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Memory T Cells Protect the Body from Viruses

...er the infection subsides, most of the lymphocytes die but some remain in the body as memory lymphocytes and protect the body from recurrence of the disease. Similarly, vaccines induce the production of memory lymphocytes, but without causing disease. While scientists have long known the role of antibo...

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...flight of stairs, Henske said. Many women with LAM die prematurely. As part of her work, Henske discovered that mutations in the tuberous sclerosis gene, which triggers TSC, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to form in many different organs, including the brain, eyes, heart, kidney, skin and lungs,...

Body's Defence Mechanism Against Viral Disease Discovered

... at the time of infection. Most of the lymphocytes die after the infection subsides, but some remain in the body as "memory lymphocytes" and protect the body from recurrence of the disease. Earlier, scientists used to think that in order to protect from disease, the memory T cells need to multiply in th...

Smokers Blow Their Infants Health into Thin Air

...icles. Over 6,000 children under the age of five die each year in United States alone due to second hand smoking. It causes respiratory diseases in children. Children of smoking parents 'had significantly reduced lung function similar to that seen in smokers. If a woman smokes while she is pregnant, ...

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

... as pre-diabetes, are more than twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease after five years. Researchers at the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne say their findings add strength to the argument that pre-diabetics should be treated with diabetes drugs before they even develop the disea...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...me senior doctors warn that hundreds of women will die of cervical cancer because government advisers have delayed a decision to introduce the vaccination programme. Cancer specialists yesterday criticised the committee of advisers for taking a year to reach their decision, and said 300,000 girls would f...

Filipino Mothers Go Bare Protesting Against Milk Formula Companies

...cording to WHO studies up to 1.45 million children die annually in poor countries because of low breastfeeding rates....

Decline in Breastfeeding Linked to Child Deaths in Asia: UNICEF

About 160,000 infants die each year in the Asia-Pacific region due to a decline in breastfeeding, a UNICEF expert told a regional conference on Wednesday . There are "roughly 160,000 children dying annually in Eastern and Southeastern Asia whose deaths are attributed to so...

AIDS Charity AVERT Launches Stop AIDS in Children Campaign

... They failed to do so. Over 1 million children may die over the next three years as a result. In response, the Stop AIDS in Children campaign is asking for urgent efforts to be made to stop the transmission of HIV from mother to baby, so that by 2010, the number of children dying of AIDS will have been ...

SKorean University Seeks to Bar Smokers

...me last year. About 49,000 people are estimated to die each year of smoking-related diseases, according to the private Korean Association of Smoking and Health....

US Parents Risk Jail When Their Teens Drink at Parties

...age of 21. Each year, around 5,000 people under 21 die as a result of underage drinking, including 1,900 in traffic accidents and 1,600 in homicides, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. A Justice Department study in 2003 found a greater percentage of young people aged 1...

California Government to Revoke License of LA Hospital

...ng criticism in the media when a woman was left to die in its emergency room. And on Thursday the Los Angeles county officials were told by the Californian state government that the license of the hospital could be revoked. The state Department of Health Services has never before threatened such a pena...

Questions Over Drugs to Prevent Heart Complications During Surgery

...rt attacks and strokes, and about one in four will die each year. Two types of drugs blockers and statins - are regularly given to patients to prevent such complications. They are given shortly before, during, or after surgery (the perioperative stage) to help lower blood pressure. But doctors in A...

Pubs Propose to Sell Nicotine Gum Patches

...ment of Health estimates that half of smokers will die of a smoking-related illness. Based on figures from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where the ban has already come into effect, ASH estimates that the smoking ban will reduce the number of smokers by 680,000....

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

...al" individuals would either - and most probably - die without leaving any offspring, or - in the unlikely event that they find a mutant partner - they might found a new line that may eventually become a new species. As such, the offspring of such parents would inherit the mutant communication system of ...

New Definition Helps Identify Children at Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

...3) This is the first generation where children may die before their parents." Intrauterine events for the unborn child and factors during early development years predispose a child to disorders such as obesity, prediabetes, and metabolic syndrome. At the same time, urbanization, unhealthy diet and ...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...on of the 250 million tobacco users in the country die every year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there will be more than ten million deaths a year due to oral cancer in the next thirty years with 70 percent of those occurring in developing countries like India....

First Gene Linked to Scoliosis Identified

...ndrome called CHARGE, babies born with which often die in infancy. Children who survive develop heart defects, mental retardation, genital and urinary problems, ear abnormalities, and deafness among other problems. They also develop late-onset scoliosis. "This led us to consider that milder variations ...

Computerized Doctors Order Reduce Prescription Errors

...than one-half million patients sustain injuries or die in hospitals from adverse events, according to the study....

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...ortions in Brazil each year, and about 4,000 women die from such procedures annually. Temporao political influence is from the socialist health reform movement. Being faithful to his political root he has now taken on the beer industry and global pharmaceutical companies. He has proposed limitations ...

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