Ectopic pregnancy, also referred to as tubal pregnancy, occurs in 2% of all pregnancies and is the leading cause of death in women during their first trimester. It occurs when an egg…
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Quitting Smoking- Coping with Withdrawal Symptoms and Learning To Lead A ‘Nicotine Free’ Life
Smoking is rightly termed’ addictive’. And why wouldn’t it be? After all, Nicotine makes the brain release dopamine, a chemicalthat causes an individual to ‘feel good’, or in an addict’s language, give…
Latest Advances In Kidney Transplantation
Transplant surgery has come a long way since the first successful attempt in 1954. For ages, surgeons toyed with the idea ofreplacing diseased organs with a healthy one from a donor. However,…
Nanobubble technology geared up aganist Cancer
Nanomedicine refers to the medical application of nanotechnology that will hopefully lead to useful research tools, advanced drug delivery systems, and new ways to treat disease and to repair damaged tissue and…
Beneficial Role of Prions in Brain Function
A prion is an infectious agent, composed primarily of protein. The word “prion” is taken from the longer term “proteinaceous infectious particle.” Prions are hypothesized to infect and propogate by refolding abnormally…
Sunlight- The Universal Healer
The sun has always been seen as the source of life and healing. The birth of every organism in scientific literature has been traced back to its exposure to the rays of…
A novel mechanism for regulating the hormone prolactin
Researchers at the Karolinska revealed a novel mechanism for regulating the hormone prolactin. Prolactin is a hormone released from the pituitary gland. The release of prolactin is the signal that triggers breast…
All About The Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Cervical cancer is the second most common malignancy among women worldwide, with about 500,000 cases a year. In developing countries it is the main cause of cancer deaths in women, and around…
Smartphone Technology in Healthcare
Cellular phones, in the past was a symbol of lavishness stringently used for talking. Recently the cellular phones have taken many roles including solutions which offer better healthcare management. Interestingly at present,…
Olive Oil- A ‘Healthy’ Fat
The Romans, Greeks and Egyptian’s called it ‘liquid gold’. They treated it as their prized possession and cherished it as a gift from the Gods since ancient times. For more than four…
Brain Drain: Popular Habits That Can Damage The Brain
Humanity’s evolution has always been tied to the brain. Ever since man first began to walk upright, cognitive process were, and still are, humanity’s greatest asset. This has unquestionably led to mankind…
The Hamilton healthcare system began to execute the HMS suite
Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. is a Nashville-based healthcare company that provides an information technology system that integrates clinical and financial applications on a single IBM platform to over 600 community hospitals nationwide. Currently, Healthcare…
Neuroimaging technique PET to detect Alzheimer’s disease very early
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of nuclear medicine procedure that measures metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues. PET is actually a combination of nuclear medicine and biochemical analysis. …
Computer Aided Drug Discovery offers effective inhibitors for specific cancer targets
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is the rate limiting enzyme in tryptophan (Trp) catabolism. It catalyzes the oxidative degradation of L-tryptophan to Nformylkynurenine. Because of this catabolic activity it has been postulated that one possible…
Computed Tomographic Colonography offers Effective Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and second leading cause of cancer death in men and women in the United States. Each year nearly 50,000 Americans die from colorectal…