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Severe Urinary Infection Could Lead To Deadly Blood Clots

...in the lungs - found that urinary tract infections temporarily double a person's risk of both DVT and pulmonary embolism, a condition that occurs when an artery in your lung becomes blocked. Patrick Vallance of the University College London, a co-author of the study, says researchers should conduct follow-up ...

Brachytherapy Shows Promise for Cancer Treatment

...cer the radioactive source is left in place either temporarily or permanently. For this purpose special catheters or applicators are used to position the source of radiation accurately. Treatments vary in duration and number according to the area being treated. Brachytherapy is of two types intracavitary treat...

Sleeping pill wakes up comatose patient

...course of this year, to check out its potential to temporarily awaken people out of coma. After the initial success, the pill has been administered to two other PVS patients, who have also portrayed positive responses....

Patients Undergoing Breast Radiation Are Facing Complications

...s then insert a radiation source inside the breast temporarily to deliver high doses of radiation to the tumor site to eliminate any cancer cells that may remain after surgery. This method of partial breast irradiation is currently being studied to see if it is as effective as external beam radiation after lumpe...

Protein’s role in regulating cell death sets direction for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cancer reseach

...esponse. In the case of nerve cells that have been temporarily cut off from their oxygen supply because of a stroke, or damaged by amyloid deposits, this might seem like a bad thing that could contribute to neurodegenerative disease,' says Dr. Greer who produced the study with Yinfei Tan, Nathalie Dourdin, Chao ...

Blood Flow to Kidneys Better Restored by Less Invasive Procedures

...tion system’ that consisted of a balloon system to temporarily block the vessel and a suction system to remove the bits of crushed material that made up the blockage. (Undesirable particles and air bubbles in the blood are known generally as ‘emboli.’) The study involved 32 patients with a mean age of 70 years...

Neurology behind Drinking in Teenagers

...rews found that even a single high dose of alcohol temporarily prevented the creation of new nerve cells from progenitor stem cells in the forebrain that appear to be involved in brain development. The damage was found to be far more serious in adolescent rats than in adult rats. It began at a level equivalent...

Men Think Clearly Only If They Sleep Alone

... researcher said that sharing a bed with a partner temporarily confuses men’s brains and increases the stress hormone levels. On the other hand women do not suffer from this problem. Men have disturbed sleep whether they make love or not. The results of the study were reported in New Scientist magazine. Men k...

A warning against consumption of raw oyster

...ater and proliferates in warm water. The state has temporarily closed the Totten and Eld inlets in South Sound and three other oyster-growing areas in Hood Canal. There may be more such closures of oyster-growing areas till the outbreak is contained....

New Studies On Zebrafish Could Aid in Treating Birth Defects

...e of gene therapy that works really well, at least temporarily in the fish," adds Solnica-Krezel. The zebrafish also makes it possible to pursue another, even more promising approach for developing a treatment for Menkes: Testing hundreds or thousands of compounds to see if any can restore proper copper-handli...

NOMID Symptoms Helped By Arthritis Drug

...the fact that the disease flared when anakinra was temporarily stopped, she says. 'NOMID is a devastating disease for which previously there was little understanding or effective treatment,' says NIAMS Director Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D. 'This study not only provides hope — in the way of an already-available...

Aging Critical For Alzheimer's Disease

... Cohen. "The fact that cells protect themselves by temporarily storing small fibrils as high molecular weight aggregates marks a clear paradigm shift." Two proteins controlled by insulin/IGF-1 signaling orchestrate detoxification--HSF-1, which takes care of aggregate break-down, and DAF-16, which mediates form...

Botox Minimizes Facial Scarring

...ring the healing phase. "Botunlinum toxin (botox) temporarily weakens the surrounding muscles, thereby lessening the pull on the wound during the acute healing phase of the first two to four months." Two plastic surgeons, not connected to this project, independently assessed the reduced levels of scarring. Ph...

Cancer Drug Helps An Anti-Cancer Virus To Act More Exhaustively

... 'They also suggest that the drug may allow us to temporarily inhibit just this early immune response, making it unnecessary to totally suppress the immune system when using this treatment.' In the late 1990s, a student of Chiocca's discovered that the virus killed tumours more effectively when the animals we...

Separation of Spinal Cord of Conjoined Twins Completed Successfully

...decided not to separate the twins' shared tailbone temporarily because it provided more stability to surgeons as they repositioned the boys. Keating said that the surgery to separate the spinal cord of Mateo Asher Shaw and McHale Twain Shaw, conducted at Children's National Medical Center, took about six hours. ...

Successfully Separated Conjoined Twins In A Critical Yet Stable Condition

...twins but had decided o keep their tailbone intact temporarily for the stability it provided to surgeons as they repositioned the boys. They explained that they had then separated the muscles, tissues and GI systems of the boys. The parents of the twins explained that they were born on the 10th of May, joined ...

White Blood Cells Can Both Hurt and Help Transplanted Kidneys

...ed mice got no injections. After the researchers temporarily stopped blood flow to kidneys in mice in both groups for 30 minutes, they discovered that the kidneys in the injected mice were improved compared to the other group of mice. This was an unexpected result, says Rabb. For years we have known that T c...

Study Reveals Effects of WBCs on Transplanted Kidney

...red mice got no injections. After the researchers temporarily stopped blood flow to kidneys in mice in both groups for 30 minutes, they discovered that the kidneys in the injected mice were improved compared to the other group of mice. This was an unexpected result, says Rabb. For years we have known that T ce...

Contamination fear prompts lettuce recall

...nation was detected after a secondary water source temporarily used to water the lettuce had tested positive for it. How the water got contaminated is still not clear. The company said that though no sickness has been reported so far, the recall was a preventive measure."We are being proactive. We're just not ...

Rising numbers indicate looming cocaine epidemic

.... Death can come some time in the future." Cocaine temporarily induces a high but depletes the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine, which in turn triggers a craving for more of the drug. It is this "drive for the drug," he said, that makes it more likely for someone who has used cocaine once to use it a second t...

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