Net Rinse

Professor Alexandre Carpentier speaks

PARIS- Alexandre Carpentier of the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris said the exploit was “a world-first” in its use of multiple advanced techniques and of local anaesthesia rather than general sedation.
So far, eight volunteers have been treated in the pilot programme, launched December 2006, Carpentier told AFP.
“They were suffering from metastasing brain tumours […]

An elderly Palestinian pours coffee near Jenin

TOKYO (AFP) - The study led by Japan’s health ministry monitored some 54,000 women aged 40 to 69 over about 15 years, during which time 117 women developed cancer in the womb, according to the medical team.
The researchers at Japan’s National Cancer Center divided the women into four groups […]

CHICAGO: Middle-aged adults who smoke tended to perform poorly on tests of memory and reasoning compared to non-smokers, adding to the list of reasons not to smoke, French researchers said.
Analysing previously collected data on about 5,000 British civil servants, the researchers found that those who smoked were more likely than people who never […]

NEW DELHI: She lived with epilepsy for nearly 15 years. Whenever a seizure attack started, it lasted 24 hours. Even a multiple drug treatment yielded no results. With all solutions blocked, for 23-year-old Geeta, an Afghan national, surgery was the only treatment option. Lack of medical facilities in her country brought her family to […]

NEW DELHI: A quarter of a century after AIDS first appeared, the World Health Organisation has for the first time said the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic outside Africa might have passed.
According to Dr Kevin de Cock, one of the world’s leading epidemiologists and head of the organisation’s HIV/ AIDS department, there […]

PARIS: Researchers in the United States said that they had found the key to a decades-old riddle over epileptic fits, helping to advance the quest for new treatments for this disabling condition.
Experiments in the last century found that by breathing carbon dioxide (CO²), an epileptic patient boosted acid levels in the brain and […]

LONDON- Dreaming about being tall and well built like your older brother? Well, then you’re in for a bit of disappointment, for according to a new study older brothers mean smaller siblings.
What’s more: Having an older brother may reduce your chances of reproductive success. The study is published in […]

Heart attack risk can be heard by listening for a certain noise in the artery supplying blood to the brain, US researchers have said. People with the sound, called a bruit, from the carotid artery in the neck were twice as likely to suffer an attack and more than two-and-a-half times as likely to […]

BOSTON: If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she’d rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.
That’s according to a pre-Mother’s Day study released by Salary.com , a US firm that studies workplace compensation.
The eighth annual survey calculated a mom’s market value by […]

NEW DELHI: Talk about winning hands down over your competitors. That’s what a new biometric technology is doing. It scans the veins in the palm to create an almost foolproof profile of the user. This technology is ideal not just for high security areas, but also where conventional ID systems have failed.
With increasing awareness […]