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Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...Green Bench on the ground that it has outlived its utility and is only hurting the objective of preservation of forests. The three-judge Green Bench (also called Forest Bench), a significant innovation and traditionally headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI), has passed several landmark judgments, ord...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...rous level. Or you can turn to a free downloadable utility such as Motherboard Monitor. A temperature reading of higher than 60 degrees Celsius on any internal component is generally a cause for concern, especially if that temperature is reached at bootup, when the PC is not under stress. Occasionally temp...

Does Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields Cause Cancer?

...anish study conducted amongst 28,000 workers in 99 utility companies has shown. Danish medical records we...leukemia, breast cancer, or brain cancer among the utility workers for 23years. This was done to ascertain the levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields and...

Smokeless Cannabis Delivery Device Found Efficient and Less Toxic

... has great potential for improving the therapeutic utility of THC," said study co-author Neal L. Benowitz, MD, UCSF professor of medicine, psychiatry and biopharmaceutical sciences. He added that pills tend to provide patients with more THC than they need for optimal therapeutic effect and increase side effe...

CTA Useful in Detecting Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysms

...portant to perform a study that would evaluate the utility of CTA as the primary diagnostic investigation in detecting acute ruptured cerebral aneurysms using correlation with intraoperative findings, said Dr. Patel. Although we were expecting CTA to demonstrate a high detection rate for acute ruptured ane...

UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

...ry services A 70-bed cancer hospital A central utility plant, underground tunnel, bridge, helipad and parking The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will provide a world-class, sophisticated, efficient, flexible and family-centered healing environment. The technologically advanced facilities will provi...

Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

...d a folic acid tablet by a private company but its utility for our people is immense. They are cheap but essential and now it's the responsibility of government to manufacture them," she said. Reddy further said that her ministry would shortly move to cabinet for a revival package for ailing Indian Drugs a...

Calcium and Vitamin D Intake Lowers the Risk of Breast Cancer Before Menopause

... investigation is warranted to study the potential utility of calcium and vitamin D intake in reducing the risk of breast cancer," the authors conclude. The study appeared in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....

Monogram Presents Results of First ETag Breast Cancer Studies

...ntations detailing initial studies on the clinical utility of its proprietary eTag technology in metastatic breast cancer will be presented at the 43rd American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting (June 1-5) in Chicago, Illinois. A third presentation will describe the molecular characterization of c...

Obesity Worsens Life Quality of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

...ding pain, fatigue, physical function and overall utility scores. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr Siri Lillegraven at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo. As part of the study, researchers examined 1041 obese patients and normal weight (NW) with RA using key areas of self-reported hea...

Does Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields Cause Cancer?

...anish study conducted amongst 28,000 workers in 99 utility companies// has shown. Danish medical records w...leukemia, breast cancer, or brain cancer among the utility workers for 23years. This was done to ascertain the levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields and...

No Increased Risk of Certain Cancers from Electromagnetic Fields Among Energy Workers

... health and employment records of more than 22,000 utility workers at 99 different electrical energy supply companies in Denmark. All the employees had been employed at the companies for a minimum of three months since 1968, and they were tracked for an average of nearly 23 years or until death. When the...

Researchers Identify Gene That Plays Key Role in Size of Dogs -- and Probably in Humans

...ize," said Bustamante. "The research points to the utility of the domestic dog model system to identify genes that have a large effect." Because small dog breeds are only distantly related to each other, the researchers believe the gene variation for small dogs probably first appeared early in the history ...

Interactive Digital Television to Monitor Health

...evel and so on. This application may be of great utility for undertaking the monitoring of patients who are convalescing in a post-operative recovery stage but who can carry out their basic functions in an independent manner. It is also of great interest to those elderly persons who require a minimum of co...

Circumcision May Lift HIV Risk for Women

... preliminary results do not call into question the utility of circumcision as a way to prevent AIDS in Africa. But "while male circumcision has extraordinary potential to prevent HIV infection, these new findings remind us that we must proceed with thought and care in developing strategies to expand male c...

PET Imaging Identifies Aggressive Kidney Cancers That Require Surgery

...sitivity and specificity of this tool supports the utility of G250 PET imaging in the work-up and management strategies for clinically localized renal masses and as an alternative to biopsy for distinguishing renal lesions.” In the study, 25 patients scheduled to have surgery to remove a renal mass receiv...

Common Ingredient in Big Macs and Sodas Can Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles for Medical Use

... development of drugs for Wilscons' disease; their utility for the generation of a wide spectrum of metallic nanoparticles, including gold and silver; and as amphiphilic building blocks in a variety of drug designs were demonstrated by Katti, in collaboration with Kannan and MU's Stan Casteel. A paper desc...

New Hope for Regenerative Medicine

...ll culture, but also by illustrating the potential utility of androgenetic, as well as parthenogenetic ES cells. Source-Eurekalert...

Ranbaxy Gets FDA Approval for Depression Drug

...e forms for this molecule that has established its utility and value in major depressive disorder. This product formulation will be launched immediately,' said Jim Meehan, vice president of Sales and Marketing for RPI. RPI based in Jacksonville, Florida, is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic a...

New Guidelines for Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism

...bolism in a patient before further testing and the utility of various diagnostic tools such as D-dimer and ul...ians. "These guidelines provide information on the utility of various diagnostic tools and compare the efficacy and safety of various pharmacologic agents used...

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