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Scientists Identify Antibodies That Block Human and Animal SARS Viruses

... two effective antibodies has the advantage that a newly emergent variation of the SARS coronavirus might be insensitive to neutralization with one, but still susceptible to the other. "Our results demonstrate novel potential antibody-based therapeutics against SARS that could be used alone or in combin...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

...ome place larvicide is being used. Larvicide kills newly hatched mosquitoes by suffocating them beneath a thin film spread across the surface of a body of water, where mosquitoes breed. In Canada health officials said the first human case of West Nile virus was identified three weeks earlier than usual. ...

Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction

...vement leader pleaded for religious harmony in the newly independent India. "It is wrong to ruffle Muslim or any other person's feelings," Gandhi said in the seven-page document. Along with the Napoleon and Newton manuscripts, other notables whose letters were on offer included J.R.R. Tolkien, Oliver C...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

... into account," "Our study identifies people with newly diagnosed epilepsy as a vulnerable group that require special attention." ``The effect on daily lives of patients, such as loss of job and driving license, is greatest shortly after diagnosis,'' the researchers said. While epileptics experience a hig...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

... the warnings was to alter the decision to treat a newly presenting patient, the authors write. Previous studies have shown that the use of antidepressants among TennCare patients is similar to that of children and adolescents in the entire United States, suggesting that a similar decrease may have occur...

Chickens also Use Earth's Magnetic Field to Sense Direction

.... Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko placed newly hatched chicks in an artificial magnetic field, teaching them by intensive training that their mother was always behind the screen that was in the northerly direction. The scientists then set up an artificial magnetic field in an easterly direction...

Now, Dads to Get Text Alerts on How to Raise Their Children

... such as websites and telephone help lines. The newly launched schemes are aimed at fathers and other groups who "may struggle to find the help they need". These include the parents of disabled children, those living in poor areas and ethnic minority groups. "We want to support those parents who seek ...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

...r are dead, although she is considering asking her newly diagnosed cousin in the US if she is prepared to undergo testing. She believes it was her grandfather who, ironically, died of old age at 110, who passed the gene on. He had children with several different women and the majority of his female offs...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...twork of brain regions during a five-year study of newly diagnosed Parkinson's patients who agreed to be followed several times over the course of the study. This is the first longitudinal study of Parkinson's disease using a brain scan to follow these Parkinson's network over time. The new report appea...

Physios Find It Difficult to Find Job in NHS

...bs for the physiotherapist at the NHS. Many of the newly qualified physiotherapists cannot find a permanent job in the NHS as posts are being frozen to save money. There is huge waiting list of patients waiting for treatment from the physiotherapist. Financial cutback last year to balance health service...

A New Monoclonal Antibody Kills Cancer Cells

... issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Using a newly available monoclonal antibody, they demonstrated significant reductions in tumor cell proliferation and survival in human and mouse hepatocellular cancer (HCC) cell lines. According to the researchers, this finding has significant implications not ...

Monoclonal Antibody Induces Death in Liver Cancer Cells

...of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have found that a newly available monoclonal antibody has the potential to induce death in liver cancer cells. In a study, the monoclonal antibodies' use demonstrated significantly reduces tumour cell proliferation and survival in human and mouse hepotocellular cancer (...

Lack of Medical Facilities Have Claimed Lives of Newborns at Chhattisgarh Hospital

...tal in Raigarh district had reported 424 deaths of newly born babies in 2006 and 421 such deaths in 2005. Responding to the opposition charges, the minister said that the government had served a show-cause notice to the civil surgeon of the hospital and two other doctors. He said the Bharatiya Janata P...

Three Gene Variants Could Hold Key for HIV Vaccine: Study

...llergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH). Two of the newly discovered gene variants were found in genes controlling the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system, which plays a "major role" in the immune system by identifying foreign invaders and "tagging" them for destruction. Two of the HLA genes, known as HL...

The New Recruitment Process Leaves Thousands of Doctors Jobless

...ccording to a small survey of 1,300 doctors by the newly formed Fidelio. And over 30% of those who have either a first class degree or a distinction have not received an offer. Members warned that the future of the health service was in jeopardy as better doctors were being disregarded in the new system ...

Women Taking Oestrogen Therapy Showed Reduced Coronary Artery Calcification

...vides reassurance about coronary artery disease to newly menopausal women considering estrogen plus progest...vides reassurance about coronary artery disease to newly menopausal women considering estrogen plus progestin therapy or estrogen alone therapy for symptom r...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...that can diagnose which of those patients have the newly identified gene mutation. These probably represe...n the diseased mice. The finding has resulted in a newly identified form of the disease called CMT4J. In the phase of the research involving human patients...

Aedes Agypti Mosquitos Immune System Revealed

...ch will be needed to ascertain whether some of the newly discovered genes in Aedes may provide a similar defence mechanism that can fight the disease viruses. Dr George Christophides of Imperials Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, senior author on the paper explains: Our study has revealed the genet...

Doherty Will Marry Moss If He's 'smack and Needle-free'

.... The 'Babyshambles' singer revealed this in his newly published diaries. "Smack and needle-free we shall marry in the summer and I become 10 times happier than any given smackhead. Huzzah!" the Daily Mail quoted Doherty, as saying. The poet insisted that his ladylove Moss is a 'shining light of hope' ...

Doctors Remove Tumour from Heart in a Rare Surgery

...ricles, the heart's main pumping chambers. "The newly constructed heart is responding to the treatment and functioning well," said Manohar....

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