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Malaria Vaccine - Render Powerless, the Parasite Behind the Host of Disease!

...n the mosquito’s body. The vaccine is equipped to aim at the Pfs25, a protein which is crucial to the parasite's development, while it is residing in the mosquito's gut. The antibodies from a vaccinated person will get passed on to the mosquito, when it bites a person, which would gain entry into the mo...

Eight More African Countries Included In US Malaria Program

...m is called the Malaria Initiative and its primary aim is eradication of malaria. More than a million people die due to malaria every year and 90% of them are from Africa, most of them being children. The World Bank has promised to fund $180 million for this program. The program includes allocating...

Britain Plans Medical Hub to Meet India, China Challenge

...were developing similar approaches, Blair said the aim was for the "cluster" to be similar to the one in Boston, Massachusetts, that includes Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, eight medical schools, 14 teaching hospitals and 200 biotechnology companies. The meeting was attended by Dav...

Britain Plans Medical Hub To Meet India, China Challenge

...were developing similar approaches, Blair said the aim was for the "cluster" to be similar to the one in Boston, Massachusetts, that includes Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, eight medical schools, 14 teaching hospitals and 200 biotechnology companies. The meeting was attended by Davi...

Ontario Plans a New Centre for Disease Control

...eak of infectious diseases. The agency will also aim to improve environmental hygiene and other health related practices that aim at preventing emergencies arising because of unforeseen infectious diseases.There are similar agenci...

Laxatives are Not the Right Option for Losing Weight

... quickly, so taking laxatives does not work if the aim is to lose weight. 'Instead, they just rob the body of vital vitamins and minerals, most significantly potassium, which can result in heart failure. The ill effects of laxatives Laxatives cause rapid emptying of the GI tract by increasing gastri...

Multivitamin Supplements Keeps Teenagers Healthy

...zed for height, weight, behaviors and diet. The aim of the experiment was to find out if children who did take multivitamin supplements were better off in terms of diet, exercise and other health habits than those who did not. The study was part of the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular H...

Who are Prone to Suicidal Tendencies?

...perience and the need for early interventions that aim to improve a child's emotional resilience and development of adaptive coping strategies early on in life."...

Gays in China Urged to Use Condoms Regularly

... be on the homosexual section of the society. They aim to ensure that at least 70% of all gays use condoms at the time of sexual contact. At present, surveys have shown that only 20% of homosexuals actually use condoms during a sexual contact, in Beijing. About 7.3% of infection with HIV is contributed b...

Free HIV Treatment to Be Launched for Children

...eration of Indian Industry (CII). "Initially we aim to provide free treatment to 20,000 children. We have been intensely campaigning but have so far being able to identify only 1,500 children for treatment," the minister said. The state-run National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) estimates there a...

Tour Packages To Include Treatment And Check-up

...e to improve upon their facilities to achieve this aim and to become the "newest hub of medical tourism in Asia,"she added. PRI...

The Healthy Start Scheme Promises Toddlers A Healthy Start

... to benefit low income group families. Its primary aim is to provide healthy nutrition to toddlers between 1// and 4 and nursing mothers from low-income households and all expectant mothers below 18. The Healthy Start scheme offers vouchers, which provide ￡2.80 worth of fresh fruit and vegetables, vita...

Special Footwear For Diabetics To Be Designed

... The Indo-U.S workshops on diabetic foot care also aim to encourage diabetologists to establish diabetic foot care clinics. Source-IANS...

India Finds New Use for an Old Bug

...azing. Hasnain says the ongoing clinical trials aim to find out the ability of the Mw vaccine in treating TB rather than preventing it. The trials are conducted on four categories of TB patients - from uncomplicated to chronic cases - including the hard to treat multi-drug resistant (MDR) cases. Da...

Corporate Hospital and NGO stirred to help children with heart disease

...H). With the motto ‘Save one child per day’ they aim to give underprivileged children in Tamilnadu born with heart diseases appropriate treatment. SACH aims to assist early diagnosis and availability of monetary assistance for diagnostic purposes and surgical interventions.Honorable Minister for Electr...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...o derive these predictive factors, the researchers aim to compare 400 lung-cancer patients treated at Mayo Clinic and who have survived five or more years, with 400 patients who lived less than two years after treatment. The researchers match the groups by age at diagnosis, gender, tumor cell type, cance...

Why Public Should Really Know About HPV?

... about cancer. In 2005, one high-priority research aim was to assess, for the first time, the awareness and knowledge of HPV in a nationally representative sample of women. To identify factors associated with U.S. women's awareness of HPV and its link to cervical cancer, researchers from NCI analyzed ...

Risk-Taking Young Urged To Carry Condoms

...ssages about using condoms to prevent them. 'The aim of this campaign is to make carrying and using a condom among this age group as familiar as carrying a mobile phone, lipstick or putting on a seat-belt. 'This is not about encouraging promiscuity, but saying to those who are already sexually active...

Research 'Extraordinaire' To Restore Vision

... that is not the choicest of options. Instead they aim to look at adult retinal cells and to draw on its stem cell-like qualities. It would be fitting to conclude that this extraordinary piece of work might well be the torchbearer in eradicating blindness, illuminating many a human life grappling in the ...

Severity of heart failure in elderly can be measured with a seven-point system

... for six, 12 or 60 months.' The researchers next aim to better identify the heart failure patients not likely to survive six months so that they can be referred for hospice care. 'Hospice is very nurturing for both patients and family members,' Rich says. 'There is considerable evidence that patients...

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