uses 1 2

Tag: "uses" at medical news

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...upply has not kept up with demand in a nation that uses 1.8 million doses a month. In October and November, the average delivery of the MMR vaccine fell 61% below national demand, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which asked Merck to supplement production by taking 700,000 doses from a stockp...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

... of chew in his cheek for 30 minutes at a time and uses the product in this manner throughout the day, exposing the teeth to the tobacco for several hours. Moreover, both chew and snuff can contribute to gingival (gum) recession and therefore make tooth roots more liable to decay."This study shouldn't giv...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...ency room visits, while others claim its unrivaled uses as a prescription drug. The Food and Drug Administration banned GHB in 1990. President Clinton signed a bill in 2000, indicating that its possession or use is illegal except for supervised study on narcolepsy. The government has turned GHB into a fo...

A new recovery for heart attacks

... not dependent on oxygen, called glycolysis (which uses glycogen from the liver). Previous research has found that a protein known as Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) responds to low oxygen levels and switches on the genes. However, the nuts and bolts of how it does that have to date only been partially un...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...onal Stroke Conference in San Antonio. Alexandrov uses a hand-held ultrasound device fitted into a frame "like the frame inside a construction worker's hard hat," he said. Using a Food and Drug Administration-approved diagnostic frequency setting of 2 megahertz, the device focuses on the clot while the t...

Drug Offers Hope for Alzheimer's disease

... sometime this year. The company is also exploring uses for the drug in earlier stages of the disease and in conjunction with currently approved treatments....

Rumbling stomach

...me such noise is normal; Its absence when a doctor uses a stethoscope can indicate an intestinal blockage. The noises are softer or louder depending on the strength and speed of the contractions and on what is in the tract, a variable mix of solids, liquids and gas, both swallowed air and the waste produc...

Needle free future for diabetics

...es. Iontophoresis is a relatively new method which uses the application of an electric field// to draw molecules into and out of the skin's barrier without the need for an injection. It could mean taking blood samples without a syringe, and administering drugs without an injection. Researchers at the Un...

Novel biopsy technique for prostate cancer

...ventional method was used. Dr Bahnson routinely uses the extended biopsy now. An added bonus of this technique is that it saves certain patients from having to come back for a second biopsy - when the first is clear but cancer is still suspected....

FDA Approves New surgery Treatment for Farsightedness

...ss known as conductive keratoplasty. The technique uses radiofrequency energy to// shrink small areas of the cornea, the transparent coat on the surface of the eyeball. Unlike laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK), in which the surface of the eye is reshaped using a laser, conductive keratoplasty does not ...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

... technology worked when some of the information it uses to make a diagnosis was missing. The researchers applied the technology to 1,400 adults who arrived at the emergency department complaining of chest pain. On average, 5% of the information to be entered into the program was missing. Despite the mi...

FDA Approves Anti-Cancer Cell Drug - Zevalin

... long-awaited treatment for lymphoma - a drug that uses a novel approach to bring radiation directly to cancer cells. Idec Pharmaceuticals' Zevalin becomes the first radioimmunotherapy drug cleared to sell in the US. // It's a new approach, adding radiation to antibodies that search out a protein called...

Breakthrough in eye treatment

... there’s no need to cut into the eye. Instead, CK uses radio frequency energy. A probe, thinner than a strand of hair, applies radio waves at points around the cornea. The radio energy shrinks the tissue, increasing the curve of the cornea and correcting far-sightedness. “The whole procedure is done in ...

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

...d copy of the gene, which is the version the virus uses to create the trillion keys....

Migraine relieved by deadly toxin

...ns known to man. However, it does have some benign uses for instance,// botox injections are often used to smooth out wrinkles in cosmetic surgery. Now researchers at the Hokins of University reveal that botox also relieves headache. The botox works by partially paralysing the muscles in the scalp and f...

New technique for heart enlargement

...he heart until much later in life. The new method uses a non-invasive ultrasound procedure to show how fast the heart muscle is moving during contraction and relaxation. Researchers found patients with the most common HCM gene mutation had lower velocities during relaxation and higher contraction levels,...

Lung cancer gets better with new radiotherapy rule

...om a more intensive programme known as CHART which uses three doses a day for 12 days. Now researchers at the Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex, England, have taken CHART further. Using computer models, they suggested that a higher dose of radiotherapy, over 18 days, with weekends off to recover, would g...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

...cross the world. Dr Taimela felt that the concept uses the latest course to chronic pain management called evidence-based medicine and makes use of special proprietory software and analysis models to devise individual treatment profiles for patients. Reddy said it was planned to launch similar centres in...

Gene testing kit specific for Doctors

... have been working to produce a DNA test kit which uses saliva, blood or urine samples and produces results within 15 to 20 minutes. The device has been made small the size of a shoebox for ease of use in doctors' offices or drugstores. Initially, it's thought that it will be used to test for viral DNA,...

Testing for blood sugar levels made easier

...r diabetes patients. Optical Coherence Tomography uses advanced photonics and fiber optics to obtain images of tissues. It uses infrared light waves that reflect off the internal structures within tissues to send back a picture ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10