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It’s not easy sleeping with tubes up your nose, but when doctors want to monitor a person’s breathing they have few other choices. A new wireless system promises to do away with intrusive medical technology – but instead it might end up being used as a surveillance tool to track people’s movements and activities behind closed doors.

While testing some new equipment, Neal Patwari of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and colleagues noticed variations in wireless signal strength triggered by a person’s breathing, but only at certain locations around the room. S

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Eighty thousand women will be diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer in the United States this year. Of those, over 20,000 women will have ovarian cancer and nearly 14,000 will die of the disease. 

Ovarian cancer has been called the “silent killer,” but many physicians say there are symptoms even before a patient realizes it.   The most common symptoms are bloating, persistent abdominal pain, feeling full quickly and urinary frequency.   “You need to bring your doctor’s attention to those symptoms if they are new for you,” said Dr. Elizabeth Swisher, gynecologic oncologist.  

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Using crushed lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) tablets in children with HIV because of difficulties in swallowing whole tablets should be avoided, American researchers report in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Brookie M Best and colleagues undertook a randomised, open-label, cross-over study comparing whole and crushed tablets and the corresponding amounts of lopinavir/ritonavir detectable in the bloodstreams of HIV-infected children.

Drug levels were reduced by an average of 40% in children who received crushed tablets, but the reduction in drug levels varyied from 5% to 75% between participants in the study.

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