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Protein Blockade For HIV Infection

...which are present in the lymph. It has always been believed that HIV infects langerhans cells. But the presence of the protein langerin is found to have a blockading effect on HIV. According to Geijtenbeek, langerhans cells act more like a virus vacuum cleaner which captures HIV 1 and destroys them. HIV in...

Umbilical Cord Blood Banking of Negligible Value: Experts

...l cord blood is a rich source of stem cells and is believed to be vital in saving the life of people suffering from leukaemia, thalassemia, blood cancer, bone marrow imbalances and many such critical diseases. However, some haematologists believe that this is just a ploy by a few private companies to exploi...

Sex After Cancer

...n, emotional support and practical strategies… and believed if the topic was important, their doctor would raise it with them,” says Dr Hordern. One patient said, “I want to enter a partnership between the medical professional and thepatient… which would see me as part owner of everything that is being done...

Science Builds Behind Pomegranate Extracts for Health

... standardized to punicalagins." Punicalagins are believed to be the main active components responsible for the fruit's health-promoting properties. "Due to the health benefits now attributed to pomegranate consumption and the rising popularity of pomegranate botanical supplements, human intervention stud...

Want a Baby? No Hot Baths Please !

...ble online at www.brazjurol.com.br. "It has been believed for decades that wet heat exposure is bad for fert... conducting business deals in hot tubs, due to its believed effect on fertility. Source-EurekalertBR>PRI...

Chemicals Used To Make Synthetic Color Can Cause Cancer And Permanent Blindness

...bromide, which is carcinogenic (a chemical that is believed to cause cancer.) It is believed that using Oils, creams and covering up will help to protect the body from these toxins. But in fact...

Green Tea and COX-2 Inhibitors Combine to Slow Growth of Prostate Cancer

...ls toward programmed cell death (apoptosis). “We believed that COX-2 inhibitors may still prove beneficial if used in combination with complementary agents,” Mukhtar said. “Our studies showed that the additive effect of green tea enables us to utilize the cancer-fighting abilities of COX-2 inhibitors, but a...

Widely Used Hepatitis B Drug Spurs HIV Drug Resistance

...tions for the more than 4 million people worldwide believed to be infected with both viral illnesses but who n... individual immune cells or detect mutations. Thio believed that the recent patient cases called for a more thorough investigation with more advanced techniques...

Controversies Involving Health Foods

...efore arriving at a conclusion. Till date it was believed that vitamins A, E and beta carotene could have a positive impact on human beings against heart disease and cancer. But this study contradicts the existing theory totally. Scientists from Harvard Medical School carried out another study which was p...

Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

...ct sports.' More than 1,000 people in the UK are believed to have hepatitis B, according to the British Liver Trust. Many people do not realize they have been infected as symptoms develop slowly, according to NHS Direct. PRI...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...t are now rapidly becoming a global problem. It is believed that, prescription addiction abuse has already sur...cription drugs for slimming and pain relief. It is believed that anorexia and the cocktails of prescription drugs was finally the caused for her body to shut do...

Philadelphia Researchers Found A Novel Way To Fight Several Kind of Cancers

...then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. It is believed that this strategy could actually offer a novel way of treating several kinds of cancers associated with Epstein-Barr. Some of these also include at least four different types of lymphoma, nasopharyngeal and gastric cancers. In the March 1 issue of...

Discredited Drug may Be Used to Aid Mental Development in Down’s Syndrome Patient

...of the genes on the third copy of chromosome 21 is believed to cause the symptoms of Down syndrome. The researchers were led by Craig Garner, a professor of psychiatry and a director of the Down Syndrome Research Center at California's Stanford University and they published results in the journal Nature Neu...

Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck

...oup. A sale of the Merck Generics unit, which is believed to be worth between Euro 3 billion and Euro 4 billion, would allow Merck to concentrate on its core prescription pharmaceuticals business. The Times said that Merck Generics had sales in over 90 countries and was the third-largest generics business...

E. Coli Bacteria Migrating Between Humans, Chimps

...is not new. Two deadly viruses, HIV and Ebola, are believed to be linked to chimpanzees and other non-human primates. Human diseases also pass to monkeys and apes, with equally dire consequences: Pneumonia, respiratory disease, scabies and a polio-like virus have caused epidemic mortality in chimpanzees in so...

Tobacco Companies Obstructed Science

.... "But if they were lying and if people actually believed their lies," Proctor said, "then the industry can be held liable because they were manufacturing a defective and fraudulent product." Proctor has used poll results stretching back to the 1940s to show that in fact some people were ignorant of the r...

Inflammatory Myopathy may Indicate Intolerance to Gluten

...thogenic mechanisms of these myopathies, but it is believed to be an abnormal immune response by our bodies, which identify body parts as alien. In this particular case, the body parts are the skin and the muscle, though other parts, such as the lungs and the myocardium, may also be affected. The research t...

Honeydew Honey Better Than Nectar Honey

...and keenly sought in many ‘health foods’. They are believed to help protect people from diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and aging. They operate by mopping up potentially damaging free radicals that are released in the body. The composition of honey depends greatly ...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

... percent in identifying protein functions that are believed to be linked to a higher risk of cancer. The res...cant number of breast and ovarian cancer cases are believed to be caused by such mutations, possibly because they disable a gene that normally suppresses cancer...

New Gene Linked to Autism Discovered

... discovered- neurexin 1, part of a family of genes believed to play a part in neuron communication during brain development. The results are published in Nature Genetics. Children with autism (80 percent are males) have difficulty interacting and communicating with others including family members. They o...

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