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Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...dicine have identified one unifying principle that could explain how a range of causes and treatments for ... the theory of whether brain circuitry malfunction could be at the root of depression. To explore the idea in a precise, quantitative way, they needed to dev...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...ans, according to the researchers. Their discovery could lead to development of therapies to reduce development of liver cancer in males by either decreasing the levels IL-6 in males, interfering with IL-6 action or by administering estrogen-like compounds to males in order to inhibit production of IL-6. ...

Top China Official Pessimistic on Fixing Food Safety Woes

...us Chinese-made food products but admitted success could prove elusive . China plans to set up comprehensive food safety evaluation systems in 31 cities by the end of the year and to implement other measures, the State Food and Drug Administration official was quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as...

Star Health Grants Boon To India's HIV-Affected

...re available for it. But experts agree the patient could survive for a longer time if he or she gets the proper treatment. According to Star Healths officials, the social stigma attached to HIV patients and the difficulty in drawing the individuals out to take up a policy on their own , had forced Star ...

Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles

...uced into pastures that once held infected animals could become infected. Infectivity of prions was also enhanced when they were bound to whole soil. "Since the 1940s it's been known that 'infected pastures' have the ability to infect new animals," according to Aiken. Pedersen notes that soils are a co...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

... he said obstetricians working in a maternity unit could provide a better service if the staff and doctors "know each other well". "If you have the door open for all-comers it may cause problems for that unit," he said. And competition law also created confusion among other specialist doctors who work...

No Flu Outbreak Here , West Australians Told

...n affected, two died at home before their families could seek medical attention. One died soon after arriving at Princess Margaret's emergency department. Hospital staff had examined double the number of patients they would usually see, with 320 patients attending the hospital on Saturday compared with ...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

At least 2.2 million people in the US could be suffering from atrial fibrillation, it is estimated. And the number of patients is forecast to soar. It is a condition in which part of the heart does not beat the way it should. Instead of beating in a regular, normal pattern, part of the hear...

The Chattier Gender

...between 1998 and 2004. The research participants could not control the EAR, which automatically records for 30 seconds every 12.5 minutes, and did not know when the device was on....

A New Study Throws Limelight in HIV Vaccine Production

...sults demonstrate that population-based approaches could complement smaller functional studies by providing a whole-gene or whole-virus picture of immune escape. Previous B.C. Centre research published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases investigated the role of HLA class 1 variation on response to anti-...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...sted the pesticide spraying -- saying the chemical could wreak havoc on aquatic ecosystems and taint organi...quito spraying isn't 100 percent effective, but it could prevent something. I would hate to see this happen to someone else." Phillips says she is living p...

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

...vances towards the development of a technique that could be used to confirm whether someone is infected wit...is unlikely to produce a rapid screening test that could be implemented in blood donation centres it may well be suitable as a confirmatory test that could b...

Awareness About Condoms Among Pakistani Punjabis is Very Low

...ince were least aware of the AIDS and the ways one could get infected by the HIV. While, 26 percent of the people knew that unsafe sex could cause the disease, 23 percent were aware that use of contaminated needles could spread HIV/AIDS and ...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...through their single crop. In India, forests which could have preserved moisture when water was scarce were massively cut down by the British to make way for tea plantations. In Ethiopia, soil degradation worsened the drought problem. But environmental abuse was only one factor. Food shortages were wor...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...e medical team has found that a form of antibiotic could prevent cancer patients from losing hair during chemotherapy, a doctor involved in the research said Monday . Toshiyuki Sakai said his team had found "alopestatin" reduced hair loss by 70 percent when used on rats also given etoposide anti-cancer d...

Marilyn Monroe was Just too Hygienic for Clark Gable!

...In as much as he had a fetish for cleanliness, she could not have been less fastidious regarding personal hygiene," the New York Post quotes Bret, as writing. "Like Jean Harlow, she bleached her pubic hair and never wore panties . . . She suffered from what today would be described as a form of irritable...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...liated by a police squad. "I was lucky because I could prove my case, because I speak good English and ha...that conditions in Uganda were so hostile that she could not seek protection from the state. Often, even in countries where legal help is available theoret...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...rtedly developed a resistant variety of maize that could alleviate both food shortages and promote genetically engineered (GE) foods in Africa. The MSV-resistant maize is the first GE crop developed and tested solely by Africans. According to Dr. Dionne Shepherd of the University of Cape Town, and her ...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...they care for their horses and hinted that horses could emerge as an important model for studying the heal...d nutrition and lack of exercise how these animals could drift toward being overweight, he said. This research project remains underway, and has laid the g...

Overweight Baby in Clinic

...ould be taken into care. These overweight children could have complications such as type 2 diabetes or cholesterol problems. Over the years there has been an increase in number of overweight kids. Dr Swati Karandikar has been treating number of obese kids. She said: "We give them lifestyle advice and do ...

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