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Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

... year, while the country needs 2 million babies to reverse the population decline, Kulakov told the news conference....

Evidence Links Protein Damage to Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

...top or slow the oxidative damage, and thus slow or reverse the progression of these diseases."...

Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation

...ke up and ape the West in a big way it is just the reverse in the United States where people are taking note of Ayurveda in a big way. The study was conducted on 60 African-Americans and after a seven-month period the results were extensively researched and studied and to the surprise of even the critics the...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

WE are seeing the first signs of a reverse brain drain in the healthcaresector, which is expected to only grow over time. The emergence of moderncorporate and investorowned hospitals in the country is steadily luring moreand more NRI doctors back to home turf. And unlike other sectors, where ...

The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live

...Regimens that contained drugs called nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, especially nevirapine and efavirenz, were particularly hard on the liver, Chung and colleagues found. In more than 25% of the cases the HAART regime cost elevation of liver enzymes to more than five times the upper limit of...

Resurface your skin

...here are now a number of new technologies that can reverse the signs of skin ageing. Why not give non-ablative skin resurfacing a go? It sounds scary but in fact it just involves a laser treating the cells beneath the surface skin. No skin is actually removed. Instead, a gentle series of light pulses can r...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

... there are two types of anti-HIV drugs available – reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as AZT and protease inhibitors. These work by targeting the reproduction of the virus within the host cell."The problem is HIV can mutate to escape the drugs you are using to treat it," said Professor Gage. "If this occu...

FDA Approves New HIV Drug, Viread

... body. But Viread is the first nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor to be approved for treatment of HIV in the US. As a result//, it may offer a treatment option for patients whose infections have become resistant to currently available medications. Foster City, California-based Gilead said t...

Armpit odour enhances mood

...but they warn that those of young men may have the reverse effect. The Pennsylvania-based team believe that the effect may be due to the human ability to detect the presence or absence of hormones in sweat which signal aggression, reports "New Scientist" magazine. Denise Chen, at the Monell Chemical Senses...

Vitamin E useful for Alzheimer's

.... Scientists in Japan discovered it is possible to reverse a degenerative// brain disease simply by taking vi...ts that vitamin E supplements can prevent and even reverse early neurodegenerative changes that would ultimately lead to Alzheimer's disease....

Lack of solar radiation causes cancer

...ue, but what is not generally realised is that the reverse may also be the case - that UV-B prevents cancer. Dr.William Grant, an independent researcher based in Hopkins University has analysed cancer rates in New England and compared them to those in the Southern states. He says that cancer rates are inve...

High Altitude ‘Speeds up ageing process

...vels is key to the ageing process and maybe if you reverse it, you might reverse the ageing process.” ...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

...immunodeficiency virus depends on an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to replicate, and higher than normal...easing manganese also lowers the activity of HIV's reverse transcriptase, which could block replication of the virus and help prevent it from causing acquired ...

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

...tied to deadly retroviruses, such as HIV, known as reverse transcriptase. The enzyme apparently analyzes a master copy of the gene for the tail-like structures to modify a second copy of the gene, which is the version the virus uses to create the trillion keys....

How to repeal male infertility?

...s University say that they may one day be able to reverse some cases of male infertility. The announcement is based on findings from an animal study that show infertile male mice treated with gene therapy are able to go on to produce offspring.// According to researchers, up to 30 percent of couples worldw...

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

...ppears that the class of drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, including zidovudine (AZT) and lamivudine (3TC), has an effect, he said....

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...es at birth. The L1 elements use a process called reverse transcription to move about and insert themselves into DNA sequences. The researchers found four of 37 jumping events resulted in deletions of genetic material. One of the deletions was nearly as large as an entire gene. Although they once were labe...

Abortion may cause mental illness

... a child and to terminate their pregnancy, but the reverse may not be true....

smoking and drinking lead to cancer

...dy indicates that smoking and drinking alcohol may reverse the anticancer effect of beta- carotene. Beta carotene is an vitamin A precursor which in the past been touted for reducing the risk of colorectal polyp recurrence. Colorectal polyps are benign tumours that can eventually develop into colorectal canc...

Lithium May help in Alzheimer's Disease

...y damage. "Potentially, lithium could be used to reverse both the pathological features of Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Peter Klein of the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the current study. "It seems you could block with a single medicine both of the major structural manifestations of the dise...

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