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Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

..., while in RA, it is the joints and cartilage that are attacked. The damage is done by small proinflammatory peptides called proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. One way these diseases could be controlled is by immunizing patients with neutralizing antibodies directed against one or more of the proi...

New CPR Guidelines issued by Heart Association

...least 35 percent of trained and untrained rescuers are wrong about whether or not a victim has a pulse. The United Kingdom and European Resuscitation Councils have already successfully deleted pulse checks by lay people from CPR training. Pulse check is not effective. Even health care workers have diffic...

Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

...d delivery. Those at high risk for pre-term births are women with previous pre-term deliveries, those with multiple gestation pregnancy, and those who suffer from diabetes and/or hypertension. The current approach for finding whether a woman will go into premature labor is the use of a clinical scoring ...

Genetic Dentistry: Your Dentist may be able to grow you a new set of Teeth.

...sh from single mouse cells - and they think humans are next. They hope to push the research in the direction where they could take initial tissue from a [human] patient, put it in a culture dish and grow a tooth for them.To accomplish this seemingly futuristic feat, researchers need to determine which hu...

New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

...tem in prostate cancer patients within a year, and are working with researchers at other institutions to ...ehavior. After the reporter genes and gene therapy are paired and infused into a patient, the patient receives an injection of a special radioactive molecu...

Cinnamon May Help Diabetics

...Clinical trials using a cinnamon extract on humans are due to begin in 6 months....

Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers

...sed on a small group of patients, and more studies are needed. He adds the treatment could be helpful in other cancer patients including those with thyroid, brain, lung, colon, bone and prostate cancers, and also lymphoma....

Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments

... cell have a thousand or more such channels, which are not present on normal, uninfected red blood cells. For malaria, it is not clear whether the parasite creates the channels by changing a protein in the cell membrane or by trafficking a new protein made in the malaria parasite to the cell membrane fo...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

... outbreaks. Details of the climate-disease model are reported in the latest issue of the journal Scien...ndicate that the dynamics of cholera in Bangladesh are consistent with a remote forcing by ENSO. The climate-disease story might be even more complicated a...

Long-Term Survival can be Predicted by a Simple Lung Test

...rvival rates in both men and women. Their findings are presented in the September issue of Chest. Researchers studied survival rates based on a lung function test, called forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1).They performed the lung function test on a group of more than 550 men and more than 64...

Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

...said that more than two-thirds of births in Russia are marred by complications, and every second newborn ... million to 145 million. About 1.2 million babies are born in Russia each year, while the country needs 2 million babies to reverse the population decline...

Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched

...ng Novartis a competetion. The current tablet size are big and makes it uncomfortable to swallow. The pharmaceutical company SangStat expects to launch significantly smaller cyclosporine capsule in Europe. The new cyclosporine capsule is significantly smaller than any cyclosporine capsule currently on...

Check if your “Favourite medical web-site” is indulging in Quackey

...ople have listed 500 health related web-sites that are such havens of quackery! This information should ...ng: You may get an heart Attack if herbal remedies are dear to you!!...

Levothyroxine Thyroid Hormone Replacement, Approved for Hypothyroidism

...dy in all age groups. In children thyroid hormones are essential for normal physical growth and intellect... Cytomel, Euthyroid, Thyrolar, and Armour Thyroid, are often difficult to control, and sometimes results in symptoms of hyperthyroidism. Levothyroxine so...

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...level is between zero to four. Usually levels that are greater then 10 indicate cancer. However there are men in the "gray zone" whose PSA can be between 4 and 10. These men need biopsies to confirm thecanc...

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...t modalities of this cancer. Besides surgery there are other options to treat the cancer including radiat...n estrogen receptors, regardless of other factors, are recommended to use hormonal therapy. The panel suggests five years of drug-Tamoxifen as the standard...

Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

...than usual risk of catching herpes virus 8. There are other forms of the herpes virus that cause chicken pox, shingles, cold sores and genital herpes. The Herpes Virus 8 was dicovered by Dr. Patrick S. Moore of Columbia University in New York, he felt that exposure to saliva may explain the high rate ...

Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma

...rogram" (CAMP) has indicated that inhaled steroids are safe and effective for the long-term treatment of children with mild to moderate asthma. "Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long term effects in children we...

Evidence Links Protein Damage to Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

...se Lewy body disease, and Multiple System Arophy - are collectively called synucleinopathies. Most common... which occurs with oxidation, the eventual results are tremors and sometimes dementia. New evidence links oxidative damage in a protein found in nerve ce...

Kidney Stones - Interesting New Research implicates bacteria as its cause

In India Kidney Stones are not uncommon problem due to the hot and often humid weather. Most of these stones are made up of Calcium, Oxalate and phosphates. The cause of stone disease is debatable, however it is ...

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