Recent Posts Tagged With 'health. medicine'

• Initial Results Show Pregnant Women Mount Strong Immune Response To 1 Dose Of 2009 H1N1 Vaccine

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 08:49 in news, research, health. medicine, h1n1

  Healthy pregnant women mount a robust immune response following just one dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, according to initial results from an ongoing clinical trial.Read details at Sciencedaily.com   When the debates are raging on...

• Swedish HIV vaccine shows encouraging results

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 04:13 in research, hiv, aids, health. medicine

  A new HIV vaccine developed by the Swedish Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm has shown encouraging results according to the news reports.The vaccine tested on healthy people in Tanzania as test subjects showed the vaccine destroying...

• Oh, My Aching Back! -- EMG Helps Physiatrists Find Causes of Pain

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 04:51 in science, research, back pain, emg, health. medicine

  -- Electromyography (EMG) detects the electrical potential generated by muscle cells, and can test nerve function. EMG can help physiatrists pin down the cause of back pain in cases such as spinal stenosis -- a narrowing of the spinal column -- in wh...

• Back Pain Relief -- Neurosurgeon Devises MRI-Based Technique to Diagnose Sciatica

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 04:42 in MRI, research, health. medicine

  -- Up to 40 million American suffer from sciatica pains, but the condition is often not diagnosed correctly. A new imaging technique uses a specially tuned MRI scan to image nerves and highlight them deep inside tissues. Called Magnetic Resonance Neu...