TB Traveler Underwent Surgery to Remove Infected Lung Tissue
Andrew Speaker, 31, the Atlanta lawyer who traveled around with TB infection, underwent surgery to remove the infected lung tissue . Speaker raised an international health scare when he traveled around with the infection. Tb is a highly contagious disease. Andrew Speaker was diagnosed in M...NRI Boy Underwent a Rare Dual Transplant Surgery
A 15-year-old Indian-American boy underwent a simultaneous liver and kidney transplant at a hospital in New Delhi, which the attending doctors claimed as the first such in the world. California-based Ganesh Nehru was suffering from a disease known as primary Hyperoxaluria, in which the live...Overweight Briton Underwent Successful Surgery In India Being Denied By NHS
A Briton underwent a successful life-changing operation in India and returned home satisfied, after being denied by National Health Service (NHS), for being// overweight. David Rogers, 62, from Abbeydale, Worcestershire, was told by the NHS that he was too overweight for the double hip and knee...Baby Underwent A Heart Surgery Inside The Womb
At the children’s hospital Boston, a surgery was conducted on a baby inside the womb. The baby, Grace, underwent the world's first heart stent procedure in the womb. // She was discharged on Friday after the successful completion of the surgery. The baby was diagnosed with a heart defect called...DNA Underwent Changes Due To Culture
Natural selection is reported to have been responsible for much of the DNA among human beings during the course of the past 50,000 years. The tendency of human beings to live in settlements and cultivate fields can also be traced // to this natural selection process. One way to look for gene...New Collagen Meniscus Implant Opens New Vista for Knee Repair
...l in the U.S. The implant, now marketed by ReGen Biologics, Inc., the company Stone co-founded with colleague Richard Steadman M.D., in 1989, underwent a tortuous course. The initial clinical trial in 10 patients was completed at The Stone Clinic in San Francisco in the early 1990s with successful re...Induced Labor May Improve Outcome in Risky Pregnancies
... 756 pregnant women in the Netherlands. All had been pregnant 36 to 41 weeks and had gestational hypertension or mild preeclampsia. Some of the women underwent induced labor and others were monitored as their pregnancies continued. The two groups were compared on a number of measures that the researchers l...Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder
...in various areas of the brain. Greater blood flow indicates higher metabolism and thus greater activity in this area of the brain. The participants underwent a test that measured their capacity for flexible behavior modification of recently learned behavior. In this test, the subjects were shown a rapid seq...British Woman Celebrates a Year of Living Cancer-Free
...herapy, radiation therapy and bone marrow transplantation. Ms. Scott underwent three to four sessions of chemotherapy -- she can't remember the exact numb...t I've lived to be 52." This sense of resignation vanished after she underwent the TaNK cell therapy, Ms. Scott explained. The treatment has renewed her h...Risks of Delaying ACL Reconstruction in Young Athletes May Be Too High, Study Shows
...apy prior to their reconstruction. If the decision was made to delay treatment, patients were instructed to wear a custom ACL brace. All patients who underwent the surgery utilized a soft tissue graft with anatomically placed tunnels and fixation devices that did not cross the growth plate. Patients were also...Spherix Announces Positive Phase 2 Study Results
...stroke or myocardial infarction. Prior Clinical Trials with Naturlose Eight healthy individuals and eight individuals with type 2 diabetes underwent separate 3-hour oral glucose and tagatose tolerance tests. The subjects were also given 75 g of tagatose followed 30 minutes later by 75 g of glucose...Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk
...opsy after undergoing risk evaluation were twice as likely to choose a risk-reducing mastectomy. Forty percent of the women who were mutation carriers underwent bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy; 45 percent had bilateral risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (surgical removal of ovaries). These surgeries are wi...August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights
...as higher, continents were inundated, the climate was warmer, ocean basins were oxygen poor, voluminous volcanism occurred, and Earth's magnetic field underwent a period of relative stability. In the past, the cause of these substantial changes was believed to be due to a rapid pulse of seafloor spreading. How...A crystal ball for brain cancer?
...ents who had undergone surgery and radiation therapy to remove glioblastoma. Half of the patients received infusions of Avastin every two weeks. All underwent monthly brain scans by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor change. The researchers analyzed the MRI scans of the patients whose tumors retu...Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually
...ama involved a protracted sequence of volcanic and tectonic events. During the final phase, between about 4.5 and 3.5 million years ago, the Caribbean underwent a major change from a pea soup-like environment, fed by nutrient-rich waters surging up along South America, into a crystal-clear, nutrient-poor envir...Earliest animals lived in a lake environment, research shows
...in Kennedy's lab. "In rocks of this age, smectite is normally transformed into other types of clay. The smectite in these South China rocks, however, underwent no such transformation and have a special chemistry that, for the smectite to form, requires specific conditions in the water conditions commonly fou...Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?
...is study was carried out in ten non-addicted users of cocaine, all of whom sniffed cocaine on one test day and placebo powder on another. Participants underwent blood tests before and after taking the drug, and dopamine release in the brain was measured using PET scans. "The ability of cocaine to activate d...The life histories of the earliest land animals
...ers. New discoveries from Uppsala, Cambridge and Duke Universities, published in Science , show that some of the earliest backboned land animals also underwent such changes of lifestyle as they grew up. Professor Per Ahlberg at the Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Uppsala University, tog...Agent Orange exposure increases veterans' risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer
...terans exposed to Agent Orange are at increased risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer, researchers report. A study of 1,495 veterans who underwent radical prostatectomy to remove their cancerous prostates showed that the 206 exposed to Agent Orange had nearly a 50 percent increased risk of their ...Lab study shows THC exposure as adolescents linked to negative effects of THC as adults
... had their ovaries removed when they were 30 days old, half retained their ovaries. The day after the 12 females finished the period of exposure, they underwent an extensive training process consisting of pressing colored keys in a specific sequence in order to obtain food pellets. Then, as adults, they were ...CSHL-led team identifies key decision-point at which cells with broken DNA repair themselves or die
...ia a technique called RNA interference, or RNAi, damaged cells with double-stranded DNA breaks did not repair themselves; instead, they simply died -- underwent apoptosis. As is often the case in science, multiple labs are engaged on related subjects. Results similar to those reported by Tonks and colleague...UCR scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics
...amined the ripples' morphology using a scanning electron microscope and an atomic force microscope. They found that almost all the graphene membranes underwent dramatic morphological changes when heated, displaying significant alterations in the ripple geometry, a buckling of the graphene membrane, or both. ...Secret of sandcastle construction could help revive ancient building technique, researchers say
...wed that a major component of the strength of rammed earth was due to the small amount of water present. Small cylindrical samples of rammed earth underwent "triaxial testing" where external pressures are applied to model behaviour of the material in a wall. The researchers found that the suction created ...FDA Approves Label Change for Non-Invasive Fibroid Treatment
...tility have been ruled out. The study will compare birth rates of women who underwent ExAblate treatment to those who had a surgical myomectomy." "Evidenc...ancies, 22 deliveries with 11 ongoing pregnancies with women who previously underwent the ExAblate procedure. About ExAblate(R) 2000 ExAblate is th...Heart Disease: An Epidemic For Firefighters
...heart disease. We also had lost several newly-retired firefighters to sudden cardiac death. There had to be a way to stop it." Study volunteers underwent a comprehensive genetic screen of more than a million genes including newly identified KIF6 (statin responsiveness gene) and 9p21 (myocardial infarcti...ExonHit Therapeutics Invested Strongly in 2008 for Pivotal 2009 Results
...ancial Officer. Overview of ExonHit's business activities In order to transform into an emerging healthcare player, ExonHit Therapeutics underwent significant changes in 2008. For the first time, the Company simultaneously invested in clinical testing in both diagnostics and therapeutics. In addi...New Study Reports Improved Patient Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients
...he study tracked 185 cases from 1997-2003 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, located in the Southern California suburb of Valencia. The patients underwent a lumpectomy typically with a 5mm margin, as opposed to the 1-2mm margin performed in surgeries at most institutions. The study includes five-year fol...vProtect(TM) Luminal Shield Stabilizes Life-Threatening Plaque
...TERDAM, Netherlands and DOYLESTOWN, Pa., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The first patient receiving focal preventive treatment for vulnerable plaque recently underwent a 6-month follow-up examination that revealed successful stabilization of the target plaque. The interventional cardiology team led by Professor Patri...