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Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver

...very that means patients may be able to grow their own liver transplants using bone marrow. This adds to ...iver is an incredibly regenerative organ using its own cells," Dr. Neil Theise of the New York University School of Medicine, who led the study, said in a ...

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...s these genes as outside invaders, it produces its own neutralizing antibodies capable of restraining the...lves teaching the immune system how to correct its own mistakes, fooling the natural immune system into fighting itself by neutralizing the excessive cytok...

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...in the decision-making, experts came up with their own recommendations as follows: 1. Women whose breast tumors contain estrogen receptors, regardless of other factors, are recommended to use hormonal therapy. The panel suggests five years of drug-Tamoxifen as the standard hormonal adjuvant therapy. Hor...

Patient’s perception of health status helps in better recover

...onary bypass operations and assessed the patient’s own perception of his/her own health status. Following surgery those who had a better perception of their own health status, recov...

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

...ow we can live healthy without compromising on our own inbuilt lines of defence. Especially when HIV and other immune suppressing conditions (generally following viral infections) already compromise the immunity of a person, stress can take a heavy toll on a person's health. This has formed the basis of...

Fight anemia by fortifying crops with iron!!!!!!!!

... to developing countries if they can develop their own technology to improve upon this idea. This way they say the huge problem posed by anemia in India can be checked very well. Looks like our scientists are taking the bull by its horns… lets hope they succeed!!...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

... the production of red blood cells. Recycling ones own blood is permissible amongst the Witnesses. The surgery is the first of its kind in an infant but with the successful result obtained many more similar procedures will follow suit./p>...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...r behind rival firm Ranbaxy announced plans of its own production of anti retroviral drugs for AIDS treatment. This development brings to a head a series of developments in a year that has seen people all over the world ganging up against rising prices of essential life saving medicines. However critics...

Children suffer the most when parents divorce

...re less religious, who have few friends, who don’t own a house and who move their residences often are more prone to divorce than others.Dr. Booth says that ultimately if a marriage cannot be preserved till the children become young adults, then every effort should be made to attend to the needs of the c...

Teens turning to Internet for medical queries

... Ethnicity, the mother's education, and the teen's own health status did not affect how often adolescents...h, the flip side is that these teens rush to their own diagnosis based on what they see and read and invariably end up worrying unnecessarily....

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...g healthcare delivery system andgive back to one's own country is also a huge motivator for Dr Singh, whoaccepted almost a 40 per cent pay cut to do this. Dr Joshi, also driven by the need to give back to the country and to give histwo children a firsthand feel of their roots, says salaries here becoming...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...s fifth largest pharmaceutical company, which will own 51% of the equity. Local health campaigners in India are outraged that the bank is funding a private hospital rather than basic primary healthcare services for poorer patients. The save Public health Care Campaign, a coalition of Indian non-governme...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...nsform into full organs. He adds that since one's own body is the factory, there is no question of biolo...ejection as these new organs are produced by one's own body itself. Though Dr. Matapurkar has won the patent after four years of patient waiting, there i...

Special proteins to fight TB identified

...eat-shock proteins would make it vulnerable to our own natural immunity, enabling us to clear the infection. This research assumes importance because of the fact that tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease in the world. But the sad part is that a third of the world's populatio...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

... more of these medications you take, the less your own brain makes," Dr. Merle L. Diamond, associate director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, Illinois added. Dr. Natan Gadoth, professor of neurology at Tel Aviv University in Israel, told, "This disorder is practically unknown to pediatricians...

Double impact vaccine

...isease and non Hodgkin's lymphoma, each having its own spread, growth and response to treatment. Chemotherapy alone or in combination with radiation therapy is the standard treatment for lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation is given in case of relapse. If proved effective, t...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

...desh, a low-lying area, has been the victim of its own success in providing clean drinking water to nearly all of its 130 million people. More than 3 million wells have been sunk across the country.At least 27 percent of those wells, which draw underground water from less than 200 meters (650 feet) below...

Simple Therapy

...versions of of Type 1 Diabetes are regrowing their own islets, the cells responsible for producing insulin. In addition Denise Faustman and colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital have rid the mice of the immune cells that attack the pancreas and the islets in the first place.// ...

Recouping blood flow after a stroke

...e brain in human stroke, by harnessing the brain's own self-healing power....

Gene clue to antibiotics

...nicillin did we find a way of applying this to our own health. Researchers at the Sanger Centre - genome headquarters - have recently announced the solving of the Streptomyces genome - the biggest and complex, bacterial genome solved to date. The Streptomyces genome has already revealed many new genes ...

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