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Glivec - New Hope For CMC Patients

For those unlucky to be afflicted by the deadly chronic myeloid leukemia (CMC) and their near and dear ones, there's some good news. One of the deadliest forms of leukemia - commonly called 'blood cancer' - kills thousands across the globe. Chronic myeloid leukemia was one of the deadliest ki...

Ebola Virus - 'Outbreak' Claims More Lives In Uganda.

The curse of Uganda – the deadly Ebola virus in its latest outbreak has claimed around 156 lives by December 5th according to Health Ministry officials in Kampala. More shocking is the fact that the dead include many health workers including doctors & nurses. But what shocked the ...

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

One very deadly form of cancer is pancreatic cancer, though it isn’t very common. Globally it kills lakhs of people every year. And now there is some hope for the unfortunate victims. A new vaccine has been successfully tested on the pancreatic cancer victims and it...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...a potential AIDS vaccine to halt the spread of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Two Hyderabad-based biotechnology/pharma companies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners for the proposed project, which entails an upfront technolo...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...in four countries have unanimously opined that the deadly Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) Epidemic did not arise from an oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950s and say rumours suggesting the contrary have no scientific evidence to back them up. The studies, from researchers in the US, UK, Franc...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...rom AIDS/HIV and Tuberculosis, malaria is the most deadly infectious disease in the world. Some health facilities use bed nets, treated with insecticide, to curtail the disease but Johns Hopkins is among the few institutions trying to develop a successful vaccine or new drug treatments. Dr. Diane Griffin,...

Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice

..., have said that an experimental treatment for the deadly Ebola virus has shown promising results in mice. ...stems of mice that had survived infection with the deadly Ebola virus and injected them into other Ebola-free mice. Later, these mice were then infected with ...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...than one tenth of its population infected with the deadly virus. Unfortunately only a tinny minority can afford the expensive anti retroviral drugs and the Government says this drugs are still too expensive for its health budget....

Antibiotic induces liver damage in children with E.COLI infections.

...ion increases the risk of developing a potentially deadly liver disorder. "Our data suggests that antibiotics are not only not helpful, but are potentially harmful in children with diarrhea caused by E. coli 0157," says study co-author, Dr. Phillip Tarr, of the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Cent...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...ause any harmholds promise as a treatment for this deadly form of brain cancer. Dr.Peter A Forsyth, of the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and colleagues report that in a set of experiments involving cancer cell lines grown in the laboratory, reovirus destroyed cancer cells in 20 out o...

Virus killer

A ribozyme, an enzyme that can be used to kill the deadly Hepatitis E virus has been designed by Indian scientists.The ribozyme had been designed using the viral clones and would kill the virus by cutting RNA. The efficacy of the ribozyme was being tested on animals. The cloned virus could also be us...

Gene Therapy Destroys Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...o-pronged attack, researchers were able to destroy deadly pancreatic cancer cells in the test tube and in lab animals. // The work was led by Dr. Paul B. Fisher, a professor of clinical pathology at Columbia. Researchers were interested in using a tumor-stopping protein from a newly discovered gene known ...

The cancer-fighting gene

...eening programs to identifyt women at risk for the deadly disease.The finely detailed images, will give researchers new clues on how the crucial protein effectively prevents cells from becoming cancerous.// The protein is enormous in size and scope, with a chain of some 1,863 amino acids that comprises a ...

Fight against E.coli

...sts may have found a way to combat the potentially deadly E. coli 0157 bacteria - by attacking it with cinnamon. Microbiologists at Kansas State University found that adding small amounts of the spice to samples of apple juice contaminated with// the E. colibug killed off almost all the bacteria. Just one...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...ckpiles could be used to introduce the potentially deadly disease into the population, which is at present ill-prepared to deal with a potential outbreak. If introduced into America or Europe, smallpox would spread rapidly at first, infecting 6 to 12 people for each individual already infected. As steps ...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

... that elevated cholesterol early in life can cause deadly cardiovascular consequences later, and convincing evidence that statin drugs are highly effective at controlling runaway low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called "bad" form of the blood fat. But studies that have proved the efficacy of statins ...

Blood test may identify ovarian cancer

...could have a dramatic impact in what is now a very deadly cancer," said Dr. Elise Kohn, a study author. Researchers tried their test on blood samples from 50 women with ovarian cancer and 66 women without the disease. The test correctly identified all 50 samples from the cancer patients, including all 18 sa...

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

...tep in alerting a building’s occupants to flee the deadly bacteria, as well as in activating defenses such as anti-anthrax foam dispersal systems. The patent-applied-for detector, in which commercial interest has been expressed, would also aid security people making their rounds to locate point sources of t...

Pain Killers Keep the Virus Away

...lication of a common// virus linked to potentially deadly infections in people with AIDS and other immune disorders. The presence of the microbe, called human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), in cells is accompanied by a rush of prostaglandins, chemicals in the body that promote pain, inflammation and fever. So, s...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...occurring substance with many health benefits or a deadly intoxicant with no legitimate medical use? GHB -- gamma hydroxy butyric acid -- hailed as a wonder drug for the first 30 years// of its career, has been blamed as an illegal killer for the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousands of deaths and eme...

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