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Novel Technique Would Prevent Re-Clogged Arteries

...and Professor Uri Dinnar – begins when the patient swallows a "pro-drug" compound. Inactive by itself, this compound can be taken for as long as necessary without side effects. It is activated only when it comes into contact with a specific enzyme attached to the stent by its manufacturer. In effect, the enzy...

Is Radiation or Chemoradiation Best for Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients

...on of swallowing function. Without modified barium swallows and formal speech pathology evaluations on every patient, it is impossible to assess the detailed effects of treatment on swallowing function. To better assess this, a prospective study utilizing pretreatment studies, post-treatment studies and quali...

New Camera Pill To Diagnose Stomach Problems

...accurately. // Under this technology, the patient swallows a small camera that is encapsulated in a pill the ...at records the pictures. "The patient comes in, swallows the thing and then comes back eight hours later, and we look at the record," Uma Sundaram, chief of ...

Are We To Be Blamed for The Bird Flu

...rticle the GRAIN suggests that maybe the migrating swallows and arctic terns are not carrying the H5N1 flu virus after all but the large and unregulated agribusiness could be to blame. That the disease rarely occurs in small family flocks but rather mostly in farm factories where thousands of chickens are rai...

Possibility Of Bird Flu Outbreak In South Africa Ruled Out

The mysterious death of swallows in Malawi had raised fears about the possibility of a bird flu outbreak in South Africa. However, test reports // have revealed a negative bird flu infection status of the dead swallows, much to relief of veterinary officials. // "We have tested...

An insight of the small intestine

... small intestine never before available. A patient swallows the pill and, for eight hours, pictures are taken and transmitted to a sensor worn on the person's abdomen.// The pictures can then be viewed to show lesions in areas that are not accessible by a colonoscopy or endoscopy. This technology, while allo...

Easier Tests To Detect Tuberculosis

...s used a string test for diagnosis, were the child swallows a string. It's then removed from the upper gastrointestinal tract and a sputum sample is collected. The string helps the child bring up a better sample of sputum. Researchers found the string test helped to detect more cases of tuberculosis than did ...

Immune cells halt round in space

An immune cell swallows a small capsule-shaped bacteria. The immune cells which help protect us from disease does not generally work the way they should in space travellers and it could be something to do with their shape. Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) h...

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