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Yoga Should Not Be Patented: Ramdev

...'s method of teaching yoga. Choudhary teaches this technique in California and has even reportedly patented this method of yoga recently. Ramdev also criticised the Indian health ministry for "turning into an allopathy ministry by promoting only allopathy and neglecting ayurveda". "The health ministry must...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

...Academy of Sciences, the first applications of the technique offer a glimpse into the contorted form of a human...such experiments would be nearly impossible. The technique also has potential application in other human diseases that involve protein mis-folding, such as Alz...

FDA Approves Expanded Use for Surgical Sealant

...el was compared with the standard bleeding control technique of applying pressure to a plastic covering (graft) placed over the open blood vessel. Eighty-three percent of those who received Evicel stopped bleeding within four minutes, compared with 39.7 percent in the control group. Adverse events, such as a...

New Analytical Tool to Unravel the Cause of Diabetes

...lly excited, is that the first applications of the technique offer a glimpse into the contorted form of a human...stic patterns to deduce protein structures. The technique also has potential application in other human diseases that involve protein mis-folding, such as Alz...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

... those that did not. The researchers suggest their technique could one day be used as a treatment for advanced ...opment for several years. But this study shows the technique always a smart therapy is becoming ever more sophisticated. For the first time it has been shown t...

New Electro-chemical Biosensor to Check Food Contamination

...ase of use of this sensor and its portability, the technique can be used in situ for quantitative analysis of the presence of atrazine, as well as that of other herbicides, in food and water samples outside the laboratory. "Due to their characteristics, such as their ability to carry out measurements in the ...

'Muscle Noise' may Diagnose Neuromuscular Disease Sans Radiation Exposure

...rchers have discovered a non-invasive elastography technique that may help diagnose the neuromuscular disease without exposing patients to radiation. The technique found by California based Scripps Institute of Oceanography researchers works by measuring muscle no...

DNA-damage Test Could Aid Drug Development

... we haven't done it, you may be able to extend the technique to humans. Humans are the gold standard in that one wants an assay that directly predicts toxicity in humans, not animals, and you could obtain human bone marrow thats left over from medical procedures.' 'If you could change the micronucleus assay ...

Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration

... electrical field to "spin" very thin fibers. This technique is called electrospinning and can be used to make nanofiber scaffolds in various shapes such as sheets and tubes. They have made a key innovation to this technology that enables us to fabricate tubular nerve grafts composed entirely of polymer nanofi...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

... The most effective treatment for sleep apnea is a technique called nasal CPAP, for continuous positive airway pressure, which delivers air through a mask while the patient sleeps, keeping the airway open. It has proved successful in many cases in providing a good nights sleep, preventing daytime accidents due...

Potential Of Epilepsy Surgeries Are Not Fully Harnessed Say Brain Specialists

...s beaming the seizure spot with radiation, using a technique called the Gamma Knife....

Yoga Helps to Combat Depression, Anxiety

...s was done using a magnetic resonance spectroscopy technique developed by J. Eric Jensen, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an associate physicist at McLean Hospital. According to the researchers, yoga has shown promise in improving symptoms associated with depression, a...

New Approach to Treating Precancerous Esophagus Condition

... now under way, physicians will be able to offer a technique that has fewer side effects and is better tolerated by patients. There are currently two main treatments for Barrett's esophagus with high grade dysplasia. The surgical approach involves removing the affected portion of esophagus. It is a major ope...

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...e-floating virus. The researchers hope that this technique - heating a glass jar of expressed breast milk in ...vates cell-associated HIV as well. "We hope this technique will not only provide HIV-free breast milk that is safe to consume, but that the milk also retains t...

UCLA Imaging Study Reveals How Pure Oxygen Harms the Brain

...rain during two different breathing scenarios. The technique detects subtle increases in blood flow triggered by the activation of different parts of the brain, causing these regions to glow or "light up" on the color scan. The researchers scanned the brains of 14 healthy children, ages 8 15, as they inhal...

Researchers Document First Case of Virgin Birth in Sharks

...printing method akin to human paternity tests. The technique was determined to identify the mother. When they deducted the mother's input from the pups DNA to determine the father, to their surprise there was nothing left. "In this particular case, after we subtracted the mother's DNA, there was nothing le...

Compound Present in Plant may Help to Curb Craving for Cannabis

...of the plant extract on the rats' brains through a technique called microdialysis. They had a close look at the tiny fluid samples from a reward-signalling area of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens, which sits near the base of the head. When rats receive synthetic THC, levels of the reward chemical do...

MRE, An Accurate Tool for Non-invasive Diagnosis of Liver Diseases

Two new studies have found that a new imaging technique - magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) - is an accurate tool for non-invasive diagnosis of liver diseases. The studies were conducted by a team of researchers led by Richard Ehman at Mayo Clinic. As part of one study, researchers conducted MRE...

Magnets to the rescue of Alzheimers patients

...cademy for Neuroscience conference. If proven, the technique is could help slow down the progression of the Alz...f humans so it would be important to make sure the technique could produce the same effect as in mice. "But it might improve symptoms or delay progression of ...

$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease

... by interruptions in blood flow. The use of this technique in ALS, which involves the death of the motor neurons that send signals to the muscles and control movement, could be a new frontier in treating the disease. Already, Marsala and Feldman have performed preliminary research in animals. The promising...

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