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Protein signals need for heart surgery

...on. "We were pleased to see that this simple blood test for heart damage can be such a useful tool to pick out the best treatment for our patients," he said. The three-year study included 2,220 patients who arrived at hospitals suffering from unstable angina or chest pains caused by an inadequate supply...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Directly to Brain

...ndicating that the drug had reached its target.The test results indicated that the drug had “been successfully diffused in brain tissue,” Frey said. Asked about the implications of Frey's work, Dr. Philip Gorelick, director of the Center for Stroke Research, Chicago, Illinois, said the study was very pre...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...ological impairment. The US trial is designed to test whether 1,800 cGy, combined with one extra round of chemotherapy, will successfully eradicate the tumour without damaging the surrounding brain tissue. The researchers believe that this new method could prove to be a breakthrough in the treatment of ...

Mislabeled Body-building Steroid Supplements

...he supplements. The products may cause a person to test positive for steroids like testosterone, the use of which is banned for such events. It is clear from this study that over the counter steroid supplements are mislabeled....

Armpit odour enhances mood

...ing in before and after questionnaires designed to test their mood. People who had inhaled the samples taken from the armpits of old ladies responded significantly more positively. But results showed the smell of young men had a noticeably "depressive effect", an outcome which might have been anticipate...

New HIV cases resist drugs

...lood samples from 1,647 men and women. They used a test to show how the virus responded to the many available drugs used to treat HIV. Of these, 78 percent carried virus that resisted at least one drug. Just over 50 percent of them were resistant to more than one class of drugs. Bacteria are known to mu...

Coffee enhances memory

...-70 participants aged over 64 do a verbal learning test in the morning and and again in the evening. One group received a 10 ounce cup of regular coffee during the tests, while the other got the decaffeinated kind. The participants were unable to tell the difference between the two. Those drinking decaff...

Lancing tumours into the body

...m-iron-boron alloy.Ishiyama made two prototypes to test his idea. The first was designed to move in liquids and had a short section of ceramic pipe attached to each end of the magnet. A wire wound around the pipe’s surface gave it a screw-like thread. To Test the device, Ishiyama immersed it in a contain...

A new vaccine for leukemia

...ign bodies.This material is then multiplied in the test tube and combined with part of the toxin which causes tetanus. It is then re-injected into the patient. Head of the research team Professor Freda Stevenson said: "In theory tumour cells should be killed by the immune system because it is designa...

Early menopause- The cause

... day women in their early 20s could take a genetic test to confirm that they weren't at risk of premature menopause. If there were indications that they were at risk of premature menopause, they may want to rethink their reproductive plans....

Early menopause- The cause

... day women in their early 20s could take a genetic test to confirm that they weren't at risk of premature menopause. If there were indications that they were at risk of premature menopause, they may want to rethink their reproductive plans....

A novel augmentation

...ave augmented the cells of frog eyes and ears in a test tube, in the erstwhile step towards grow-your-own organs.The mode uses special cells taken from frog embryos called stem cells. These have the potential to develop into any specific type of cell in the frog's body - heart, skin, muscle and so on.// ...

To get the better of

...urs after their sexual encounter for a post-coital test to measure how much sperm had been viable in the cervical mucus.They were also asked about whether their sexual encounter had been satisfying, and whether and when they had achieved orgasm. Dr Cathy found that approximately half the women who exper...

Blood test may identify ovarian cancer

...percent of all cancers among women. A simple blood test may be able to identify ovarian cancer at its earl...lise Kohn, a study author. Researchers tried their test on blood samples from 50 women with ovarian cancer and 66 women without the disease. The test correc...

FDA Imposes New Restrictions On Roche's Accutane

...s will include requiring women to take a pregnancy test every month to prove that they are not pregnant as...ion as a means of verifying the negative pregnancy test and that the patient received the appropriate counseling. ''This sticker will indicate to the pharma...

NBE to conduct test for medical students from abroad

... for starting a practie, they said. The screening test would be conducted by the National Board of Examinations twice a year and a person would be allowed only three chances to clear it, they said. “We are writing to all the embassies in the country, External Affairs Ministry, state governements, and our...

WBC linked with periodontitis

...re necessary to instigate the disease process. To test this theory, they gave antibiotics to some of the knockout mice. The antibiotics reduced the amount of bacteria and eliminated alveolar bone loss in the knockout mice. The scientists said this betokens that bacteria are required for early onset per...

A Blood test for suicide risk?

...at// they have found a way to assess risk: a blood test that checks glands controlling the stress hormone ...tudied patients given the dexamethasone suppresion test while hospitalised for major depression. Thirty two of the 70 patients were churning out excess co...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...ed trials in healthy humans and is now planning to test the drug in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Most rivals have yet to reach this stage....

Foremost gene therapy for chest pain

...in exercise tolerance - as measured by a treadmill test - in those receiving the gene therapy. This was just a small study which needs to be repeated in a larger group, but the results look highly encouraging....

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