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Anti-inflammatory Drug Fails to Improve COPD Symptoms

...led in the study, "the possibility that infliximab contributed to the progession, and thus the diagnosis, of malignancies remains a serious concern." This safety issue, coupled with the "resoundingly negative results," make in unlikely that a longer trial will be undertaken, according to the accompanying edito...

Hunt for Sea Delicacy Taking a Toll in California

...high winds that brought rough conditions, may have contributed to the latest deaths. The victims are believed to have drowned or died of heart attacks. Some black out as they rush to the surface for air. Others get tangled in kelp, a kind of seaweed. Some get exhausted in the churning surf or overexert themse...

Popular Anemia Drug Dodges The Dagger

... development, said in a statement that the results contributed to “reinforcing the neutral impact” of the anemia drugs on patients’ survival, Geoffrey C. Porges, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said it was too early to assume that Amgen was out of the woods. “If the study had been bad, it would h...

Scientists Identify Critical Gene Factor in Heart Development

...ting," added Joshua Ransom, a graduate student who contributed equally to this work." Source-Eurekalert...

Top UK Surgeon Who Loved Himalayas is Dead

...bout his experiences in 1936. Of his travels, he contributed a paper, Ladakh in 1936, to the International Colloquia on Ladakh (1995) and a piece, Sikkim in 1936, to the Alpine Journal (2001). Source-IANS Dr. SS/V...

The Origin of the Brain Lies in a Worm

...Gáspár Jékely, a researcher from Arendt's lab, who contributed essentially to the study. "It looks like Platynereis and vertebrates have inherited the organisation of their CNS from their remote common ancestors." The findings provide strong evidence for a theory that was first put forward by zoologist Anton D...

Exports Of Herbal & Dietary Products Has Huge Potential

...main repository of our rich bio-diversity and have contributed to more than 90% of the medicinal plants used for manufacture of medicines of the Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha systems.’ She emphasized that the growing demand for herbal products globally was putting unsustainable demand on forests leading to deple...

Latest IPCC Report Highlights Need for Integrated Climate/human Behavior Models

...limate are not only located in countries that have contributed the least to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, but also those that have the least ability to adapt to them. "One way or another, we will adapt to a changing climate," says Noone. "Adaptation always involves trade-offs. The question is what...

Cure for Cancer One Step Closer

...ted surgeries in 2004. The Queensland Government contributed $1.42 million towards the construction of the Tissue Bank through the Smart State Research Facility Fund. The investment has built and equipped, as part of the Institute's infrastructure, a dedicated laboratory with highprecision equipment for prep...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

...he US. During 2002, India's health care industry contributed 5 per cent of the GDP. By 2012 the share would go up to 8.5 per cent. Health care spending in the country will also double over the next 10 years, he said. In the last five years, the number of patients visiting India for medical treatment rose fro...

China Solicits More Organ Donors

...malpractice of some medical institutions have also contributed to the short supply of human organs and also has harmed the safety of recipients. Hunag cited that people should be educated on organ donations and their perspectives changed for the better. An information network should be established for the regi...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

...look back to determine the major factors that have contributed to growing survival rates in cardiovascular patients. This large observational study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston suggests the value of the use of maintenance therapies, and in particular, the increasing use of ...

Postnatal Care Is The Need Of The Hour

...ong instrument assisted births. Forceps delivery contributed to higher levels of stress, urge, and continual incontinence. Asian women were more likely to report pain and continual urinary incontinence than their white counterparts. Midwife Amanda Williams who conducted this study emphasizes the need for the...

Increased Depression, Burden, Reported in Family Caregivers of ALS Patients

...g caregivers. Chio says several factors may have contributed to the steadiness among quality of life and depression in people with ALS, including a patient’s acceptance of the deadly disease, or possibly cognitive impairment. The study also found while quality of life was higher in caregivers than in patien...

Leukemia Survivors Prone to Other Cancers

...ion treatments used on childhood leukemia patients contributed to the increased risk. One good news is that the childhood leukemia survivors in general developed only those types of cancer that responded well to treatment, like meningioma and basal cell carcinoma. But some yet others developed more serious ca...

Mom's Food to Replace Junk Food in Schools

...obese and junk food rampant in the school canteens contributed towards this cause. Some 5,000 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years were screened in this process. 'We found that 55 percent children from private schools and 45 percent from government schools were in the category of obese individuals. We a...

$1.5 Million Grant to Yale for Narcolepsy-Neurotransmitter Study

...orphin had little direct effect. Rather, dynorphin contributed to increased nerve cell activity by reducing the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters onto the NPY cells. In this case, the transmitters act synergistically to excite the NPY cell. Under the NIH grant, van den Pol and colleagues will study the e...

Pacemaker Patients Should Be Screened for Sleep Apnea

... undiagnosed sleep apnea which might have possibly contributed to their heart disease//. This study is reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Moreover, more than 21 percent of the patients had severe sleep apnea, characterized by 30 or more periods of interrupted breathing each hou...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...njured child. "The CNS Foundation is proud to have contributed major funding for this research along with A-T Children's Project on behalf of the 14 million special-needs children in this country alone." Source-Eurekalert PRI...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

...by using strains from regions that have repeatedly contributed to infections. "If you can control the virus at its source, you can control it more efficiently," said Walter Fitch, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the School of Biological Sciences at UCI and co-author of the study. "With a road ...

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