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First Study to Show How Immune Cells 'Speak' to Each Other in Vivo

...ng to the researchers, this work should settle the controversy over the existence and functional significance of mature immunological synapses in vivo during antiviral immune responses. The findings will allow further experimental exploration of immunological synaptic function during normal and pathological immu...

Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

...e, dynamically propagated in India, has raked up a controversy in recent years, with nearly 17 adverse drug reactions. In spite of the abuse and misuse of Nimesulide, causing death of children, the Drug Controller of India thought it befitting to restrict the action to a mere probe, while other countries ordered...

Burka Style Inter-faith Gowns For Muslim Patients In UK

...feeling that this innovation would flare up into a controversy in future, as many parts of the NHS are struggling with crippling debts and shutting hospital beds and the hospital bosses have not said how much the new gowns cost. It has been announced that the muslim patients at the Preston and Chorley hospital...

Gene Transfer Using Mutant Form of Good Cholesterol Cuts Vascular Plaque and Inflammation

...rotective genes. “There has been uncertainty and controversy about whether apo A-I Milano is a better form of HDL than the “wild type” (regular) apo A-I in terms of protective effect against atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation, which are tied together,” said Prediman K. Shah, M.D., director of the Divisi...

Colas can cause bone loss in old women

...rink manufacturers in India//, already caught in a controversy over higher than permissible amounts of pesticide in their drinks. American epidemiologists have reported that colas are associated with bone mineral density loss and their consumption may increase osteoporosis risk for older women. Osteoporosis is...

New Zealand Says no to Herceptin Funding for Early Breast Cancer

...drugs being evaluated by Pharmac. There has been controversy over this issue since July when funding was first turned down for a 12 month treatment of early breast cancer. It is subsidized only for late stage Her2 breast cancer. Among the criticizers is Roche, which is outraged that New Zealand is the only dev...

Veils Banned to Muslim medicos in Birmingham Hospital

Adding fuel to the already raging controversy in Britain, Birmingham city hospitals have banned Muslim medicos from donning full-face veils//. Birmingham University School of Medicine has passed this ban on wearing of a full-face veil by Muslim women in an attempt to "help to aid good communic...

Eating Fish has more Benefits than Risks

...o heart, nerve and kidney damage in adults. "The controversy has been pretty one-sided, dominated by those who feel low levels of mercury impair cognitive development," said Dr. Gary Myers, a neurologist at the University of Rochester in New York. He was associated with one of the biggest studies following p...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

...onsider this therapy — particularly in view of the controversy about prescribing psychotropic medications to children and teens," said O'Kearney, director of clinical training for psychology at the Australian National University, in Canberra. This review appears in the October 18 issue of The Cochrane Library,...

Ramadoss Blames State Governments for High Dengue Toll

...y do the implementation." In the midst of many a controversy over the last few months - whether the decision to oust All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P. Venugopal or the reservation issue, the minister feels he is a victim of media sensationalism. Ramadoss says that "compared to last ...

Fast Food Heavy Weights Act Fast To Bell The Fat Out!

...industry which has been simmering in the trans-fat controversy for quite a while, has decided to turn the tables on their sticky ally- the hydrogenated// vegetable oils! This is perhaps the last nail in the coffin! KFC, Marks & Spencer, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco have already communicated their intention of b...

Crib deaths revisit Kolkata hospital, 22 infants die

...n the state health department is in the midst of a controversy over using condemned blood testing kits, which are feared to have led to transfusion of HIV and Hepatitis contaminated blood among thousands of people. West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Health Minister Surya Kanta Misra had to r...

School Vaccination Program to Include Cancer Drug Gardasil

...BAC) to the Australian government had sparked of a controversy this month since it publicly stated that spending $150 million annually to vaccinate all young women in Australia was not cost effective. This vaccine has been developed by a scientist from Australia, by the name, Ian Frazer. The drug gardasil preve...

Researchers Find Two Biomarkers With Potential to Predict Breast Cancer Spread

...he U.S. and in many other countries, there remains controversy in the accurate assessment of micrometastasis in sentinel lymph nodes, according to Hoon. He said recent studies have found that it can produce both false positive and false negative results. Furthermore, microdisease seen in the sentinel lymph nod...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

...ertilization is desirable. This could preclude the controversy of destroying unused embryos and perhaps the debate over embryonic stem cells, he says. Eggs, which can reprogram cell function by turning genes off and on, can produce cells that can become essentially anything, Dr. Eroglu says. If he can better u...

'Gender-Benders': Sports and Sex Determination

...athletes are national 'symbols' and any unpleasant controversy amounts to national shame and a blow to the country's pride. It is also important to ensure that not a single imposter goes scot-free, as it would tantamount to squashing the dreams and years of hard work of a fellow aspirant. Does elbowing out gen...

Refusal of Surgery for Smokers – To Be or Not to Be

The controversy over refusal of surgery to known smokers is all set to be rekindled this week with two renowned experts debating the issue in this week’s BMJ//. The issue was initiated by the decision of a primary care trust last year to remove smokers from the wait...

Differences Between BP Medicines and Newly-Diagnosed Diabetes Identified

...int out that their data do not address the ongoing controversy about whether new-onset diabetes leads to as many heart attacks, strokes or death, as long-standing diabetes, which will require more studies. The authors’ data do suggest, however, that the differences between antihypertensive drugs regarding the ...

Sponsor to Pull Measure Mandating HPV Vaccine

...understand her decision. "There has been growing controversy about the vaccine," said Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt (D-Prince George's), one of 21 senators who signed on to the measures. "Not about what it will accomplish, but the timeliness of it and the understanding of it being a mandate." Britt said she receiv...

AIIMS Official Files Complaint Against Venugopal

...lice complaint mentions. AIIMS has been mired in controversy since the central government decided to introduce quotas for other backward classes last year. The institute, which was the epicentre of an anti-quota agitation, was also in the news due to the tussle between Ramadoss and Venugopal over the last eigh...

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