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Will you be willing to patch up your vertebrae with cement?

Treating patients with osteoarthritis has been a difficult task for doctors to handle. The only option available was either wearing a back brace and waiting to heal or switching over to painkillers. // A new form of treatment called vertebroplasty, in which a form of cement is injected into the broken spinal bone has revolutionized the treatment of osteoarthritis. Vertebroplasty came...

Patients More Willing To Use Self-Injectable HIV Therapy Than Anticipated

Recent study shows that HIV patients are more willing to consider and use self-injectable therapy than many physicians anticipate // . Initial results from the OpenMind study, the largest behavioural study to look at both patients' and physicians' perceptions of HIV care in treatment-experienced patients, were revealed today at EACS. The findings are anticipated to help physi...

China Unwilling To Share Bird Flu Samples, says WHO

The World Health Organization has issued a statement, highlighting the unwillingness of China to share bird flu samples, collected from recent bird flu outbreaks.// This was stated following announcement of the third bird flu related human death, by Beijing. The deadly avian bird flu virus is said to have claimed the life of a 41-year-old factory worker, from the Southeastern province...

Centre Willing to Help Tamil Nadu to Promote Indigenous Medicine

Centre was willing to help Tamil Nadu in promoting Indian Systems of Medicine and the government was now preparing a project report to be submitted to it in this regard // , state Health Minister K K S S R Ramachandran, said today. The state government was keen to set up an Ayurveda college and would take all efforts in this direction, he said while inaugurating a meeting of the state...

Williams Syndrome, the Brain, and Music

Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, just love music and will spend hours listening to or making music. Despite averaging an IQ score of 60, many possess// a great memory for songs, an uncanny sense of rhythm, and the kind of auditory acuity, than can discern differences between different vacuum cleaner brands. A study by a multi-institutional collaboration of scie...

Structural Abnormalities in Brains of William Syndrome Patients

Structural abnormalities were found in a particular brain area of patients afflicted with Williams syndrome according to a study conducted// at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Williams syndrome is a rare genetic disorder where children love music and, will therefore spend hours listening to or making music. Ursula Bellugi,...

Indian Students Thrilled to Talk to Sunita Williams

To the students gathered for a live chat with Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, it was extremely exciting to view her as she spoke from her zero-gravity// home among the stars, her hair flying upwards and necklace floating loosely, a scientific fact they had only read about in books before. It was equally thrilling to be able to see and speak with three astronauts at the same...