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More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

Prostate cancer can effect men over the age of 40 years and is the second commonest cancer among men after lung cancer. Usually it goes undetected till it is advanced and beyond cure. However a lot of awareness has been created about this condition and now men over the age of 40 years can be screened regularly to detect the cancer. One of the most promising "tumour markers" in medicine...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

Apollo Hospitals recently launched a one crore documentation based care (DBC) centre project in Chennai for back and neck pain management, claimed to be the first of its kind in the country. Dr Pratap Reddy, //chairman of Apollo Hospitals told the press that DBC, a revolutionary concept resulting from over 25 years of international research, is patented by the noted specialist Dr Simo Taimela of...

DNA Testing For More Accurate Results

Experts have now developed a DNA test capable of identifying myelodysplasia ( MDS ).MDS is a blood disorder that can lead to leukemia or // fatal infections and bleeding. Patients often don’t find out they have the disease until it’s too late for early treatment. About 15,000 to 20,000 people a year are diagnosed with MDS. The condition is most common in those over age 60. Researchers t...

New Heart-Screening Device ,An Accurate Predictor Of Heart Disease

A new study shows a device that measures the stiffness of arteries may help doctors accurately diagnose heart disease and identify patients at risk for a stroke.// Researchers studied more than 250 participants. The patients were tested with a “blood-pressure-like” device, which measured blood volume in the leg as a way to determine artery stiffness. Patients were also screened with mag...

Beef, Pork Ban Hit Bhutan Restaurateurs

Restaurants and the flourishing livestock trade in Bhutan have been hit hard with the government banning the sale of beef and pork following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the kingdom.// A Bhutan government spokesperson said cases of the contagious viral disease that affects all species of cloven-hoofed animals were being reported since the beginning of July in eastern Samdrup...

CT Scans Said to Accurately Detect Small Cancers

New research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America shows computed tomography scans may accurately detect small cancers and stones in the kidneys, bladders and urinary tracts of high-risk patients.// Multi Detector CT Urography ( MDCTU ) scans can be performed using helical CT scanners, which pass X-rays through the body from different angles. Patie...

‘Train The Trainers’ Health programme Inaugurate

BHUBANESWAR: A train the trainers programme for district level trainers was inaugurated by the state health secretary - Mr RN Senapati//. The trainers would provide training to the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and recruited under the National Rural Health Mission to help by taking care of new-born babies and pregnant mothers. About 12,730 ASHAs will be recrui...

India, Pakistan Teams To Inaugurate Inzy's Hospital

The Bakhtawar Amin Memorial Trust Hospital, built by Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq would be inaugurated by the Pakistani and Indian teams at Multan// (home town of the skipper). The fourth one-day international cricket match would also be held at the same place....

Can Men Gauge Biological Paternity Accurately

Paternity issue (if the man is the biological father of his child) has always been a topic of discussion, either as an idle gossip or as a detailed discussion by anthropologists. // A new study, by Kermyt G. Anderson (University of Oklahoma and the Centre for Applied Social Research) that would be published in the June 06 issue of Current Anthropology sheds new light a contentious issue. On how a...

Diagnostic Centre Inaugurated for Air Pollution at SRMC

Chennai: Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Centre (SRMC) in association with Gas Authority of India (GAIL) opened an - Air Pollution Related Disease Diagnostic Centre (APRDC).// The centre is a landmark as it is to combine surveillance and data gathering with diagnosis and treatment and part of `corporate social responsibility' initiative in order to tackle the increasing...

Polyunsaturated Fats And Vitamin E Cut MND Risk By 60 Percent

A study by Dutch researchers suggests that eating foods high in polyunsaturated fats and vitamin E could bring down the risk of developing motor neurone disease by 60 percent.// Researchers from the University Medical Center in Utrecht in the Netherlands report their findings in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. The study tracked 132 patients who had potential or defi...

Polyunsaturated Fat, Vitamin E Lowers Risk Of Motor Neurone Disease

Risk of developing motor neurone disease can be reduced by around 60 percent, by using a diet, which is high in polyunsaturated fat// or vitamin E, according to a new study. In the study, polyunsaturated fat included both omega-6 fat found abundantly in vegetable oils such as corn oil and omega 3 fat found in fish and nuts, reports foodconsumer.org. The motor neurone diseas...

Women Read Men’s Faces Quite Accuratel

Recent studies have revealed that women judge men to be prospective long term partners according to what they read from their faces. This study included 29 women aged 18 to 20 who examined photos of 39 men, // ages 18 to 33. Their ratings were based on whether the men ‘liked children’ or looks ‘masculine’. Surprisingly enough the women also rated a man's attractiveness as eith...

Three-Day Bio-Tech Event Inaugurated

Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal today told captains of the bio-tech industry that generation of one million jobs by 2010, that the industry projected in the sector, may not be possible. // 'One million jobs by 2010 will never happen. It is a far cry,' Sibal said at the inauguration of 'Bio 2006', a three-day annual event billed as India's biggest biotech show.<...

Health Minister Inaugurates Institute for Diarrhea Diseases

The state of art Research and Control Centre has come up in Kolkata to contain Diarrheal diseases in the country. The most modern facility is one of the best of its kind equipped with the modern equipment to do research and control the disease. //The Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, will inaugurate and dedicate to the nation the four storey building named...

Inaccurate Counts with Cheap Pedometers – Researcher Find

A study by Belgians finds that pedometers, which are not upto the standard and cheaper does not measure every steps in an accurate manner//. Ghent university researchers have analysed nearly 1,000 pedometers involving 35 adults volunteers using 5 per day for 6 days. Automated step-count log precisely logged their steps were also followed by the volunteers. Finally both (pedometers and t...

Doppler ultrasounds found to be accurate in detecting anemia in fetus

A Doppler ultrasound is capable of detecting anemia in the fetus, by measuring the velocity of blood flow in the middle cerebral artery. This test is considered// absolutely safe, also because it is non-invasive, and researchers believe that these tests can be used instead of amniocentesis. This was established after Researchers from the University Medical Center in the Netherlands c...

Bipolar Disorder Not Being Accurately Diagnosed By Doctors In UK

The British government's drug watchdog has warned yesterday that the doctors are failing to recognise manic depression, which is also known// as bipolar disorder in spite of it being one of the most common mental illness. It has been reported that patients are waiting on an average for eight years to be accurately diagnosed. It has been explained that if untreated, they suffer from...

First Northeast Private-run Medical College Inaugurated in Tripura

Chief Minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the Tripura Medical College Sunday here to become the first privately run medical college-cum-hospital in India's northeastern// region. "Tripura Medical College, promoted by Global Educational Net (GENET) in collaboration with the state government, is the first public private partnership (PPP) model in the healthcare education in India," said K...

A Serving of Exercise After That Saturated Fat

Physical activity after a high-fat meal not only reverses the arterial dysfunction caused by fatty foods but improves the function //of these same arteries compared to before the meal, according to new research from Indiana University. The findings, reported in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, are part of a growing focus on the effect food has on the body after the meal -- a...

Disabilities Related Conference to be Inaugurated

Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Smt. Meira Kumar will inaugurate a two-day conference (14-15 September) of Welfare Secretaries of States/ UTs, here, tomorrow.// The meeting has been called to review the implementation of different Disabilities related Schemes being implemented by the Government for the disabled with the special objective of creating a barrier free environment i...

NACO Inaugurates 37 Additional HIV Treatment Centers

New Delhi: The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has instituted 37 centers, in addition to the existing 54, to provide free anti-retroviral treatment (ART). //The count of NACO centers stand at 91, with 9 more centers on the anvil. These centers will support the treatment of nearly 85,000 patients, who will avail the services of exclusive doctors, counselors and laboratory tec...

High Resolution CT Accurately Diagnoses Shin Splints

High resolution CT can accurately show medial tibial stress syndrome, better known as shin splints, in distance runners according, to a study conducted// at the University of Messina in Messina, Italy. According to the study, medial tibial stress syndrome is one of many overuse lower leg injuries that may be found in athletes and accounts for between 13.2% and 17.3% of all running inj...

Automated Technique Accurately Measures Platelet Counts in "Platelet Gel" Products

A special blood concentrate known as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) can promote healing in a wide range of medical and surgical situations, // but research has been limited by the lack of a universally accepted approach to measuring the platelet concentrations contained in PRP. A study in the September/October issue of The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery presents an accurate approach to measuring pla...

Scientists Have Developed Faster, More Accurate TB Test

In a far-reaching discovery that will help millions of tuberculosis patients, scientists have developed a TB test which they say is faster//, cheaper and more accurate and also identifies multi-drug resistance. At present, the World Health Organization recommends the sputum-smear microscopy test, which analyses the material expelled from the lungs by a deep cough. However,...

Inaccurate reporting of child physical abuse by healthcare staff

A research published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing has indicated that 60% of healthcare professionals have examined//children whom they believe could have been physically abused , but as little as 48% actually conveyed it to the authorities.Less than three-quarters of doctors, dentists and community nurses were aware of the procedures of reporting child physical abuse, but 79 per felt...

Depression Symptoms Less Likely in Kids with Accurate Self-Perceptions

Children who can accurately assess how their classmates feel about them — even if those feelings are negative — are less likely to show symptoms of depression // , according to Florida State University researchers. Psychology Professor Janet Kistner found that children in third through fifth grades who had the wrong idea about their level of social acceptance were more likely to devel...

PM To Inaugurate World Youth Meet On Health

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the first world youth meet on health here Nov 14, in which hundreds of participants from 37 countries will discuss a range of health issues. // National and international health experts, about 10,000 students and 270 delegates from 37 countries will talk about issues ranging from smoking in schools to healthy gender relation at the five-da...

Health Pavilion at IITF Inaugurated

New Delhi: The Health and Family Welfare pavilion at the India International Trade Fair 2006 was inaugurated by Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss//, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, here today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said the ambience to the exhibition approximately reflects the rural necessities, as their focus in the National Rural Health Mission launched last year. Thoug...

Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated

Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, Health & Family Welfare Minister has said that to shut out traditional medicine products on arbitrary technical barriers in the name of safety would be// against the interest of patients and consumers. Dr. Ramadoss was speaking at a two day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine, which he inaugurated here today. He said that in the global society we live in today, a...

Trans Fat Ban: Watch Saturated Fats and Calories Too

In December, New York City passed a law to phase out the use of trans fat in restaurants. Other cities, including Boston and Chicago, might follow suit. //According to Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, Gershoff professor of nutrition science and policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, the ban is a step in the right direction, but restaurateurs need to replace...

New Tests Promise Rapid and Accurate Detection of Malaria

Rapid diagnostic tests, or RDTs, are becoming an increasingly important method for detecting malaria. Health specialists recommend that they be used along with a range of other strategies for controlling the disease // , including the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies, insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying against malaria-carrying mosquitoes and testing and treatment of pregn...

MDCT Accurately Locates Bowel Perforation: Study

A new study shows that Multidetector CT (MDCT) without the use of contrast media can show the precise site of a bowel perforation.// This helps in avoiding the need for surgeons to do exploratory surgery of the patient's gastrointestinal tract to locate the problem. In the past, the best way to find a perforation in the bowel was to administer oral or rectal contrast media then watc...

MR Angiography Detects Blocked Arteries Accurately

According to a study in the February issue of Radiology, a novel type of contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance (MR) Angiography is highly accurate in identifying blockages// in the arteries that carry blood to the brain. "Contrast-enhanced MR Angiography provided highly accurate information about the supra-aortic arteries," said Kambiz Nael, M.D., research fellow and radiology residen...

Prematurity More Accurately Predicted by Advances in Proteomic Technology

Abnormal proteins in amniotic fluid that signal a higher risk of delivering prematurely are being detected with increasing accuracy// by Yale School of Medicine researchers who presented their work in two abstracts at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 8 in San Francisco. In both studies, the researchers demonstrated that women with abnormal proteomic profile...

Body Mass Index may Not Reflect Fat Accurately

The body mass index (BMI) may not reflect the accurate amount of fat in a human body, according// to new research. BMI was long considered as the standard for measuring the amount of fat in a person's body. It is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of their height. Generally, a BMI of 25 or above indicates a person is overweight; 30 or above indic...

Simple System Accurately Predicts Weight-loss Surgery Risk

A simple scoring system based on five medical factors accurately predicts which patients being considered for gastric bypass surgery would be at highest// risk of dying. The scoring system, which was first proposed last year by Duke University Medical Center surgeons, has been validated in a new study of more than 4,400 patients. The system takes into account a patient's weight, gende...

The Lethal Side of Human Error – Three Die After Consuming Inaccurately Weighed Dru

Portland – To err is human they say but imagine when the cost of the error is three lives! Recently, the drug compounding company, ApotheCure Inc. //in Texas, is in bad light following the irrevocable error committed by a worker while making the drug. ApotheCure Inc explained how a weighing error committed by a worker during the making of the drug ‘colchicine’, led to the death of th...

India’s First ‘condom Bar’ Inaugurated by AIDS Patint

A young woman in her late 20s who suffers from AIDS Wednesday inaugurated a unique bar cum discotheque at Chandigarh that has condoms// as its theme. Pooja Thakur, who discovered she had AIDS when her husband died of the disease in October 2005, said she was thrilled to be inaugurating the "condom bar" - said to be the country's first. The unique bar has real condoms dot...

Esophageal Cancer Patients' Positive Responses to Chemotherapy Accurately Identified by PET

WASHINGTON, D.C. At the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, German researchers stated that early metabolic imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), accurately identifies patients responding to chemotherapy for esophageal cancer. "This is the first study to apply PET results from early metabolic re...