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Increased Risk For Venous Thrombosis In Cancer Patients

...mor sites, the presence of distant metastases, and carrier status of gene mutations. Patients underwent anticoagulant (anti-clotting) therapy, and then a blood sample was taken. DNA was isolated to determine gene mutations, factor V Leiden and prothrombin 20210A, both linked to thrombosis. It was found that...

Artificially made protein to inhibit angiogenesis

... the manmade gene that makes the interceptors in a carrier called plasmid that will get the interceptors inside the cells concerned. This will not only stop blood vessels formation but also help in eliminating existing blood vessels. Researchers are hopeful that the new protein will be able to control condi...

The Benefits of Strontium in the treatment for Osteoporosis Questioned

...d with organic ranelic acid. The ranelic acid is a carrier that makes the treatment palatable, and the strontium is the active component with regard to the skeleton. As an alkaline earth element, strontium is similar to calcium in its absorption in the gut, incorporation in bone, and elimination from the bod...

Intense Fight Against Polio In India Gets Results

...tation and hygiene. Faecal material is the biggest carrier of the poliovirus, so we have to continue educating our masses about sanitation, besides making them realize that immunization was absolutely essential. (IANS) Medindia on Polio – Further information Poliomyelitis or Polio: This is a v...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...lon (United States cook) became the first American carrier to be identified and traced. She is fondly remembe...ed by the name “ Typhoid Mary” for being an immune carrier (no symptoms but capable of infecting others) of typhoid and infecting dozens of people. Sym...

Genes responsible for cancer in women associated with increased cancer risk in men

...eir family members who had a 50% chance of being a carrier - this amounted to 1,811 people. Out of 441 people tested for BRCA2, just over two thirds (69%) carried the mutation. In total the researchers found 158 cancers among the 303 carriers of the genetic mutation. This compared to just 18 cases in the ...

Health Problems Due To Ecosystem's Degradation

...est clearance activities in Indonesia, driving the carrier bats to the neighbouring country. The SARS disease is also being attributed to the degradation of the ecosystem.Intensive livestock production, in spite of its benefits has also resulted in new diseases emerging. Mosquitoes, ticks and midges are also...

Wild ducks infected with bird flu

...ing of all the birds in Turkey, as they might be a carrier of the disease. He also said that this ban is for an indefinite period and is imposed on all winged animals. They all fear that the disease, which as of now spreads fom birds to human, will mutate in to another form, which will easily pass from ma...

Candidate vaccine to reduce hepatitis C viral load.

...tis C (HCV) infection. It reduced the load of the carrier virus in the body of the mice tremendously in the order of 100000 times when compared to the control. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics (CANVAC) funded the research. The r...

The Return Of The Clemenceau: Happy India

...Chirac, which requires the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau to be sent back to France, represents the overall victory of Indian workers, social support groups and environmentalists worldwide. The order has been issued following dismissal of the proposed transfer of the ship that is laden with poiso...

A warning and wake up call: German cat infected with deadly bird flu strain.

...at that was found dead in Northern Germany was the carrier of the bird flu strain capable of infecting humans.// According to an institute specialising in veterinary diseases the strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus had the highly pathogenic Asian strain that can be transmitted to humans. The institute in ...

Hemophilia Can Be Reduced Through Awareness And Proper Treatment

...an affected father to daughter, who then becomes a carrier of the hemophilia gene having every possibility of passing the defective gene on to her children. "If the children affected with hemophilia are not treated it might lead to disability and possible death. There is also a high risk of life threatenin...

Beware Of A Silent Killer Called Haemophilia

...an affected father to daughter, who then becomes a carrier of the haemophilia gene having every possibility of passing the defective gene on to her children. He further explains that if these children who are affected with haemophilia are not treated it might lead to disability and possible death. He stated ...

Inventor of DNA fingerprinting Wins Accolades

...mple the ability to determine whether someone is a carrier of certain pathogenic genes. Most recently, Jeffreys has concentrated on genetic mutations and environmental factors. He is, for example, studying how irradiation may have caused genetic mutations in families from Chernobyl.’ Luton-born Sir Alec ha...

HIV Scare at St Ives

... is thought to have been triggered by a single HIV carrier who had sex with a number of people. The virus has since been transmitted on as the group of those infected includes men and women. Dr David Miles, the director of public health, urged anyone who had unprotected sex outside a long-term relationship t...

Are Babies Conceived By Fertility Procedures Safe From Genetic Disorders?

...ng, the authors established that the donor was the carrier of the gene, not the mothers. The sperm bank was informed of this evidence, and all remaining samples were discarded. The authors conclude that, because it is presently difficult to screen for all conceivable genetic disorders, it is imperative tha...

Experts Warn of Bird Flu Recurrence in Maharashtra

...s the main concern of MPCB. "Poultry litter is the carrier of the virus and composting is yet to be done," Boralkar warned. (Source: IANS)...

Teeth Reformation could be Possible with Ultrasound Technology

...worked, we looked at creating a smaller ultrasound carrier where we can take the patient out as a variable,’ said El-Bialy. ‘Before this, a patient has to hold the ultrasound for 20 minutes a day for a year and that is a lot to ask.’ The researchers are currently working on turning their prototype into a ...

New Diagnostic Tool Uncovered Gene Expression Patterns in Recessive Genetic Disorders

...ve genetic disorders: on average, each person is a carrier for three or four deleterious, disease-causing mut...contribute to human variation. ‘If each of us is a carrier for three or four harmful recessive mutations, and if the expression levels of several hundred genes...

Gene Responsible For Metastasis Found By Korean Scientists

...nducted on mice and the research team found that a carrier protein called E2-EPF ubiquitin is responsible for the cancer cells to metastasize. This protein facilitates the cancer cells to multiply and metastasize to different areas within the body and affect various organs. Hence the team said that the p...

Officer of Anti-Submarine Squadron Quarantined With Tuberculosis

...h after a six-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, the Navy said yesterday. The sailor became sick in early June and was initially diagnosed as having pneumonia by ship's medical staff, but was later readmitted to the San Diego Naval Medical Center after his symptoms recurred and th...

MRIs Show Drug Treatment Slows Brain Deterioration on Road to Alzheimer's Disease

...one undergo testing for APOE 4. “Being an APOE 4 carrier increases one’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease, but ... hippocampal shrinkage in donepezil-treated APOE 4 carrier patients was 4.5 percent per year, versus 6.14 percent shrinkage in placebo-treated patients. Rates ...

New Carrier Developed To Deliver Drugs to Gliomas

...loodstream. ‘We're using the TM-601 primarily as a carrier to transport radioactive iodine to glioma cells, although there are data to suggest that it may also slow down the growth of tumor cells. If studies continue to confirm this, we may be able to use it in conjunction with other treatments, such as chem...

On-board Avian Flu Testing Labs on US Navy Ships

...ilities are on the flagship USS Blue Ridge and the carrier USS Kitty Hawk, said Rosemary Tan, chief executive of Veredus Laboratories. Veredus, founded three years ago, also makes malaria and dengue test kits and was approached by the US Navy over a year ago. The Japan-based Seventh Fleet has 50 vessels ...

SEMEN – More than just a sperm carrie

...more functions in reproduction than merely being a carrier of sperms. A researcher from America reports that the semen from fertile men contains a multitude of hormones//. Some of them like, FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) initiates ovulation. Some other hormones are reported to have a role in the mainten...

Anthrax may be detected in minutes

...ule. They then attached this molecule to a special carrier protein and injected it into mice, reported the online edition of BBC News. The mice mounted an immune response to the injection. The scientists were then able to obtain antibodies from the mice that were specific for the anthrax surface molecule. ...

French Ship docks in Alang, Gujarat

...iberation had recalled the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau which was on its way to Alang, after an exhaustive drive launched by Greenpeace and other environmental groups. ...

Nanotechnology – to detect and treat ovarian cance

... unharmed. "The development of a smart probe and carrier complex will provide significant advantage to the clinicians as they can locate the tumor, monitor the drug delivery vehicle and control drug release using imaging techniques," said Chen. Another avenue of nanotechnology research at Rush is to deve...

Monoclonal Antibody based system for Anthrax detection

...g about weak immunological reaction whereas, this carrier protein stimulated a stable one. Monclonal antibodies were produces and isolated from these immunized mice. These antibodies bound exclusively to the surface molecule of Bacillus anthracis. They did not bind to other bacteria closely related to B. an...

Philippines Oil Spill Causing Adverse Health Effects

The sinking of the oil carrier MT Solar I, which has thus far spilled 50,000 gallons of industrial oil into the sea near Guimaras in Philippines is causing health problems// to the people in the area. The ship had sunk off the coast on August 11. Health Secretary Franciso Duque co...

HIV Carriers Join Hands to Fight for their Rights

...lives on for the sake of her child. Another HIV carrier Rama (name changed) has to fend for herself and her two children, both of whom are also carriers of the deadly disease. Rama contracted the disease from her husband 10 years ago. Rama told IANS: "The nine days at the camp have changed my life. I ha...

HIV Carriers Form an Association to Fight Social Stigma in Jharkhand

...at us badly.' 'When a dentist learnt I was a HIV carrier he refused to treat me,' she said. In Jharkhand, two patients - a pregnant woman and a truck driver - were denied treatment when the hospital learnt they were HIV carriers. As per official estimates, there are about a thousand HIV carriers in Jha...

Strategies by the State Government to eradicate Chikungunya

... Health//. Aedes aegypti, mosquito is the common carrier of both chikungunya causing virus and dengue causing virus. Hence, the state has taken up an integrated mosquito control programme involving 35,000 health workers and volunteers. All the water storage areas in every house will be examined. Accordin...

AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

...for free drugs. The monthly treatment of an HIV carrier on the second line of treatment is anything between Rs.2,500 and Rs.9,000 per month, something unaffordable by Indian middle class standards. According to UNAIDS statistics of May 2006, India has 5.7 million people living with HIV/AIDS, ahead of S...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...rs are perfect breeding ground for sand flies, the carrier of the disease, and the government seems to be doing almost nothing to improve them," Jha told a visiting IANS correspondent. Kala azar - medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis - is a vector-born disease and is characterised by fever, weight los...

Williams Syndrome, the Brain, and Music

...from one copy of chromosome seven, catapulting the carrier of the deletion into a world where people make much more sense than objects do. “Williams syndrome is a perfect example where a genetic predisposition interacts with the environment to sculpt the brain in unique ways,” says Reiss. “It provides a u...

Uncertain Future For 24 More Persons

...lable to test the presence of the prion or protein carrier of the disease and literally thousands can be at risk Precautions have been taken like importing blood plasma from the US, as well as the removal of all surgical equipment and blood suspected to be infected with the disease. It is certainly a ki...

Plastic May Be Poisoning Oceans: Scientists

... - from bottles and fishing nets to the ubiquitous carrier bags - ends up in the world's oceans. Richard Thompson at the University of Plymouth is leading research into what happens when plastic breaks down in seawater and impacts marine environments, reported the online edition of BBC News. Sturdy and d...

Male Contraception: Discovery Stirring Interest Among Scientists, Drug Developers

...iscovered protein is called sperm flagellar energy carrier (SFEC). It is the fourth in a family of proteins t...ng because the three previously identified ATP/ADP carrier proteins reside in cell organelles called mitochondria. In sperm, the mitochondria reside in a regio...

Hybrid Molecule Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct

...t the sugar partner to serve not just as a passive carrier but as additional ammunition in the fight against cancer.” The researchers focused on a sugar called N-acetyl-D-mannosamine, or ManNAc, for short. The team created a hybrid molecule by linking ManNAc with butyrate. The hybrid easily penetrates a cel...

New Test for Treatment of AIDS

...rugs. Such strains multiply rapidly and make the carrier more prone to develop AIDS, and harder to treat. Currently the tests that are used to detect drug resistant strains of HIV are not only few, and not that very efficient. According to scientists Feng Gao and others of the Duke University Medical Cen...

Chinese Scientists Take Malaria Fight to Africa

...ascar and northern Mozambique. While the average carrier rate in the 10 most seriously affected villages on... later. "That would bring the (malaria parasite) carrier rate down by at least 99 percent," Li said. The plan also involves everyone taking primaquine ever...

Strep, Psychiatric Symptoms Possibly Linked in Some Children

... “The medical perspective has always been that the carrier states are fairly benign, but maybe they are not as benign as we thought,” Murphy said. “That’s not to suggest that these states are increasing children’s risk for rheumatic fever or other problems that can develop after an infection, but maybe there...

New Cost-cutting Cancer Drug Delivery System

... agents. According to the company, the polymeric carrier can greatly enhance the solubility of a drug and e...r pharmaceutical companies. NDT's polymer-based carrier has the potential to be applied for use with a range of compounds treating a variety of diseases, bu...

South Africa: Nigerian Man Treated for Lassa Fever

...from contact with infected animals. The best known carrier of the Lassa virus is a rodent known as multimammate rat (Mastomys) that is commonly found in West African countries. The rats shed the virus in their bodily excretions. The virus can also be spread through direct contact with the blood, urine, f...

370,000 AIDS Cases in Russia

...Tuesday an additional 16,000 children born of AIDS carrier parents have not developed symptoms yet, but are under observation. The report published in January 2007 said most of the people classified seropositive were in the regions of Murmansk, Daguestan, Lipets and Rostov. The territories of Riazan, Kar...

Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children

...Medicine, patients found to be infected or to be a carrier before infection has set in are placed in isolation for the remainder of their stay. Wound care is done only in designated, confined treatment spaces or separate rooms, and hospital staff must take special precautions between treatments, such as clea...

Health Checks on Workers Dismantling Blue Lady in Gujarat

... year, France recalled its decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau after an outcry over the asbestos it contained. But the Gujarat Maritime Board, which leases out the yards in Alang, says they can handle toxic and hazardous waste....

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...erapy used comprised the herpes simplex virus as a carrier and either a gene called GDNF, or one called neurturin, which both help promote nerve growth. Rats treated with the gene therapy showed significant recovery and were able to regain normal penile function after four weeks. ED, often referred to as i...

Chikungunya Scare in Orissa: 4 Die

...es mosquitoes in the locality. The mosquito is the carrier of chikungunya and dengue. So from the symptoms of the disease the possible outbreak of chikungunya can't be ruled out," B Nageswar Rao, chief of the specialist team, told IANS. "Orissa does not have adequate testing facilities. Serum has been coll...

New DNA Tests Advances Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Diseases

...e country, and can be used for clinical diagnosis, carrier testing for family members and prenatal testing. E...ited many families who did not have the option for carrier and prenatal testing. In the past, some carrier and prenatal tests were performed using less accurat...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...bo's keepers have claimed he is not proven to be a carrier of TB and said that even if it did develop "he can be expected to make a full recovery given appropriate care". Monks at the temple say that there is no possibility of Shambo entering the human food chain and have isolated him from the rest of the...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

... that residents who know their patient is a likely carrier of certain diseases are more likely to report the injury. I think a lot of it is really a person's perception of risk," said Dr. Jim Kelaher, director of Occupational Health Programs at Baylor College of Medicine. More hospitals need to do a bet...

Man Accused of Spreading HIV Granted Bail in Australia

...uoth was known to DHS, known to be a high-risk HIV carrier and had continued to put Victorians at risk. "At the very time these matters were getting such a public airing just a few months ago, at the very time that Bronwyn Pike was giving assurances that the system had been reviewed and everything was going ...

Notice Sent to Courts Asking Them to Stop Courting Mosquitoes

...hts Commission (NHRC) for breeding mosquitoes, the carrier of the dreaded dengue and chikungunya fevers. Health officials said that during their field visits they have found mosquito breeding grounds in the court premises, the campuses of several leading hospitals and several government establishments in t...

Former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Died of Cancer

... 6, 1991. Chandra Shekhar started his political carrier as a secretary of Praja Socialist Party (P.S.P.) of Ballia District. In 1962 he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, in the year 1967, he held the post of General Secretary of the Congress Parliamentary Party. In 1977, in the first election held after...

Dengue Fever Cases Up 36 Percent in Thailand: Report

...nd joint pains, thrives in urban areas because the carrier breeds in stagnant water, including in blocked drain-pipes and rubbish heaps....

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...nstead is generally referred to as being an energy carrier like electricity. Hydrogen's critics claim that since its production invariably involves natural gas, hydrogen's energy budget doesn't add up. And with CO2 being produced every step of the way, hydrogen, it's claimed, isn't very green at all. Hydro...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

... national attention, USS Nimitz, the lead aircraft carrier of the United States, has sailed off the Chennai coast . While everyone talked about the possible radiation from the nuclear reactors powering the ship and debated over if the ship had nuclear weapons on board or not, very few knew of the F-16 and F...