High Demand for a child vaccine
...hortage around the country. Meanwhile, doctors are directing the supplies they do have to children// who run the highest risk of infection, such as those with sickle cell anemia, the AIDS virus or other diseases that undermine the immune system. PREVNAR fights the bacterium streptococcus pneumoniae, the leadi......ryonic stem cells - a kind of 'template' cell - by directing their differentiation into a specialised cell such as a nerve or muscle cell. The Britain-based team, headed by Dr Martin Cliffer,University's Institute of Reproduction and Development together with colleagues in Israel and Singapore, is the first to...Gamma Knife Offers New Hope For Trigeminal Neuralgia Patients
...re which accomplishes the task of reducing pain by directing 201 narrow "pencil beams" of radioactive cobalt-60 into the affected area of the trigeminal nerve. Almost 90 percent of the patients reported significant reduction of pain after the procedure, while one-third reported that they experienced facial num...Biopsies Of Human Skin And Bone Marrow Support T Cell Development
... immune system, discriminating self from non-self, directing less specific elements of the immune system in the performance of effector functions, and serving as a repository for immunologic memory. The ability to generate T cells suitable for use in human patients could lead to significant advances in the t...Scientists Discover Prostate Cancer Triggering Molecule
...ostate tumors by messing up with their signals and directing cells to dump a tumor-suppressor protein. This protein usually fights cancer growth by signaling that the cell destroy itself. Researchers say that Ack1 could be a new target for drug companies to target anti-cancer drugs. 'It's a remarkable effect....Prostate Cancer Stem Cells Discovered By York Researchers
...tumors, but this minute number was responsible for directing other cells to turn cancerous. Professor Maitland compares current prostate cancer treatments to cutting off the leaves and trunk of a plant but leaving behind the roots that have the potential to grow back. In essence, if the stem cells were killed ...A New Focus For The Mechanism Of Nerve Growth
...ling the actin networks and ultimately sensing and directing nerve growth. Proteins in the Myosin family function as molecular motors; the most familiar myosins power contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Myosin II motors are involved in functions such as directed cell movement, cell division and wound ...Health Promotion Drives Waste Money, Claim Nurses
...nurses //. Additionally, they have also called for directing these funds to treat patients and target at-risk groups rather than spending the amount on hosting high-profile advertising pushes. The issue would even be taken up for discussion at the Britain's Royal College of Nursing that would host an annual ...... that my research can help focus more attention on directing more resources toward finding prevention and treatment options for autism,” Ganz said. (For comparison purposes, he notes estimated annual costs of other conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease ($91 billion); mental retardation ($51 billion); anxie...Supreme Court Quashed Reservation Quotas For PG Medical Courses
...the Supreme Court Friday reversed an earlier order directing the government to reserve 10 percent seats on an all-India basis// for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes candidates in post-graduate medical courses for the 2006-07 academic year. A bench of judges K.G. Balakrishnan, A.R. Lakshmanan and D.K. Jai...Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos
... and Justice L S Panta issued notice to the Centre directing it to explain the modalities to be adopted for its implementation. Taking serious note of the concern raised during the hearing that adoption of such a policy would divide the country on caste basis, the court sought response from government as to w...Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos
... and Justice L S Panta issued notice to the Centre directing it to explain the modalities to be adopted for its implementation. Taking serious note of the concern raised during the hearing that adoption of such a policy would divide the country on caste basis, the court sought response from government as to w...Health Services Returning To Normal
...d duties following a Supreme Court order yesterday directing them to end the strike immediately, the medicos have made it clear that they will continue supporting the agitation against government's proposal to introduce 27 per cent OBC quota in higher education sector. While in Delhi and Gujarat, the students...Residents Doctors Call Off Strike In Rajasthan
...er receiving the copy of the Supreme Court verdict directing medicos to resume duties. // 'Though they have returned to work, their protest would continue with the support of various social and other organizations and relay hunger strike would continue to protest the proposed 27 percent reservation for OBCs ......the brain, which is like a sign board for the body directing it to hit the sack! The discovery of melatonin in grape skin could explain why so many of us hit the bottle in the evening to wind down after a day's hard slog. 'The melatonin content in wine could help regulate the circadian rhythm [sleep-wake pa...Emerging Therapies for Skin Cancer Treatment
...” said Dr. Tsao. “The greatest potential lies with directing therapies against cancer stem cells. “It is an exciting time in cancer biology and new emerging therapies will undoubtedly challenge the old views of cancer and hopefully offer more effective outcomes,” said Dr. Tsao. “The first step to effectively...Skin Cells Make Use of Geographic Co-Ordinates to Reach Their Destination
...rs also think that this plays an important role in directing the embryonic and non differentiated cells. ‘There is a logic to the body that we didn't understand before,’ said John Rinn, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Howard Chang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology. ‘Our skin is acti...Indo-Canadian Doctor Charged with Abetting Suicide Bid
...kesperson Alison Paine told the newspaper. "We are directing all further inquiries to RCMP," she was quoted as saying. This is not the first time that Sharma has fallen on the wrong side of the law. In 2001, the CPSBC had erased his name from the medical registrar and barred him from practising medicine afte...Microcapsules target cancer cells
... by putting the substance into a small capsule and directing it into the tumour cells where it gets “unpacked” with the help of a laser impulse. The laser beam heats up the polymer shell and the contents of the capsule are released. (Angewandte Chemie, July 2006). Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Co...Highly Potent TB Strain Plays Favorites Targeting Specific Ethnic Groups
...t least 254 school children//, has surfaced again, directing its destruction on a specific ethnic group, reveal scientists. Scientists’ stumbled upon this discovery while conducting a study to examine the potency of the 2001 outbreak. Sadly, 50% of the children had been immunized against the disease with the B...