Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 24 Oct 2005

Balbir Singh, president of Down Syndrome International (DSI), is an Indian origin Singapore doctor who got involved in the Down Syndrome fraternity after the birth of his daughter Jaspreet 25 years ag...

AIDS Stats From Hilly State Of Uttaranchal

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 23 Oct 2005

Health Minister of Uttaranchal Tilakraj Behad has revealed for the first time the AID statistics from the newly formed state....Read More

Glimepiride in the medical management of Type 2 diabetes

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 23 Oct 2005

Type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disorder of impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance, has reached epidemic proportions....Read More

A New Technique For Prediction Of Adult Height

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 22 Oct 2005

A number of methods exist to predict how tall a child can be after maturity. However, these are invasive, expensive, or relatively imprecise. Previous methods have used ...Read More

Higher incidence of bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 18 Oct 2005

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has rapidly substituted traditional cholecystectomy, and represents the gold standard for surgical treatment of cholelithiasis...

Lipoma Arborescens: A Rare Tumor Of The Knee

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 17 Oct 2005

Lipoma arborescens (tree like, diffuse articular lipomatosis) is a rare, benign intra-articular lesion of unknown aetiology. ...Read More

Novel drug holds promise for treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 16 Oct 2005

The successful completion of Phase II clinical trials of a novel drug called dnaJP1 for treatment of osteoarthritis that works without suppressing the immune system has been announced by Researchers a...

Whole-body hypothermia reduces risk of death in Encephalopathy in infants

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 16 Oct 2005

Among infants, hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy due to acute perinatal asphyxia remains an important cause of neurodevelopmental deficits in childhood...Read More

Limb Regeneration In Humans: A Future Possibility

Posted in General Support group on Wed, 12 Oct 2005

Recently, a study has been launched, which, if fruitful, may enable future generations to heal without scarring and grow their own replacement limbs. A research team at Manchester University, headed b...

Oral use of ZYVOX (Linezolid) is better to Intravenous Vancomycin use for Skin Infections

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 09 Oct 2005

McKinnon and his team have found out the benefits of oral ZYVOX for the treatment of skin infections and pneumonia caused by bacterial infections. They compared data from 80 health care clinics and co...