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Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments

...g the red blood cell's hemoglobin, it must get the rest from outside the cell. The parasite creates tiny channels in the red blood cell membrane, through which it can absorb nutrients. In fact, each infected red blood cell have a thousand or more such channels, which are not present on normal, uninfected ...

What happens when Asthmatics consume Aspirin?

...With this finding asthmatics and their doctors can rest easy if a situation arises that demands treatment with aspirin. So shall we say aspirin is no longer taboo for asthmatics?...

Cut down TV and video games and you have less aggressive children.

...-day life. Let the television sets and video games rest for some time. Poor machines they are so stressed out!!!!!!!!...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...nually, of which IVRIproduces 4 million doses. The rest is manufactured by two companies in theprivate sector, Indian Immunological, Hyderabad and Intervet Baiaf, Pune.But the vaccine production is insufficient keeping in mind the fact that thecountry has 209 million cattle, 92.2 million buffaloes, 56.7 m...

The brain loves a surprise

...he next time you give someone a pleasant surprise, rest assured their brains would love you!!!...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...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 rather than being required to start pumping blood right away. At the Argonne National Laboratory in Argon...

Shock it to Heal!!

... removal dead tissue weekly, topical treatment and rest for 3 months, it was found that the ulcer healing rate was about 65%. Though it is not clear, electric stimulation works in enhancing the blood flow to the affected area and hence enhance the immune system. The device should be used in combination w...

Prevention is better than cure

...y cold viruses; stay in good general health (diet, rest and exercise); and maintain a social support system - seeing friends, relatives and others on a regular basis....

Human gene number increases

...ming that both groups predicted real genes. If the rest of the mooted genes are genuine, an estimate of 42,000 or more is closer to the mark. According to the researchers, gene-prediction algorithms are at fault, rather than the underlying sequence itself. Cooke says that computational methods, which loo...

Treatment for Meniere's disease

... the disease was controlled with drug therapy. The rest - for whom standard drug treatment and measures like salt restriction did not work - had a range of interventions, some of them surgical. An operation called vestibular nerve section - cutting a nerve in the middle ear - gave relief in 93 per cent of...

Health at heights

...of a major flight. This means they must get proper rest and avoid stressful situations as much as possible - no easy task given the nature of their challenge. Exhaustion can severely impair performance, and is caused by insomnia, illness, stress and overwork. Although the cabin is heated to 15°C, tempera...

Biotechnology on the lead

... a non-toxic fragment - and splits it off from the rest of the molecule. "It creates a good antibody response and it also in animals protects against the lethal effects of the toxin itself. This is very exciting work. We can take a non-toxic fragment of the molecule and produce a safer, but still very eff...

Benefit of colonoscopy

...colonoscopies. Just over half were screens and the rest were to evaluate symptoms. More than a third were ...ies, 20 per cent on those in their sixties and the rest on the over seventies. The prevalence of overall bowel cancer peaked at 70 - but the number of cas...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...alue, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest between beats. // In the study, the team of researchers monitored blood pressure levels of 6,859 men and women. They then compared heart disease related illness in people with high-normal blood pressure to people with high blood pressure. Overall, ...

Bupropion relieves nerve pain

...ents. Half took bupropion for six weeks, while the rest took a placebo. // After this time, they swopped treatments for the next six weeks. Seventy three per cent of the bupropion patients reported their pain was improved or even much improved while 90 per cent of those taking the placebo found their pain...

Sex life enhanced by cycling

... they did stretching and warm-up and then, for the rest of the time, they cycled at 65 per cent of their p...ality of life showed marked improvement. While the rest of the group did no exercise, and reported no improvement. The benefits of exercise relate to an i...

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

...ct the heart from disease. The explanation could rest in the different metabolic responses to these eating patterns. It could also be that frequent eaters metabolize what they eat rather differently than infrequent eaters....

Cure for sleepless nights

...ral therapy, some a combination of the two and the rest a placebo. They received the treatment for eight weeks and were followed up over a two-year period. The researchers found that drug and behavioural therapy combined was most effective in helping people to fall and stay asleep. But behavioural therap...

New HIV cases resist drugs

...resistance is there, it stays in a patient for the rest of his or her life. With bacteria, it is often possible to take a patient off antibiotics and so-called wild-type bacteria will eventually move in and push out the drug-resistant versions. Not so with HIV, which lurks in the body for decades, perhaps...

Artists prone to cubital tunnel syndrome

...stretching before practices and recitals. Adequate rest periods are needed. The difference between normal discomfort and detrimental pain should be understood. And last but not the least is an evaluation from a physician is a must. ...

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