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Virus Level could Predict Cervical Cancer Risk

...isk from the disease long before it develops or is detected with conventional screening.New research published in The Lancet medical journal suggests that the amount of one strain of the virus, called HPV-16, could be a more accurate predictor of the disease. 'High amounts of HPV 16 DNA is a major risk factor...

PCR emerging as a promising technique for Diagnosing Urinary Tuberculosis

...ess in India. Presence of even one bacteria can be detected by the PCR technique, he said, elaborating on the advances in genitourinary tuberculosis. However, in spite of newer methods of investigations like ultrasound and CT scan, intravenous urogram continues to be the key investigation method for the ge...

Debate Rages over firing of HIV infected health care workers

...ank officer was asked to leave his job when he was detected to be HIV positive and he was detected to be negative on subsequent testing. He however couldn’t handle the trauma and is now mentally dist...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...essing risk," according to Sukumar. If the lavage detected precancerous cells, a woman could be followed more closely to see whether she developed cancer, Sukumar explained. Based on the test, women might be treated with drugs shown to prevent breast cancer....

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...astric cancers in the removed stomach, which were detected after very thorough pathological examination," said co-author Dr. Carlos Caldas of the University of Cambridge in the UK. Hence it is rather curative than preventive. "Nevertheless, what we are learning about gastric cancer in these rare families m...

Virus killer

...generate an antigen-antibody reaction, that can be detected during tests.They also added that the formation on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....

Early detection of prostate cancer

...und that men with prostate cancer who could not be detected by the PSA test could potentially be picked up by ...r: one that would identify cases that would not be detected through a PSA test alone. Low levels of IGFBP-3 might also identify men at high risk of developing p...

Need for Colon cancer screening

...ple with no symptoms, while one-time sigmoidoscopy detected 70% of growths. After completing both the tests the detection rate up to 76 %. The researchers feel that people need to follow-up and repeat testing to be sure they have caught a cancer in time. The problem was worse for people over 60, as they are...

Stay young the Chinese way

...eam of scientists, said he and his colleagues have detected the existence, in their repeated experiments, of a powerful anti-oxidation substance in grape-stones, which cannot be produced by the human body.// Oxidation is a chemical reaction in which an atom loses its electron, and this change, if it happens...

Detecting brain aneurysms

...otential blood vessel problems in the brain can be detected by non-invasive techniques, but only if they are above a certain diameter.// Some people are born with a malformation of a blood vessel within the brain that leads to a weakness that, in turn, may cause a brain bleed. Till now, the technique for fin...

Poisonous Parkinson's molecule discovered

...be exerting a toxic effect. If the TIQs could be detected in blood, say, or urine, this could form the basis of a diagnostic test for Parkinson's. And blocking its action could turn out to be a useful new form of therapy....

Biotechnology on the lead

...ral days to just a few hours. "The way people have detected bacteria in the past is that they have grown them, to see what they look like, smell like, what properties they have," he said. "But with knowledge about the genetic code, we can multiply the amount of DNA in a specific species, so if it's smallpox, ...

Anthrax drug doxycycline could stunt fetal growth

...hich works equally well against strains of anthrax detected in recent weeks in the United States. But doxycycline is part of a class of drugs that can endanger fetuses, including staining primary teeth, weakening tooth enamel and stunting bone growth, the CDC warned. No formal studies have been conducted o...

Infertility in relation with virus

...AV is a relatively common virus which can often be detected in genital tissues - infection appears to take place when a child is in the womb, during childhood, or young adulthood.// In the German experiments, 67 men with semen abnormalities were tested for traces of AAV. These were found in 28 of them - com...

New drug may stop alopecia

...ently underwent chemotherapy. No side effects were detected and the drug did not interfere with the cancer-killing effects of the treatment. Hair falls out because chemotherapy drugs aim to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells but also hit the cells surrounding hair follicles that divide quickly. The gel works...

Breast screening among diabetic women

Breast cancer should be detected in early stages in order to prevent it from advancing. Women who have diabetes should go for a mammogram as a routine check up, thereby enabling a thourough screening of breast cancer. //According to a new study there has been decreased detection of ...

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...Oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin, was detected in 56 cases where toxicology tests were performed in 2000 and 2001. Of those people, 23 took fatal doses of the drug....

Fresh approach to TB treatment

...alent of the target of the drugs in fungi has been detected in several mycobacterial pathogens including that causing TB and the protein in the BCG strain is identical to that in M. Tuberculosis causing TB. These results suggest that the drugs are also likely ot be active against the strains that cause infe...

New device for discerning Osteoarthritis

...clinics to screen for Osteoarthritis, so it can be detected earlier and management started sooner. The other possibility is to use DEI to test new Osteoarthritis drugs, to see if they can slow down the erosion of cartilage....

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

.../ This study showed that a risk factor that can be detected many weeks before symptoms appear may be able to predict who will develop pre-eclampsia. Women who developed pre-eclampsia had higher-than-normal levels of a protein called SHBG early in pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia is seen in about 5% of p...

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