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Blood Donors Honoured

...d Donor Week offers area residents a chance to say thanks to the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who, each year, donate blood, blood products or bone marrow," says Judy Compton, Regional Director for Canadian Blood Services in Southern Ontario. "We need more Canadians to lead by example and become regul...

Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

...ructor lost little time before going back to work, thanks to the minimally invasive procedure. 'I went home (from the hospital) the next day, and the fifth day I was back at the gym teaching my Power Pump class with 50 people,' says the Camarillo resident, referring to an aerobic workout that employs weig...

Victims of Landmine Blasts Walks with the Help of Jaipur Foot

...mine blasts in that country, are able to walk now, thanks to the prosthetic Jaipur Foot developed by a non-governmental organisation here.// A two-member team from the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) conducted a preliminary camp in the last week of June in Beirut where they fitted the famo...

'Bottled' Contamination And a Brewing Battle

The rising temperature is a worldwide phenomenon, thanks to climatic changes, and what better way to beat the heat than to reach out for a carton of your favorite brand// of chilled soft drink. Indulging excessively on these fizzy fluids is a national past time among the ever-increasing band of the young, ...

Device Can "Battle" Hospital Infections

...otecting hospital patients from deadly infections, thanks to recent funding from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). The funding comes as hospital-acquired infections, many of which are becoming increasingly difficult to treat, are on the rise. The $674,900 gr...

Research Leads to First Treatment for Drug-Resistant HIV

...irst FDA-approved tool to treat drug-resistant HIV thanks to a new molecule created by a Purdue University researcher.// "There are many treatments for AIDS on the market, but none are able to combat drug resistance," said Arun Ghosh (pronounced A-rune GO-sh), a professor with a dual appointment in the dep...

Britons Are Bloating!

...e sedentary lifestyle that the children now follow thanks to the TV’s and computer games directly adding to the increasing problem. It has been indicated that NHS, would probably have an increased expenditure of estimated ￡1billion every year in as a result of extra treatment, and this would thereby incre...

Valve Disease Study Suggests New Public Health Concern

...er is not a serious concern in this country today, thanks to antibiotic therapy and improved living standards. “Valve diseases are a significant public health concern because the proportion of our elderly population is increasing,” says Vuyisile Nkomo, M.D., cardiologist and lead author of the study. “Thi...

The Dangers of Make-up

...al safe alternatives." She added, "European law, thanks to lobbying by European dermatologists, now requires labeling of contents on skincare products and toiletries." NLA...

Successfully Separated Conjoined Twins In A Critical Yet Stable Condition

...us person.” Both of them gave their heart filled thanks to all the staff at the hospital stating that, “ We've been here since April, the hospital staff is almost like another family. We couldn't get through it without them.” It was reported that Melissa Buckles, a mother whose conjoined twins were separa...

A New drug Developed To Fight The Bio-Terrorism Threat Of VEE Virus

...l studies within two years, according to Watowich, thanks to collaborations with powerful computer centers at the University of Texas at Austin and IBM that will be able to take the UTMB protease structure and sift through "libraries" of millions of molecules, looking for those with the right structural and...

Rally for More Funds in Cancer Research

... my breasts to surgery. But I didn't lose my life, thanks to the progress we've made with research, and that's what I want to see more of so that we can end cancer." Hansen is one of thousands of ambassadors from every congressional district in the country. "It's just a huge, energetic event. I'm so excite...

This World Heart Day, Be Proactive, Get the Facts

...arly" is optimal for diagnosis and treatment. And thanks to new advanced technologies like LightSpeed Volume CT available today, clinicians have the ability to diagnose disease earlier". The LightSpeed VCT enables physicians to capture images of the heart and coronary arteries in just five heartbeats - ...

Using Multiphoton Microscopy to See Chromosomes in Action

...ary glands. The research was ultimately possible thanks to the unique composition of the fruit flies' so-called polytene cells, giant, multistranded chromosomes with hundreds of sets of the genome instead of the usual two sets in conventional cells. This enlarges the usual nuclear dimensions by about 10 t...

FDA Approves Vectibix for Colorectal Cancer

...le, which will see more doctors using panitumamab, thanks to Amgen's dynamic sales force. Annual sales in the range of $500 million to $2 billion could be in the offing....

Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

... found that getting a common cold is all very easy thanks // to the amount of viral contamination left behind by a cold sufferer. The study was presented at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). During daily activities, adults infected with the cold virus easi...

Cuban Deaf-blind Children Regain Hearing

...rly 20 Cuban deaf and blind children can hear now, thanks to the implant of an electronic device that has revolutionized the world of profound// neuro-sensorial auditory deficiency. The patients received the implant at La Pradera International Health Centre in Havana, the Prensa Latina news service reporte...

Robots Help Bring Specialist Doctors To You In A Trice

...s. Local doctors take the robot to the bedside and thanks to a video-link, established via the Centre for On...at will be commissioned over the next three years, thanks to a $335,000 grant provided by mining company Xstrata (Community Partnership Program), through the ...

Researchers Developing Office-Based Cancer Screening Test

...irginia School of Medicine are out to change that, thanks to a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant will go towards identifying proteins in human urine, known as biomarkers. The presence of specific biomarkers could indicate the presence of cancer or other diseas...

Emerging from the shadows of Breast Cancer

...om where it has steadily declined to 1:56 in 2004, thanks to the tremendous advances in medical technology which doubtlessly assists an early detection Early detection ensures that one-eighth of all cases get detected by the time a woman reaches the age of 85 which when compared to two decades agowas a me...

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