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African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

... with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV-A is the dominant strain in the northern region of sub-Saharan Africa, and HIV-C is more common in southern parts of Africa. Protease inhibitors, the drugs used in combination therapy to fight HIV infection, were all designed to treat HIV-B. These findings find a pla...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...ompany to commercialize an oral version of today's dominant injectable drugs could gain the lion's share of a market. // Scios' drug has shown promise in early trials. But the size of the potential market makes it a prize that many big pharmaceuticals companies also covet. So far, Scios' prospects look good....

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

...ear study did not prove that A-1 protein, which is dominant in the milk New Zealanders drink every day, actually caused heart disease or diabetes, but showed further research was needed. Bob Boyd, New Zealand’ Food Safety Authority's (NZFSA's) Principal Public Health Advisor said that though the study was an ...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

...f its nature and it attained significance with the dominant role played by computers in modern day living....

A Better Understanding Of The Brain Network

...a synthetic glove with fiber-optic cables on their dominant hand. The glove translated hand movements into signals, which were sent to a computer. Researchers then used fMRI to observe which areas of the brain controlled the participants' hand movements as they aligned a cursor on the computer screen with 50 ...

Surgery For Obesity May Need Invasive Monitoring

...bid obesity. This type of surgery leads to many dominant damaging respiratory and homodynamic changes that may be of temporary variety. Most of the changes happen at the time of making of pneumoperitoneum. In such cases the use of intra-operative homodynamic monitoring using a pulmonary artery catheter and...

Genes More Important Than Exercise for Bad Cholesterol

... may be the determining factor and may play a more dominant role than exercise// for increasing bad cholesterol as per recent study. Now we know why some people never gain weight or increase their cholesterol despite eating all the sweets and butter laden food to their hearts content!! The July 8, 2005,...

New clues to maternal aggressive behavior

...mygdala reduces the levels of anxiety and promotes dominant social behavior in females. Reference: American Physiological Society's 2005 Conference, July 2005...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

...y against genetic conditions caused by a so-called dominant negative mechanism -- when a single copy of the mu...ase because the protein from the faulty gene has a dominant adverse effect over the protein from the normal gene. Several human forms of inherited deafness, inc...

Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled

...tale of official apathy. In 2004, the perennially dominant virus - at least for the past 27 years - killed 225 people. One of those who survived was four-year-old Abhishek, reduced to a vegetative state where he can neither sit, nor move, nor talk. "The doctors at the Gorakhpur hospital did save his life, ...

Higher incidence of bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

...n BDIs (54.0%) were diagnosed postoperatively, the dominant manifestation being biliary fistula (44.1%). This study confirms a higher incidence of BDI during LC. It highlights the relevance of the number of previously performed LCs and of the correct surgical technique to avoid BDI. The need for correct pro...

The Slow And Steady Race To Eradicate Polio Offers Hope

...on program using an improved vaccine to combat the dominant strain of the polio virus has been responsible for elimination of the dreaded disease in Egypt. This effect would soon be observed in India, where there has been a considerable reduction in the incidence of paralytic polio. From 200, 000 polio case...

Do Celebrities Conquer Cancer Better?

...reast and ovarian cancer consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance, a personal history or family history of male breast cancer. If you are still thinking over taking up a New Year resolution, this is just the right time to involve yourself helping curb the deadly disease of many women worldwide. As it ...

Ataxia: a problematic disease's gene deciphered

...taxia. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) is a dominant gene disorder; if a parent has the disease, each of their children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutation and developing ataxia sometime during their lifetime. Now that researchers have identified the specific mutation that causes SCA5, t...

Heart disease: Men Are From Mars, Women From Venus

... stupid sometimes' were regarded to be hostile and dominant while statements like 'I don't want you to do that; I want you to do this' were rated to be dominant or controlling. 'I'll do what you want if you get off my back' was regarded an unfriendly submissive...

PM Launches Healthcare Foundation For India

...India has not been very good even though it is the dominant source of health care provisioning,' he said. 'We are all familiar with reports of unethical practices, including commissions given in return for referral and diagnostic work. We must have appropriate measures to tackle this.' At a meeting that was g...

Gender Equality among Older Couples Plays a Vital Role in Their Sex Life

...y of their sex lives in countries where men have a dominant status over women. The study interviewed about 27,500 people between the ages of 40 and 80, questioning equal numbers of men and women. It was also found that majority of the people with partners remain sexually active throughout the second half of t...

Pakistan experiences an increase in Aids cases : WHO

...,000).// Of the reported cases, causes, the most dominant during the quarter ending June 2004 was injecting drug use (73.72 per cent). Close second was heterosexual relations (22.18 per cent), men who have sex with men (4.0 per cent) and mother-to-child transmission (0.1 per cent). Recently compiled data ...

Mapping Of Brain Highly Beneficial For Safer Brain Tumor Surgery

...apping as the rule, rather than the exception, for dominant hemisphere gliomas," Sanai said. "The findings support the conclusion that cortical language mapping may be used as a safe and efficient adjunct to optimize glioma resection while preserving essential language sites."...

Jealousy In Men Peaks When Partners Are Most Fertile

...rs felt that men// become more jealous and wary of dominant males when their wives or girlfriends are at their...hose with ovulating partners were vary wary of the dominant looking men who attract women around this time. As compared to those whose partners were not at risk...

Teenage Boys More Vulnerable And Emotionally Engaged In Romantic Relationships

...ed a self-portrait far removed from the confident, dominant image seen in the existing research literature. They reported significantly lower levels of confidence, as well as greater ‘communication awkwardness,’ in their romantic relationships. Girls may be better prepared for those relationships because of...

Amphetamines Being Abused In Northeast: UN Report

... a surge in the use of amphetamines. Males are the dominant users of these drugs, while female users constitute just 5-10 percent. In Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram 90 percent use injections. Most of the past users are now trying to combat drug abuse. Manipur and Nagaland saw injection of drugs leading to a ...

Growth Of Maple Trees Affected By Acid Rain

...e both ecologically and economically as one of the dominant species in our region,’ said Juice, who now works for the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Milbrook, N.Y., as a project assistant and is applying to the Peace Corps for next year. The research was conducted at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HB...

Enbrel Joins with Methotrexate to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis

...by binding tumor necrosis factor (TNF), one of the dominant inflammatory cytokines or regulatory proteins that play an important role in both normal immune function and the cascade of reactions that causes the inflammatory processes of rheumatoid arthritis. The binding of ENBREL to TNF renders the bound TNF b...

Lonely hearts face heart risks more, says study

...ntually result in various heart ailments, are more dominant in singles. "In cases when people are divorced, or their spouses are dead or they have deliberately chosen a single life, their chances of developing cardio-vascular diseases significantly increases. In fact, the mortality rate of such persons is m...

Waxing And Waning Of Dengue Epidemics Attributed To Cross-Immunity

...980s, there's been a sequential replacement of the dominant serotype," said lead author Helen Wearing, a post-...ent of the cases and the next year serotype two is dominant and so on. Epidemics of individual serotypes recur every eight to 10 years, but, at the same time, i...

Conjoined twins doing well after separation

...l interdependence. “Kendra has always been more dominant and more eager for separation, while Maliyah was quieter, seemed more hesitant about separation and has always looked to her sister to make things OK," he said."Kendra has said she misses (being conjoined)," Jake Herrin said. "But we talk about it an...

MRI And Breast Cancer

...e ductal extension type, i.e. the tumor included a dominant mass with an outward extension of cancer cells, with a relatively small ductal component." MRI was able to detect even minute spread in certain cases, she added. "Accurate preoperative diagnosis of the intraductal component allows the surgeon to ac...

Yoga and Meditation May be Helpful to Combat Chikungunya

...s and provide relief from body pain, which are the dominant symptoms of chikungunya. "The Sudarshan Kriya and accompanying meditations strengthen the immune system and allow the body to fight back," he added. The unique rhythmic breathing technique designed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has helped millions to ...

Yet Another Reason not to Smoke

...e more common as people age and more common in the dominant arm. The true incidence of the injuries is hard to determine because between 5 percent and 40 percent of people who may have a torn rotator cuff have no accompanying shoulder pain. What surgeons do know is that rotator cuff repairs can fail in the d...

Cigarette Smoking Impedes Tendon-to-Bone Healing

...e more common as people age and more common in the dominant arm. The true incidence of the injuries is hard to determine because between 5 percent and 40 percent of people who may have a torn rotator cuff have no accompanying shoulder pain. What surgeons do know is that rotator cuff repairs can fail in the ...

Strong Evidence Suggests Incidence Of Mating Of Ancestors With Neanderthals

...hals somehow owing to their strong and dynamically dominant gene pool which selectively aids evolution of the species without any inter breeding whatsoever. Earlier in a similar research Dr. Lahn and his associates had discovered a gene which determines the size of the brain named microcephalin which seems t...

Polio can be eradicated in India: Health Experts

... in India, The Type 1 strain of Polio virus is the dominant strain explains experts. Targeting this dominant strain using a novel monovalent vaccine should successfully wipe out the virus opines experts. The W...

New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice

... which regeneration of remaining islets may be the dominant mechanism. Source-Eurekalert...

Tennis Elbow is Not Caused Due to Improperly Sized Tennis Racket Grip

...rodes into five different muscles in each player's dominant arm to measure the firing pattern of their muscles (electromyogram, EMG). After a warm-up period, players then performed three single-handed backhand strokes using identical model rackets with three different grip sizes: the "recommended" grip size, ...

Research In A New Direction To Develop Innovative Psychotropic Drugs

...sease in which psychosis has long prevailed as the dominant symptom. Now, notes Carpenter, additional attention is being paid to other important symptoms that may have a greater impact on long-term functionality, including cognitive impairment and depression in people with schizophrenia. Because of limitati...

Unfolded Proteins May Protect Cells from Dying

...dical Institute investigator, focused on autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP), which causes blindness. Unfolded proteins linked to ADRP accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle where proteins are manufactured and packaged for transport to the cell surface, unlike some other forms of the...

Researchers Discovered the Gene Responsible for Brittle Bone Disease

...nd other tissues. The collagen defects result from dominant mutations, requiring only one copy of a mutant gene to cause bone disease. The NIH researchers discovered that mutations in the CRTAP gene accounted for a recessive form of the disorder--requiring two copies of the affected gene to show a particular ...

UCLA Find Yields Further Insight into Causes of Parkinson’s Diseas

...d to see if they could get the protein to act in a dominant fashion, so they put only one copy of the mutation into their fly model. The result was the death of the neurons that use dopamine, the neurotransmitter long implicated in Parkinson's disease. "We put the mutant parkin in all different kinds of ti...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

... researchers found that these three phyla are also dominant in the esophagus and the stomach. In terms of bacterial species, however, the insides of the body, for example the stomach, and the exterior of the body, the skin, show vast differences in bacterial populations. Skin condition can change markedly ...

Yearning -the Most Intense Emotion in Bereavement

...: “This study basically shows that yearning is the dominant negative grief symptom following the loss, not disbelief, sadness or depression.“And, overall, the main reaction was a high degree of acceptance”, she adds. <BR...

Industry-funded Breast Cancer Trials More Likely to Yield Positive Results

...wever, as industry funding becomes an increasingly dominant source of research funding, clinical questions that aren’t directly related to drug development may be neglected, Peppercorn said. Such questions include the optimal duration for giving a medication or whether certain groups of patients benefit from ...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

...m was modified to better address and impact UTEP’s dominant minority population – 72.5 percent of its students are Hispanic. In discussing the myths of how to sober up, for example, program administrators remind students that their blood alcohol levels will not decline if they have a bowl of hot menudo, a Mex...

Religiosity May Be Instrumental In Preventing The Spread Of HIV-AIDS

... of spreading HIV to others.” Religion remains a dominant force in America today, but the main focus of many faith communities is sexual abstinence, rather than examining how else religious beliefs may help to prevent the spread of HIV, Galvan said. “This study suggests that there's a role for religious i...

Discovery in Male Mice Gives Hope in Providing Clues to Find Infertility in Men

...ity in mice. Because this is the first time that a dominant mutation that leads specifically to infertility in...ity in mice. Because this is the first time that a dominant mutation that leads specifically to infertility in a mammal has been discovered, the researchers say...

Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

...sions. Pain associated with bone metastases is the dominant cause of morbidity in patients with metastatic HRPC. Increase in prostate specific antigen (PSA) was not part of the progression endpoint. PFS at the median demonstrated a 14% improvement in patients who received Satraplatin plus prednisone (11.1 wee...

New Agent to Fight Genetic Disorders Found

...lly every human condition caused by or worsened by dominant defective genes. Examples include: Huntington’s disease, familial high cholesterol, polycystic kidney disease, some instances of glaucoma and colorectal cancer, and neurofibromatosis, among others. "Zorro-LNA is a new substance that targets DNA and...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...en if matter begins to decay, it will still be the dominant sort of stuff in the universe," says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, and lead author of the new study. "That's why I've kind of said that diamonds are forever", he quips. Krauss and colleague Robert Scherrer of Vanderb...

US Doctors 're-evaluating' Conjoined Twin Surgery

... to uncover the cause of the brain swelling in the dominant twin, Anastasia, which halted the first of what was to be a series of surgeries on Wednesday. The top of Tatiana's head is fused to the back of her sister's head, in a rare medical disorder known as total angular craniopagus. The girls' brain tiss...

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

...l they determined the cause of the swelling in the dominant twin, Anastasia, which was discovered after neurosurgeons took out a section of skull to expose the brain tissue. "After removing the bone, it became apparent that the brain tissue was swollen, despite the fact that measures had been taken to preve...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

...or of psychiatry at Weill-Cornell, that focuses on dominant emotionally charged themes that emerge in the relationship between patient and therapist. As the patients moved through the yearlong treatments, they were carefully assessed on a wide range of psychiatric symptom and functioning domains, such as de...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...nheritance of generalized dystonia is due to the dominant nature of the gene(s) involved. This means, a parent affected with this type of dystonia has a 50% chance of passing the affected gene/s to the offsprings. Adults who develop dystonia may also have inherited a defective gene, though it is difficult t...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

...ut from then over next five decades, it became the dominant form of tobacco. From 1995, cigarette consumption declined dramatically. Though it is a good sign, the other side of coin that is worrying is an increased trend in other forms as well as more number of females and young population joining the list of...

Climate Change Signal Detected in the Indian Ocean

...he El Nino Southern Oscillation and considered the dominant influence on Southern Hemisphere atmospheric variability. Dr Alory said climate models used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment show that changes in westerly wind patterns are expected to intensify in a global warming scenario and to accentuate the south...

Fecal Bacteria, a Source of Contamination

...e study revealed that cattle and wildlife were the dominant sources of fecal bacteria found in water and stream sediment samples at the main study site located in an upper reach of the creek. While the two methods led to similar overall interpretations, using both methods together gave us a clearer picture ...

Researchers Identify Immune Dysfunction in Melanoma Patients

...f vaccines to treat cancers. "We think this is a dominant way that immune dysfunction occurs in people with cancer," said senior author Peter Lee, MD, associate professor of medicine. Lee was interested in melanoma rather than other forms of cancer in part because of the deadly nature of the disease, whic...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

... tend to create new brain cells when they detect a dominant male's urine, a discovery that outlines how chemi...searchers observed that mice exposed to urine from dominant males showed around a 25 per cent in crease in new neurons in two brain regions-hippocampus and the ...

Fishes Use Threat of Punishment in Mating Process

... keep subordinate fish from challenging those more dominant than themselves. In fact the subordinate fish deliberately diet - or starve themselves - in order to remain smaller than their superiors and so present no threat that might lead to their being cast out, and perishing as a result. Many animals hav...

High Nonfasting Triglyceride Levels Linked With Cardiovascular Risks

...l] phenomenon in which remnant lipoproteins play a dominant role. If this is true, increased levels of nonfasting triglycerides, reflecting increased levels of remnant lipoproteins, may predict risk of myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack), ischemic heart disease (IHD), and death, the authors write. Brge...

Autoimmune Response in Multiple Sclerosis

...fic characteristic of these destructive T cells is dominant in driving the development of EAE/MS. In a study appearing online on July 12 in advance of publication in the August print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Eli Sercarz and colleagues from the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studi...