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Increased Fish market enables hike in fish pricing

For the first time in India fish sales is maximum. Seafoods like fish meat along with mussels, lobster, white pomfret, sole, salmon, cod, red snapper// and kingfish was a preferred health option between Indians and foreigners on a time. Delicious sea and river fish are unloaded in the van by 3’o clock in the afternoon in the INA market of New Delhi A fishmonger...

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

Tens of thousands of poor Andhra women have financed the bypass surgery of a fisherwoman costing Rs 60,000 by contributing 50 paise each.// Thanks to their efforts, B. Hemavati, 35, wife of a fisherman and a mother of two, will undergo a life saving operation at the Tirupati-based Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) very soon. Hemavati, a farm worker in Wes...

Recanalization enables Tsunami mourners to parent again

Four women who lost their children in the tsunami last year are eagerly expecting their babies after a medical surgery that enabled them to conceive again.// Despite having undergone sterilisation earlier, these women in this coastal district of Tamil Nadu in southern India will now be able to have children once again after the successful performance of the surgery called recanalizati...

Small Biosensor To Enable Cancer Detection

A small hand-held biosensor is being developed by scientists to enable the easy detection of cancer. Early diagnosis and effective monitoring are two factors which are called for// where cancer is concerned. The University of Newcastle’s researchers led by Professor Calum McNeil are engaged in developing the device. This will identify cancer markers - proteins or other molecules produced...

New Technique Enables Better Nursing Of Robin Sequence Infants

A considerable improvement in the oral feeding habits of infants with breathing problems was observed in less than 11 days following institution of feeding facilitating techniques. // The only option for such infant’s had been the use of a feeding tube. Prolonged use of this was however was associated with an increased risk for development of gastroesophageal reflux. With the introducti...

Bad Enzymes Found To Enable Brain Recovery Following Stroke

The same enzymes that cause brain damage following an acute attack of stroke could be beneficial some time later. This finding perhaps highlights that effective treatment // of stroke could be possible if administered few weeks following the stroke, instead of the treatment within couple of hours following stroke. Additionally, it could open avenues for the development of novel stroke tre...

Decision-Making Enabled By Neurons: Value Assigned To Available Choices.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have been able to pinpoint the neurons that are capable of deciphering the value that people attach// to different items. The activity of these neurons predicts the nature of decision making, when a person needs to choose from an array of items available. To quote the words of Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD, HMS research fellow in neurobiology and lead...

Micro vascular Disease Enabled with a Superior Test, Courtesy: Women’s Heart Progra

Advanced diagnostic tests for micro vascular cardiac disease on the lines of what the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has on offer, will be a good boost// to the researchers to develop novel methods to treat this disease. This disease is found to afflict women much more than men. “Only in recent years have physicians become aware of micro vascular disease - a dysfunction of the heart’s sm...

Glucose Enables Speedy Recovery From Malaria

Researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have now established that repeated doses of glucose given along with anti-malarial drugs-can help// patients recover faster and in a better way. The result of the present study has taken into focus the energy requirements of the malarial parasite in RBCs or the red blood cells. Once the RBCs get infected with the malaria...

Single Sugar Enables Antibody to Treat Inflammation

For years, researchers have struggled to understand how IVIG worked. Its ability to treat autoimmune diseases seemed to be an apparent contradiction.// Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a complex mixture of IgG antibodies made from human plasma that contains the pooled antibodies from thousands of people, and is only FDA-approved to treat a few assorted conditions; nonetheless, pr...

Technology-enabled diagnosis by overseas radiologists

New Zealand: An acute dearth of radiologists in New Zealand has led the Hawkes Bay district health board to seek the assistance of radiologists worldwide; a scheme being tried out for the first time //to help ease out the mounting backlog of undiagnosed medical reports. The medical council is not too happy with this decision, as the overseas radiologists are not registered under the New Z...

Cochlear Implants in Both Ears Enables Better Hearing

A recent study by scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison examines whether deaf children who've received two cochlear// implants hear better. Led by Ruth Litovsky, an investigator in the UW-Madison Waisman Center, the team's research suggests that deaf children who have a cochlear implant in each ear more accurately locate sounds when they use both implants instead of one. Child...

Electronic Nerve Stimulator Enables Walking

Sooner or later, it seems, most everything imagined in science fiction comes true. // From flying in space to talking on a telephone without wires, today's science increasingly resembles yesterday's fiction. And that's becoming more and more true in medicine. For those of us at the AAAS meeting, nothing was more impressive than the demonstration given by Jennifer French. She's not a...

New Treatment Could Enable Even Older Women to Conceive

Scientists have said women might be able to conceive at an age generally thought to be past child-bearing stage thanks to a new treatment that is expected to come up in the next decade or so. Scientists have found a protein that they believe can be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of the eggs in the ovary. This could lead to a fertility revolution enabling w...

Drug Eluting Nanostructured Coatings Enable Targeted Drug Therapy for Orthopedic Patients

Drug delivery systems have progressed from the teaspoon to time-release capsules to drug-eluting stents . In a paper presented at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco demonstrate how they hav...