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Tag: "permissive" at medical news

Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...hildren smoking tobacco in waterpipes are far more permissive than attitudes to cigarette smoking. There has been little research into the health effects of waterpipe smoking, but data show that rising numbers of children in the UK are being exposed to and experimenting with smoking hookah products, write the...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...ing HPV infection in women. Given the increasingly permissive ways of the West , the human papilloma virus is a looming danger and one has to go all out to fight cervical cancer. But the multi-million marketing by the multi-national drug manufacturer has made experts uneasy. To give the impression that it ...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...nising soulsearching is on in Netherlands over its permissive sex milieu. Health Minister Ab Klink called the case "horrible", as the media splashed the news across its front pages yesterday. The matter came to light when police arrested three seropositive homosexual men after four victims, men aged 25 to 50, a...

A Breakthrough in the Study of Hepatitis C

...d hepatocytes. Systems in vogue involve culture of permissive viral strains in transformed cell lines. The stu... virus, while other systems rely on derivatives of permissive virus isolates for efficient replication in transformed (mutated) cell lines. Still lacking has been...

A New Research Demonstrates HIV-1 In Resident Immune Cells Of Human Testis

...fully active as collected virus was able to infect permissive cells in culture. The finding that HIV-1 can replicate within testicular macrophages is significant because the testis represents a pharmacological sanctuary—many anti-retroviral drugs have difficulty penetrating this organ and may be present at s...

Genetic susceptibility in viral encephalitis

...id. "Here we have defined a genetic lesion that is permissive for an infection: a trait that most would regard as quintessentially environmental in cause. It is likely that other mutations will also be found to permit herpes simplex virus encephalitis, and likely that other infectious diseases will ultimately b...

Scientists Coax Nerve Fibers to Regrow After Spinal Cord Injury

...grow out of the inhibitory spinal cord into a more permissive environment that contains fewer ARIs. They chose to mimic the injury commonly seen in motorcycle accidents, called brachial plexus avulsion, because it involves nerves at the boundary between the spinal cord and periphery. The researchers surgical...

Virus Causing Kaposi's Sarcoma Discovered

...he protein xCT as the receptor that can make cells permissive for KSHV fusion. The NIAID discovery may lead to new avenues for treating KSHV, says Dr. Berger. Moreover, their finding should enable scientists to determine whether levels of xCT determine disease severity. It also will allow researchers to stud...

Condom Vending Machines Provoke Protests

...end up promoting illicit sex, which will lead to a permissive culture that could boomerang on its anti-AIDS effort itself". But the Government is determined to go ahead with its moves to control spread of the disease. Studies in Thailand have shown a 100% decrease in new incidents of HIV when condoms were prom...

Minimizing The Risk Of HIV Spread

...ssion in the foreskin by enabling the infection of permissive cells....

Circumcision Found To Prevent HIV Spread

...ssion in the foreskin by enabling the infection of permissive cells....

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