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Producing Vaccines from genetically modified crops

...anta hopes the technology it will develop over the course of its initial five years of funding will eventually boost the global supply of treatments. Current methods used include genetic modification of human cells and microorganisms such as bacteria. These techniques are labour intensive, expensive and o...

Bihar High Court Intervenes To End Doctors Strike

...ke be called off. "We will decide about the future course of action in a meeting of junior doctors." Court officials said however that the striking doctors were asked in an oral order to end their strike before their demands could be considered sympathetically as the strike had brought healthcare to a stan...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

...patients with stage I seminoma to receive a single course of carboplatin and 904 patients to receive radiation therapy. After a median follow-up of 3years, they found that relapse-free survival was similar between the two groups (95·4% for the carboplatin group vs. 96·6% for radiation therapy). At 5 years t...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

...patients with stage I seminoma to receive a single course of carboplatin and 904 patients to receive radiation therapy. After a median follow-up of 3years, they found that relapse-free survival was similar between the two groups (95·4% for the carboplatin group vs 96·6% for radiation therapy). At 5 years th...

Mango: the cancer combater

... not be so bad after all. Cheers to summer and of course mango! Source: ITRC, Luckno...

Inhaling Salt Can Lead To Hypertension

...om hypertension as they inhale salt// during their course of work. Scientists from the Desert Medicine Research Centre in Jodhpur, India had measured the blood pressure of workers in two salt milling factories in Rajasthan. They divided the workers into two groups: those working close to a salt milling p...

Fasting, Feasting Your Way To Health

... "grazing" - eating several small meals during the course of a day. "Our basic metabolism was set up when we were hunter-gatherers," he told The Times. "The pattern would have been a mixture of feast and famine. Maybe we would go several days without food, and then splurge when a supply was found. We not...

E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana

...hone and check your e-mail multiple times over the course of an afternoon. A study commissioned by Hewlett-Packard shows that today's dependency on daily technology, including e-mail and cell phones, can be slightly more detrimental to your IQ than smoking marijuana. Conducted by scientists from the Instit...

Pause as you please

...s meant they probably had only 40 periods over the course of their lifetime, compared to the 300 to 400 most modern women experience....

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

... chemotherapy may offer no benefit and a five-year course after surgery of tamoxifen, which obstructs the hormone, may be the only therapy needed. This finding could mean that some of the thousands of American women// diagnosed each year with breast cancer could avoid the debilitating side effects of taking...

Primates reveal a new dimension to human genome

...tes. A genetic divergence happens in a certain course of time. There is a huge time lapse between the mice and humans since they shared common ancestors, which makes it difficult to compare them. But primates were comparatively recent in sharing common ancestors, and hence it is more easier to make a co...

Glivec the hot cancer drug from Novartis

...n mark by the end of this year. Although an annual course of Glivec can cost as much as $25,000, demand for the drug took off so quickly that Novartis was forced to run its production line around the clock. Since the year 2000 Novartis has launched 10 drugs and this is three times more than its nearest ri...

New Treatment Option For Testicular Cancer

...domized more than 540 patients to receive a single course of the drug carboplatin and more than 900 patients to receive radiation, which is the standard of care. The carboplatin group received one dose in one day, a protocol designed to treat ovarian cancer. The drug works by interfering with the growth of ...

Brain of Cocaine Addicts Smaller In Size

...s in the amygdala could have occurred early in the course of cocaine use. However, the types of variations in the amygdalas of cocaine users suggest a genetic cause, which may result in an increased risk for cocaine addiction. The study showed no correlation between amygdala size and duration of cocaine ad...

WHO Steps Up To Create A Public Awareness About The Consequences Of Exposure To Radon

...e WHO says the fact sheets produced by them in the course of the Project will be a central communication tool to increase public awareness about radon. The WHO International Radon Project also aims to create a global radon database and provide improved global estimates of the disease burden associated with ...

Different Types Of Multiple Sclerosis May Be Treated Differently

...o at one point had undergone a brain biopsy in the course of their disease when the diagnosis of MS was still in question. Patients were seen at Mayo Clinic, the University of Vermont or a European center, and all included in the study had severe disabilities, including paralysis and loss of speech, which f...

Sharp Increase Of The Deadly Diseases In Delhi

...cted, but the tendency to jump into an antibiotics course without qualified medical advice has to be overcome." While he usually treats 8-10 viral patients a day, Bagai says the number has now soared to 30-35 a day. The number of admissions of viral cases too has doubled, from around 25 a month to about 4...

Quitting Psychotherapy Midway May Be Preventable

... patients can help therapists distinguish the best course of action for a patient and recognize ahead of time when a patient is more likely to drop out and might do better placed elsewhere. Preparation: It can help some patients if they know what to expect in therapy. This may be especially important for g...

WHO declares Tuberculosis – ‘An Emergency’ in Afrca

...s cannot overcome it alone, they need help. A full course of TB drugs that costs 15 dollars will save the lives of TB patients - and in the case of people who are co-infected with HIV, extend their lives by precious years until ARVs become more widely available in Africa." The specific actions called for b...

They Call It PMS Because Mad Cow Disease Was Already Taken

...nal environment. The women were evaluated over the course of two menstrual cycles. The analysis of the results has proved that the oral contraceptive method is effective in reducing symptoms associated with the PMS. For women who are seeking contraception in addition to control of PMDD, this would be more...

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