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Experts Say Sunscreen Fear 'A Risk to Health'

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Possible health risks from tiny particles used in some sunscreens may kill people, say experts. Concern about the potential damage from an anti-nanotechnology campaign being run by environment group Friends of the Earth is so great that public health advocates are abandoning their previous cautions on using sunscreens with nanoparticles, according to the Age. "In the past I have said that consumers are better to avoid sunscreen with nanoparticles ...

Blood-cleansing Technology Developed

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A blood-cleansing technology to treat life-threatening blood infections in critically-injured soldiers and patients has been designed by scientists. The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced Saturday that it has been awarded a (Dollar) 9.25-million contract to further advance the blood-cleansing technology developed with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) support, reports Science Daily. ...

Beat the Exam Fever - Try These Easy Tips

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With exams being round the corner, it seems everyone, right from kids and mothers to teachers and schools are undergoing a constant pressure and stress. Competition and peer pressure can take out the best, or the worst in your child, depending on how well your kid handles it. An increasing number of suicides in our country, during the pre and post exam period have created a good public awareness which is a good first step towards making a better generation. ...

Brachial Plexus Injury

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Brachial plexus is a network of nerves that transmits signals from the spine to shoulder, arm and hand.

Expert Tips to Parents for Children With Autism - Q (and) A With Child Specialist

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Few things in the world are more heart-breaking than the plight of a child with autism struggling to cope with today's fast paced world. Though Autism Spectrum Disorders range from mild to serious disability, many autistic persons display exceptional abilities in visual skills, music and academic skills. As a parent what you need to know is that Autism is not caused by bad parenting but is due to the abnormality with the emotional circuits in the brain. It is like the ...

Surgery for Patent Foramen Ovale may not Prevent Stroke

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Heart surgery for patent foramen ovale may not always reduce the risk of stroke and other complications due to clot formation, according to recent research. Patent foramen ovale is a defect in the heart that fails to close naturally soon after a baby is born. In the fetal heart, blood moves in a different direction as compared to an adult heart. Some of the openings in the fetal heart close around birth. A failure to close one such opening ...

Novel Ways to Combat Drug Resistance Discovered

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A major research project conducted by University of Southampton biological scientists is aimed at making drugs more effective. They are investigating a group of proteins called 'multidrug transporters', which remove unwanted and toxic material from cells. Normally these proteins protect cells from toxins, but multidrug transporters also prevent anticancer drugs from killing cancer cells, particularly since the amount of these proteins is increased in cancer ...

Varicella Vaccine Has Long-term Effectiveness Against Chicken Pox, Says Study

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According to a recent study chicken pox has been largely neutralized by the varicella vaccine. The 14-year study followed 7,585 children who were vaccinated in 1995, when they were 12 to 23 months old, to assess the long-term effectiveness of the vaccine and the impact on the epidemiology of varicella (chicken pox) and herpes zoster (shingles). Researchers also observed the impact of the second dose of varicella vaccine, introduced in 2006. The ...

New Test Helps Predict Aggression in Boys

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A new, simple saliva test could help predict violent behavior among boys, say scientists. The pilot study, led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center suggests a link between salivary concentrations of certain hormones and aggression. Researchers, led by Drew Barzman, MD, a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist at Cincinnati Children's, collected saliva samples from 17 boys ages 7-9 admitted to the hospital for psychiatric care to ...

Myths About Stress Busted

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Five common myths about stress have been busted in a recent study. Life coaches talk about working toward emotional fitness, as if we can perform Pilates on our psyches. But some ideas about stress and its risks are not correct, the Washington Post reported. Dana Becker, a professor of social work at Bryn Mawr College and the author of "One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble With Stress as an Idea", has busted some of the myths about stress. First ...

Aspirin Cuts Cancer Risk

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Low-dose aspirin could help decrease the risk of developing cancer by 25 percent, says study. The findings of the study suggest that a low-dose pill can be taken to help keep cancer at bay, in the same way that aspirin is currently prescribed to protect against heart disease, the Daily Express reported. Experts at Queen's University, Belfast, used information from the National Cancer Institute Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer trial for ...

In Antarctica New Technology Used to Record Whale Songs

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Up to 26,545 blue whale songs in the Antarctic were captured by scientists in a study. They used - for the first time - new acoustical detection and tracking techniques to locate and observe them. The work was carried out by researchers from Germany, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, the US, France, Norway, Britain, South Africa and New Zealand, all of whom are participating in the ongoing Antarctic Blue Whale Project to study the world's largest animal. Some ...

Criminals Tend to Repeat Offenses: Study

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Neuroimaging data can predict the likelihood of whether a criminal will reoffend following release from prison, according to a new study. The paper studied impulsive and antisocial behavior and centered on the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that deals with regulating behavior and impulsivity. The study conducted by The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M, demonstrated that inmates with relatively low anterior cingulate ...

Scientists Develop New Method to Produce 'Safer' Vaccines

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Manufacturers choose to operate under strict controls to ensure that no pathogens escape to the outside world, since producing vaccines against viral threats is a potentially hazardous business. Now, scientists from the UK have developed a new method to create an entirely synthetic vaccine that doesn't rely on using live infectious virus, which means it is much safer, the BBC reported. Also the prototype vaccine that they have created, for the animal ...

To Free Hospital Beds Brazilian Doctor Killed Seven

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Investigators said that a Brazilian doctor suspected of killing seven patients to free up hospital beds in southern Brazil is under investigation for the murder of some 300 others. A team, led by health ministry investigator Mario Lobato, is investigating the 1,872 deaths in the last seven years at the intensive care unit headed by Virginia Soares de Souza in Evangelico Hospital in Curitiba, a city in the southern state of Parana, reported Xinhua. Soares ...

Researchers Explain How Extra Pounds Slows You Down

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No one has studied obesity's effect on physical activity though researchers have studied physical activity and its relation to obesity for decades. So BYU exercise science professor Larry Tucker decided to look at the other side of the equation to determine if obesity leads to less activity. The findings, no surprise, confirmed what everyone has assumed for years. "Most people talk about it as if it's a cycle," senior-author Tucker said. "Half ...

In Type 1 Diabetes High-fat Meals can Affect Glucose Levels and Insulin Requirements

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Dietary fat can affect glucose levels and insulin requirements finds Joslin researchers studying patients with type 1 diabetes. These findings have major implications for the management of type 1 diabetes. Research has shown that dietary fat and free fatty acids (FFAs) impair insulin sensitivity and increase glucose production. Most studies have focused on the role of fat in the development of type 2 diabetes. However, studies of people with type 1 ...

War-Torn City Affected by 'Aleppo Button' Disease

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The latest affliction to hit weary residents of Aleppo is the "Aleppo button" disease. Transmitted by flies, the parasitic disease arrived along with the thousands of Syrians displaced from their homes by fighting. Mohamed, 11, first saw the unsightly welts caused by the disease appear on his face three months ago, and they keep growing. "It's a fly that comes from pomegranates, it bites you and you catch the Aleppo button," he says. The ...

Attraction To Violent Films: Read On To Learn The Cause Behind It

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People are more likely to watch movies with gory scenes of violence if they felt there was meaning in confronting violent aspects of real life finds a recent study. Anne Bartsch, University of Augsburg, Germany and Louise Mares, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present their findings at the 63rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Their study examined whether these serious, contemplative, and truth-seeking motivations ...

Gene Evolution Accelerated by Head-On Collisions Between DNA-Code Reading Machineries

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Research indicates that bacteria speed up their evolution by positioning specific genes along the route in DNA encoding. Certain genes are in prime collision paths for the moving molecular machineries that read the DNA code, as University of Washington scientists explain in this week's edition of iNature/i. The spatial-organization tactics their model organism, iBacillus subtilis/i, takes to evolve and adapt might be imitated in other related ...

Tech Students Develop Smartphone-controlled Robot to Read Bedtime Stories

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A robot that will serve as a surrogate granny to read bedtime stories is being designed by tech students from a downtown Brooklyn college. Grad student Jared Frank, 25, who's in the early stages of designing Caesar, told the New York Daily News that the robot can be a person's avatar and can read a bedtime story to kids in Brooklyn if you are a granny and live in Miami. To make Caesar work, a real granny will use her phone to transmit her voice through ...

In Manipur Women Receive Skill Development Training

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One of the top priorities of the Manipur government is empowering women by educating and making them economically independent. Its consistent efforts in this direction are now bearing fruit. The Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, launched the "Integrated Skill Development Scheme for the Textiles and Apparel Sector". Recently, a month long training was conducted at the Weavers Service Centre in Manipur to empower women. A large number of women ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked With Reduced Kidney Function Among Kidney Transplant Recipients

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A new study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology suggests that kidney transplant recipients could be helped by using vitamin D supplementation as a deficiency of vitamin D could lead to decreased kidney function in the recipients. Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in patients with kidney failure. It''s not clear how this affects patients after they receive a kidney transplant. To investigate, Frank BienaimA (Copy Right) , MD (UniversitA (Copy Right) Paris Descartes ...

UN: Due to Security Concerns 240,000 Pakistani Children Miss Polio Vaccinations

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A top WHO official has said that some 240,000 children in Pakistan have missed UN-sponsored polio vaccinations due to security concerns in the country's tribal regions. Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO chief in Pakistan, said health workers have not been able to immunize children in the North and South Waziristan regions, which are the strongholds for Taliban militants, since July 2012. According to the Dawn, the doctor said polio transmission is now concentrated ...

Scientists Explain How Memories are Written into Brain

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A key molecule, which is responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories was identified by scientists. The findings have revealed a new target for therapeutic interventions to reverse the devastating effects of memory loss. Led by scientists at the University of Bristol, the research aimed to better understand the mechanisms that enable people to form memories by studying the molecular changes in the ...

Blood Donation Camp In Assam Finds Donors in The Form Of Students

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A blood donation camp was recently organised in Jorhat, Assam in order to inculcate the importance of donating blood among youngsters. The camp was organised by the student's body of Assam Agriculture University (AAU), Jorhat in association with Jorhat Medical College and Hospital and Red Cross Society, Jorhat. A large number of students turned out to donate blood for the cause to save lives of needy people. "We had visited the Jorhat Medical ...

Stanford University Researchers Develop a 'Transcriptor' Using Genetic Material

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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new biological transistor, which they call the 'transcriptor', which makes use of genetic material, such as DNA and RNA, instead of gears or electrons., a new study published in the journal Science reveals "Transcriptors are the key component behind amplifying genetic logic - akin to the transistor and electronics," said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering and the paper's lead author. The ...

HPV Comes as a Boon for African Americans Who Have Throat Cancer

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A new study conducted by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital suggests that human papillomavirus (HPV) comes as a boon for African Americans who have throat cancer even though the presence of the virus increases the risk of certain head and neck cancers. The study shows that African Americans who are HPV-positive have better outcomes than African Americans without HPV. African Americans who are HPV-negative also fared worse than Caucasians both with and ...

Around Two Thirds of Patients Fail to Respond to Initial Antidepressant Medication

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Just one third of patients with depression respond to their initial medication trial while a similar number have no adequate clinical response after being treated with several different medications, according to a new STAR*D study conducted by researchers at National Institute of Mental Health. A new study published in iBiological Psychiatry/i now shares progress in identifying genomic predictors of antidepressant response. Many previous studies ...

Around Seven Lakh Over-30s in Puducherry to be Screened for Non-Communicable Diseases

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More than seven lakh people over 30 years of age living in Puducherry will be screened for non-communicable diseases in a program where the Puducherry government has joined hands with two pharmaceutical firms. This is the first time that a government is undertaking such a programme in the country. The screening process is likely to begin next month. Speaking to IANS over phone from Puducherry, a health department official said: "We have tied up with ...

Hiding Place Under the Mattress Now Gets More Secure

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One of the most preferred places for hiding valuables and cash is under the bed. Now, a Spanish entrepreneur promises to increase the security of that hiding place with 'My Mattress Safe', a bed that is outfitted with a safety deposit box. Francisco "Paco" Santos worked in the mattress business for 14 years before losing his job in 2009 after which he tapped a dormant entrepreneurial spirit, designing this mattress that stands out from the rest, the Christian Science ...

Urban Development Ministry Wants Separate City Buses for Women

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Cities with over 1 million population should consider providing separate city buses for women, the Ministry of Urban Development said. The Urban Development Ministry has also issued an "advisory" to all the states to implement the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) specifications as per the "Urban Bus Specifications" in all the city buses, JnNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission) as well as non-JnNURM. They have also been advised to ...

Study Finds Damage Caused to DNA by Some Teas and Coffees is Comparable to Chemo Drugs

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A new study found that black and green teas and coffee along with liquid smoke produced cell DNA damage that is comparable to damage caused by chemotherapy drugs. In a laboratory study pairing food chemistry and cancer biology, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center tested the potentially harmful effect of foods and flavorings on the DNA of cells. They found that liquid smoke flavoring, black and green teas and coffee activated the highest ...

Research Says Altering Gut Microbes may be Key to Weight Loss

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Changes to gut microbiota may play a role in weight loss, scientists have reported. New research, conducted by Stanford scientists in collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, has found that the gut microbes of mice undergo drastic changes following gastric bypass surgery and transfer of these microbes into sterile mice resulted in rapid weight loss. "Simply by colonizing mice with the altered microbial community, the mice were ...

'Spelling Mistakes' in DNA Linked to Breast Cancer Identified

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Laval University's Professor Jacques Simard and his colleagues have identified DNA 'spelling mistakes; that are linked with breast cancer. This finding was generated from an international study on breast, ovarian and prostate cancer among 200,000 people. These mistakes - known as genetic variations - are directly involved in the risk of developing breast cancer.The research was part of an international study on an unprecedented scale performed by the largest international ...

Brains Use 3-D to Generate Emotions

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A new study suggests that our brains make use of 3 dimensions to generate emotions. According to a new study published in iBiological Psychiatry/i, the human report of emotion relies on three distinct systems: one system that directs attention to affective states ("I feel"), a second system that categorizes these states into words ("good", "bad", etc.); and a third system that relates the intensity of affective responses ("bad" or "awful"?). Emotions ...

Researchers Hope to Find Why Tennis Players are Able to Slide on Harder Courts

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Researchers at University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering, in collaboration with University of Exeter and the International Tennis Federation, have come up with a new test machine that can mimic the impact of elite tennis players on tennis courts, which is often up to four times the bodyweight of a player. They used the machine to measure the friction on an acrylic (hard) court in dry conditions and two artificial clay court surfaces in both wet and dry conditions. ...

Blind can Navigate Unknown Territory Via Virtual Games

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Researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School have developed a virtual gaming environment to help blind individuals improve navigation skills. This video report by Dr. Lotfi Merabet will be published On March 27 in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. "For the blind, finding your way or navigating in a place that is unfamiliar presents a real challenge," Dr. Merabet explains. "As people with sight, ...

Study Finds Certain Proteins are Capable of Spreading from One Brain Cell to the Next

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A joint study conducted by American and German researchers suggests that certain protein particles have the ability of multiplying and spreading from one cell to the next, shedding more light on how certain mental illnesses, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spread. The investigation was conducted by researchers of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn and Munich who cooperated with scientists from the US and from other German institutions. ...

Pasta Festival in New Delhi Offers 18 Varieties of Pasta

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New Delhi is playing host to a pasta festival that is offering 18 varieties of pasta made from different parts of Italy and in different shapes and sizes with various combinations of vegetables, meat and prawns. Italia by Park Hotel, an authentic Italian restaurant located at the DLF Promenade, Vasant Kunj, is hosting the pasta festival till March 31. On offer are 18 shapes and sizes of mouth-watering pastas. Each one differs in appearance, taste and style of cooking. ...

Record Number of Wives Earning More Than Their Husbands in the US

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A new survey has revealed that wives tended to earn more than their husbands in over a quarter of households in the US. An analysis of Census Bureau data by USA Today found that in households where both spouses work, 28 percent of wives now brings home more money than their husbands. Just 25 years ago, only 12 percent of dual-income households saw wives earning more than husbands, reports New York Daily News. In a further reflection of the changing times, ...

Indians Overtake Iranians and Nigerians as Top Drug Smugglers in Malaysia

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Malaysian officials believe that Indian nationals have overtaken Iranian and Nigerian syndicates as the top drug smugglers in the country. Police however believe that the Nigerian syndicates are working with the Indians to smuggle drugs here. According to the Star, Director of Narcotics Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim, who revealed this, said the new trend had been evident since the start of the year. He said that in 2011 and 2012, ...

New Innovations in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

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Combined Hormone Therapy Increases Risk of Breast Cancer

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An increase in breast cancer incidence has been linked to the use of both estrogen and progestin as a therapy. The study also found that prognosis is similar for combined hormone therapy's users and nonusers, suggesting that death from breast cancer may be higher for hormone therapy users as well. In the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized trial, estrogen plus progestin was associated with an increase in both breast cancer incidence and mortality. ...

Chew Gum and Get Chubby

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A new study found out that chewing gum could be responsible for making people fat due to its minty taste that makes sugary food more tempting. Scientists found people given to chew gum eat more high calorie sweet foods. This is because the chemical responsible for the minty flavour of gum makes savoury foods, especially fruit and vegetables, taste unpleasant, Daily Mail reported. The study's co-author Christine Swoboda, a doctoral candidate in nutrition ...

Digital Cameras Kill Beauty: Supermodel Photographer

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Photographer Sante D'Orazio comments on the switch to digital cameras and says that it provides more greater detail, but at the loss of something more important-beauty. "The sense of emotion is gone. It creates a detachment from the subject. The character of the personality is gone," D'Orazio said of the whole digital production chain and its torrent of perfect, heavily edited pictures. "That's the danger of post-production in digital. People kill anatomy. ...

First Same-Sex Couple to Marry in Oaxaca

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Two women became the same-sex couple to marry in Oaxaca, after the Supreme Court found the state's definition of marriage unconstitutional. Mexico City is the only jurisdiction in the deeply Catholic country that has authorized same-sex marriage. But in December, the top court ruled that Oaxaca's civil code, which states that marriage is only between a man and a woman for the purpose "to perpetuate the species," violates the constitution. The ...

Why Trusting Your 'Gut' Feeling may Help

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Sometimes, we make better decisions when we taken more time to think, and there are times when time really doesn't matter. A study led by Zachary Mainen, Director of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme reports that when rats were challenged with a series of perceptual decision problems, their performance was just as good when they decided rapidly as when they took a much longer time to respond. Despite being encouraged to slow down and try harder, ...

Metabolic Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes Now Welcomed With Open Arms

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Laparoscopic surgeon Surendra Ugale comments regarding an increase in the number of countries showing interest in trying the laparoscopic ileal interposition surgery for the control of type 2 diabetes. Ugale of Kirloskar Hospital, who is the pioneer of this technique in India, hopes increasing awareness about an alternative available to control diabetes would make it popular around the world. A team of doctors led by Ugale is performing ileal tnterposition ...

Robot Performs Laparoscopy, First In US

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A surgeon at Galvenston performed groundbreaking robotic laparoscopy on a 35 year old patient whose cervix was too small to sustain a pregnancy. Dr. Sami Kilic, chief of minimally invasive gynecology and research at UTMB, is the first surgeon in the world reported to have used robotically assisted, ultrasound-guided laparoscopic surgery to successfully tighten a pregnant patient's incompetent cervix. Kilic performed the surgery in December 2011 at UTMB's ...