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New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...IV. The researchers reported that the new vaccine uses a type of cell, commonly found in the skin, called dendritic cells or DCs. The main job of DCs is to grab foreign substances and turn them in to the immune system, which triggers a chain reaction that starts a powerful immune attack on similar substa...

Answers For OCD soon

...on their MRI scans. Scientists said that the brain uses different areas for processing disgusting images than for fearful pictures.// Doctors hope that study conducted in these specific regions of brain would help them find specific treatment methods for those with OCD. The study also shows those with obs...

Y chromosome uses trick to repair its own genes

Scientists have discovered that the Y chromosome uses a neat trick to repair its most crucial genes, a strategy that apparently helps keep it from rotting away over evolutionary time. The Y chromosome, of course, is best known for supplying the biological signal that makes males rather than females. So...

The 'lazy man's yoga"

...e supposed to do." Diftler said the practitioner uses all different parts of the body. "We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body," Diftler said. "There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two pe...

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...mories and skills learned over time.The brain then uses this knowledge to help it learn automatically by itself. This makes it easier to understand situations and solve problems very quickly -- sometimes even subconsciously.As you age, intelligent memory increases because it has added a lot of data to a p...

New Test for HIV Patients

...HIV patients in less-developed countries. The test uses dried blood to assess a patient's response to HIV medication.// HIV patients are often put on antiretroviral therapy. This treatment is now becoming available in Africa. While on the medication, tests to determine the CD4 cell count are needed. A lo...

A Reason To Smile

...omfort for patients. There are a variety of dental uses for lasers. Some diagnose cavities, while others remove gum and tooth structure to treat disease. Some are even used to whiten teeth. Dentists also use lasers to help detect dental disease in its early stages. Another use is for the treatment of gum...

Less Pain After Tonsillectomy

...he procedure. The microdissection needle technique uses less energy to achieve the same result, which means less trauma to surrounding tissue. Researchers from both the Children's Hospital Regional Medical Center in Seattle and the Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y., investigated the microdissection n...

Reducing The After Effects of Tonsillectomy

...he procedure. The microdissection needle technique uses less energy to achieve the same result, which means less trauma to surrounding tissue. Researchers investigated the microdissection needle technique on nearly 50 children between ages 4 and 12.The same surgeon performed all procedures, which were id...

Painkilling Patch As Effective As Intravenous Delivery Systems

...patch that resembles the size of a credit card and uses a tiny electric current to deliver pain medication through the skin does the job about as well as conventional intravenous devices. // The patch is affixed to the patient's upper arm or chest after surgery. Both the patch and some intravenous deliver...

DNA Testing For More Accurate Results

...with MDS by using a new DNA test.The new procedure uses a technique called Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy to assess DNA taken from a small amount of the patient’s blood. The DNA test for MDS is highly predictive and most promising ,say researchers and they believe that a study with a larger num...

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

...o test on humans an experimental SARS vaccine that uses a killed virus. The vaccine had been shown to be effective in animal testing....

Laser Surgery for Allergy

...geon at , of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, now uses a powerful laser to shrink nasal tissues called turbinates. He says: "This is the tip that is going to be placed in the nose. The idea is to vaporize some of this tissue as well as to cause a heat injury that, over several weeks, will reduce the size...

Another Treatment Option for Benign Tumors

... tumors and other lesions without open surgery. It uses a robotic arm, controlled by a computer, that sends multiple beams of high-dose radiation directly to the tumor site. During the study researchers examined the feasibility, toxicity and tumor control of patients with symptomatic benign tumors in th...

Improving Fertility In Patients With Cervical Cancer

...ite with an implant over several months Instead it uses a donor site that is easily accessible to noninvasive monitoring and has adequate blood flow. By clinical exams and ultrasound monitoring, researchers found that ovarian cycles remained regular and follicle growth occurred normally for more than a ye...

Predicting Severity Of Appendicitis With Computed Tomography

... of acute appendicitis. The study showed CT, which uses various measurements to predict the severity of acute appendicitis, gave results matching the actual condition of the appendix in acute appendicitis. Results of the findings were used to construct a model that could, along with additional CT measure...

More Dependable Screening Test For Bladder Cancer

...h a bladder examination called a cystoscopy, which uses a flexible endoscope to examine the bladder. In the study, the NMP22 test was more sensitive, but cytology was more specific and the number of false-positives was higher for the NMP22 test. But researchers say the high specificity of cytology is off...

Stanford Medical Center Implements The First Virtual Cardiac Ultrasound

... all angles of the patient’s heart. The technology uses an “intelligent” echocardiography system. The arti...sures the volume of blood from each heart beat and uses structure movements to find out the exact faults of cardiac functions. With such a technology avail...

Lidoderm for pain removal in Osteoarthritis

...y. Lidoderm is an approved pain relief agent that uses a lidocaine patch 5%. The patch produces analgesic effects by penetrating the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin, but need only to be applied on intact skin. The FDA approves up to three patches of Lidoderm applied to a total of 12 hrs in a 24 h...

Approval for DNA test to detect cystic fibrosis

...ion (FDA) of US had approved the first test that// uses DNA in blood to diagnose cystic fibrosis. The test is called Tag-It Cystic Fibrosis Kit and it can analyze DNA samples from the blood and detect genes that carry the strains of the disease, both in children and in adults. The test can not only predi...

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