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Africa Is Not The Only Continent Struggling Against AIDS

...oviral drugs through the public health care system until 2003, as the Government prior to 2003 had an National AIDS program which focused on AIDS prevention. Even now, drugs are available in government run hospitals in only 6 of India’s 28 states. The scale of the unmet need has an ironic twist. While Indi...

Children With Epilepsy Can Be Treated With Nerve Stimulation

...e the seizures that occur because of epilepsy, but until recently, there was no data to illustrate how children younger than 12 years of age would respond to VNS implantation. Researchers for the study have demonstrated that using a VNS in children is effective in reducing seizures and epilepsy-related hos...

Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes

...) or placebo initiated with fibrinolysis and given until coronary angiography, which was performed 2 to 8 days after initiation of the study drug. The researchers found that pretreatment with clopidogrel significantly reduced by 46 percent the odds of cardiovascular death, heart attack, or stroke followi...

New Technique To Test Stem Cells That Heal The Heart

...ver, the cells remained visible in SPECT/CT images until seven days after the injection. SPECT/CT also found redistribution of the MSCs to non-target organs, such as the liver, kidney and spleen. Measuring the radiation levels in tissues obtained from the animals after their death validated these findin...

Combined modality approach for effective treatment and enhanced survival in bile duct cancer

...py starts during radiation treatment and continues until transplantation. Prior to transplantation, patients undergo a staging abdominal operation so surgeons can look for any spread of the tumor to lymph nodes or the abdomen that would prevent complete tumor removal. "The major problem is that we still ...

Patient Choice Cesarean Section on The Rise

... increased support and advocacy, and women waiting until they are older to have their first child. Ethical clearance has also been made by the committee, which feels that the procedure is acceptable as long as the patient aware of the associated risks and benefits over vaginal delivery. <br...

Infertility rate in UK men increasing at an alarming rate with numbers rising over 2.5 million

...ertility has long been regarded as a women’s issue until the scientific community has established that a male factor is held responsible in roughly half of all cases of infertility. Infertility is associated with significant physical and mental trauma and imposes serious financial constraints for assessme...

Measuring Exercise Capacity To Predict Heart Disease

...ely higher speeds and inclines every three minutes until they become markedly fatigued. During the test, people are hooked up to a heart monitor. The researchers report that 246 participants died from CHD even though their FRS as at either low or intermediate risk of the disease when they had been initial...

Late Pregnancy Women Face The Risk Of Heartbreak, Fertility Problems

Women who wait until their late 30s to have children risk heartbreak, w...essful. For men, there are also risks in waiting until they are older to father children as semen counts deteriorate with age, they say. Once an older wo...

Defect In Cardiac Cells Lead To Heart Failures

...ely and relaxing adequately. The condition worsens until the heart can no longer work as a pump.The root causes of heart failure are not known. Researchers had found some drastic changes in the way muscle cells in the failing heart handle calcium. Discovery of this mechanism suggests at least one potenti...

Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology

...o manipulate atoms and molecules even. It was not until 15 years ago that scientists began to discuss about a new technology called nanotechnology and it has taken so long for the world to accept and realize the potential and scope of the technology which was once considered impossible or rather an eccent...

Recurrence of aggressive uterine cancer reduced by new form of therapy

... condition was initially regarded as easy to treat until about 1990 when a number of persons were diagnosed with the // aggressive cancer. It has remained a significant problem since then. UPSC is found in higher rates in African American women than in white women. The disease looks like ovarian cancer an...

Early treatment of stuttering can help children

...hildren reach school age, while delaying treatment until school age risks exposing children to the serious social and psychological effects of stuttering at this age, they conclude. Source: Newswise...

Mineral Oil exposure increases risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

...cer etc. from time immemorial. But it is known not until recently that rheumatoid arthritis risk is increased // following occupational exposure to mineraloil. The exact causative factor rheumatiod factor remains unestablished. However, a number of genetic, hormonal factors and environmental fcators have ...

Diabetics increases likelihood of falling and associated accidental injury in elders

...e disorder, vision impairment and medications, but until now diabetes has not been widely recognized as an important risk factor. Diabetes has been now added to the list of risk factors for falling. By controlling diabetes, addressing the complications it causes and being vigilant about the other factors...

Forensic Phonetics – Scientific Solution for Legal Problem

...he so called forensic science. However, it was not until 13th century that the concept became widely accepted. The opening of the Legal Medicine Department in 1807 in the University of Edinburgh and the invention of the microscope by Rudolf Virchow are some of the milestones worth mentioning in the develo...

Mineral Oil exposure increases risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

...cer etc. from time immemorial. But it is known not until recently that rheumatoid arthritis risk is increased // following occupational exposure to mineraloil. The exact causative factor rheumatiod factor remains unestablished. However, a number of genetic, hormonal factors and environmental fcators have...

Clowns farewell in operating room, easing anxiety in children

...though were successful in distracting the children until the administration of anaesthesia, were viewed as annoying when it came to doctors and nurses. A questionnaire was distributed regarding the presence of clowns inside the operating theatre, the results of which revealed that clowns were indeed a be...

FDA Mislead On Asthma Drug By GlaxoSmithKline

...data from six months after the trial had concluded until the FDA inquired about the results in April, 2004,'' according to those who have filed the case. The company in response has issued a statement stating that the SMART study data were collected and analyzed by an independent clinical research organiz...

Conjoined Indian Twins See Hope On The Horizon

...ince Shakeel, the twins father has decided to wait until after Ramzan. Conjoined twins are a rarity and occur about once in every 50,000 live births. For those who undergo the complex surgery, the rate of survival is a mere 20 percent. ...

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