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The Importance Of Folic Acid Supplements

... gene that puts them at risk for passing on neural tube defects like spina bifida to their offspring.// Re... processing folate in the body is linked to neural tube defects. They speculated another form of the gene might also be associated with the birth defects. ...

The Best Way To Relieve Chest Pain

...asive angioplasty procedure where a tiny, flexible tube (stent) is used to prop open blocked arteries. All of the men had at least a 75-percent narrowing of one artery at the start of the study. Men worked out on stationary bikes for 10 minutes, six times a day for the first two weeks of training at the ...

More Patients Going In For Home Dialysis

...ialysis involves surgically placing a soft plastic tube or catheter into the lining of the belly to flush out waste. // Patients must undergo training for two weeks and are then able to perform the 30-minute dialysis themselves from the comfort of their home. Hemodialysis patients can spend up to four ho...

Bone Marrow Cells Help Heart Attack Patients

...were treated with balloon angioplasty and had mesh tube stents implanted to keep their vessels open. Twenty patients were injected with stem cells made from their own bone marrow, and the other 20 patients served as a control group. Stem cells are immature cells that can still develop into specialized typ...

A voice saving surgery

...ashington University at St. Louis, made a speaking tube using skin tissue, an artery and vein from her arm, and cartilage from her nose. It was his first time performing the surgery, and he says Hancock is the first person in the United States to have it done. "When she first had air going through the sh...

New virtual colonoscopy procedure for easier colon screening

... currently available involves inserting a flexible tube with a viewing instrument into the rectum. It requires anaesthesia and there's a remote chance that the colon wall could be perforated by the tube. However, patients now have an easier option with the discovery of a procedure called 'Virtual Colonosc...

Misinterpretation living wills

...that none of them wanted CPR or the insertion of a tube to make them breathe, if they had a terminal illne... questioned said they would not do CPR or insert a tube into any patient who had made a living will - whether they wanted it or not. However, two of the phy...

Surgery a safety in senility

...them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Results indicated that those who were put on medication were twice as likely to have a major adverse cardiac event - death, non-fatal heart attack or ho...

New device aids esophagal cancer

...e as possible. Part of this involves inserting a tube to allow a normal diet to be taken. When the tumou...ts, half received a conventional tube, the other a tube with the valve. In the first group, all but one experienced reflux, compared to only three in the gr...

Surgery a safety in senility

...them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Results indicated that those who were put on medication were twice as likely to have a major adverse cardiac event - death, non-fatal heart attack or ho...

Family planning with folate

...one in 300 Indian pregnancies affected by a neural tube defect. Neural tube defect can cause a wide range of disabilities such as loss of bladder and bowel control and paralysi...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

...ethesda, Md., said the research was done in a test tube and adjusting metal ion concentrations in the body could have completely different results. Dieffenbach told UPI the study will spur a flurry of research to further understand whether the PRM1 gene is a viable target to develop drugs around. His fi...

New operation for swallowing problems

...ich remodels the affected part of the pharynx (the tube leading from the mouth to the esophagus). It can b... in their ability to swallow, rapidly passing from tube to normal feeding, and six progressed to a normal diet. Their voices improved too - sounding less 'w...

Heart bypass-mental decline link

...e heartbeat is stopped with medication, and a thin tube is inserted into the aorta during the procedure. The study compared results in heart-lung machine patients with those put on an "off-pump" device that only partially immobilizes the heart. Off-pump patients had less mental decline than heart-lung pa...

Link between chlorine byproducts and pregnancy risks

...creased health risks including miscarriage, neural tube defects and reduced fetal growth from women drinking chlorination byproducts....

A new vaccine for leukemia

...odies.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 designated t...

Gene Therapy Destroys Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...destroy deadly pancreatic cancer cells in the test tube and in lab animals. // The work was led by Dr. Paul B. Fisher, a professor of clinical pathology at Columbia. Researchers were interested in using a tumor-stopping protein from a newly discovered gene known as mda-7, which has been found effective ...

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

...rapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells. Test tube experiments do seem to suggest that inhibiting the enzyme blocks the invasion of cancer cells into neighbouring tissues....

Surgery a safety in senility

...them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Results indicated that those who were put on medication were twice as likely to have a major adverse cardiac event - death, non-fatal heart attack or ho...

Tracing oesophagal cancer

...ome of the disease. Cancer of the oesophagus - the tube leading from the throat to the stomach - affects 5000 people a year in the UK, making it the eighth most common cancer. The main problem is spread of the cancer through the lymph glands. But it is hard for doctors to know which gland close to the oes...

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