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Tag: "success" at medical news

Zap the butt (cigarette) with Laser Therapy

...o a modern form of acupuncture has recorded higher success rates almost four to five times than that of most ...in August of 2005 where Anne Penman declared a 64% success rate in helping people quit smoking. The Anne Penman Method, accessible via a 24-hour hotline, stipu...

New Vaccines To Combat Rotavirus

...n in large numbers. Experts say the unqualified success of two drugs in these larger trials, without negative side effects, is a major step towards getting them put into wider use. Researchers hope that the vaccines, which are swallowed rather than injected, will become a routine part of the immunization ...

AIDS Patients Deceived By Private Health Care System In China

...with the disease. This has however met with little success owing to the local profit oriented medical service. "In China today, if you don't have money, you don't dare go to the hospital. People are suffering unnecessary hospitalizations, unnecessary testing and huge medical bills. The free AIDS treatment ...

Life Beyond Cancer - Delhi Woman Tells How

... yet another breast cancer survivor, who now has a success story to share with others afflicted with the deadly disease. She is now trying to publish her autobiography and screen a short film regarding her fight. The courage and determination the assistant news editor at Doordarshan television here display...

Uncontrolled Diabetes Spells Doom for Dental Implants

...changes and diet changes.” An implant is called a success if natural bone grows around it thus securing it firmly in the bone and giving better service to the patient. “Implants are a good solution to tooth loss because they look and feel like natural teeth,” Kenton Ross, DMD, FAGD, an AGD spokesperson. sai...

WHO Gives Its Approval For Bird Flu Test Kit

...t human cases, a research scientist said. Veredus' success lies in the test kit's primers, bits of genetic material unique to the H5N1 strain, which anchor onto their identical portions of the gene in virus samples, the company said. These are magnified through a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR...

Calcium Receptor Vital For Stem Cell Migration to Bone Marrow

... of these cells are being produced everyday. The success of bone marrow transplantation lies in the direction of the obtained stem cells from the donor (through bone marrow aspiration) to a specific region such as the brain or bone marrow to induce renewal and recovery. The stem cell preparation is usually...

Sperm Retrieval, Difficult in Klinefelter’s Syndrome Patients after 35 Year

...ase were all in the average age of 38 years. The success rate was significantly higher in case of the younger patients below the age of 35 years. ...

India set to become the global knowledge hub

...ave already started grabbing global attention with success in some leading edge areas of science and technology. The country has conducted a test flight of Saras, an indigenously developed civilian light-transport aircraft, developed by the state-run Center for Civil Aircraft Design and Development. Acco...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Show Promise In Prevention

...oved for use, surpassing emotional concerns. The success of this programme, however, largely depends on sustained efforts. The vaccine is yet to be approved for use in countries, where a poor acknowledgement and acceptance of extramarital sex and premarital sex is still prevalent. The effect of the vaccine...

Nurse Practitioners Are Not Recognized By Medicare

...cal treatment like physiotherapy, which has a high success rate and is cost effective. Statistics show that 86 per cent of the 274 women in Neumann's study were very satisfied with their treatment, and remained so for the next one year. On the other hand surgery carries risks, including infection and bladder...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia May Attain a 90% Cure Rate

...eatment according to their specific needs. That success is based to a large extent on the work done at St. Jude and elsewhere in identifying specific mutations in leukemic cells that strongly suggest the likelihood that treatment will fail the child, the authors reported. Adding to the complexity of the p...

Face Transplant Patient Jeopardizing Chances of Recovery By Smoking

... in Tucson, Arizona, feel that the operation was a success despite the risk of rejection due to this renewal of smoking by the patient. Initially her face had started turning red or getting inflamed due to the immune response from her body, but doctors had managed to contain this by increasing the dose of st...

Viro-therapy against cancer

...n to fight against cancer. If this experiment is a success then it will completely change the way we look at viruses. Viruses are obligatory parasites that require a living cell in order to multiply. They insert their genetic material inside the host genome and thereby facilitate the production of viral co...

Computer Game To Fight Obesity

... game machines in 20 public schools. Following the success of that trial, West Virginia is planning to roll o...achines to ensure they are used and will track the success of the project. The DDR machines are not designed to replace other physical education classes, but a...

DMAA to Develop Disease Management Standards by December

...orks, but lack of agreement on how to measure that success has hampered our ability to convince skeptics." The Disease Management Association of America is a non-profit, voluntary membership association representing all stakeholders in the disease management industry through public and private advocacy ta...

Muscle Derived Stem Cell Can Repair Damaged Cartilage

...rin) is an important parameter that determined the success of the experiment. It allowed the migration of cells even into small breaks and accelerated the integration of the new tissue. With our improved understanding of stem cell therapy from such experiments, it would not be long before a famous sports p...

Planning Permission Delayed In Scotland

...ncil, Orkney, and Perth and Kinross had the lowest success rates, managing to process only 50% of applications within the two months. Edinburgh City Council with just 61% of cases. Malcolm Chisholm, communities minister, said that only a small number of planning authorities meet the targets for development...

Aqua-Fire Treatment Burns Away Fat

...have undergone the treatment with a good degree of success since the spa first began offering the ‘Aqua-Fire’ treatment when they opened in August. The fire treatment given here has not yet resulted in any injuries. Most people from the West are scared of going through the treatment, while more and more Asia...

Polio Continues To Haunt India

...ontinue their eradication efforts. Critical to the success of these campaigns is a $150 million shortfall, which must be filled as rapidly as possible. The eradication effort requires a further $425 million for the 2007-2008 period, according to the UN. Edited (IANS)...

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