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Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

A computer chip implanted near the eye’s retina is well on its way to offering some restored vision. People blinded by eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related degeneration of the eye will be benefitted by the new development. The implant works for eye diseases in which healthy retinal neurons remain intact after they lose use of the eye’s photoreceptors.// These recep...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

A computer chip implanted near the eye’s retina is well on its way to offering some restored vision. People blinded by eye diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa and age-related degeneration of the eye will be benefitted by the new development.// The implant works for eye diseases in which healthy retinal neurons remain intact after they lose use of the eye’s photoreceptors. These recept...

Combined scan gives exact cancer diagnosis

A new device makes detection more easier. A combined scanner detects more lesions in cervical and ovarian cancer than the conventional method. It is notoriously difficult to get an accurate picture of ovarian and cervical tumours,// because the tissue is dense and so it's not always possible to detect the border between malignant and normal areas. Doctors at the University of Texas now sa...

Tennis gives protection against heart disease lifelong

Researchers at the University of Hopkins University, men who keep up playing tennis throughout life are less prone to have a heart attack than those who are less active. They have been following a group of medical students at college during 1950 and 1960. //They asked them about participation in tennis, golf, football, baseball and basketball. Those who reported the greatest skill in ten...

Camera gives hope for detection of breast cancer

Researchers at the Hopkins University have observed a high resolution camera which detects tumours and may not appear on standard mammography. They have been comparing mammography with a technique called scintimammography, which involved the injection of a radioactive tracer chemical.// Scintimammography, is good at distinguishing between malignant and benign tumours, has been done on a s...

Pancreas transplant gives hope to type 2 diabetes

A new hope for patients with type 2 diabetes. According to a new survey, they showed that a few patients with type 2 diabetes have been selected for a pancreas transplant.// Obesity is a strong risk factor for type 2 diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. In type 2 diabetes, the body develops a resistance to insulin, usually...

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

German researchers have developed what appears to be an effective vaccine against recurrent kidney cancers.// Kidney cancer accounts for about 3 percent of all cancers and causes about 12,000 deaths in the United States every year. The disease most often strikes those in their 50s and 60s. Standard treatment involves removal of all or part of the kidney. Unlike some other cancers, however...

Gene Therapy Gives Hope For Patients With Muscular Dystrophy

Researchers say their recent discovery could be the first step in the path for a treatment for humans with muscular dystrophy. They say for the first time they have found a successful way to deliver gene therapy // to all of the muscles in a mouse. Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy has been a hopeful treatment idea. However, finding a delivery method for the whole body has been a majo...

FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

Food and Drug Administration has given a “black box warning” to three asthma drugs//, Foradil, Adavir and Serevent. The FDA panel has advised the manufacturers that the drug should carry clearly the warnings regarding the risks for worsened breathing. Adavir and Serevent are manufactured by Glaxosmithkline, which contains a compound Salmeterol. Novartis manufacturers the drug Foradil...

Statins Gives New Hope for Increased Survival Rate of Heart Failure Patients

Administrating statins to patients with diastolic heart failure increases// the survival rate by 22% compared to patients receiving other drugs. William C. Little and his research team from Wake Forest University, has found that patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF) treated with statins has better survival rates. The study was done on 137 diastolic heart failure patients publish...

US Doctors Association Gives away $110,000 To NGO’

The Association of Tamilnadu Medical Graduates (ATMG) of the US has given $110,000 in aid to five NGOs for social causes in Tamil Nadu.// The ATMG-run Charitable Foundation collected the money from about 5,000 doctor members in the US. The Voluntary Health Services received $50,000 to be spent on tsunami relief. The other NGOs are the YWCA, Mary Clubwala Girls High School, the K...

Woman In Coma Gives Birth To Daughter

An American woman who had gone into coma when she was four months pregnant, had been proclaimed //as brain dead, and was on life support. Susan Torres, 26, had given birth to a two-month premature daughter, while being on life support. The medical practitioners of the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington had kept her on the machines for three months after she was pronounced brain dead...

Artificial Heart , Gives Hope For Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant

A recent study shows a completely artificial heart could prevent death in critically ill patients and those who are candidates for a heart transplant . The artificial heart implant improved survival rates before receiving actual heart transplants and after transplantation. // The artificial heart was found to be a successful bridge to heart transplantation in many patients who did not i...

New Eye Surgery Gives Hope To Short-Sighted

A new type of eye surgery has given hope to severely short-sighted patients who want to rid themselves of thick glasses or contact lenses but are unsuited for laser treatment, two Singapore hospitals said Wednesday. The procedure, offered by the National University Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, involves surgically // implanting a special kind of contact lens in the eye. <br...

Trust in Doctor gives better cure

Professor Stefanie Mollborn, Stanford University as reported in the Journal Health Services that patients who had more trust and had regular check ups with their physicians showed better disease// cure compared to patients who had little trust on the treatment given by their doctor. The researchers found that trust and cure were increased in less educated people compared to educated peo...

Wonder drug Dasatinib gives hopes to leukemia patients

The company Bristol-Myers Squibb Co at Boston told the press that the drug Dasatinib has led to reduction in the number of patients with Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).// This drug is very effective in the decreasing the leukemia cells from the bone marrow than the previously used drug Gleevec. Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is usually presented in three different stages –...

Jharkhand Gives Health industry status

The state government of Jharkhand has given health the status of industry. The positive step forward will enable the health sector to receive all facilities provided under the industrial policy. Nursing homes // and pathological labs will receive incentives and infrastructure support. The government move is expected to give a new lease of life to the health sector in state, where half...

WHO Gives Its Approval For Bird Flu Test Kit

The go ahead has been given by the World Health Organization (WHO) towards developing a bird flu test kit aimed at pinpointing the H5N1// strain in just a matter of three hours. The developers of the kit are based in Singapore. The kit from Veredus Laboratories, launched in July, was found by the WHO Collaborating Center for Influenza in Australia to be highly specific to the deadly bird...

FDA Gives Its Approval For Inhaler

An inhaler which is capable of regulating the blood sugar level has received the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). // This inhaler will be a source of relief to those people who are suffering from diabetes. The hand-held Exubera inhaler is a rapid-acting, dry powder human insulin that is inhaled through the mouth prior to eating. It weighs four ounces and, when...

Congestion for Use of Clarinex-D 12 Hour cleared – FDA Gives the No

The FDA has given its consent for the novel version of the allergy medicine, Clarinex-D 12 Hour, to alleviate nasal, non nasal symptoms and nasal congestion occurring in adults and children above the age of 12. According to the // researchers, this medicine will be in time for the spring allergy season. It is estimated that about 36 million people in the U.S. are troubled by seasonal...

FDA Gives Green Signal To Sanofi-Aventis SA's Cancer Drug Taxotere

French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA announced on Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved its cancer drug Taxotere to treat patients with stomach cancer.// This approval means that Taxotere can be used in combination with chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil to treat stomach cancers that have not been treated with chemotherapy. Taxotere is also approved...

GMC Gives Controversial Fertility Doctor, A Clean Chit

A fertility specialist, Professor Craft, who was accused of subjecting patients to unwarranted fertility treatments, has been declared free// of any grave professional misdemeanor by the General Medical Council. Professor Craft, based at the London fertility Center, has always been consistent in his response, of conducting treatments in the best interests of the patients. He has not...

Figment of Imagination? A Powerful US Economy Gives Rise to Fatal Heart Attacks

Have you ever heard of a well-fed economy as a potential heart attack risk? According to a recent study, the risk of dying// of a heart attack gets elevated with the strengthening of the US economy. Christopher Ruhm, an economics professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro wrote in his study that there is a pronounced increase in death rate due to heart attacks, when th...

Donor Heart Gives Way for Patient’s Own Hear

United Kingdom is believed to have its first heart transplant patient whose donor heart was removed and the patient’s own heart revived//. The pioneering operation was performed on the school girl, Hannah Clark, 12, of Mountain Ash, South Wales on 20 February after her body rejected her 10-yeat-old "piggy-back" heart, the nickname for the complicated procedure whereby the original hear...

5 Year Old Paralyzed Victim Forgives 50 Year Old Man Who Shot Her

In what can be called as an extreme act of generosity, Kai Leigh Harriott, paralyzed and confined to wheelchair, forgave the man who had shot her and shattered her spine//, three years back. In a face-to-face encounter, in the court, she further expressed that what he had done to her was wrong. The little girl who was emotionally aroused and broke down crying, soon recovered after she...

Stem Cell Technology Gives Hope in Spinal Cord Injuries

Recent research using stem-cell technology in rats with spinal-cord injuries has allowed them to walk again within two weeks//. The results of the study show promise for people with traumatic spinal-cord injuries. According to lead author Dr. Stephen Davies, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston the rats were given immature immune system support...

IMA, Punjab, Gives Call For Medical Bandh On May 25

The Punjab chapter of Indian Medical Association today called a statewide medical bandh on May 25 to protest the Centre's move// to provide reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions. At an emergency meeting of the state executive body of IMA presided by President Dr G S Gill, the members unanimously passed a resolution condemning police action against medicos in Delhi, Mu...

FDA Gives Preliminary Nod To Cipla And Sun Drugs

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration statement has said that drug maker Cipla Ltd. has been given tentative approval for its generic AIDS drug nevirapine// that is to be marketed in a tablet form. Sun Pharma Ltd has also received similar approval for ondansetron in the injection form. Ondansetron is used to prevent of nausea and vomiting following chemotherapy or radiation t...

Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos

The Supreme Court today has issued a notice to the Centre asking it to explain the basis on which a policy decision to implement 27 per cent reservation was taken//. With the deadlock on the quota issue continuing, the Supreme Court today decided to examine the government's controversial move to provide 27 per cent reservation to socially and economically backward classes in higher edu...

Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos

The Supreme Court today has issued a notice to the Centre asking it to explain the basis on which a policy decision to implement 27 per cent reservation was taken//. With the deadlock on the quota issue continuing, the Supreme Court today decided to examine the government's controversial move to provide 27 per cent reservation to socially and economically backward classes in higher edu...

False Dietary Habits Gives Way To Food Poisoning Risk

A report on food poisoning says factors which lead to bad hygienic habits includes confusion, ignorance and a carefree attitude in food choices //. The Food and Drink Federation launched a National Food Safety Week focussing on the areas where cleanliness need a large role to play, since 79,283 cases were reported with food poisoning in UK last year. Now nearly half (54 p...

Cancer Survivor Gives Birth To Baby Girl

Lindsay Beck, the Founder and Executive Director of Fertile Hope has given birth to a baby girl named Paisley Jane Beck on June 1. This is an exciting // event for Beck who was diagnosed with tongue cancer at the age of 22. And like many cancer patients she face permanent infertility. Facing a void of resources concerning the effects of cancer treatment on fertility, Lindsay set out...

Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain Gives the Stroke Patients a Reprieve

Repetitive magnetic stimulation of the brain (rTMS) is considered as an effective rehabilitation technique for stroke//. It is found to improve patient movement on the side of the body affected by the stroke. According to the previous research it is found that the unaffected side of the brain becomes hyperactive after a stroke. This side then sends signals to the affected side that act...

Mother Of Triplets Gives Birth To Quadruplets

Angela Magdaleno, the lady who gave birth to triplets through IVF procedure three years ago, has now given birth to quadruplets without any infertility treatments. She gave birth to two girls and two boys on July 6.// "I'm happy because they're healthy and so am I," Magdaleno said on Wednesday. But then reality took over and she confessed that she was worried about the future. "I don't...

Craniofacial Surgery Gives Tijuana Teen Chance to be 'Normal' Kid

Some might consider it miraculous … others, fate. But how the lives of Daniel Lozano, Mel Gibson and Mary Clarke intersected serendipitously at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center// is remarkable no matter how you look at it. At the center of the story is Jose Daniel (Danny) Lozano, a teenager from Tijuana, Mexico who is recovering from reconstructive craniofacial surgery. Danny is one of many...

Break-through Discovery Gives Hope For Asthma treatment

Scientists have claimed a scientific breakthrough by which that thousands of people who suffer from asthma could be spared from a severe or potentially fatal attack.// The researchers who had published their findings in the journal Nature Medicine have shown that asthmatics only produce half the number of anti-viral proteins when suffering a cold as compared to non-sufferers. This, th...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

A rare transplant at TG Hospital gave a B.C. youngster a bowel, liver, pancreas and stomach. Lori MacIver of Prince George, B.C. was told to prepare// for the death of her son. She said, "They were telling me to prepare and to accept, but I still wasn't on that page." Her son Gairett, 18, is now recovering following a high-risk, four-organ transplant operation on Aug. 1 at Toronto Gen...

Roslin Cells Center Gives Fillip To Stem Cell Research

Edinburgh: Scotland has kicked off a new center to produce and sell human stem cells; Roslin Cells Center is a pioneering $4 million project, the first ever in Europe,// envisaged to give an impetus to the many organizations dedicated to stem cell research. The Roslin Cells Center is a brain child of four committed companies - The Roslin Institute, Scottish Enterprise, Edinburgh Universit...

FDA Gives Approval for Skin Cancer Drug, Zolinza

Zolinza, the most recent skin cancer drug has today received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Zolinza (vorinostat) capsules is mainly recommended// for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) type of skin cancer when the disease persists, worsens, or returns during or after treatment with other medicines. Zolinza has been approved as part of FDA's Orp...

FDA Gives the Nod to 'Risperdal' For Use in Autistic Children

The Food and drug administration has given the go-ahead for a schizophrenia drug to be used in management of autism in children. The drug in question, Johnson & Johnson's 'Risperdal'//, holds promise in effectively managing irritability, aggression, self-injury and temper tantrums that might show up in autistic children. Risperdal, an oral drug, holds a niche position as Johnson & John...