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Ontario Encourages More Organ Donations

... in queues waiting for kidneys or livers. The best strategy to tide over this problem is to motivate more livi...eir wages during surgery and recovery period. This strategy of reimbursement of wages and travel expenses to living donors would inspire them to donate without ...

Groups Join Forces to Fund Promising Lung Cancer Research

..., PhD, Northwestern University, who will develop a strategy to use nanoparticles to deliver a highly concentrated package of therapies to a specific cellular target. "It gives us great satisfaction to see these promising researchers get the support they deserve,” said John Stevens, MD, American Cancer Soci...

Accident Victims Often Need Psychological Help

...on, except for one. The person adopts an avoidance strategy by refusing to drive a car again, the psychologist explains. Accident victims should seek help from advice centres at an early stage if they find they are having problems dealing with the shock, Lucas advises. Therapists can help the person deali...

Ancient Indian Herb May Prove Cure For Recurrent UTI

...Abraham rightly points out, this type of treatment strategy may prove to be beneficial for patients with recurrent urinary tract infections. "Ideally, use of this herb would expel the bacteria, where it would then be hit with antibiotics. With the reservoir of hiding bacteria cleared out, the infection sho...

Learning Words by Inference More Powerful for Toddlers

...., designed a study to measure which word-learning strategy was more effective: direct instruction, in which an adult "directly" points to and names an unfamiliar object, or inference, in which toddlers use reason (such as process of elimination) to mentally "fasten" an unfamiliar word to an unfamiliar object...

Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death

...scientists are exploring a fundamentally different strategy to fight viruses. They want to wipe them out by luring them to their destruction, like mice to mousetraps. Viruses invade a cell by latching onto certain proteins on its surface. Once attached, they can slip inside the cell and manipulate it into m...

Hormone-based Heart Pill to Control High Blood Pressure

...g and important because they advance an innovative strategy of orally administering BNP therapy for cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure." The Heart-Kidney Link In heart failure, the kidneys also can become impaired and salt and water retention can occur, resulting in congestion. Reduced kid...

Plavix Safe During and After Heart Bypass

...ts who were on aspirin alone. "The new off-pump strategy is a proven surgical advance in the treatment of h...pass grafts open is a critical issue. One possible strategy is to use clopidogrel, but there have been safety concerns, particularly regarding the risk of bleed...

Chronic Diseases- Lion’s Share of Canada’s Health-care Coss

...e five services highlighted in Ontario's wait-time strategy and the number of 12-to-19-year-olds smoking daily having gone down from one in 17 in 2005 from one in nine in 2000. <B...

Eat Berries, Prevent Colon Cancer

...ncer, it represents a potential new and attractive strategy for preventing the disease naturally, says Reddy, a leading expert on nutritional factors that influence colon cancer development. Along with scientists Nanjoo Suh, also of Rutgers, and Agnes Rimando of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS...

Tumors Targeted Naturally

...ey expressed very little integrin, indicating this strategy has the potential to kill cancerous and healthy ce...ds fast to any cell displaying it. Although this strategy has benefits, it's not natural, says Kiessling. Cell recognition in living systems instead involves ...

Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection

...a that cause acute otitis media, suggests that the strategy could significantly reduce the incidence of the disease in the United States, where more than 24 million cases are diagnosed yearly. Even though the current pneumonia vaccine protects against Streptococcus pneumoniae—the bacteria that cause acute oti...

Inhibiting Blood to Save the Brain

...n. The scientists sought to design a therapeutic strategy that would block the damaging effects of fibrinogen without affecting its beneficial blood coagulation. Studying a mouse model, the researchers identified a specific receptor called Mac-1 that is expressed by microglial cells and binds to fibrinogen....

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

... Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP), and its key strategy of Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course (DOTS) . The figures reeled out by the Directorate General of the country - 600,000 health workers, more than 11,500 laboratory microscopy centers, covering the entire population of the country, 3,500 p...

UAE Analyses HIV Policies to Plan National Strategy

... HIV/AIDS policies to develop a five-year national strategy concerning the killer disease, Gulf News// reported Thursday. Officials from governmental agencies as well as international organisations, including the Red Crescent Authority, UNAIDS and UNDP, discussed the HIV/AIDS situation in the country at a w...

Two New Anesthesia Positions Promise to Ease Surgery Queue

...romises to reduce waiting times for patients. This strategy has proved its weight in gold in the U.S and Europ...ght not be as cost-effective, yet he believed, the strategy would add to the efficient functioning of the hospitals. Dr. Homer Yang, chief of the department ...

Hypertension, Diabetes and Obesity, a Deadly Trio

...e available, lifestyle modification could be a key strategy to combat it, experts say. GPL...

A Novel Treatment for KSHV-infected Lymphomas

... of all malignant tumors. A recently discovered strategy for p53 activation targets the interaction of p53 ...-lymphomas in mice and suggest a novel therapeutic strategy for treatment of these fatal virus-induced malignancies also in humans. Source-Eurekalert<BRP...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...we may go into the second-level of a multi-pronged strategy for fighting HIV/AIDS." Experts feel that the f...vations will definitely help build a multi-pronged strategy for fighting HIV/AIDS. It will certainly help de-stigmatise the disease over time," said Vimla Nadka...

Zinc Supplements Enhance Immunity in Children

...s, recommendations for use of zinc as a preventive strategy needs to consider the collective evidence of the effect on growth, morbidity and mortality, which would suggest benefit in children age 6 months and up,” said the study’s lead author, Sunil Sazawal, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Inter...

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