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Frostbite can Be Treated by Bloodclot Drug

... to thaw and restores blood flow before the injury causes permanent damage....

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...ansmits nerve signals between nerve cells and also causes blood vessels to narrow. Changes in the serotonin levels in the brain can alter the mood. Hence the rationale in using drugs containing serotonin in countering depression. Now only those who have abnormally low levels of serotonin may respond to SS...

Smokers Blow Their Infants Health into Thin Air

...United States alone due to second hand smoking. It causes respiratory diseases in children. Children of smoking parents 'had significantly reduced lung function similar to that seen in smokers. If a woman smokes while she is pregnant, her baby is more likely to be born pre-term (before nine months) and we...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

... poor sleep. "While it's unclear what definitively causes cancer patients to have trouble sleeping and staying awake, demographic factors and the type of cancer may be contributing factors," says Dr. Parker, Emory Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing professor, co-director of the Emory Sleep Center and s...

Effective Treatment for Malaria Control

...with stable Plasmodium falciparum (a parasite that causes malaria) transmission. In these regions, strategies to control malaria during pregnancy rely on case management of malaria illness and anemia, and a variety of preventive measures that consists of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent pr...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

... extremely nasty sexually transmitted disease that causes 70% of cervical cancers - a cancer that affects approximately 3,000 women in the UK annually and causes 1,120 deaths. It is the second most frequent form of cancer among woman worldwide after breast cance...

Diabetic Death Rate Drops in Men but Remains Unchanged for Women

...ho died. They found the annual death rate from all causes in diabetic men had fallen from 42.6 to 24.4 per 1,000, a 43 percent reduction in age-adjusted death rate. Heart ailments, the leading cause of death in diabetics, dropped from 26.4 to 12.8 per 1,000 per year. Among diabetic women, however, there ...

Ramadoss to Discuss Chikungunya With Health Ministers of Nine States Tomorrow

...kungunya virus is spread through mosquito-bite and causes a non-fatal self-limiting illness, marked by high fever, headache, severe joint pain, rashes and nausea. The disease broke out after the southwest monsoon hit Kerala coast early this month. The disease has spread near rubber plantations where far...

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

...e polarized (directional) signal distribution that causes cells to move. While microtubules in some specialized cells can originate from non-centrosomal structures, the centrosome has been considered the main origination point for microtubule "nucleation" in most cells. Until now. "I've seen that there ...

Girls Could Be Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer in Britain

...irus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection which causes most cases of cervical cancer. The Department of Health said it had agreed "in principle" to accept the body's advice, but would wait for an independent review of the costs to the National Health Service. Cervical cancer kills more than 1,000 women...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

...of aging. "The immune system both protects us and causes harm, so we are always interested in finding new pathways to help manage the harmful effects," said Kepley. The new study findings were published online in the Journal of Immunology....

Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care

... home. Because the patients often associated the causes of their heart conditions with a lifetime of hard labour and stressful work conditionsusually farm and manual labour--they felt they had little control over the progression of their illness. Patients often spoke of how theyve learned to live with, ig...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

...ry. The really bad news is that the parasite that causes the crippling disease endemic in Africa may be developing resistance to the one drug used to treat it. River blindness is caused by a thin worm that's transmitted to humans by black flies. The worms can cause intense itching, elephantiasis of the g...

Diet Could Be Life or Death for Prostate Cancer Patients

...es of Health. Prostate cancer is among the leading causes of cancer death in men....

Novel Treatment Beneficial for Colon and Liver Cancer

...niversity of Navarra noted that colon cancer alone causes more than 500,000 deaths per year in the West, and currently the only effective treatment is surgery. Despite this treatment, noted the researcher, between 40 and 60% of colon cancer patients die, and for this reason it is important that we seek out ...

Nephrologists Reassess Disaster Response Strategies

... This is a special concern in earthquakes or other causes of building collapse, because muscle damage from crush injuries can cause a condition called rhabdomyolysis, which can rapidly lead to ARF. In response to these disasters, the Kidney Community Emergency Response Coalition (KCERC) was formed, with r...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

...ye that could lead to the discovery of the genetic causes of a host of inherited eye diseases. The investig...genes that encode the proteins of cilia are common causes of a host of genetic diseases, including inherited retinal diseases and polycystic kidney disease. ...

Autism Could Be Related to Higher Level of Growth Hormones

...etween the two groups of boys. No one knows what causes autism, a complex developmental disorder that includes problems with social interaction and communication. Symptoms range from mild awkwardness seen in Asperger's syndrome, to severe disability and mental retardation. A recent CDC survey found that...

Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis

...eins does not lead to their degradation but rather causes their functional inactivation. In other words they become unable to recognize and control ubiquitinated proteins. If needed the cell can re-activated them by cleaving the attached Ub. In this way the cell can quickly and dynamically react on exter...

Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin

...ment of choice for most patients; but, it commonly causes a troubling side effect -- radiation retinopathy. ...ge and resultant swelling of the macula, the major causes of irreversible vision loss in radiation retinopathy, he said. He also noted that, before these Avas...

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