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Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

...c testing remains the foremost weapon in the fight against cancer." Furthermore, medical communities are increasingly stressing on preventive medicine as the most efficacious and cost-effective approach to improving the quality of life. In addition, researchers have realised that the most effective way to ...

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...f Michigan have discovered a gene that protects us against a serious kidney disease In the current online issue of Nature Genetics they report that mutations in the gene cause nephronopthisis (NPHP) in humans and mice. NPHP is a disease marked by kidney degeneration during childhood that leads to kidney f...

Olive-pomace Oil Compound Inhibits HIV Spread

...c acid. The effects of this compound in the battle against AIDS are concurrently being studied in the UGR and...entation of new maslinic acid by-products to fight against HIV, as well as in other innovative research projects....

Scientists Find New Way to Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

...n antibiotic, any bug having a protective mutation against the drug survives. These drug-resistant microbes quickly accumulate useful mutations, and share them with other bacteria through conjugation. The researchers analysed the enzyme relaxase that plays a crucial role in conjugation. It starts and stop...

No Sex Education, Say Uttar Pradesh Teachers

...tened to burn the books , saying the material goes against Indian culture. "The books on sex education supplied by the government should be promptly withdrawn," Om Prakash Sharma, chief of the secondary schools teachers' association, told reporters Monday. "If they fail to do so by July 21, we will be co...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

...ally high intakes of dietary folate are protective against colorectal cancer. Mason explains, however, that There are several reasons why we may have inadvertently created the opposite effect with folic acid fortification. First, folates pivotal role in DNA synthesis also makes it a potential growth factor...

New Cancer Therapy in Clinical Trial

... tumor necrosis factor (TNF) death receptor ligand against a variety of human cancers. A new study identif...g investigation in over 30 clinical trials for use against a wide range of human cancers, including melanoma, prostate, ovarian, pancreatic, lung cancers, and ...

Parental Match-making Blossoms in a Beijing Park

...ions and even his height. Next to it, propped up against one of the ancient trees in Beijing's Zhongshan Pa...er's photos and data. After matching the details against their own checklist, most shake their head and walk past, although some approach him for more inform...

Milk and Dairy Products Protect Against metabolic Syndrome

A daily pinta or a helping of dairy foods protect against the clustering of abnormal body chemistry known as the metabolic syndrome , suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The syndrome has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, coronary artery disease, and premature d...

Male Wallflowers-Watch Your Heart

...ying from heart attacks by up to fifty percent, as against their more gregarious peers . The scientists led by Jarett Berry and Philip Greenland of Northwestern University of Chicago, who published their findings in The Annals of Epidemiology, drew their conclusions from a study of 2100 middle-aged m...

Drinking More Milk may Lessen Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...tion of calcium and vitamin D may offer protection against type 2 diabetes . The research, conducted at Tufts University, suggests that drinking more milk, a leading source of calcium and vitamin D in the diet, could help lessen the risk of type 2 diabetes by nearly 15 percent. In the detailed analysis o...

Walking is Vital to Keep Yourself Fit

...d that high-intensity interval walking may protect against high blood pressure and decreased muscle strength among older people.Over five months, the Japanese researchers studied 246 adults who engaged in either no walking or moderate to high-intensity walking. The group who engaged in high-intensity walking...

Targeted Food Tax to Improve Health

A daily pinta or a helping of dairy foods protect against the clustering of abnormal body chemistry known as the metabolic syndrome , suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The syndrome has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, coronary artery disease, and premature ...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...inate the campaigns funding, and pursue litigation against the campaign. Ibrahim looks at campaigns in Minnesota, California, Arizona, Oregon, Florida, and a national campaign from the American Legacy Foundation.It tells the story behind the smoke. People often judge these ads and now you know what the tob...

Survey Shows Emergency Services Of British Hospitals Doing A Good Job

... within an hour of calling for help in 2006-07, as against 58 percent in 2005-06. Says Dr. Clive Weston, associate director of the study: "Some hospitals do particularly well because nursing staff have sorted the whole thing out and the patient pathway is slick, while others have not done that." The a...

A New Monoclonal Antibody Kills Cancer Cells

...cer cell lines with a monoclonal antibody targeted against PDGFR alpha. It resulted in a significant decrease in tumor cell proliferation and a marked increase in tumor cell death. In fact, all tumor cell lines experienced significant decreases in proliferation in response to the monoclonal antibody and th...

Navigating Healthcare

...ompare what they and their insurers paid hospitals against how well those hospitals performed. Recently Pennsylvania issued its latest report showing how much surgeons and hospitals earned on each surgery. The report showed how much the insurer or medicare paid the hospital. Pennsylvania surveyed 60 hosp...

Senior Church Leaders in Lesotho Pledge to Fight AIDS

...esotho have signed a declaration pledging to fight against HIV/AIDS which is ravaging the country, the UN Action Against AIDS (UNAIDS) said in a statement from Maseru on Wednesday. "The tragic toll of the AIDS epidemic, brings compelling urgency to the call for a renewed commitment by religious leaders to...

Understanding HIV Interference With Infected Cell Division

... may open new avenues for therapeutic intervention against HIV....

Natural Selection in Butterflies

... species that fought back - genetically speaking - against a highly invasive, male-killing bacteria. Within 10 generations that spanned less than a year, the proportion of males of the Hypolimnas bolina butterfly on the South Pacific island of Savaii jumped from a meager 1 percent of the population to abo...

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