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Study Findings Could Help In Developing A Better Drug Delivery System

... the release of drugs within a cell had been under debate for several years, Low said. "This is the definitive statement on how drugs are released within a cell," he said. "We will use this knowledge to develop better receptor-targeted drug therapies to treat cancer and other diseases." Low and Yang wor...

Look younger with HGH!!

...ut HGH. I welcome this guy's decision to bring the debate into the open. I, for one, will be looking to contact him because he is at the forefront of something big.” GAY...

NHS Fertility Treatment to be extended to Lesbians and Single Women

... by the BFS will probably cause a reopening of the debate on whether the welfare of the child is best served by both a mother and a father. Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harries, a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, said: "This is a welcome and progressive set of recommendations since there...

US Approves the Sale of Morning after Pill Without Prescription

...ties overcame years of emotionally laden political debate that pitted women's rights and advocacy groups against religious conservatives who believe use of the pill is equivalent to abortion. (Source: IANS)...

Scientists Claim Encouraging Progress On Hereditary Diseases

... 10th to 14th of August for an intense discussion, debate to help create future therapies for Huntington's disease and related disorders. Almost 400 scientists met together to share their latest discoveries. "The synergy, innovation and enthusiastic collaboration fostered by this gathering of dedicated sc...

Bisphosphonates to Treat Multiple Myeloma

...dress the issue that has been under recent intense debate due to patient safety concerns," said Martha Lacy, M.D., Mayo Clinic hematologist and lead author of the statement. "These drugs have far-ranging effects that raised concerns in the medical field, so we brought together the relevant specialists to de...

AIDS Campaign Enrages HIV Infected Swazis

...ed the campaign a success because it had sparked a debate on HIV. The campaign had aimed at changing sexual behaviour to reduce the spread of the virus. SWANNEPHA protested and threatened to take legal action. This made NERCHA to withdraw most of the advertisements earlier this month . Still some continue...

Research Ethics Requirements Compromising Quality of Health Research

...ealth benefits is unavoidable, and call for public debate about what it means to protect patients’ interests. The evidence suggests that public concern about an opt-out approach to being contacted by a researcher is minimal. Particularly sensitive topics might justify a different strategy, but ethics comm...

Waxing And Waning Of Dengue Epidemics Attributed To Cross-Immunity

...." In addition to helping resolve a long-standing debate in public health, the study, published this week in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, gives researchers a framework that can be used to create models that predict dengue outbreaks in both space a...

Malaria Claims 271 In Assam

...imanta Biswa Sarma said here. // Replying to the debate on cut motions in the state assembly, Sarma said the exact toll could be higher as information from interior areas had not reached the state capital. Admitting that last year the anti-malaria drive was "slow", he said this year 90 per cent of the af...

Electronic Medical Record For Every American by 2014

...al records to make them electronic, there is still debate about the financial implications of such an endeavor and on whom it will eventually rest. Patient privacy is another cause for concern that figures on top of the critics’ agenda. ...

Pain Relief During Circumcision

...etic." Researchers say the results show that the debate over whether babies feel pain during circumcision has ended. Since 1999, most major medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have recommended the use of anesthetics to provide pain relief for infant circumcision. In the s...

US Senate Approves Embryo-research Plan Despite President's Refusal

...residency.// The 63-37 vote followed two days of debate that pitted the promise of new disease cures against deep questions of conscience, especially among Bush's supporters on the religious right who view embryos as human life and oppose the measure. Tuesday's vote was coloured by election-year politic...

Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist

Ben Barres who has a distinct edge joined the debate with many others to discuss on the focus whether the men's brain suit inherently better for science than women.// Instead of giving a conceptual argument on the similarities and differences among the gender he has lived as both and proved. Barres' ...

Overreacting to the effects of Radiation

...the limit is considered safe. This might stir up a debate over nuclear issues that are already hot topics of discussion in several countries. Mike Repacholi, of the World Health Organization radiation program, said: "People hear radiation, they think of the atomic bomb and they think of thousands of death...

Contaminated Surgical Instruments Increase Risk Of Infections

...ed properly before reuse. 'There is currently much debate across health services in Europe about the use of single and multiple-use surgical instruments,' she said. "Many professionals, including doctors and managers, feel that manufacturers are often overly cautious in their instructions on the use of su...

Researchers Warn That Whooping Cough Is Still Very Prevalent

...ly immunised child.” Dr Hardman said, “There's a debate about whether we should introduce an adolescent booster, but that could push it upwards into the parent population, which has its own set of problems. That's the dilemma.” Meanwhile a spokesman for the Health Protection Agency said, “We're fully awa...

Renewable Oocytes of Mice created hope in Human Fertility Treatment

...y and adulthood. Although their speculation caused debate throughout the scientific community, the scientists could not produce evidence to confirm their idea. However, Professor Findlay and Dr Kerr's research gives support to the theory. Their findings have been published in the July issue of Reproduction....

Anti-Glycolytic Therapy Proved to be Effective Against Tumors

...lly, is the way the study resolves a long-standing debate about how and why cells switch to glycolysis in the first place. Warburg speculated that cancer cells change over to glycolysis, which occurs in the cytoplasm, because the mitochondria, where oxygen-dependent ATP synthesis occurs, are defective. But ...

Bihar Legislators Join Hands to Fight Against AIDS

...or awareness drive. "Legislators would discuss and debate on ways to check its spread," he said. Choudhary said that awareness is the key weapon to fight AIDS as it will not only check its spread but also counter the social stigma attached to the disease in India. An official with the Bihar State AIDS ...

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