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DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

...g samples from the living. Many police departments already offer fingerprinting services for children so that parents have identification on record should the unthinkable happen. According to Klett, DNA would be a better profile for children, with this new technology....

Stem Cells Have Few Mutations

...c stem cell research except for cell colonies that already existed. The result is that only about 60 cell colonies are available for federally funded research. This has prompted widespread research on embryonic stem cell mutations, a key problem in learning how to use the cells for therapy. ``Our study def...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...ther evidence that the pancreatic cancer is likely already established and the cancer may actually cause the diabetes. He told that he had already begun using the term "pancreatic cancer-induced diabetes" to emphasize the point. However, not all ...

Anorexia in boys is common too

...relatively short duration of anorexic disorder can already have a reduction of bone mineral density, and that with total weight recovery it can be reversed if they are still in their adolescence. In the study, the researchers measured bone mineral density (BMD)--a measure of bone strength--in 25 boys aged 10...

Guard against heart attacks

...cks, and the results should apply only to patients already in need of NSAID therapy....

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

... hiding place, a reservoir, for the virus. Doctors already know that HIV hides in one major place, T cells, w...cells. George said that his team of researchers is already experimenting to see which AIDS drugs best fight HIV in NK cells. Hence it appears that the class o...

New breast cancer genes discovered

...e been studying a number of Fanconi families. They already know that mutations in any one of six genes causes the condition. This new research shows a previously unknown interaction between these genes and the known breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. In other words, they have discovered a p...

Vitamin C maintains healthy lungs

...ges can improve lung health once lung function has already started to decline....

Best ways to split a pill

... Next look at the pill shape and design. Some are already scored for easy splitting and should present you with no problem. But other pills are difficult to split and for these you need the right tool - a dedicated pill splitter, in fact, available from the drugstore. Don't use a regular knife for these. An...

Watch what you eat during summer

... picnic menu - if so, wash the outside, even if it already looks clean. And never leave it without refrigeration for more than four hours - otherwise, a melon should always be kept on ice....

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

... has been a trend of adding value to foods that we already eat to make us healthier. For example, Benecol Spread is a margarine that contains phytosterol to help lower cholesterol. Phytosterol is a plant-derived ingredient that has many positive effects on the body. Researchers from Iowa State University stu...

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

...related compound, known as ursodeoxycholic acid is already approved for the treatment of liver disease. But the neuroprotective aspect of bile acids is a surprising application....

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...oted, which means any mutation effect they have is already present in our bodies 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 ...

New drug for hypertension

...d any such side effects, they said adding, NCL has already filed Indian and foreign patent applications. S-Amlodipine is the first of many more chirally pure drugs on which the NCL and Emcure scientists are working, they added....

Air Pollution and Heart Attacks

...groups of people who are most vulnerable are those already at risk for heart disease. This would include elderly individuals and also people who have other risk factors for heart disease, including people who are overweight, smoke cigarettes, people who have a poor diet particularly high in fat and people wh...

Vitamin E supports Female Hearts

... most studies have concentrated on people who were already diagnosed with heart disease or who had suffered a heart attack. Researchers from Naples followed a group of about 350 women with an average age of 50 who had no evidence of heart disease at the beginning of the study. None of the women were taking v...

Function of genes in heart failure

...hat when one is born, their diastolic function may already be programmed. Gene influences were as powerful or even more so than blood pressure level, age, gender, weight, where your live or whether you have diabetes. Previous research by Dr. Kitzman showed more than half of those with heart failure had dias...

Nasal sprays used for other ailments!

...cker than the corresponding pill. Nasal sprays are already being used in the treatment of osteoporosis, migraine and diabetes. Many more applications are being developed. Nasal sprays are an ideal alternative when pills and injections aren't a practical option and will be welcomed by the many people who ha...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

...oted specialist Dr Simo Taimela of Finland who has already set up 55 such centres across the world. Dr Taimela felt that the concept uses the latest course to chronic pain management called evidence-based medicine and makes use of special proprietory software and analysis models to devise individual treatme...

Hazards of anger in heart patients

...ty can also be responsible for adding strain to an already weak heart, thereby provoking for an abnormal behaviour.Such patients with cardiac diseases may have to take up exercises provoking for an abnormal behaviour.Such patients with cardiac diseases may have to take up exercises strict supervision and ca...

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