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Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

...ter, Lal Krishna Advani went on record to say that damages might be to the tune of ten thousand crore rupees and upwards. Meanwhile people from all over the country are still pooling money, clothes, footwear, bedding, provisions and medicines to the victims of the quake. It is only in such situations that ...

Parke-Davis (India) runs into rough weather – Court orders attachment of asset

...s to furnish solvent security against the claim of damages and asked the bailiff to go ahead with the attachment of properties if the company fails to furnish security. <br...

Wrinkle cure

...d from one's diet in order to prevent aging. Sugar damages skin by causing collagen to cross-link, making skin stiff and inflexible. Other foods that should be avoided include red meat, potatoes, corn, peas and pastas....

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...en filed in California, is the first ever to claim damages for addiction against one of the drug companies that have made billions from SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) - the class of drug of which Prozac is the best known - and which were hailed as "wonderdrugs" when they first hit the market...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...es show that long-term exposure to methamphetamine damages dopamine-producing brain cells and leads to reduced dopamine levels. The current finding of reduced DAT levels in chronic methamphetamine abusers indicates that in humans, too, the drug causes dysfunction in dopamine circuits, Dr. Volkow says. In a ...

Sequencing of the Plague

...hat infect insects, including one for a toxin that damages the midgut. It also acquired "pathogenicity islands", by assembling of genes from other bacteria that help cause human disease. The sequence also reveals new surface molecules, which might provide new ways to attack plague. But "this genome displays...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...reating a condition called oxidative stress, which damages brain cells. However, if rats with kidney failure are treated with an antioxidant drug, much of this damage can be prevented. Further research is needed to see whether the antioxidant treatment is applicable to humans. There's also the possibility ...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

... of the cornea. Conditions such as chemical burns, damages the limbus resulting in limbal stem cell deficiency characterised by corneal blindness. The advantages of this procedure were use of patient's own tissue from the healthy eye to treat the diseased one avoiding the risk rejection, which is generally...

Cirrhosis linked to genes

... immune reaction in response to alcohol which then damages the liver. Dr Vander West, who is leading the research, says the work suggests directions for the development of treatment and help identify people at high risk of developing the disease.One in six heavy drinkers develop organ damage and teams in s...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...ompared to chemotherapy, which is non-specific and damages all cells … these very focused treatments will only work on those tumors that have that particular molecular pathway active," says Pomeroy. Recently developed compounds that can block the uncontrolled SHH signaling found in the tumors could potenti...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

... of the cornea. Conditions such as chemical burns, damages the limbus resulting in limbal stem cell deficiency characterised by corneal blindness. The advantages of this procedure were use of patient's own tissue from the healthy eye to treat the diseased one avoiding the risk rejection, which is generally...

Glaucoma may be delayed by eye drops

...Its caused when raised pressure inside the eyeball damages the optic nerve leading to the brain. Fluid enters and leaves the eyeball all the time - it's when it drains away too slowly that pressure increases. A team of researchers at University of Texas found that this is the first to assess the long-term ...

Novel research on liver cancer

...n humans. Doctors are still unsure of how the drug damages the tumor while protecting healthy tissue. According to researchers, these early findings are hopeful news to the more than 12,000 patients who will find out this year they have liver cancer. Many of these cases have spread from other organs and do...

Alcohol injures stress hormone response

... stage whether excess alcohol consumption actually damages the parts of the brain dealing with problem solving and memory. It could be that cortisol levels are abnormally low prior to the onset on alcoholism and even play a role in the condition. The true meaning of the association between cortisol and cogni...

Useful drug for stem cell transplant problem

...ication called veno-occlusive disease (VOD), which damages circulation in the liver. In this trial, headed by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the US, a group of 80 patients with severe VOD received a new drug. Defibrotide is extracted from pig intestinal tissue. Around a third of the patient...

New Treatment for Some Cancers

...compound, which collects near the cancer cells and damages or destroys them. There were particularly promising results in the second group, where levels of the tumor marker PSA declined by more than half in 39 percent of the study subjects. The lower PSA levels continued for at least eight weeks. PSA is a p...

New heart-healthy corn due in stores by 2007

...ng.Oleic acid also lowers the bad cholesterol that damages the heart. Susan Duvick, a plant biologist who led the project, said conventional corn contains about 20 percent oleic acid and 60 percent polyunsaturated fat, which is considered healthy by nutritionists though not as beneficial as oleic. Convent...

Factors That Might Increase The Risk Of Schizophrenia

...t do not show its classical symptoms, since gluten damages the intestines, the damage also keeps the body from absorbing nutrients, like vitamins, calcium, protein and fat from food...

More Importance To Be Given To Prenatal Nutrition

...d its blood vessels and high blood pressure, which damages vessels can also lead to malnourishment in some cases problems can also result from intrauterine growth restriction. A series of experiments were conducted by researchers beginning with pregnant mice. The mice were separated into two groups of mothe...

Beware Smoking During Pregnancy Linked To New Danger

...have only indirect data to prove that smoking also damages the genetic material- DNA and this is known as genotoxic insult. The amniotic cells which are cells shed by the fetus in to the amniotic fluid were analyzed for the presence of chromosomal abnormalities in relation to what regions of the chromosome...

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