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Protein in urine foresees heart disease

...umber of ways to identify and stop the progression when the disease is young. And now the Dutch investigat...malfunctioning at the early stage of heart disease when there are no symptoms," says Jan Dirk Banga, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of the report. In this particul...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...nich has done a study on this basis and found that when it comes to chronic neck pain, acupuncture works better than massage in the short term. In his research which included 177 patients with age ranging from 18 to 85, he randomly assigned them to receive five treatments in a period of three weeks. By t...

Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed

... doctors and the patients come to public hospitals when their condition becomes serious, said the health minister. Health minister has uttered his confidence in bringing down the disease and he said that test kits have been supplied to all public hospitals in the city and the state has begun a massive pu...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...n have serious side effects. The symptoms returned when the patients stopped drinking the mixture said Weinstock, professor of internal medicine. The importance of contact with environmental organisms is supported by studies of mice specially bred to be germ-free, said Dr. Fergus Shanahan, of the Nationa...

Regular exercise prevents hip fractures

...rsity Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark, and colleagues, when people undergo the aging process, regular physical activity should become an essential part of everyone's life, in order to control the alarming increase in hip fractures. In the study, they found that 55% of the people engaged in moderate physic...

New Laser Techniques cure degeneration of the eye

...atment is early self-diagnosis. This is effective, when doctors recommend patients to visit an optometrist or eye specialist if they notice any change in the clarity of their vision....

Blocked viens block eye sight

...e solution containing a drug. Palanker found that when 1,000 volts were applied between the electrode and metal sheath, an ultra hot plasma formed at the tip of the electrode producing a rapidly expanding vaporized bubble. By alternating the voltage the bubble could expand and collapse within a millionth...

New scalpel probes into cancer

...ours this scalpel will be able to tell the surgeon when to stop cutting. The brain is a particularly critical place to know when enough tissue has been removed, said project leader Paul Gourley. It works by incorporating blood c...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...r general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined.// Bell and colle... a fatter proportion), the incidence was 0.3%, and when BMI was 31-40 (obesity), the incidence was 33% . Women should take care against excessive weight ga...

Prevention is better than cure

...om winter to summer. It is a disease that occurs when viruses invade the human nose and throat. The viruses reach cells in the human nose and throat after travelling from the outer part of the nose or from the moist membranes of the eye via the tear duct.// People can catch cold from the coughs and sne...

Better prostate cancer detection

...nts from having to come back for a second biopsy - when the first is clear but cancer is still suspected....

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...han one kind of signal in cells. It was known that when oestrogen binds to receptors in cells, it activates a signal that changes the gene expression. The team found that in bone cells, oestrogen can also trigger a signal preventing the cells from dying thereby prolonging their lives and keeping the bones...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...g their pregnancy.These women were contacted again when their children were between 6 and 7 years of age. The investigators found that on examining the behavioural patterns of these kids ,maternal alcohol consumption in pregnancy was linked to aggression, delinquent behavior and attention problems in the...

Helping stroke patients to recover balance

...e right or the left than they were. As expected, when the patients were asked to point to objects they p... to the left or right, depending on the lens. But when they took the spectacles off, the researchers found that patients who had been wearing the right-shi...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...device similar to a pacemaker, which operates only when the heartbeat starts to get out of step. Mathematicians at the new Fraunhofer Institute ITWM together with a private service company, developed a new method called alphacardio in order to overcome the problems experienced with the test. Many of the...

Garlic a day keeps cancer away

...cancer-protecting gut enzymes by up to 60 per cent when given in amounts equivalent// to a moderate daily intake in humans.They say that even half a clove of raw garlic could have the same beneficial effect in humans....

Focus on DNA transcription

... bacteria E.Coli. Erie and her students found that when the precursor molecule does not occupy the newly discovered site, the enzyme copies the DNA slowly.When the molecule occupies the site, producton of RNA kicks into overdrive.The process than occurs about 10 times faster than it would otherwise. ...

Headache decreases appetite

...now reveal, in a study,// the changes in the brain when pain takes away your appetite. From a group of migraine sufferers they found that their appetite decreased as headache intensified.This usually happens either before nausea or even in its absence. Then the researchers gave pain stimuli to rats and ...

Bayer Voluntarily Withdraws BAYCOL - A Drug Associated With 50 Deaths

...orts with Baycol had been reported most frequently when the drug was used at higher doses, in elderly patients, and especially when taken in combination with another cholesterol-lowering drug called gemfibrozil. It said patients tak...

Dark skin protects

...also needed to build proteins. In prehistoric days when food was scarce in cold, dry areas, tyrosine was probably conserved to make essential proteins, Mackintosh says. It was only worthwhile converting it into extra melanin in the warm, damp tropics where food was abundant and pathogens were rampant....

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