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Kidney Stones - Interesting New Research implicates bacteria as its cause

...se a protective covering made of Calcium,which may act as a seed for calcium deposits that may enlarge to form stones. Researchers examined 30 stones in a study and found living Nano bacteria in all of them. So antibiotics may prove to be effective means of treating and preventing Kidney stones. These f...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...y studies, Becker has demonstrated that the actual act of restarting the heart can cause significant damage. Therefore, he proposes giving the heart a rest by cooling the organ along with the brain before restarting it, so that the heart's cells can direct their energies toward repairing themselves rath...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

... make it more difficult for the anti AIDS drugs to act on them according to researchers. This however does not mean that these drugs will be powerless against the virus but these drugs find it difficult to latch on to the protease, which is an enzyme useful in the replication of the virus inside the body...

Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...s coming under the umbrella of consumer protection act has been a very controversial one with legal luminaries having diametrically opposite views on this. However these days doctors are being pulled up for negligence and this latest episode in Attingal, Kerala will serve as a grim warning to errant medi...

Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances

.... Chokani hoped that the new branch in Delhi would act as an effective interface between the Government and the exporting community and help take chemical exports on a higher growth gear in the coming years. Courtesy : The Hindu Business Line, 16-06-2001...

New FDA Approved Drug To Treat Migraine

...nist.// This drug targets serotonin receptors and act against migraine headaches by inducing the constriction of blood vessels surrounding the brain. Nausea, sleepiness, numbness, dry mouth and headache are the side effects associated with the use of Axert. In controlled trials, Axert showed a low perc...

Dark skin protects

...darker skin. Mackintosh suggests melanosomes might act like lysosomes in the immune system, which engulf invading microorganisms and use enzymes to kill them. "Melanin is a sticky molecule. The bacteria and fungi get tangled up, and it stops them from proliferating." Also, a protein called attractin is...

A new growth factor identified

...e possibility that other growth factors exist that act on specific tissues, such as the heart or lung or skeletal muscle, which could hold "considerable therapeutic potential....

Coronary stent leads to complications

... the coronary artery to keep it open. But the very act of placing a stent in the artery irritates the vessel walls and may promote formation of a clot - ironically, the actual problem which the procedure is supposed to prevent.// Till date, it has been thought that clot formation inside a stent was qui...

Male infertility in relation to pesticide

... were also seen. "Our results suggests toxicants act on the testes and post-testicular sites, including the accessory sex glands," said study author Dr Luc Multigner, from France's Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale. The findings are released today in the journal Human Reproducti...

Probiotics can help

...nce of healthy and unhealthy bacteria.// They also act to boost immunity. They are present, either naturally or added, in certain foods as well as being also sold in tablet form as dietary supplements. Now a Finnish study has tested the efficacy of a particular strain of probiotic, lactobacillus GG, in...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

...hen they first hit the market in the 1980's.//hey act to modify levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical messenger generally thought to be associated with mood and feelings of pleasure. Prozac is known as Seroxat in Britain and Paxil in the US. This drug has the generic name-Paroxetine. Howeve...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...nels in fatty membranes around cells. Ion channels act as 'gates' for ions to pass in and out of the cell."We had to make a conceptual leap between ion channels and the budding process" said Professor Gage who works in the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Australian National Universi...

New Way To Treat Lupus

...tment. The findings suggest that a drug that would act against immune system protein called interferon-alpha could fight the disease....

Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

India has finally decided to get its act together on improving quality of plant-based drugs. It promises not only to get a large number of laboratories activated on testing them, but also seeks to start registering farmers who produce medicinal plants to ensure the raw material itself meets...

A need for new stem cell lines

... -- outlawed. A proposed measure, would outlaw the act of therapeutically cloning a human embryo. It would also ban the importation of products derived from therapeutic cloning. Vogels said such a ban could mean that regenerative medical applications will never occur and people with terrible diseases wo...

Armpit odour enhances mood

...that hormones in the body odour of the young might act as a signal of aggression. She pointed to a recent study which showed that people can distinguish between the odours of both happy and frightened people. Hormonal changes in old age, she said, were likely to make the odour of the elderly, particula...

Warm yourself to sleep

...at a hot water bottle at the feet may not directly act on the central nervous system to cause sleep, but it can trigger widening of the blood vessels, which in turn switches the body's sleep mechanism on. If the extremities are cold, inhibiting the free flow of blood, the sleep hormones fail to kick in...

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...trands of DNA affixed on the surface of Gao’s chip act as probes, each strand corresponding to a specific gene or a DNA sequence where a complementary strand in biological samples will bind.The DNA contained in a blood or a tissue sample can be placed on the chip, and the person’s DNA would then match up...

Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses

...her alcoholism drug, acamprosate. Both medications act on the brain's opioid receptors to make drinking less pleasurable. Earlier studies, including the work that led to its FDA approval, showed that when combined with counseling naltrexone could help control alcoholism by reducing drinking days and in...

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