Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession
...orld of workplace crime. At least one physician is killed every year the report says adding that health care workers have to walk a tight rope most of the times.The most common form of threat was verbal threat but even life threats were also reported. Even female doctors were not spared. But very few doctor...George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief
...ia and tuberculosis. Those three diseases together killed some 5.5 million people last year, the bulk of them in Africa,according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The sheer number of those infected and dying is almost beyond comprehension," President Bush said at a Rose Garden appearance. UN Secreta...Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice
...i-Ebola virus antibodies. The dreaded Ebola virus killed thousands in Africa and the symptoms of Ebola infection are high fever, chest pain, vomiting and extensive bleeding. Most victims die after several days....... 24 cell lines. It was also found that these virus killed the tumour cells that were taken from the humans and grown in the laboratory. In their study, mice that had human glioma cells transplanted to them, they used live virus in one set and dead virus in another group. Ninety days after being treated, th...... means that a third of the male population will be killed by tobacco. This shcok is suffiecient to make people think and leave this bad and risky habit.....Gene Therapy Destroys Pancreatic Cancer Cells
...ve in destroying other types of cancer cells. This killed the pancreatic cancer cells in the lab after a few days. The observations are very provocative and with a little tweaking, may lead to an effective therapy for a devastating and aggressive disease....... of apple juice contaminated with// the E. colibug killed off almost all the bacteria. Just one teaspoon of cinnamon killed 99.5% of the bacteria after three days at room temperature. When the same amount of cinnamon was com......Stevenson said: "In theory tumour cells should be killed by the immune system because it is designated to destroy anything which is not a normal, healthy cell.However tumour cells are decieving. Though clearly labelled, they have developed ways of switching off the immune system to their presence, thwarti...AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death
... do not get life prolonging drugs. The illness has killed 25 million people since the early 1980s. An estimated 14,000 people are infected each day with HIV, which destroys the immune system. Without antiretroviral drugs, most people living with AIDS will die, pushing the death toll beyond the 40 million ......by a wild rat. The highly contagious disease later killed three of his relatives. Twelve more infected people from the same village were being treated at nearby hospitals. Thakur said about 8000 people in the affected area had been given preventive antibiotics. Most villages and transport vehicles had bee...A Blood test for suicide risk?
...und that seven of the 30 with abnormal results had killed themselves, compared with only one of the patients who had normal results. Those with high cortisol levels were 14 times more likely to commit suicide. If the findings hold up in larger studies, Coryell believes the test could prove to be a powerful...Effective And Economical Agent For Anthrax
...ores in an actual anthrax contamination. The tests killed the spores and proved that methyl bromide is more effective than chlorine dioxide gas as a building fumigant for anthrax. Methyl bromide would be the most effective treatment because the structure is so heavily contaminated with anthrax spores. Anot...A question on study of Adult Stem Cell
...r cell mass from a 5-to-7-day-old embryo, which is killed in the process, have pointed to adult stem cell research as a viable, less morally offensive alternative to stem cells extracted from embryos. Still in a blank state, embryonic stem cells can turn into any of the cell types in the body. This morphin...Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin
...ptides, levels found in skin of psoriasis patients killed the bacterial. The researchers also found that two hormone-like proteins associated with the immune response and commonly secreted by atopic dermatitis patients’ cells. "These findings indicate that atopic dermatitis patients have an impaired immune ...New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing
...ted these cells (i.e. DCs) that were loaded with a killed AIDS virus into monkeys, infected with the same virus. The monkeys which would quickly die in normal conditions, were alive and did not get sick - at least for the 34-week study period, when they were given the vaccine treatment. Most vaccines make ...Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells
...axol only about half as many engineered cells were killed by the drug as non-engineered cells. In normal cell division, a cell can only divide if it has correctly shared out all its genes, ensuring each new cell receives a complete set. If there is a problem with the process of sharing out genes, an alarm ...Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage
...red from anaesthesia. The first group of rats were killed and their brains were examined the next day. The second group was kept alive until they were about a month old while the third group grew into adulthood. Researchers tested the month old and adult rats to see how the anaesthesia affected their learn...SARS impact could be devastating
...Kong, are among the hardest hit by SARS, which has killed more than 260 people worldwide and infected some 4,600 since it emerged in China late last year. In Singapore, foreign workers make up 24 percent of the labor force. Seven percent of workers in Hong Kong are foreign. China doesn't take in many foreig...Common Cold Remedy May Treat SARS
...rom entering cells. One need to note that SARS has killed more than five percent of the nearly 7,500 people it is known to have infected.......i of tumor cells// was the only way that radiation killed tumor cells, this research shows another radiation-induced pathway initiated when radiation strikes endothelial cells....