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India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war

... of gold by making cheap anti-AIDS drugs. This has triggered a price war that is likely to escalate in coming d... to six times in the last three years. Thus, Cipla triggered a controversy by offering anti-AIDS drugs at a drastically lower prices. Pharmaceutical companies i...

Starving leads to obesity

... way the body deals with accumulated fat, probably triggered by nutritional deprivation before birth....

First human clone is near

...th his Italian colleague Dr. Severino Antinori has triggered worldwide alarm with plans to create tailor-made offspring. Countries like France and Germany have appealed to the United Nations to get human cloning banned in an international treaty.// The team has been banned from carrying out research in most E...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

...a, the first and the largest player in the segment triggered the discount war. The other followed with discounts to counter threats from Subiksha....

Nervous disorder being treated

...condition resembles chronic tetanus. Spasms can be triggered by noise, touch or emotional distress. Doctors have found that the symptoms can be alleviated by giving patients an intravenous supply of a human protein called immunoglobulin (IVIg) designed to buttress the immune system. The immune system acts to...

New treatment for muscle spasms

...mbs and body to tighten up suddenly. Spasms can be triggered by noise, touch or emotional distress. People with the condition are often too disabled// to walk or move, or are afraid to leave the house in case they suffer a spasm and fall. The condition resembles chronic tetanus. Scientists have developed a hig...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...mptoms are similar to psychotic behavior sometimes triggered by severe cannabis abuse, which could mean the marijuana receptors in schizophrenics are far more active than they should be. Ujike stressed there is no evidence yet these genetic abnormalities can affect how the marijuana receptor actually acts in t...

Gene researchers make Malaria-resistant mosquito

...lly blocking the parasite. The gene's activity is triggered when the mosquito feeds on blood, churning out SM1 "so when the parasite arrives, it doesn't find the right molecule," or any space to fit into, Jacobs-Lorena explained. The investigators found that the genetically modified mosquitoes were less susce...

Allergies: A major health problem

...l nutritive component like Vitamins, allergies are triggered as a specific reaction to a normally harmless substance, one that does not bother other people. In other words allergies are in sharp contrast with the killer disease AIDS, Allergy symptoms appear on account of too much immunity while in AIDS there ...

Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies

..."hip bag", which acts a protective cushion that is triggered to inflate when someone slips. If they fall, it prevents injury. Special shoes, strength training routines, and environmental and flooring designs that minimize the risk of a fall are other discoveries which are on the way....

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...the process of sharing out genes, an alarm will be triggered and the cell will not divide. However, cells with high amounts of AURORA-A seemed to over-ride the alarm and continue to divide, even when their genes were not correctly shared out. This ability to ignore the alarm could make them resistant to Taxol-...

Cells critical for asthma development found

...ponse to a trigger such as house dust mite. AHR is triggered by the immune system and leads to the characteristic wheezing and coughing symptoms of an asthma attack. Researchers at Stanford University have been studying mice that lack a specific type of// immune cell called natural killer (NK) cells. These mic...

Abortion may cause mental illness

A new study indicates psychiatric illness could be triggered by abortion. However critics term it as an "post-abortion syndrome" tactic from the anti-abortion movement. Researchers found that 72% of women who terminated their pregnancies were more likely to be hospitalised for psychiatric problems in the first...

Smoking and its Effects

... researchers speculate it is possible that smoking triggered asthma in some of the individuals. They feel there are other factors that will reveal more understanding of the connection between smoking and lung function in this patient group, but more studies are needed....

Snoring May Be Sign of Asthma in Kids

..."Our study shows that such coughing might be being triggered by the child's snoring.""The study is really an important step," says Dr. James L. Goodwin, an epidemiologist and research assistant professor at the University of Arizona Respiratory Center in Tucson. Nighttime cough, Goodwin explains, is often use...

Defending against Tuberculosis

...rs say they have identified a new pathway (LRG-47) triggered by a host protein called interferon-gamma that disarms TB. Thus far, all of the research has been done in animals, but the researchers believe they have found a human equivalent of this pathway. They say LRG-47 is the correct pathway, because when th...

Steroid Treatment for Wheezing Questioned

Episodic attacks of wheeze triggered by viral cold are common in preschoolers. These attacks are different from allergic asthma since the frequency disappears by school age. //The current recommendation is that parents administer oral steroids at the first sign of an attack. But whether...

Help for Psoriasis

...s that produce the dry, flaky skin.” Psoriasis is triggered by an immune system response that causes skin cells to grow too quickly. The skin cells do not mature normally, and the skin piles up, causing red, scaly lesions to form. About 5 million people in the United States are affected by psoriasis. There is...

Regeneration of muscle

...s is involved in muscle tissue repair, but is only triggered into the muscle cell development pathway by injury. In previous studies, researchers have demonstrated that Pax7 is required to turn adult stem cells into muscle cells during regeneration. Here, the researchers worked with mouse models and in vitro ...

Cooling Can Reduce The Risk Of Brain Damage In Oxygen Deprived Newborns

...ved instead, researchers say a chemical cascade is triggered leading to brain damage hours or days afterwards. Thus researchers say treatment may be possible for babies who suffer oxygen deprivation at birth however they stress on the need for further study in order to get more information on the timing and m...

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