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A New drug Developed To Fight The Bio-Terrorism Threat Of VEE Virus

...n would be unnecessary. (Those infected would also acquire immunity to VEE, just as if they had been vaccinated with a weakened form of the virus.) Potential therapeutic compounds could be available for pre-clinical studies within two years, according to Watowich, thanks to collaborations with powerful com...

fMRI Prior to surgery Could Help In Outcome Of Tumor Surgery

..., including the time it took to train patients and acquire the images, took less than one hour. The neurosurgeons who referred the patients for fMRI were given questionnaires to answer before and after fMRI to determine what effects, if any, the fMRI results had on their treatment plan. Surgeons also compl...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

...n Canada and the U.S. Even expert surgeons need to acquire the skill for this." Therapondos was a member of a team of more than 20 doctors, critical-care workers and nurses who were dedicated to the young man's recovery. Lori recalls being told that because her son needed four new organs, there was a goo...

Fittest Of Newborn Neurons Survive

... the hippocampus, a structure whose function is to acquire new information," says Gage. "That suggests that new cells are involved in how we learn." This ongoing struggle for connections between young and mature neurons is apparently more than just a spectacle designed to keep Mother Nature amused: the fac...

Online Drugs Could Prove Hazardous To health Warn Doctors in UK

...' knew that it was possible to use the Internet to acquire drugs, while 11% had used these websites to buy drugs. The authors of the article did however accept that the Internet was expanding in a relentless form that it would be difficult to control the perspective of patients seeking information. They did ...

Orchid to Buy out Bexel Pharma, US

...jority 74 per cent stake in Bexel Pharma and would acquire the remaining 26 per cent stake as a part of an agreement reached between the two companies to bring the drug discovery activities under a unified structure, Orchid informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. Orchid said that "bringing all drug discovery ac...

Obesity Hinders Medical Diagnostic Tests

...be increased on standard machines in an attempt to acquire a higher-quality image. However, this leads to an undesirable increase in radiation dose. Incomplete examinations related to obesity can lead to serious consequences for the patient, as in the case of misdiagnosis or failure to be able to assign a ...

Researchers Find Fewer Neurons in the Amygdala of Males with Autism

...en these studies were conducted, it wasn’t easy to acquire the brain of a deceased person who just had autism,” Amaral explained. “We are fortunate now to have the Autism Tissue Program, funded by the National Alliance for Autism Research and the National Institutes of Health. With their help, we were able t...

iSTART Brain Model Reveals the possible Cause of Autism

...w the brain adaptively times responses in order to acquire rewards and other goals. iSTART shows how individuals with autism experience failures of adaptive timing that lead to the premature release of behaviors which are then unrewarded. ‘iSTART depicts how autistic symptoms may arise from breakdowns in ...

Ecological Changes affects human health, food security

...nsing technology and satellite imagery in order to acquire the proper balance between ecological systems//. Doug Goodin, the geography professor of Kansas State University has used a satellite imagery to enable the study of changes in land use, and land cover and its related effect on human health and foo...

Subsidies For GPs' Visits : Agreement Reached

...ees. The new agreement does not require GPs to acquire approval of future fee increases , instead , strengthens review mechanisms of fees. It directs GPs to be advised on refund of fees if patients are considered to have paid an extra amount, says Radio New Zealand's health correspondent.Family docto...

Protected Environment v/s Unprotected Affect Hygiene Health Immunity

...ncy to have allergic reactions and the tendency to acquire autoimmune disease, despite the fact that these two reactions represent two different types of immune responses. The researchers added that their experimental model, which compares specific immune system responses of wild rodents to laboratory rod...

Bpos Get New Growth Pill; Pharma Mncs Come Calling

...ping country in the pharma R&D market, as its hubs acquire equal status with their European and US-based counterparts, the report added. A separate study by global strategy consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and France-based Business School Insead, said that more than three-quarters of the R&D sites to be ...

Dishman To Buy Solutia's Pharma Services Biz For $74.5 Mn

...armaceuticals and Chemicals Ltd today said it will acquire the pharmaceutical services business of US-based Solutia Inc for 74.5 million dollars. // The company has signed an agreement for purchasing 100 per cent stake in CarboGen and Amcis--Solutia Inc's pharmaceutical services division, Dishman said in a...

Animal Facts About Bird Flu Transmission

... of Virology, August 2005 issue. Although pigs can acquire the H5N1 virus from birds, the probability of transmitting the same to other pigs and hence human beings is very low. Additionally several recent reports have documented the presence of bird flu in other animals such as foxes, dogs, seals and weasels...

Premier Army Hospital Acquires PET-CT Scanner

...ital will become only the fourth in the country to acquire such a scanner that would help to enhance its nuclear medicine imaging capabilities. The army chief, Gen. J. J. Singh inaugurated the Rs.280 million facility at the Army Hospital Research and Referral here Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Singh...

EBV Might Trigger Multiple Sclerosis, Study

...cal Disorders and Stroke. ‘The susceptibility to acquire MS is inherited, but environmental insults such as viral infections are thought to trigger the disease, and Epstein-Barr virus is one of the leading candidate triggers,’ said first author Jan Lünemann, a neurologist and immunologist at The Rockefelle...

U.S Prisons Not To Be Blamed For Spread Of AIDS Epidemic, CDC HIV Study

... highlights that very few prisoners in U.S prisons acquire the HIV/AIDS virus// and contradicts the widely held public perception which blames U.S. prisons for spread of the AIDS epidemic. The study for the first time challenges the belief that imprisonment directly contributes to high incidence of HIV/AID...

IIT Delhi To Display Its Technological Innovations In 'Open House'

...orm to demonstrate their achievement, visitors can acquire knowledge about several upcoming gadgets that can bring a difference to their life," Sen told IANS. IIT Delhi has invited students, experts, industry people and its alumni associations to participate in it in an active way. "The name open house sig...

Research Undertaken To Unravel the Baby Mind

...of Manchester are trying to learn about how babies acquire knowledge. For babies the adult world is a complicated collection of sights, sounds and smells. // Hence research is going on as to understand how they cope up with it. Lead investigator Dr Sylvain Sirois said that BabyLab are set to investigate ho...

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