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Hemophilia Can Be Reduced Through Awareness And Proper Treatment

...dest known inherited bleeding disorder caused by a defect in the genes. "The disease might affect anyone irrespective of social group," said Ditipriya Ghosh, an official with the Hemophilia Federation of India (HFI). According to Ghosh, nearly 800 to 1,000 people with hemophilia (PWH) are registered wit...

Beware Of A Silent Killer Called Haemophilia

...dest known inherited bleeding disorder caused by a defect in the genes the World Haemophilia Day is observed every April 17. // Haemophilia is an incurable genetic disorder that is characterised by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding. It usually affects males. India has some 1,00...

New Study Confers All Clear Status On Letrozole, Infertility Drug

...d in infertility treatment without increased birth defect risk to the fetus. The reports of increased birth defects associated with use of the drug in earlier studies could be due to fault in the methodology. The previous studies compared the incidence of birth defects in children conceived through fertil...

A New study Throws Light On The Growth & Functions Of Insulin Producing Beta Cells

...t both at the same time they still didn’t find any defect in the developmental growth of beta cells. This he said made them conclude that there are growth factors and pathways independent of IGF-I and insulin that are necessary for the development of beta cells. It is known that beta cell function, or lac...

Alcohol Intake During Pregnancy Is Bad For The Baby’s Hear

...slow-wave sleep. These indirectly point out to the defect in their biological rhythms, which are controlled by circadian systems. The study was mainly conducted in rodents during a period equivalent to the third human trimester. They were exposed to alcohol and their ability to synchronize circadian rhyth...

High Levels Of Folic Acid May Increase The Chances Of Twins After IVF

...ining drugs should be avoided. The serious birth defect occurs during the early development of the fetus w...the spine does not close properly. Spina bifida, a defect of the spinal column, is the most common of them....

Gene Defects Determine Susceptibility to Cancer and Bone Marrow Failure

...n production of certain proteins due to a specific defect in RNA translation that depends on a sequence called internal ribosome entry site (IRES). This particular sequence occurs in only some of the messenger RNAs that translate the DNA code into proteins. ‘One of these proteins with decreased levels is ...

Autoimmune Diseases – Newer Preventive Measure

...seases in a lifetime. The same mutation causes a defect in iNKT cells, a type of regulatory cell that helps the immune system fight infections while suppressing errant T cells bent on attacking the body, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. This finding opens new pathways for treating or preventi...

Adult Diabetics Were Unaware Of Their Condition

...high levels of blood glucose resulting either from defect in insulin production, insulin action, its release or all the above. It is the most common cause of blindness (retinopathy), kidney failure (nephropathy), and amputations in adults (neuropathy) and an important cause of heart disease like atheroscler...

Glivec Enhances Survival Rates In Leukemia

...common form of blood cancer, which arises due to a defect in the production of white blood cells. Glivec targets only the affected molecules and leaves the healthy ones unaffected. But it is an expensive drug and costs at least ￡14,000 per patient per year. Results from the IRIS study showed that 93 percen...

Rare Nerve Disease Causing Gene Identified

...lation. The study in Nature Genetics has found a defect in phospholipases; a specific group of proteins was responsible. The researchers conducted the studies on the families hat were affected by two of the genetic disorders infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD) and neurodegeneration with brain iron accu...

NZ To Opt For Folate Fortification Of Bread

... and surgical care. The other major neural tube defect is anencephaly, in which the affected babies have no brain or top of the skull. They die within days of birth. . CCS, formerly the Crippled Children's Society, has been campaigning for more than a decade for the folate fortification of foods. Con...

Learning the Value of Prevention and Treatment in Oral Clefting

... that emphasizes the challenges introduced by this defect for all age groups. Reasons offered by the authors for this contradiction include the following. The evaluators may not have understood the task of the study. Further, it is possible that too few psychologists and behavioral scientists were among t...

Developing Countries Undertake Cataloguing of Human Mutations

... gradually blind. Ramesar's team traced the gene defect down to an enzyme Carbonic Anhydrase. It turned out there was a drug on the market that targeted this enzyme. Now family members use that drug, successfully halting their progression to blindness. The variome project will provide information on thi...

Complex Surgery Performed on Eight-Month-Old Egyptian Girl

...iagnosed to have complete atrio-ventricular septal defect with lung pressures -- a condition wherein there are holes in the upper and lower chambers of the heart and leakage in the valves, Madhu Sankar, a heart surgeon of the hospital, told reporters here today. The gril underwent an open heart surgery on ...

Bangladeshi Baby gets New Lease of Life in Delhi

...he baby was suffering from a rare congenital heart defect but after the surgery he is completely out of danger. Now he will certainly live a healthy life," Mahant Told IANS. The cost of the operation was Rs. 150,000. A pleased Shajan Chowdhury, the father of the kid said that they are grateful to the do...

Doctors At The TMCH Performs Their First Open-heart Surgery

... was suffering from an arterial septal, congenital defect on the 4th of August. Dr S Balakrishnan the dean of TMCH said that the patient, S.Velumurugan's condition was stable and that he would most likely be discharged on August 16. It was reported that this was the first time in the history of the medic...

Importance of knowing the source of our food

... source of our food. He says that there is a major defect in the food safety system// in America. This flaw, at a minor level, inhibits people affected or even killed by contaminated food products from identifying the source of their illness. At a major level, it prevents our society from knowing the source...

Researchers Make a Major Strategic Breakthrough in Controlling the AIDS Virus

.... For the first time, scientists have identified a defect in the immune response to HIV and found a way to correct the flaw. Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, an eminent researcher in cell biology, immunology, and virology, has confirmed the identification of a new therapeutic target (the PD-1 protein) that restore...

Feedback Loop Governing Ovarian Development Unraveled

...germ cells. The animal could well mature with this defect and suffer from reduced fertility. But it does not. Instead, they found that the ovary has a way to sense its lack of germ cells and steps up production. "Within three days, the ovary catches up; it then has enough germ cells," says Dr. Gilboa. "I ha...

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