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A Biomedical Engineering Tool for the Prevention of Blood Loss under Development

A PHD researcher of the Carnegie Mellon University, Matt Oberdier is working on project for developing a new hydrosurgery system that will Prevention of Blood Losshelp the physicians to manage the excessive bleeding at the time of operation, this is a very important issue in now day’s surgeries and most of the doctor’s experience excessive blood loss during some critical surgeries and Oberdier said that his system is especially designed to focus on this issue and thus help the surgeons to redily clear the excessive blood and control the bleeding during the critical stages of operation.

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A Potential Mechanism Found For the Association of Meat with Colorectal Cancer

The Red meat has been long linked with the risks of colorectal cancer by many earlier researches but few of them have discussed the underlying mechanism.

Red MeatA recent study has been made in US regarding the same matter and the researchers have tried to find out the original biological mechanism that is linking the colorectal cancer with the intake of meat. The findings of this research have been published in the online 9th March issue of Cancer research and most of the research team was from Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Rock ville, Maryland including the corresponding author Dr Amanda J Cross.

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Light To Moderate Drinking Helps Reduce Obesity: Research Shows

Drinking AlcoholDrinking alcohol is always considered as bad for health but a recent research has showed up many amazing results, a latest study has been taken in US over the women of age limit ranging from 40 and above and it has been found out that those women gains less weight if they consume a moderate or light amount of alcohol and they are also at lower risks of becoming overweight as compared to the ladies who do not consume alcohol at all.

This study had been carried by researchers, from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston,

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1 In 4 Parents Believe That Vaccines Cause Autism

In US a recent research has been carried by a group of doctors which shows that one out of four parents believe that some of the vaccines given to the children causes autism and thus they avoid those vaccines while the others though aware of the vaccine risks still give their children the required vaccines for their healthy life.

Vaccines Cause AutismThe study was actually based on a survey which was taken on 1,552 parents and the extensive research has found no connection between autism and vaccines.

The leading author of this research Dr. Gary Freed of the University of Michigan said that “Nine out of 10 parents believe that vaccination is a good way to prevent diseases for their children” and he further discussed that “Luckily their concerns don’t outweigh their decision to get vaccines so their children can be protected from life-threatening illnesses”.

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Mom’s Number of Births is Related to Heart Diseases

These days many researchers have revealed some exciting results related to the heart disease of middle aged ladies and one such study of Swedish women  has been shown recently which says that the heart attacks of middle aged women is related to number of children she gave birth to.

Heart DiseasesDr. Erik Ingelsson, at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, notified this cause to

Reuters Health and said that “Women having two births had the lowest risk of future cardiovascular disease”.

According to some medical experts previously some studies have been revealed on the same issue but they yielded conflicting results.

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Hospital Infections Increasing Deaths, According To Reports

Hospitals which are thought to be the place for curing disease are now becoming the reason of death for about 48,000 patients as stated in a report relating to US hospitals and that was released on Monday.

Hospital InfectionsThe report has focused mainly on the US hospitals and has revealed some drastic results, according to it the Pneumonia and blood-borne infection caught in US hospitals killed about 48,000 patients and cost about $8.1 billion in 2006

which is quite drastic to know. Thus the research has focused on the chief problem which is increasing the annual cost of healthcare in US and also increasing the death rate of patients.

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