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Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...ing, and known as naked DNA vaccination, holds the potential of overcoming autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. The vaccine is currently being successfully tested in animals. In multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the body essentially attacks itself, cau...

Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments

.... This important finding provides a new target for potential new malara treatments. In addition to causing enormous human suffering, malaria impedes the economic development and stability of many developing countries. This discovery is an important step forward in our understanding of malaria and the search fo...

The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

...o phony medical journals listing these products as potential cancer causers. However, medical experts are concerned that people believe such myths yet ignore research that clearly shows that some substances, such as tobacco, cause numerous forms of cancer. "It never ceases to amaze me -- people keep reachin...

Brain death – How to cope with it

...have the ability to breathe and therefore have the potential to wake up in a year or two," he added. It is very difficult for the people involved to actually take this hard decision to stop life support. But by coming to terms with death they can actually avoid a lot of heartache and trauma. It is actually a...

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

...and, is poised to begin human clinical trails of a potential treatment based on the vaccine. Nearly one in ten people over the age of 65 suffers the dementia by Alzheimer’s disease, and the risk rises fourfold for those over 80. Several genes have been linked to the condition – particularly one that codes fo...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...or, and an Indian company for the development of a potential AIDS vaccine to halt the spread of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Two Hyderabad-based biotechnology/pharma companies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners for the propo...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...onated organs often outstrips the supply. However, potential donors are strictly screened to make sure that the procedure does as little harm as possible to their health. People in need of liver donations include those with livers damaged by hepatitis C, cancer, alcohol consumption or primary biliary cirrhosi...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...ammogram, the patient may be unaware that she is a potential candidate for breast cancer. But to offset this problem, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore headed by Dr. Saraswathi Sukumar, have devised a new method of detecting early stages of breast cancer by using a new me...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

... argue that the benefits of using DDT outweigh the potential health risks involved. Many developing countries including Mexico still use DDT in their fight against malaria causing mosquitoes. The disease infects as many as 500 million people each year and may kill as many as 2.5 million across the globe, acco...

Healthcare sector is now a multi billion-dollar industry in India

...as identified the health care sector in India as a potential gold mine. India is poised to develop into a 'regional healthcare hub' with the $17 billion healthcare industry growing at a rate of 13 per cent the study says. With a 16% increase in budgetary outlay the healthcare industry is poised to zoom ahead b...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

... CERC says that the commonly use drug might cause potential liver damage and might lead on to liver failure. ...ni Kumar warns that consumers must be aware of the potential hazards of paracetamol more so because it is being marketed in India without any hindrance. More ov...

Special proteins to fight TB identified

... to produce extra heat-shock proteins represents a potential method of protecting people from TB. Dr. Stewart added that the study demonstrated the potential for a new class of drugs, which by inducing the bacterium to manufacture heat-shock proteins would m...

Soluble IL-4 Receptor - A new boon for asthmatics

...bo. This study is "the first...to demonstrate the potential clinical efficacy of a TH2 inhibitor for the treat...role of IL-4 in the pathogenesis of asthma and the potential benefit of this approach to therapy," Dr. Borish and colleagues conclude....

WORM! WORM! all the way

... are a possibility. But doctors face at least two potential hurdles before probiotics with genetically modified organisms becomes a reality: controlling the reproduction of the organisms once they are in the body, and preventing them from producing too much of the drug or vaccine they are engineered to make.....

New FDA Approved Drug To Treat Migraine

... effects. However this class of compounds has the potential to cause coronary vasospasm, and as a result Axert is not advised for patients with ischemic or vasospastic artery disease. This drug is introduced by the pharmaceutical company, Pharmacia. Results of controlled clinical trials demonstrated that Axe...

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

... labeling and packaging in an effort to reduce the potential for dispensing errors involving its antiepileptic ...rt to educate pharmacists and physicians about the potential for Lamictal dispensing errors. The container label change is a part of this effort.These efforts r...

Early detection of prostate cancer

...opsy. That same group of men, however, had other potential cancer indicators: their levels of the protein IGF-1 were higher than those of a similar group of men who were cancer-free, and their levels of IGFBP-3 were lower. Furthermore, while levels of IGF-1 were high for all men with prostate cancer, low lev...

Dentist's note for vegetarians

...r multi-vitamins daily to prevent problems. "The potential for deficiencies is greatest among children and teenagers who put themselves on vegetarian diets without knowing enough about their nutritional needs," he said. He warned that anyone considering changing their eating habits should inform their dent...

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...hat all the SSRI class of antidepressants have the potential to cause withdrawal reactions when people try to stop taking them, but that Paxil/Seroxat is the worst....

Gene clue to antibiotics

...y of many new antibiotics. Streptomyces also makes potential anti-cancer drugs, and immune-suppressants. Incidentally Streptomyces is also quite similar to the microbe that causes tuberculosis. So this research may reveal insights into the biology of this important disease, which still poses a major threat t...

Voice may be improved by surgery

Surgery for sinus problems or sleep apnoea has the potential to alter voice characteristics. One solution for sleep apnoea - a disorder where breathing stops many times during the night - is to remodel the nasal and throat cavity through surgery. Often the problem is that the uvula - a flap of tissue at the to...

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

...ahan said: "Our findings are encouraging about the potential value of angiogenesis inhibitors for treating cancer; we believe we can do even better."...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...ne abuse and emphasize the need to alert users and potential users to the long-lasting, profound effects of this drug." Methamphetamine, also known as "speed," "meth" or "chalk" (and, in its smoked form, as "ice," "crystal" or "glass"), can be smoked, snorted, injected or taken orally. The drug, often made i...

Long travel increase pulmonary embolism

...n a really long flight, take medical advice on the potential risks of PE....

Setting up a new pharmaceutical industry in India

...options like China and Brazil. As India has a high potential and the Indian pharma industry is poised to take a big leap. Already all major pharmaceutical companies in India has started giving more attention towards basic product R&D and are going to need most accurate, proven and highly advance equipment. T...

New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...rpreet Sawhney told that the gel may also have the potential to halt tumour growth by cutting off its blood supply. Vanessa Jones, senior lecturer at the Wound Healing Research Unit at the University of Wales College of Medicine, said the gel seemed to be using technology which is currently applied to extern...

Diet Can Influence Allergic Skin Reactions

... chemicals used in fragrances. After eliminating potential sources of irritation such as perfumes, skin care products and cleaners, patients who still did not see a reduction in symptoms were asked to eliminate foods that contain BOP-related chemicals. Such foods include chocolate, citrus fruits, ice cream,...

Sequencing of the Plague

...Black Death during middle ages in Europe and now a potential biological weapon, has had its entire genome sequenced. The genes seem to be "unusually fluid", readily re-arranging themselves and picking up new genes from other microbes. That could mean that more virulent strains of plague might emerge. More omin...

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

...et go of their neighbours and spread. So there's a potential for blocking this enzyme, known as GnT-V, with drugs and this may form the basis of a new therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells. Test tube experiments do seem to suggest that inhibiting the enzyme blocks the invasion of cancer cells into ne...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...hers now are working on further characterizing the potential receptors which could be the site at which the prokineticins control muscle movement. Understanding how these receptors and proteins work could be the key to developing new treatments for gastrointestinal disorders. Zhou believes that the result may...

Detecting brain aneurysms

...wall. Aneurysms pose a risk to health due to their potential to rupture, thrombose or embolize. The most common blood vessels involved are the abdominal and thoracic aorta, and brain. Potential blood vessel problems in the brain can be detected by non-invasive techniques, but only if they are above a certain d...

Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

...infection diminishes HIV growth, we will have both potential targets for new drug approaches and potentially a new therapy approach,'' he said. Several earlier studies had demonstrated a link between hepatitis G and prolonged survival with HIV, so Stapleton and his colleagues conducted a study to confirm the c...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

A widely used blood pressure drug shows strong potential for slowing the metabolic overdrive that makes patients waste away after severe burns and other major injuries. In a study, researchers at Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas, tried propranolol on 13 children with bad burns and left 12...

Animal Fat Enhances Risk Of Stomach

...sen rapidly over the past 30 years. To investigate potential links between these and two other types of stomach and esophageal cancers and dietary factors, Dr. Susan T. Mayne from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues interviewed more than 1,000 patients and nearly 700 healthy people in thr...

Detection of Cancer

...id.// The beauty of the C-Test is that it has the potential to detect prostate, breast, lung and colo-rectal c...of this diagnostic molecule points to its use as a potential cancer treatment, but Professor Parish cautions that further research is needed to evaluate this pos...

Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

...cow, Russia. A smallpox attack is just one of many potential bioterrorism threats, but "perhaps it is the most ...ockpile vaccines and prepare local officials for a potential attack....

Mouthwash as a weapon

...l drugs is causing concern to health officials.Any potential new avenue of attack is likely to be fully investigated, particularly as triclosan could prove cheaper to manufacture than many existing antimalarials.// Triclosan is the anti-bacterial ingredient of mouthwashes, and acne medications, but has never...

For a Better Memory

...en we learned that fact. This research has great potential for helping stroke victims, as well as those who suffer with dementia and even Alzheimer's disease....

High-protein diets may pose health risks

...fectiveness in long-term weight reduction and post potential health threats for those who adhere to them for more than a short time, accordinhg to an advisory from the American Heart Associantion’s Nutrition Committee in Circulation published in: Journal of the American Heart Association. Some of the diets in...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

...treatments. Novartis believes Femara may also have potential early in the course of breast cancer and is studying the drug as a pre-surgical therapy....

DNA biochip for genetic screening

... Other prevalent technologies do not have the same potential and capabilities as ours.” Gao and her team plan to make the biochips available for fields such as genomics, proteomics, chemical genetics and other new areas. Gao presented information about the versatility of the UH biochip technology at the Inter...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...n, which is at present ill-prepared to deal with a potential outbreak. If introduced into America or Europe, smallpox would spread rapidly at first, infecting 6 to 12 people for each individual already infected. As steps were taken to hinder the spread of the disease--including mass vaccination campaigns, r...

Andhra Pradesh to set up 'Pharma City'

...o set up a manufacturing base. The state has the potential to become the main manufacturing base for various bulk drugs and generics. What the 'Pharma City' needs is strong infrastructure support from the government and hassle-free atmosphere for promotion of pharmaceutical idustry....

Stem cell research

...competition over the past few years to capture the potential of embryonic stem cells - a kind of 'template' cel... must be noted that almost all of the wide-ranging potential applications of [embryonic stem] cell technology in human medicine are based on the assumption that ...

Serotonin increases stroke risk

...rchers at the Health welfare hospital, warn of the potential dangers of using such drugs in combination. They may narrow the blood vessels in the brain to such an extent that a stroke is precipitated. The experts warn that doctors should consider the possibility of these drugs being the culprit whenever a pati...

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...few years, there has been a lot of research on the potential link between infection and heart disease. Now, a new study shows that the more infections you have throughout your life, the more likely// you are to die from heart disease. The researchers, from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, l...

Lengthy Fingers could predict heart attacks

...could provide doctors with a simple way to to spot potential heart disease victims at a very early age. The research shows that boys with shorter ring fingers tend to be at greatest risk. This is because these boys tend to have lower levels of the male sex hormone testosterone, which is known to protect ag...

Nasal Spray Beats Antihistamine

...ss and nose bleeds, while in children there is the potential for the corticosteroids to hinder bone growth over time. Although patients with seasonal allergies are advised to take their antihistamines or steroid nasal sprays daily, "most patients are probably not compliant,'' according to Dr. Robert M. Nacl...

Acne Drug linked to suicide attempts

One year ago the FDA issued a statement about the potential for depression and suicide in teens taking the acn...se effects. Doctors have known for years about the potential for birth defects in women who become pregnant while taking the drug. And near the end of 2001, more...

A novel augmentation

...rom frog embryos called stem cells. These have the potential to develop into any specific type of cell in the frog's body - heart, skin, muscle and so on.// The major technique used by the team at Tokyo University is the use of a chemical to direct the development of the stem cells into particular tissue. Th...

Organs made from cloned embryos

...ntain master cells called stem cells that have the potential to grow into any tissue in the body.// In this case, they grew the embryos to the stage where they could identify cells destined to become kidney cells. While it is still unclear whether these made from cloned embryos can perform all the duties of th...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

... guidelines revised last year expand the number of potential patients to 36 million, an increase of 140 percent. "We're urging caution," say Donald Fedder, a University of Maryland pharmacologist and lead author of the study. Statins are safe in the short term, but doctors "need to follow their patients over ...

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...latest findings are further evidence of the drug’s potential for treatment of the condition. Dr Walter Vincken and colleagues from the Academic Hospital University of Brussels, Belgium, examined the effects of tiotropium compared to ipratropium in COPD patients over the period of one year. The group found tha...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

... abundant source of antioxidants and could provide potential anticancer benefits when supplementing a balanced diet.Herbs have higher antioxidant activity than frutis, vegetables and some spice,s including garlic, the researchers say. Their findings appear in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.// ...

FDA Imposes New Restrictions On Roche's Accutane

...a consent form, showing that they are aware of the potential risks. The FDA added that pharmacists would now be restricted to dispensing a one-month supply to ensure that these restrictions are followed. The typical treatment period is about six months. In order to make the programme work, the FDA said that ...

Knee fat turns into cartilage

...ir knee problems. There is growing interest in the potential of tissue engineering where replacement// or repai...pecial biodegradable matrix. The work has enormous potential and many applications. In years to come, those with injury to a joint or some other skeletal problem...

New device for detecting artery blockages

... stroke. One important way of screening people for potential stroke involves looking, by ultrasound, at any blockages in the carotid arteries that serve the brain.// Researchers at Texas University in the US have pioneered the use of a portable device, based upon a technique called Power Doppler Imaging. Use...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

... abundant source of antioxidants and could provide potential anticancer benefits when supplementing a balanced diet.Herbs have higher antioxidant activity than frutis, vegetables and some spice,s including garlic, the researchers say. Their findings appear in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.// ...

Dangerous food bacteria

...gulation of imported fruits and vegetables and the potential for new pathogens getting into the country. FDA inspects less than 2 percent of imported fruits and vegetables. Major supermarket chains, worried about new outbreaks of salmonella and other bacteria, have recently started requiring domestic and forei...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...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. The company's pill appears to inhibit an enzyme, known as the p38 kinase, which provokes inflammation. Scios' lead comes in part because ...