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Legalization of Therapeutic Abortion in UAE on the Cards

...But some Islamic scholars argue that abortion of a diseased fetus is also allowed as long as it is younger than 120 days. About one in 12 Emiratis carry the gene for thalassemia, a genetic disease characterized by the breakdown of oxygen-rich red blood cells, and other haemoglobinopathies. Other than thal...

Obesity Does Not Auger Well for Prostate Cancer Patients

...of disease found by microscopic examination of the diseased prostate tissue removed at the time of surgery. Obese men were 89 percent more likely than healthy weight men to have a more aggressive form of prostate cancer than was indicated by biopsy, Freedland said. Men with a body mass index (BMI) greater ...

Stem Cells Speed Growth of Healthy Liver Tissue

...lls into the liver. PVE blocks blood flow to the diseased portion of the liver and diverts blood to the organ’s healthy tissue, promoting liver growth. Bone marrow stem cells extracted from the patient’s hip bone and injected into the liver also help the liver regenerate. The study included 13 patients wi...

Biopsy may Underestimate Prostate Cancer in Obese and Overweight Men

...of disease found by microscopic examination of the diseased prostate tissue removed at the time of surgery. Obese men were 89 percent more likely than healthy weight men to have a more aggressive form of prostate cancer than was indicated by biopsy, Freedland said. Men with a body mass index (BMI) greater t...

Stem Cells to Treat Liver Cancer

...lls into the liver. PVE blocks blood flow to the diseased portion of the liver and diverts blood to the organ’s healthy tissue, promoting liver growth. Bone marrow stem cells extracted from the patient’s hip bone and injected into the liver also help the liver regenerate. The study included 13 patients wi...

RF Ablation a Safe Alternative Option for Treating Lung Cancer

...he lung, often are of advanced age and have highly diseased lungs and impaired heart function, making them poor candidates for invasive surgery. The same conditions can also make it difficult for patients to be treated with EBT, which directs focused beams of radiation at a tumor to destroy the abnormal cells...

Inhibiting Blood to Save the Brain

...r microglia activation and damage to myelin in the diseased mice, allowing them to survive with improved motor function. “Importantly, this approach blocks fibrin’s interaction with microglia, but not with platelets, so clotting wouldn’t be impacted,” said Akassoglou, adding that this potential MS therapy m...

Gene Therapy To The Aid Of Cystic Fibrosis.

...n incorporate the right gene into the abnormal and diseased body cells. Suzie Buckley, the geneticist from UCL will be presenting her work at the British Society for Gene Therapy conference at Warwick. Her current technique of using vector in the disabled version of HIV to avert it from expressing as any di...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...may integrate electrically and functionally into a diseased brain. This study was conducted by an internatio...may integrate electrically and functionally into a diseased brain. The transplanted cells also boosted the brain's supply of the enzyme Hex, which reduced the l...

Nonsurgical Thoracic Aorta Repair Has Much Less Risk of Paralysis Than Surgery

...eatment using stent-grafts to repair an injured or diseased thoracic aorta// offered patients less risk of par...ctive database from 1997 to 2006. All patients had diseased aortas in the thoracic area, such as degenerative aneurysm, dissections, ulcer, and other pathology....

Simple Breath Test may Detect Lung Cancer

...als. These are passed into the air that leaves the diseased lungs. These compounds then interact with the diff... "read" the volatile organic compounds coming from diseased lungs. But the machines are expensive to use and require specially trained experts to interpret the ...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

... We could then transplant these nerve cells in the diseased areas of the brain," explains Berthod. "This type of procedure seems particularly interesting for diseases such as Parkinson’s, but it’s all theoretical for now. Before we can think of doing such things, we’ll have to improve nerve cell differentiati...

Epigenetics to Shape Stem Cell Future

... cell-based regenerative medicine will help repair diseased tissue. Before then, it may be necessary// to decipher the epigenetic signals that give stem cells their unique ability to self-renew and transform them into different cell types. The hype over epigenetic research is because it opens up the possibi...

Turkey Confirms Return Of Bird Flu Among Chickens

...ually contract bird flu through direct exposure to diseased or dead poultry. Experts believe migratory birds originally brought the virus to Turkey and Europe from Asia and Russia, infecting domestic poultry. Turkish authorities culled more than 1.3 million birds during the 2006 outbreaks. Bird flu is c...

New Protein Inhibitor Halts Growth Of Cancerous Cells

...ision in cancer cells, even though these cells are diseased and have lost some of the restraints on division that normal cells impose on themselves. Because central aspects of cell division are under the control of just a few key kinases, these proteins represent potentially important targets for new cance...

Prematurity More Accurately Predicted by Advances in Proteomic Technology

...vel MR scoring method to discriminate healthy from diseased women in whom preterm delivery is impending and the health of the fetus is in danger. MR scoring relies on identification of a group of proteins that serve as biomarkers characteristic to women who will deliver preterm. A normal MR score is 0 and ...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

... The next step for the research team is to look at diseased skin. "We plan to ask the question: Are the microbes in diseased skin, in certain diseases like psoriasis or eczema, different than the microbes in normal skin?" say...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

... the tissue and skin of the forearm to replace the diseased tongue tissue that is removed if a patient opts for surgical treatment of the cancer. The surgery is then followed up with radiation or chemotherapy, but that shrinks and scars the tongue, turning normally elastic and pliable tissue to something like...

Secrets of the Heart's Signals

...anova's team must also understand the way in which diseased hearts respond. Source-Newswise...

Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade

...ron Dziubala’s health was rapidly declining as her diseased liver deteriorated. She needed a transplant but a cadaver organ was not available. When other potential living donors were found to be incompatible, Karzin wanted to be tested, especially after he discovered during a routine physical exam that his bl...

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