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Medical Gadgets To Monitor Drug Delivery

...e and administer the correct dosage of drug. The wrist bands contain electronic system which is similar t...m Brunel University, UK has designed an electronic wrist band that ensures that patients receive the correct medication by matching an electronic chip in the...

Dentists Recommend Kids Use Mouthguard To Protect Them When Doing Sports

...equipment made for their sport, such as shin pads, wrist guards, eye protection, and helmet, adds AAP President Carol Berkowitz, M.D., FAAP. Always consult your pediatrician on the sport that is right for your child’s age and abilities.” “In the past few years, since high schools and colleges began to req...

Mini motor for micromedical applications

...y could function in appliances, computers and even wrist watches. The piezoelectric motors rotate much slower so watches powered by piezoelectric motors would be mechanically simpler. br>...

Indian Surgeon Conducts 70 Surgeries During His Holidays In England

...n working through a backlog of minor surgeries for wrist pain, leading a team of day staff and secretaries, the Daily Telegraph reported on its front page Saturday. The condition he treated, known as carpal tunnel, requires a simple surgical operation conducted under local anaesthetic. Agarwal, who got t...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

... osteoporotic fracture of bones such as the hip, wrist or spine. Yet although it is well documented that vitamin D decreases the incidence of fractures in the elderly, this is one of the first studies to investigate vitamin D’s performance in bone accumulation during adolescence. However bone growth ...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

... osteoporotic fracture of bones such as the hip, wrist or spine. Yet although it is well documented that vitamin D decreases the incidence of fractures in the elderly, this is one of the first studies to investigate vitamin D’s performance in bone accumulation during adolescence. However bone growth ...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

...rpal tunnel syndrome is a painful condition of the wrist resulting from compression of the median nerve that runs from the base of the palm up to the forearm affecting people who perform repetitive hand motions, including computer users, dental hygienists, and even golfers and tennis players. Standard tr...

Pain Relief For Osteoarthritis Patients

...gned 10 patients with knee osteoarthritis, 10 with wrist osteoarthritis, and eight with elbow osteoarthritis to an experimental group based on the location of the diagnosed osteoarthritis. Each patient applied the cream to the affected area twice a day every day for one week. It was observed that the topi...

Low-Dose Hormones Help the Bones

...asured the bone mineral density of the hip, spine, wrist and the total body every year for three years. They also looked at markers for bone resorption and bone formation during the study. Researchers found women who were on the low dose of estrogen had an increase in their bone mineral density at all the...

Study casts doubt on keyboard ills

...se a severe occupational hazard for developing the wrist and hand ailment known as carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a Danish study published Tuesday.The finding was based on a survey of nearly 7,000 workers at 3,500 locations who were questioned initially on symptoms and 5,568 of the group who were ass...

Artists prone to cubital tunnel syndrome

...sed by pressure exerted on the median nerve at the wrist and cubital tunnel is caused by repeated injury/pressure on the ulnar nerve at the elbow. The conditions and treatments discussed by Dr. Simmons are not limited to performing artists such as musicians, but may also occur in other artists, such as scu...

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