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Novel Actemra monotherapy in treating patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis

...toimmune disease in which the lining of the joints becomes inflamed causing irreversible joint damage and destruction. Actemra (tocilizumab) is a humanized anti-human interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor monoclonal antibody. A monoclonal antibody is used to denote antibodies derived from genetically identical group...

Human Bird Flu Cases Total 130: WHO

...ot appear to be contagious among humans, but if it becomes so, medical authorities believe disease could spread quickly worldwide, causing millions of deaths and widespread economic and social disruption. br>...

Obesity Common Thread In Pregnancy Complications And Cardiovascular Woes

...ption and placental infarction, where the placenta becomes detached from the wall of the uterus. The researchers analyzed the health records of more than one million women after the birth of their first child between 1990 and 2004, using a database compiled by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences....

Cancer Causing Proteins Trigger Abnormal Biochemical Reactions In Cells

... a protein known to cause cancer, is activated and becomes the trigger for the development of cancer, 'We present the hypothesis that an important component of oncogenesis is the ability of proteins to turn on alternative, secondary signaling pathways when overexpressed, rather than simply upregulating prima...

Cranberry juice to Prevent Dental Decay

...onstruction of dental plaque. Once it is built, it becomes easier for the bacteria to multiply by consuming sugar and in turn churn out acid secretions. Cranberry juice also prevents the enzymes from being utilized and poses a threat to bacterial colonisation. If you probably think that rushing to the near...

Alzheimer's a new type of diabetes: Study

...d that levels decline progressively as the disease becomes more severe, leading to further evidence that Alzheimer's is a new type of diabetes. Previous studies have shown that reduced glucose utilization and energy metabolism occur early in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and correlate with impaired...

Blood Pressure Later Leads to Cognitive Problems

...eclines, especially because with age, hypertension becomes more common and harder to control. Researchers at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School and the Boston University School of Public Health looked at a group of men in the VA Normative Aging Study, a longitudinal...

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

...mor's growth depends on estrogen or progesterone — becomes the single most important factor in picking treatm...s aren't obvious. Here, the accuracy of lab tests becomes a life-or-death matter, as doctors rely on them to determine factors like hormone and HER-2 status. ...

Study finds no link between fibre and cancer risk

...ol are included, the link between fibre and cancer becomes insignificant. The team did not find support for a linear inverse association between dietary fibre intake and the risk of colorectal cancer, but said a diet high in dietary fibre from whole plant foods has been found to protect against other dise...

Viscosity of Women cervix determines sex of child

...n late pregnancy in women. The mucus in the cervix becomes thicker and sticky in women who take longer time to get pregnant which makes the sperm hard to migrate and reach the ovum. But, the Y chromosome bearing sperm is lighter and has the capacity to swim faster through the thickened cervix and reaches the...

Christmas trees to yield key Tamiflu ingredient

...l Claude Mercure said yesterday. Once the process becomes commercialized, the company is aiming to eventually produce 1 one to three tons of shikimic acid a month. To get started, next month it will receive some 500,000 Christmas trees to be donated by Toronto-based Gro-Bark, a forestry recycling company. ...

Valley's Winters - Time For Nostalgia And Salt Tea

...formed. His wrinkles suddenly vanish and his voice becomes young. Those are the times I feel very close to him.' Rues a sociologist here: 'The storytelling sessions are all about family values. Winter provided the time to renew and repair social bonds. With the breaking up of joint families and the beginnin...

Increase In Health Insurance Premium Likely In Australia

... leach out of the private health system because it becomes too expensive, or the products do not give people the cover they require, then we will really alter the balance and cause tremendous destabilization," said Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, President of AMA. "These increases, in dollar terms, wipe out the contr...

People Need To Be More Guarded Against Skin Cancer

...ost people wear hats only when the heat of the sun becomes unbearable. There are a large number of melanoma cases in Queensland, where a skin cancer case is diagnosed once in every seven minutes. Suncorp plans to distribute free sun cream to people going to beaches during this holiday season. ...

Painkillers Lead To Liver Failure

... in overdose. Hence treatment of the disease flu becomes very difficult as all the medicines prescribed for the disease flu has the chemical and taking all the prescribed tablets may result in accidental over dosage by the patient. This leads to adverse effects like liver failure. It is recommended that...

Media Messages Can Serve To Reduce Smoking Indoors

... on secondhand smoke before the change in attitude becomes a change in home restrictions, Evans suggested. The researchers measured the link between anti-secondhand smoke messages and home restrictions through a survey of 2,348 adults conducted by the American Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit anti-smoking f...

Bird Flu Threat Prompts Stockpiling Of Food And Medicine In America

...e World Health Organization. Following this Turkey becomes the first country outside Southeast Asia to document positive bird flu associated mortality. The deadly disease, which has claimed several valuable lives, is associated with a mortality rate of 50....

Treating Sickle Cell Anemia using Healthy Stem Cells

...d gets clogs in blood stream and these blood cells becomes very fragile leading to break down within 10 to 20 days leading to anemia. Researchers have used embryonic stem cells for treating mutations in human sickle cell anemia by inserting healthy hemoglobin gene, though the work has been successful in bi...

Candidate vaccine to reduce hepatitis C viral load.

... virus without any major problem. When the disease becomes chronic then the immune system finds it difficult to remove the viral load from the body. But studies reveal that in patients suffering from chronic hepatitis there is alteration in the function of the dendritic cells. Hence these vaccines were cre...

Therapy inducing self-repair of nerves to help Alzheimer’

...erves use to communicate at normal concentrations, becomes toxic at excessive levels, resulting in over stimulation of nerve cells, known as excitotoxicity, and causing excessive stress on the nerve cells eventually ending in cell death. However, Lipton was quick to point out that the study had only been ...

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