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Robots craft medical history

...eater dexterity and precision. The system includes two holding instruments and another containing a laparoscope, or a tiny camera embedded in flexible tube.With Zeus, the surgeon controls the instrument handles and views the operative site on a monitor. With a computer interface, the surgical instruments...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...han 65. Pell found that the risk of death in the two years following surgery fell by 37 percent among men 65 and older. The decrease found in women in the same age range was not large enough to be statistically significant. Pell suspects this was probably due to the smaller number of procedures perform...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

... for the first three days and from the fourth day, two tablets for seven weeks....

Postpone intercourse after childbirth

... delivery could jeopardize their lives. A study of two women in Yorkshire reveals that their death occure... their chest. The study from the recoreds of the two women stated that one had died eight days after having her child and the other five days after deliv...

Science of swooning

...peated on another day after the subjects had drunk two to three beers. During the alcohol-free tests, vessels constricted normally and blood pressure did not significantly change, except with extreme negative pressure. After drinking alcohol, blood pressure dropped substantially, proving the theory....

To get the better of

...d enjoyed a satisfying sexual encounter. There are two preeminent hypothesis based on the findings. The "in-suck" surmise argues that contraction during orgasm draws in the sperm after ejaculation. Arousal has also been shown to reduce acidity inside the vagina. According to this theory an acidic vagin...

Broccoli's role against cancer

..., sulphoraphane, helps cells defend themselves for two or three days against highly reactive and toxic molecules called oxidants.// Unlike standard anti-oxidants that use the molecular equivalent of hand to hand combat, broccoli’s compound is a covert operative that works indirectly.Oxidants are like m...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...medication. Under the earlier recommendations, the two sexes were roughly equal in eligibility. Now, men make up 55 percent of the pool and women 45 percent....

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...ntucky and West Virginia and moved into Ohio about two years ago. Narcotics and health officials now say that OxyContin has become the pill of choice for many addicts. OxyContin is designed to treat moderate to severe, chronic pain. The drug's classification requires patients to present a written prescri...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...ub the pads under their noses four times a day for two to three months. The results showed that the length of women's menstrual cycles moved towards extremes after taking in the pheromones - short cycles became significantly shorter, long cycles significantly longer.And she added that the time from the ...

Leukemia pill shows promise against stomach cancer

...with limited side effects. GIST accounts for about two percent of all abdominal cancers. If caught early, these tumors can usually be removed surgically, but growths often return. According to its manufacturer, Novartis Oncology, Gleevec also is being studied as a possible treatment for prostate cancer, ...

Sun Pharma to launch chiral version of omeprazole soon

Many drugs have two or more forms of the same chemical entity but the molecules arranged differently in space. Of the isomers, only one generally offers all the therapeutic benefits with the others having side-effects. Isolation of benefits results in smaller dosages wi...

Sniff to compatibility

...d by asking them to smell T-shirts worn by men for two consecutive nights. The US researchers, led by Dr Shirley Bean from the University of Chicago, found that women preferred men with a genetic smell somewhat the same - but not identical - to their own. Analysis showed a significant correlation with ...

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

...rizine, a standard 'non-drowsy' antihistamine, for two weeks. According to researchers both the treatments were similarly effective, with participants reporting side effects from the antihistamines but not from the butterbur. The study was one of an increasing number of randomised controlled trials...

Vaccination to prevent strokes

...atment following a stroke. For each stroke victim, two matched individuals with no history of stroke were enquired. The researchers found that those vaccinated over the past five years had a significantly reduced stroke risk. Dr.Eoin.Bredman said "There is a theory that infections can contribute to a ...

No link between bad weather and rheumatism

... to the weather because an association between the two is widely believe....

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

... the arginine bar or a placebo bar twice a day for two weeks, then crossed over to the other treatment for another two weeks. Blood flow increased in the arteries for those consuming the arginine bar as did exercise c...

New therapy for bone cancer

... good or excellent response to the samarium - with two going into complete remission. Samarium targets bo... and the patient needs to be in hospital for about two days. After two weeks, the bone is free of radioactivity because the samarium has a half life of onl...

New Birth Control Pills increase the stroke risk

...60, was a mix of high doses of estrogen and one of two other hormones, lynestrenol or norethisterone. However, they increased the risk of clotting, which can lead to ischemic stroke. The next version, released in the 1970s, contained markedly less estrogen and only the progestogen levonorgestrel. This ...

Kidney cancer on the rise

...r in the UK has risen by 68 per cent over the last two decades and now affects almost 6,000 people a year. Research in UK says that 5,700 people each year are affected by kidney cancer and survival rates are among the lowest in Europe.// The disease accounts for an estimated 95,000 worldwide deaths each ...

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