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Edible Food Coating Kills Bacteria And Adds Flavor

...ts. As a result, researchers have come up with an alternate solution - Edible coating, which helps in fighting the bacteria apart from adding flavor. Edible coating for fresh fruits and vegetables enables it to kill the deadly E-coli bacteria and also provides a flavor-boost to food. Composed of apple puree...

Structure of Iron Regulatory Protein-RNA Complex Solved

...mon in genes involved in iron metabolism. In its alternate form, IRP1 binds a cluster of iron and sulfur atoms to act as an important metabolic enzyme called aconitase. The assembly and disassembly of the iron/sulfur cluster in the aconitase form appears to be an effective mechanism for regulating IRP1 activ...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...rs to eliminate patient access to driving and seek alternate forms of transportation that allow patients to continue to lead fulfilling lives. Included is a videotaped dramatization of a physician working with a demented patient and a family member. "It's important for healthcare providers to realize there a...

Bottleneck in Blood Supply Makes Brain Vulnerable to Strokes

...he blockage. Because blood flow cannot simply take alternate routes to compensate for the blockage, the penetrating arterioles are a bottleneck in the blood supply to gray matter. “In this study, we took advantage of being able to see into individual capillaries in brain tissue,” explained Nozomi Nishimura,...

Nine Ways to Relieve Joint Stress

... arthritis. Ways to accomplish the same tasks with alternate methods or tools can usually be found. 9. Investigate assistive devices. Many of these self-help products—bath stools, grippers, reachers, grab bars—have been developed to make every-day activities easier and less stressful on your joints and muscle...

Aspirin and Asthma: Study

...to a single 325-mg tablet of aspirin or placebo on alternate days, for an average of 4.9 years. The investigations showed that the reduction in new diagnoses of asthma was greater among those who had never smoked and among those who were older than 45.9 years at baseline. To conclude, while, the researche...

Crackdown on Alternate Health Practitioners

...flexibility. Similar rule may be extended to the alternate healers too wherein physical and sexual abuse may be brought to notice. Discussions are going on currently in the ministry. Though the basic framework will be retained, a slight variance in execution is expected. The objective of these regulative m...

The Psyche Behind Drug Commercials

...any sickness. Only a few of them relate that as an alternate to medicines. Physical activity has been demonstrated in almost all the advertisements which are very encouraging. The results about the use of a particular drug have been exaggerated from a social approval angle. This study feels that the pharma com...

Man-Made Proteins Could Be More Useful Than Real Ones

... however, are structured so that their side chains alternate like interlocking fingers. Schepartz said that the discovery of the tertiary helical bundle structure of Zwit1-F offers a “structural blueprint” for the design of more complex a-peptides that would function like natural proteins. Natural proteins,...

Specialists Caution About Diet Pills

... In the Indian scenario, there are many drugs and alternate remedies to bring down one’s weight. Drugs under the brand name of Obego or Obestat are said to be targeting parts of brain which is responsible for hunger. But this could have serious contra indications like high blood pressure and pulse rate. In ...

Tobacco Companies Obstructed Science

... advertisements in medical journals and researched alternate explanations for lung cancer, such as pollution, asbestos and even the keeping of birds. Denying the case against tobacco was "closed," they called for more research as a tactic to delay regulation. Drawing from his experiences as an expert witness...

Computers Better Decision Makers Than Surrogates

... to make the right decisions and also a compulsory alternate to surrogates. This method could also be used to allow the patient to decide in advance their treatment preferences. JYT...

MIT Biologists Solve Vitamin Puzzle

...acteria lacking the enzyme can form DMB through an alternate pathway, Walker said. One of the most unusual aspects of BluB-catalyzed synthesis is its cannibalization of a cofactor derived from another vitamin, B2. During the reaction, the B2 cofactor is split into more than two fragments, one of which become...

FDA Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of Pergolide Products

... pergolide should contact their doctors to discuss alternate treatments. Patients should not stop taking the medication, as stopping pergolide abruptly can be dangerous. There are alternative therapies available for Parkinson’s disease, including three other dopamine agonists that have not been associated wi...

Canadian University Students Vote Against Coca-Cola

...week to remove Coca-Cola from their campus with an alternate beverage supplier, according to India Resource Center, an international campaigning organization that worked with students at the university to support the campaign. "Students have voiced their opinions loudly and clearly. We want ethical choices ...

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

...ing toxic catalysts, and it also does not generate alternate versions of drug molecules that can damage the body, two perennial issues that plague the manufacturing process. David MacMillan, one of the researchers on the team, said the discovery is important not only for its industrial applications, but also b...

Sleep Disorder Linked to Heart Failure Patient Deaths

...ts for transplantation, scientists are looking for alternate therapies. One such approach, suggested by the present study, is treatment of OSA in heart failure patients. Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when a person stops breathing during sleep at least 15 to 20 times an hour. These recurrent interruptions i...

Shimla Faces Water Crisis

...that starting Thursday, water would be supplied on alternate days to meet this shortage. According to one estimate, 1.5 million gallons of water are lost due to leakage as a majority of the pipes were laid out decades ago. Most of the 450 hotels, restaurants and guesthouses meet their needs by procuring wa...

Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

...emia patient who has to be given fresh blood every alternate month. The couple does not want other parents to undergo the same trauma. So they inform brides and grooms in villages about the importance of the blood test before getting married. "When Soumi was only six months, she suddenly fell ill. We took ...

Low Dose Aspirin Does Not Protect Women Against Cognitive Decline

..., the first group took low dose aspirin (100 mg on alternate days) and the second group took a placebo pill. Each woman had three cognitive assessments at two year intervals to measure general cognition, verbal memory, and category fluency. At the initial assessment (after 5.6 years of treatment) cognitive p...

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