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Nepal to Introduce Art of Living for Golfers

...Sri Sri Ravishankar, the proponent of a meditation technique known as the Art of Living, to offer a unique "Spirit of Golf" camp. Teeing off from April 19, the five-day camp is eyeing expatriate golfers from the Middle East, India, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Bangladesh. The package, including acc...

DVT Treatment Vacuums Away Blood Clots – Prevents Disabilit

A study presented today demonstrates that a new technique safely and effectively removes blood clots in the ...ving their ability to be active. The “rapid lysis” technique combines a clot-dissolving drug with a clot removal device, thus improving the breaking up and disso...

Outpatient Treatment Kills Benign Bone Tumors Nonsurgically With Heat

... no post-procedure complications. This nonsurgical technique — radiofrequency ablation — heats and destroys the nerve endings in the tumor that were causing pain. It also preserves the patient’s healthy bone, prevents major surgery and eliminates the need for lengthy rehabilitation and recovery. The interventi...

Natural Antibiotics Yield Secrets to Atom-level Imaging Technique

... hold secrets to developing new antibiotics, and a technique called solid-state NMR spectroscopy// is a key to unlocking those secrets. That's the view of University of Michigan researcher Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, who will discuss his group's progress toward that goal March 3 at the annual meeting of the Bio...

Research Improves Kidney Transplant Chances for Sensitized Patients

...al rate of the transplanted kidney. With the older technique of cross matching HLA cells with the blood of a potential recipient, we couldn't always identify which HLAs the antibodies were targeting. False readings could occur." A decade ago Drs. Bray and Gebel helped One Lambda, Inc., an HLA diagnostic comp...

Freezing Kidney Tumors Effective and Less Expensive Than Laparoscopy

...yoablation – is as effective as the laparoscopic// technique in viable candidates. The research was presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting. The comparative trial shows that percutaneous cryoablation results in a slightly lower recurrence rate of the tumor, a sh...

Busting the Exam Blues

... conversation with a friend ? Adopt a relaxation technique like deep breathing, yoga, meditation or a gentle massage to reduce your anxiety ? Herbal tea, especially chamomile tea, with two drops of lemon and a dash of honey may also help to relax Stay busy ? When not studying, ensure tha...

Philadelphia Researchers Found A Novel Way To Fight Several Kind of Cancers

...; to light up tumor viruses on a gamma camera. The technique is the first in the new field of in vivo molecular-genetic imaging that doesn't require transfecting tumors with a "reporter" gene, the scientists say. "The beauty of this is that you don't have to introduce any reporter genes into the tumor becau...

A Combination of Botox and Surgery Cures Migraines

An innovative surgical technique involving Botox brings relief to a long time migra...ctivities. Now, thanks to an innovative surgical technique performed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeon who helped pioneer the procedure, the ...

New Imaging Technique Tracks Traffic Patterns of White Blood Cells

...f Medicine have just developed an advanced imaging technique to capture the movement of the microdomains of leukocytes// or white blood cells. Microdomains are restricted areas on the surface of the cells in which receptors and signaling molecules accumulate during cell activation. Using digital multi-channel ...

Researchers Discover Key to Body’s Ability to Detect Subtle Temperature Change

...es,” Zheng said. Using a novel method based on a technique first used by physicists, Zheng and his colleagues...s work. So, he and his colleagues decided to use a technique they developed last year, called spectra FRET. Spectra FRET, or spectroscopy-based fluorescence reso...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

...methods to health-related problems. They applied a technique called finite mixture modeling to separate the research subjects into the two groups. For years, debate in the field has centered on whether risk for schizophrenia was graded or more binary in nature. Lenzenweger and his colleagues showed that peop...

Modified Ligament Surgery Improves Outcomes Players, Athletes

... and suture the tendon into place. Dr. Altchek’s technique modifies the Jobe procedure in several ways. First...s to the bone. Dr. Altchek uses a muscle splitting technique through which surgeons can gain access to the bone by gently prying apart muscle fibers, similar to ...

RNAi Shows Promise in Gene Therapy

...acular degeneration and one in RSV pneumonia - the technique Kay pioneered may be among the first to find wides...i experiments, researchers saw some hints that the technique could induce an immune reaction or switch off the wrong gene or genes. In work last year, Kay confir...

Scientists Partner to Develop and Distribute New Tuberculosis Vaccine

...ne. It// will provide a new low-cost and scaleable technique that offers needle-free delivery and greater stabi... drying cellular material. Most important, the new technique enables the BCG vaccine, and potentially other bacterial and viral-based vaccines, to be dried witho...

'single–parent' stem cells to replace adult mice organ

...r both genders; members of either sex can use this technique to produce compatible stem cells, much like you might donate blood for your own use in advance of an operation." Parthenogenesis, the act of creating an embryo without fertilization, is common in some plants, insects and animals, including the rece...

Study to Explore Using Magnets to Correct 'sunken Chest'

..."Magnets do it." The research team named the new technique the "Magnetic Mini-Mover Procedure," known as 3MP. The 3MP uses a device that includes two parts: a titanium-encased magnet about the size of a quarter that is surgically attached to the child's breastbone and a second magnet embedded in a lightweigh...

Max Planck Researchers Incorporate Odorant Receptors into Artificial Membranes

...anck Institute of Biochemistry recently revealed a technique for integrating membrane proteins into artificial structures. Membrane proteins have several important functions in the cell, one of which is to act as receptors, passing on signals from molecules in the air, for example, to the cell interior. The...

A New Two-gene Test to Discern Similar Gastrointestinal Cancers

...xas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The analytical technique employed to tell gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) from leiomyosarcoma (LMS) with near perfect accuracy will have wider application in more individualized diagnosis and treatment of other types of cancer, study co-authors from M. D. Anderson and ...

Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation

... is very effective, and we now use the Cox-maze IV technique exclusively." Source-Newswise...

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