisoner falls, leading to the frac...

Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

...sary to create treatments for people whose hearts, spinal cords, eyes or arms and legs have been badly hurt. Scientists have discovered some of the genes and cell-to-cell communication pathways that enable zebrafish to restore their tail fins. “The ability to regenerate body parts such as those that ar...

Optimum Period is Five Years to Treat Osteoporosis: Study

...d that women who have a strong chance of suffering spinal fractures would benefit from using the beneficial ...n who did not continue treatment ended up having a spinal fracture and 2.5% of those who continued medication still suffered a spinal fracture . The studies...

Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease

...orate in Parkinson's disease, motor neurons of the spinal cord and motor cortex degenerate in ALS and specific memory-forming medial temporal lobe neurons die in early Alzheimer's disease. "We hope to add von Economo neurons to that list," says Seeley. "It's a pretty important list to fill in, but for FT...

Military College to Set Up Stem Cell Research Centre

...neurological diseases like Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries," the director general said."Replacing dead cells in the retina with new ones may someday cure even presently incurable eye diseases such as glaucoma and macular degeneration," he said.Stem cells could be obtained from three sources: em...

Psychological Treatments Improve Outcomes for Back Pain Sufferers

... United States. “Surgery, opioids, nerve blocks, spinal cord stimulators, implantable drug delivery systems — every one of those particular alternatives is much more expensive and has poorer or at best equal outcomes compared to rehabilitation programs that include psychological components,” said Turk. “T...

New MRI Technique Measures Intracranial Pressure in Brain Disorder

...ccurring with each heartbeat as blood and cerebral spinal fluid flow in and out of the cranium. Intracranial...tem and the cerebellum, protrude downward into the spinal column. In the past, it was estimated that the condition occurs in about seven in every 1,000 births...

Genetic Mutations - Key to Autism ?

... play a role in generating impulses to the nerves, spinal column and the brain. Thomas Bourgeron of the Pasteur Institute in Paris opines that though the mutations are limited to few individuals they may have far reaching implications – as they involve the gene involved in ASD. ASD affects communication ...

Genes That Allow Brain Cancer-Causing Stem Cells to Resist Treatment Identified

...ay treating diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord//, recent research identified “cancer stem cells,” a small population of cells that appear to be the source of cells comprising a malignant brain tumor. Theoretically, if these mother cells can be destroyed, the tumor will not be able to sustain...

Conjoined Twins Ready to Leave Hospital & Could Be on Their Way Home

...e surface of the brain and delivers it through the spinal cord, making the twins even more unique than doctors would have thought previously. Moreover doctors said that the tests, which are needed, for determining how many brain functions the twins share, the girls have to grow a bit older to handle the d...

Injuries Cost Hospitals $20 Billion

...es, measured by their in-hospital death rates, are spinal cord injury (5.7 percent), burns, and crushing or internal injury (about 4 percent each), and hip fracture (2.9 percent). ? The most frequent cause of injury was falls (38 percent of injury hospital stays). Falls cause nearly 475,000 admissions and...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

...ore patients, in which many enrollees will undergo spinal taps and brain imaging,” Relkin said. “We hope to link into that effort to expand on these findings.” The dream of a highly accurate Alzheimer’s disease test that patients and doctors could use to diagnose illness and guide treatment is the ultimat...

Gene Discovered by Researchers Tied to Pancreatic Cancer

...tion of scar tissue on nerve cells in the brain or spinal cord, and it’s found in cells that are moving, including embryonic cells and cells at the edge of wounds. “Now we find it implicated in pancreatic cancer,” said Otey, an associate professor of cell and molecular physiology at UNC and a member of t...

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