Public And Private Healthcare Must Pool Resources To Beat Cancer
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... While the arguments about posthumous reproduction centre on consent,concerns about safety have been raised by the latest announcement from SeverinoAntinori of the International Associated Research Institute for HumanReproduction in Rome. Antinori attracted controversy previously when he used IVF to...People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer Slapstick Humor!
... Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care is an academic centre fully affiliatedwith the University of Toronto. The study was supported by the Medical ResearchCouncil of Canada. A joke and punch line similar to one used in the Humor Study A teenager is being interviewed for a summer job. "You'll get 50 dollars...Birthmarks best treated with red laser light
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...e played by the cerebral cortex - thehighest brain centre - in controlling changes commonly observed at lower levelsof the nervous system. "While it has been obvious to scientists for some time that sensory informationmust flow up each level of the brain, it has always been a puzzle why there issuch heavy f...A new strain of flu has turned up in Hong Kong
...anHay, director of the WHO influenza collaborating centre at the NationalInstitute for Medical Research in London. Hay's team, and virologists at the USCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, are now studyingsamples of the virus taken from the Hong Kong patient. "We don't know the insan...Sex education learning tool finds global market
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...rate of neonatal autopsy over the past decade at a centre in Scotland. They also examined the yield of new information in terms of discordance between diagnoses before and after death. They found a general decline in the neonatal autopsy rate over the 10 years studied. Over a quarter of autopsies yielded im...Support for colorectal cancer screening
... two or three colonoscopy referrals generated, per centre each week. In an accompanying Commentary (p 1266), David Ransohoff from the University of North Carolina, USA, concludes: The UK investigators raise provocative questions about the approach of tailoring not only work-up and surveillance but also scre...Study highlights success of meningitis C vaccination programme among UK children
...p assessed a year later was around 70%. This multi centre collaborative study, led by Martin Maiden from the University of Oxford, UK, and James Stuart from the UK Public Health Laboratory Service, compared the carriage of meningococcal bacteria from around 14,000 students aged 15-17 years at the start of v...Increased fruit and vegetable consumption could reduce cardiovascular disease
...pressure. 690 people from a UK primary-care health centre were randomly allocated to either the intervention groupin which participants were encouraged to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption to at least five servings a day (one portion being an 80 gramme serving)or to a control group where partic...Strong spiritual beliefs may help people recover from bereavement
...lose friends of patients admitted to a Marie Curie centre with terminal illness to examine whether the presence and strength of spiritual beliefs determined how bereaved people recover from their grief. People reporting no spiritual belief had not resolved their grief after 14 months. People with strong spi...Bone-marrow cell transplantation could save limbs
...from the Department of Medicine and cardiovascular centre in Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, and colleagues tested their treatment for the constriction of blood vessels by injecting bone-marrow cells into one leg, and cells from peripheral blood or saline into the other. Four weeks after the proce...Angioplasty or medical therapy immediately after heart attack?
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.... Furthermore, the data was gathered in a referral centre characterised by patients with complex problems. Patients in other groups may need even less time to tell their story....Innovative process reduces energy consumption and improves product quality in the food industry
...um of three minutes. The new process, developed by centre researcher Dr. Michle Marcotte and her team, is designed to replace the current high-temperature method with a two-stage system. The first stage involves acidifying foods to a pH of less than 4.6. The acidification makes it possible to reduce the sub...