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Stem cells help in the understanding of drug-resistant, recurrent tumors

...spread. If some of these specialized cells escaped destruction by chemotherapy or radiation, the tumor would be able to recur quickly, often in a form resistant to chemotherapy. Similar cancer stem cells have been previously identified in leukemia and breast cancer and in cell lines of central nervous system and...

Researchers Use Bubbles in Cancer Treatment and Drug Delivery

...is restricting the emboli to the tumor to minimize destruction of surrounding tissue, without extremely invasive procedures, Bull said. The emboli must be delivered by a catheter placed into the body at the tumor site. Gas bubbles, on the other hand, allow very precise delivery because their formation can be c...

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

...n eggs. Creating new lines would have involved the destruction of human embryos. The government has since admitted that many of the cell lines are contaminated, cutting the useable number to 22. With polls showing most Americans support stem-cell research, opposition Democrats are seeking to capitalise on th...

OPPI Opposes Draft National Pharmaceuticals Policy

...h of the pharmaceutical sector // and lead to the destruction of Indian pharma companies. "The previous governm...ier to our growing markets and it will lead to the destruction of Indian Pharma companies," he said. Instead of widening the list of drugs under the price control...

African Americans Have Increased Risk Of Emphysema

...distribution of emphysema and the severity of lung destruction between African Americans and Caucasians, leading researchers to conclude that the mechanism underlying the disease might also vary between the races. "Not everyone who smokes gets emphysema or the same type of emphysema," says Wissam Chatila, MD, l...

Statin Drugs Doing More Harm than Good

...isting medical conditions. Rhabdomyolysis involves destruction of muscle cells, which are released into the bloodstream leading to kidney problems and subsequently its failure. Health Canada spokesperson Jirina Vlk stated that the warnings need to be included as a precautionary measure. He said, "There's a hig...

'Young and their Reproductive Health' - Theme of World Population Day

...s the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us' ...E.O.Wilson...

Anti-Glycolytic Therapy Proved to be Effective Against Tumors

...ushed toward anaerobic exercise. ‘They have muscle destruction because they lack an alternative route for producing energy,’ Fantin said. It is not clear whether they have a lower indidence of cancer. Also appealing is the idea of combining anti-glycolytic therapies with anti-angiogenic ones. ‘If you have a ...

More Than Just Anger

...impulses that result in serious acts of assault or destruction of property', and 'the degree of aggressiveness expressed during the episodes is grossly out of proportion to any precipitating psycho-social stressors'. Therefore IED appears to include such common anger displays such as road rage, air rage, trol...

HIV Vaccine for Monkeys Increases Survival Rates

...Likewise, he adds, if HIV vaccines can prevent the destruction of these memory cells in humans, it may be possible to provide people with longer, healthier lives. In Dr. Letvin's study, he and his colleagues looked at the effect of preserving the memory CD4+ T cells over the long term. A total of 30 monkeys --...

Efforts To Replace Reading Glasses Are In View

...ith for years in the areas of drug delivery, tumor destruction and other medical applications. For the treatment of presbyopia, the U-M team used ultrafast laser pulses to create tiny gas bubbles within the intraocular lens. Before the bubbles diffuse, researchers hit them with high frequency sound waves, whic...

Symptoms In Dementia Patients Negatively Correlates With The Characteristics Of Caregivers

..., combativeness, danger to self, danger to others, destruction of property, repetitive questions, wandering, and waking the caregiver. Behavioral symptoms are the No. 1 reason for nursing home placement among dementia patients, Sink said, because it becomes too difficult to provide care at home. The researchers...

Bubble Technique on the cards For Treatment of Type I diabetes

...chnique, known as ultrasound-targeted micro bubble destruction (UTMD), delivers these insulin genes to the organ via microscopic "bubbles." Once the bubbles reach their target, they are burst with ultrasound releasing the insulin genes into the pancreas. Using UTMD, researchers delivered the bubbles containin...

EBV Might Trigger Multiple Sclerosis, Study

...e how these over-reactive immune cells trigger the destruction of the myelin sheathing that insulates nerve cells. 'The broadened response of the T cells could lead them to recognize and attack cells they aren't supposed to, like brain cells,' said Münz. This process, called molecular mimicry, is seen in other a...

New Technique Destroys Kidney Tumors By Freezing Them

...based on short-term follow-up, results in complete destruction of the tumor in over 95% of cases," said Dr. Atwell. However, say the researchers, not all tumors are amenable to cryoablation, usually because the tumor lies too close to critical abdominal organs that could be injured by the ice-ball or because ...

Aspirin to Prevent Deafness caused by Antibiotics

...tic fibrosis. Its effect on hearing comes from the destruction of the tiny hairs in the inner ear whose job is to detect sounds at different frequencies. Researchers found that aspirin did not decrease the action of the antibiotic although some stomach problems were reported in a few patients. The Sha team ...

Chicken Farmers In Northern Nigeria Face Huge Losses

... that the bird flu has more or less caused a major destruction of poultry industry in the country, including job losses. In his appeal to the Nigerian federal government he asked for assistance for the poultry farmers for re- stocking farms affected by bird flu and act as a guarantor to farmers in securing feder...

New Research Offers Hope In Kidney FailureTreatment

... proteins interact with one another to enable self destruction of kidney cells when there is an reduced oxygen supply// to the tissue may eventually pave way for improved treatment modalities to manage ischemic renal failure. Such self-destruction of the kidney can be activated during dehydration, low blood p...

Instrument to reveal Information about Ozone Loss

...le of nitric acid, enhance the potential for ozone destruction in polar regions. The thinning of the ozone is c...chlorine to its inactive form and allows for ozone destruction to continue. H?pfner and fellow scientists were able to explain the sudden NAT formation of PSCs i...

Indian Scientists Identify Second Pancreatitis Gene

...cific pancreatitis disease that leads to a gradual destruction of the pancreas.// A chronic disease that leads to progressive destruction of pancreas and a painful death, pancreatitis can strike people in tropical countries, including Ind...

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