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Kidney Cancer Vaccine

.... Researchers have also used the same immune cell technology to develop an experimental prostate cancer vaccine and say it may be useful in other types of cancers as well. Burnside is currently writing a book about his experience with kidney cancer....

Ultrasound may mean end to classic stethoscope

...as generally been reserved for specialists, but as technology has improved, smaller handheld devices that produce good quality images are being developed. But the advance has some doctors concerned. They say they are worried that if untrained doctors use a tool like ultrasound, they will both misdiagnose and ...

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident

...sistant professor of biomedical engineering . The technology has the possibility to dramatically change those that have lost limbs or who are paralyzed. Some of the thought-driven devices being developed could navigate wheelchairs, control a robotic arm's movement, or even move a computer mouse, according to S...

CT Scans Said to Accurately Detect Small Cancers

...ichigan studied the ( MDCTU ), to determine if the technology can accurately detect small kidney, bladder, and urinary masses. Results of the study show the MDCTU scan detected 93 percent of urinary system cancers in the 65 patients studied. Researchers say MDCTU can spot numerous problems in the tiny vessels o...

Humans Found To Have The Ability To Block Unwanted Memories

...thers. Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan participants’ brains during the second part of the experiment. Results of the study show participants remembered fewer words they actively tried to ignore than those they were told to remember. Researchers say these results suggest that the ...

Adding Credit To The Health Care Industry In India

...ut the patient's condition. He aspires to take the technology to the rest of the world soon. The laboratory at the 800-bed hospital was set up for Rs.500, 000. The 150 students who graduate every year from this institution will use it for their research. The laboratory is also expected to be used by medical co...

Laboratory grown vegetarian meat

...r beads are used, all of it could be eaten. “The technology to produce something like a streak or chicken breast is still quite a way off, there’s a lot of technological challenge to producing something that has a structure to it.” <br...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

... the metric until case 42. Reluctance to use new technology such as the surgical robot often reflects surgeon concern over increasing complication rates, increased operative times, and steep learning curves, the authors conclude. Source: Newswise...

Testing Your Health & Charging Your Mobile At One Go - Check Out The Urine Powered Batteries

...ional batteries, to perform diagnostic tests. The technology developed by Ki Bang Lee at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore, however, houses both the sensors and the battery on one plastic chip, reports New Scientist. Testing urine can reveal the identity of illnesses, and the ne...

Electronic Skin (E-Skin) To Robots

...y. Dr. Someya said that he wanted to develop a new technology which makes it possible to entirely cover the surface of robot bodies with e-skins. Max Lungarella, a robotics expert from University of Tokyo, said that "The work is highly interesting and in my opinion highly promising," and he proposed that it wo...

Patients Fare Better With Doctors Who Do More Angioplasty Procedures

...n after they’re cleared. Both advances, and better technology for deploying stents within an artery, have helped make PCI procedures safer. The relationship between physician volumes and patient outcomes is not as strong as it used to be, but it’s still present, said the researchers. While a cutoff number may ...

Outpatient Treatment Possible For Patients with Uterine Fibroid Tumors

...e activities the following day. Focused ultrasound technology relies on the precise delivery of high-energy sound waves to destroy non-cancerous tumors that have grown in the muscular wall of the uterus. Treatment is done with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine in a session that lasts about four hours. ...

Couples in Britain can have “designer” babis

...990 Fertility Act governing in-vitro fertilization technology was a landmark piece of legislation but, in the past 5 years, the science had changed along with public attitudes. “The act has done a good job in taking public confidence with it but we need to take stock. We need to strike the right balance,” Ms Fl...

Biocon to colloborate for development of Oral peptide drugs for heart diseases.

...f Biocon with the proprietary oral peptide deliver technology of Nobex. Biocon and Nobex plan to advance the oral human brain type natriuretic peptide (hBNP) program towards an Investigational New drug filing with the US food and Drug Administration in 2007 and clinical trials beginning later that year. “Admi...

Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

...probe for the treatment of brain cancer is the new technology developed by doctors at The Manipal Institute of N...y depends on the surgeon’s skill. By using the new technology the effectiveness of tumor removal is highly successful. The new procedure is done by inserting in...

All Play Is No Good For Health

...the need for a doctor visit where enhanced imaging technology may be used in the diagnosis. Other interventions include changing the young person’s competitive routine, adding strength training, improving nutrition and, as a last resort, undergoing surgical repair. Some common problem situations in which young ...

Statins Taken For Reducing Cholesterol Found To Reduce Death Rate Associated With Heart Attack As Well

...oblems associated with the human heart. The age of technology has made life easier and made people more prone to heart disease. Automation has revolutionized all forms of life by making it a little strenuous. Modern conveniences have made physical activity unnecessary. Along with the change in lifestyle came ...

Fighting against disease as easy as eating eggs

... introduction of this new chicken-based production technology will be of considerable interest to an industry coping with the commercial supply of an ever-increasing number of therapeutic antibodies. Production of anti-bodies by this way will not only ease the delivery of these agents to the human body but al...

New X-ray machine launched by GE Healthcare

...cal market as part of GE's goal to bring in global technology to developing markets," Raja said. To be marketed and serviced by Wipro GE Healthcare, a joint venture between GE Global and Wipro Corporation, the product will be targeted at private and government hospitals, nursing homes and small diagnostic cent...

Metal In Medicines Can Fight Diseases Effectively

...he study had described how the same patent-pending technology could one day produce novel anti-tumor agents. Drugs based on these molecules could produce fewer side effects compared to some of today’s treatments, and they could also combat drug resistance. Pharmaceutical companies tend to make drugs from the s...

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