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Hip Replacement Can Now Be Performed On Virtual Patients

...aptic system will adjust the force and pressure to suit that stage of the operation. In short, every effort has been made to perform the surgery as close to reality as is possible with current systems. It's a very advanced application of virtual reality. Up to now, most medical systems simply replicated...

French Fries In Cancer Controversy In China

..., California Attorney-General Bill Lockyer filed a suit to request nine snack and fast-food providers to put a warning over the presence of acrylamide in some of their foods. The lawsuit received a strong response from the food industry, resulting in a lawsuit being filed by a group to request California...

Learning Just How Different We Are

... how to adjust the nutritional content of foods to suit individual diets. Scientists at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) have completed what they say is one of the first studies to define how unique we are on the genetic level. The initial study on 18 individuals found that the way our genes functio...

Doctors' decisions are affected by fear of lawsuits- says a study

... especially for those who are more afraid of a law suit than their colleagues. These physicians may be prescribing more tests for patients even when they are at low risk from serious health complications. The research have shown of the millions of people admitted to hospitals for emergency heart related ...

Drugs Banned worldwide still available in India

...isions are taken only to help manufacturers and to suit the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical companies thereby affecting the drug regulatory mechanism in India and until such issues are not sorted out the existing situation would prevail. ...

New dosage of medicine gets more results in neuroblastoma

...the cancer drug topotecancan must be fine tuned to suit each child patient of neuroblastoma as not all doses are effective on everybody. Only less than half the children treated for neuroblastoma with the drug topotecancan are able to survive in the long run. That is why it is important to monitor and adj...

Brain stem cells to help in producing insulin

... far cry from the procedure that can be adapted to suit the human needs, but the study may be the first one that can open a whole new area of treatment of diabetes....

Clothes may provide better protection against sun-related skin problems in children

...ho stayed out in the sun for long hours in bathing suit and covered with sunscreen. Researchers believe there exists a negative correlation between amount of clothing worn and the number of skin moles develops when exposed to sun. However they also feel that more research is required to confirm their prel...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...the statewide smoking ban, and the Senate followed suit last night after three days of debate, voting 29 to 10. Minor differences between the two bills will have to be worked out, but last night's action ensures that the ban will become the law of the Commonwealth starting July 5, 2004, with violators fac...

High development costs hinder entry of cancer super drugs into the market

...ized medicine where therapies could be tailored to suit individual patients. Few drugs which target specific protein receptors in cancer are already in the market and the decoding of the human genome// offers great promise to patients, as the therapy could become more specialized. However, all this comes...

FDA's control is inherently weak

... children who participated in the study have filed suit against Pfizer in New York. The FDA is unable to ensure that trial participants in those countries receive the same level of protection as those in the United States. The FDA has little idea where research takes place overseas, what level of ethic...

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