Admission to Russian varsities is looking up
...h medicine in Russia will have to pass a screening test before they are allowed to practise in India. Also , it is only the leading universities in Russia which offer a medical degree in English . Another aspect that should be noted is that all foreign students will have to undergo one year preparatory co....... Now a new technique could lead to a better blood test for prostate cancer and eliminate the need for unn...f a biopsy, patients may only have to have a blood test to rule out cancer.What this new test does is looks at thousands of proteins at the same time rather...Study reveals how stress can make you sick
...ed that role because of the spouse's death. Of the test group, 78 spouses died during the survey. This really makes a link to why chronic stress can actually kill people. Researchers explained that people under stress tend to respond by doing things that can increase their levels of IL-6.For example, the...Study reveals how stress can make you sick
...ed that role because of the spouse's death. Of the test group, 78 spouses died during the survey. This really makes a link to why chronic stress can actually kill people. Researchers explained that people under stress tend to respond by doing things that can increase their levels of IL-6. For example, t......California and Unilever Canada. The findings on a test of 46 people, with 16 using the new Jenkins diet, appeared in yesterday's Journal of the American Medical Association....Catching Alzheimer’s Disease Earl
A new test may be an important tool in the fight against Alzh...lography highlights the use of an electrical brain test to detect the disease earlier, which may lead to improved treatment. The test, known as an electroph...AIDS vaccine falls short but shows some promise
...what happened in the body to protect them. If the test results bear out, it could prove to be the basis for developing an HIV vaccine.Researchers counseled patients in the experiments to practice safe sex because the vaccine may not work and because one-third of the volunteers received the placebo. Expe......call words from a list and perform a visual memory test from an image. //Those with musical training recalled more words from the verbal list and picked up on more words over the course of three memory tests. After 30 minutes, those with training also recalled more words than their non-musical peers. The ...Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk
... a treatment for Crohn's disease and is shortly to test it on mice. Research by his team and others suggests that MAP, which infects cattle, is infiltrating water supplies and defeating the milk pasteurisation process. Links between MAP, which has been found in 2% of pasteurised milk cartons, and Crohn's ......le were given the influenza vaccine. At the end of test period, the researchers conclude even a short period of meditation can have a positive impact on brain and immune function. With the widespread use of meditation in hospitals and academic medical centers, the authors of the study say it is a very im...Depression doubles mortality risk after CABG
...9 and May 2001. The patients completed a validated test of depression before and 6 months after surgery. T...iod was 5.2 years and 122 patients died. Based on test scores, 38% of patients met the criterion for depression, after controlling for a variety of confoun...Babies Brains Are more Fragile
... Margulies and her colleagues used an infant crash test dummy resembling a 6-week-old infant to measure the rotational forces experienced by falling babies. The dummy was equipped with sensors to measure rotational velocity and acceleration. "Traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of death in ch...Drug Effective for Vascular Dementia
...ose resulted in additional treatment benefits on a test aimed at measuring dementia severity. The drug was also well tolerated, causing few unwanted side effects among those who received t....Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic
...s no wonder. One problem is that the simple blood test that detects the deficiency is rarely done unless a problem is suspected. Unfortunately, youngsters suffering from it often don't have symptoms until it has advanced to the point of causing fractures or rickets, a bone-weakening disease that doctors ......, rapid testing followed by the newer drug (if the test was positive) was the best strategy. Researchers say the newer anti-flu drugs cost significantly more than the older drugs, but they work for both influenza type A and B. Older, less expensive anti-flu drugs only work on influenza A, but these are a...Ginseng Associated with Pregnancy Risks
...icrograms scored significantly lower on a standard test to assess organ development. The scores went down as the dose of the ginsenoside increased. Researchers say, their study has demonstrated that ginsenoside exerts a direct teratogenic effect on rat embryos: that is to say it is capable of causing mal...Vaccine Reduces antibiotic-resistant infections in Children
...rchers say their study is the first of its kind to test for the bacterium after the introduction of a new vaccine that protects children from the seven most invasive strains of S. pneumoniae. The rate of children who carried an antibiotic resistant strain of the bacterium was the same in children who rece...Drugs said to Reduce HIV Transmission to Baby
...ination therapy were HIV-positive at the follow up test compared to 12.1 percent of the babies given nevirapine alone. Researchers conclude the combination therapy could be a way to reach babies of women who are not tested during pregnancy and do not find out they are HIV-positive until they give birth. ...Promising Treatment for Diabetes
...rger scale. They write, "Our study was designed to test the potential of GLP-1 treatment in elderly individuals using continuous subcutaneous administration. However, long-term administration of GLP-1 by subcutaneous infusion using currently available pumps is impractical for many patients. To allow this ......ssociation also recommends physicians periodically test the kidney function of people with certain conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes and existing heart disease. From there, treatment can be started early. Mark Sarnak, M.D., co-author of the study, is quoted as saying, “There are some very...