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A study published on April 9, 2008 in JAMA reveals that medical scientists got better results to improve the survival time for advanced liver cancer patients by combining one type of chemotherapy with another radio thermal therapy instead of each therapy alone.

Liver cancer is a worldwide increasing disease and it is described as tumors or growth on the liver. Most of these cancers are not diagnosed until advanced stages and at that moment no standard therapy works as treatment

Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE)

The therapy called transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) sedate the progression of tumors and increase survival rates for patients by unifying two effects: that of targeted chemotherapy with blockage of the blood supply to the tumor. Another therapy, radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) is a latest technology that is usually performed using a particularly designed probe to apply radiofrequency energy after insertion into the tumor. TACE and RFA have some limitations and neither satisfactorily controls liver cancer tumors that are larger than 1.2 inches (3cm). The survival benefits for TACE used in combination with RFA therapy have not previously been studied.

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 According to the new findings, issued in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dyslexia affects different parts of children’s brains depending on whether they read English or Chinese and the therapists will need to use different methods of assisting dyslexic children form different cultures.

“This result was very astounding to us. We had never expected that dyslexics’ brains were different for children who read in English and Chinese,” stated lead author Li-Hai Tan, a professor of linguistics and brain and mental sciences at the University of Hong Kong. “Our finding presents neurobiological traces to the cause of dyslexia.”

Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability that creates problems in reading, spelling, writing and uttering words. Millions of children worldwide are affected by this disease and according to International Dyslexia Association it is not known the exact number but estimates range from 8 percent to 15 percent of students.

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According to a report of Yale University researchers published in the Journal Nature Genetics, that they have found the rare genetic variants that can be linked with an astonishing lower risk of developing high blood pressure in common population. The perception that this rare change in genetic material may collectively play a pivotal role in the development of general yet complicated diseases like Blood-pressure also has involvement in diagnosis and treatment of diseases like diabetes and schizophrenia.

Richard Lifton, chair of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine at Yale, and Daniel Levy, director National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study led that team of researchers.

The scientists examined DNA samples from 3,125 people who took part in the Framingham Heart Study, an epidemiology survey that led to a latent treasure of information about the causes of heart disease.

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ATLANTA – Women 40 and older have got many preferences regarding contraception these days. For this age group options were limited to tube-tying surgery and condoms now the pill has come back and the same is true about IUD (T-shaped plastic device). Both are more risk free than they used to be in the past. Even tube-tying is being done via nonsurgical method.

According to experts there was a need of more new methods in this connection for a quite long time. As 40- and 50-above are groups full of reproductive health problem. A number of women have a lot of children and are agreeable to have sterilization operation.

Usually, women 40 and older are a little apt to use birth control. Besides the adolescents, they have the highest rates of abortion. At the same time, these women are better versed with using contraception and following instructions.

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WHO study finds consequences resound long after the incidents

World Health Organization study, that comprises 25,000 women in 11 countries, suggests that male partner’s violent attitude be the cause of several physical and mental health problems in women.

The women, aged 15 to 49, came from Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. The study found that having ever experienced physical or sexual partner violence was associated with poor health overall, and with specific health problems in the four weeks prior to being interviewed: pain, memory loss, dizziness, vaginal discharge and difficulty walking or doing daily activities.

Women aged 15 to 49, from different countries of Asia, Africa and South-America, have been studied under that research. The study suggests women who have ever experienced physical or sexual partner violence is the victim of poor health in general and pain, memory loss, giddiness, leucorrhea, mental and physical tiredness in specific.
Further, the women who have become the victim of their partner’s violence at least once in their lives are more apt to personality disorder and suicidal attempts than the women who were never tortured by their male partners.

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