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Vitamin C reverses pre eclampsia

The multiple uses of vitamin C notwithstanding, British researchers have added another feather to the vitamin’s cap!! It is now said that vitamin C reverses pre eclampsia in pregnant women. Pre eclampsia is one of the leading contributors to complications in childbirt...

An Eye Opener for the blind

...iver a visual acuity of about 20/400. The system uses a sub-miniature television camera and an ultrasoni...ing the video and distance signals,// the computer uses sophisticated computer-imaging technology, including edge-detection algorithms to simplify the image...

Disease chromosomes identified

... for centuries. It does not restrict its potential uses to one person or to one corporation and is essential for progress in improving mankind's health. Souce: Medical journal...

A new replacement

...lts and greater ccuracy than PAP smears. TruScan uses a pen-like probe to collect information directly f... tissue. A computer which is attached to the probe uses mathematical algorithms to analyse the data and classifies the tissue as healthy, pre-cancerous or c...

Studying brain anatomy without surgery

... whenever the region of the brain is activated, it uses more oxygen. This method works by measuring the blood flow and oxygen consumption in the brain.// Firstly, light emitted by near infrared laser diodes is cariied through optical fibres to a person's head. The light penetrates the skull where it asse...

Stem cells form blood vessels

...e last, as scientists continue their research into uses for stem cells despite debate over the ethics of using the cells. The new development is reported in Tuesday's online issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. John Gearhart of the Hopkins School of Medicine felt that the researc...

Disease chromosomes identified

... for centuries. It does not restrict its potential uses to one person or to one corporation and is essential for progress in improving mankind's health....

New insights into herbal supplements

...names under which each herb is sold, its purported uses , its chemical properties and known details of how the herb works on the body is included in the website. A summary and critique of all the known published medical studies, instances of adverse reactions, and warnings about potentially dangerous drug...

Heart valve surgery may be replaced by new heart therapy

...ter this year in the United States. The procedure uses a new type of replacement valve specially designed for the purpose. It is placed at the end of a flexible catheter that is inserted in the femoral vein in the groin and is guided to the diseased valve. It is put in place by inflating a balloon at the...

New birth control to limit women's periods

...ow a woman to have her period. Seasonale, however, uses the same types of hormones but for 12 weeks straight before a week of placebos. Not having as many periods -- and the medical problems surrounding them -- has some women intrigued.Almost 39 million women worldwide use some kind of birth control. The...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...has been tested in 17,000 patients for a number of uses and has shown to work as well as or, in some cases, better than warfarin at preventing dangerous blood clots. It acts more quickly and does not require the frequent blood testing of warfarin, also known as Coumadin. According to the study it has sh...

New !! “Designer” Gene Theray

...e therapy that bypasses the liver. The new therapy uses an adeno-associated virus, or AAV, which has been redesigned to avoid capture by the liver long enough to get to the part of the body needing the new genes.They’ve tested two forms of the virus in the laboratory and in mice, using it to deliver new g...

Reducing The Risk Of Death In Sickle Cell Disease

...t a Doppler echocardiography, which is a test that uses waves to see the heart. Researchers say 32 of the patients suffered from pulmonary hypertension.During the study period, researchers say 20 percent of the patients with pulmonary hypertension died and all but two of the patients without the condition...

Adding Credit To The Health Care Industry In India

...ould be the country's first teaching hospital that uses technology// developed by an Indian. Srini Nageshwar, the man behind the achievement has felt the need for low-cost equipment and speedy health diagnosis. His dream is to see every doctor in rural India enabled with an instrument that he or she can...

Outpatient Treatment Possible For Patients with Uterine Fibroid Tumors

...rocedure, and lies face down while the radiologist uses a computer to guide the MRI machine and locate the fibroids. Once the fibroids are located, high frequency, high-energy sound waves are applied. The patient may feel warmth or cramping in the pelvis. No hospitalization is necessary, and generally pat...

New Information On Virus Goes Against The Age-Old Theory

...pond to things that don't do damage. Examples she uses to support her thesis that the body recognizes some invading substances are not dangerous include the development of a fetus during a woman’s pregnancy and the production of milk by lactating women. The researcher and others had made an attempt to ...

Test For Mad Cow Disease Is Here

...developed clinical symptoms of prion disease. PMCA uses sound waves to vastly accelerate the process that prions use to convert normal proteins to misshapen infectious forms. Successive rounds of PMCA led to the discovery of prions in the blood of 16 of the 18 infected hamsters. No prions were found in ...

Genetic Tests Could Become As Affordable As Blood Tests

...chnique called Supramolecular Nano-Stamping (SuNS) uses handy genetic tools called microarrays, which are not generally used in medical diagnostics.// The new technique has been developed by Francesco Stellacci and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In this technique, the...

Critically Ill Patients More At Risk Of Infection If Glucose Is Present In Their Lung Secretions

...s through a period of rapid growth during which it uses supplies of glucose. And glucose may also interfere with local immune responses in the airway.An accompanying editorial suggests that a link between an increased risk of infection and abnormally high levels of glucose is biologically plausible. Too m...

Good News For Cataract Patients

...cedure, designed to improve treatment of cataract, uses micro incision (700 microns) surgery and is minimally invasive. It allows quicker recovery and better results. About 300 leading ophthalmologists from across India watched on a giant screen as Agarwal along with P.K. Bakshi, eminent ophthalmologist...

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