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Indian Researcher Finds Human Urine Grows Better Fish Food

...on," said Jana. "We have not yet encountered any diseases or abnormalities in the zooplankton grown in tanks with human urine, but we are looking for hormone residues and antibiotics, just to be sure," he added. The study appears in the journal Ecological Engineering, reports Nature....

Better Resources Needed To Control Hospital Infections

...f antibiotic-resistant infections, warn infectious diseases experts. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is an entrenched problem throughout Australian hospitals, according to an editorial in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Professor Peter Collignon, Directo...

Alteon Initiates Phase 2 Trial of ALT-2074 in Diabetes and Haptoglobin 2-2

...his indication.' Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome, diseases linked to obesity and increased oxidative stress, ...s. The major complications associated with these diseases are cardiovascular in nature, and lead to such events as stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and de...

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

...ce challenging the commonly held notion that these diseases are rare in Asia, said Dr Abdullah Baqui, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. Our research shows that routine Hib vaccination is a feasible and highly effective way of preventing death related to H...

Mealaka Virus Will Have a New Name

... Melaka virus represents a new trend of infectious diseases coming from animals, known as zoonotic viruses, it was stated. But Chief Minister Ali Rustam of Malacca was not amused. He made it clear that the state would not want to be associated with the virus and called the name choice "an insult" to Melaka...

Cartoons to Dispel Science Phobia for Students

...iled by a fungus". He wants to know if fungi cause diseases also. Paheli told him: "Many fungi like yeast and mushrooms are useful, but some fungi cause diseases in plants, animal and humans. Some fungi are also used in medicine". From parasites to photosynthe...

Stressed Mice may Hold Clue to How Fat is Stored: Study

...smetic and reconstructive surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity," the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, which participated in the research, said in a statement. In the study, American, Australian and Slovak researchers describe a mechanism they found by which stre...

A Blood Test Developed in Australia to Repair DNA Damage

...the evidence linking genome damage to degenerative diseases was mounting. "As we age, our bodies produce poo...duce human suffering and the costs of degenerative diseases to the community," Pyne said. "A growing body of scientific evidence has linked the degeneration o...

Unemployed Electropaths Threaten to Commit Suicide in Kashmir

...r strike for the last 80 days. The system treats diseases through the use of electricity. Electropathy and naturopathy are alternative systems of medicine, but not recognized by various state governments or the Indian Medical Council. Protesters argue that Amchis, doctors practicing the Tibetan traditi...

Motion Analysis Helps Teen With Cerebral Palsy Regain Ability to Walk

... understanding many of the biomechanically related diseases and injury mechanisms is identifying those relationships. Think of motion analysis as having 15 pairs of eyes focused on a moving body part, said Dr. Scher. Motion analysis imaging shows all three planes front, side and top down all at once. While...

Surface Logix Commences Phase 2a Clinical Trial of SLx-2101 in Raynaud's Disease

...-5 inhibitor being developed for the management of diseases associated with vascular dysfunction such as Raynaud's, a vasospastic disorder of small blood vessels leading to a marked reduction of blood flow to areas such as the fingers and toes. Often triggered by exposure to cold, Raynaud's is associated with...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...y in India is highly aware of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS and their prevention , says a survey ...played very high awareness of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS. As much as 99 percent said that HIV/AIDS testing must be made mandatory and 83 percent sai...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

... 270,000 West Australian children found infectious diseases were the most common cause for hospitalization of ...orah Lehmann, who heads the institute's infectious diseases unit, said the results supported US studies showing infection rates were increasing significantly am...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

... the immune system and the development of allergic diseases in children. Apart from the GSF Research Center for Environment and Health (GSF) and the Centre for Environmental Research Halle Leipzig (UFZ), other university and clinical partners are also involved. In the framework of the study the parents of th...

New Virus Test Technology Experimented

A new diagnostic technology to detect epidemic diseases has entered the phase of clinical experiments, cla...he viruses, namely DNA or RNA, to confirm epidemic diseases such as hepatitis or AIDS, said Charlie Xiang, chief scientist of the Microarray Centre of US Nation...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...cording to the UN 5% of the preventable deaths and diseases are caused by the indoor air pollution. This stu...s. Exposure to the pollutants lead many kinds of diseases like pneumonia in children and chronic respiratory problems in adults Tobacco smoke is a major pollu...

Scientists Discover Rare gene-for-gene Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Host

...lds from the University of Bath. People studying diseases think that the kind of gene-for-gene interaction between pathogen and host that we have found is quite common, but actually rather few are known, which is why this research is so interesting. The immune systems of all animals, even relatively simpl...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

... years. Many Australians will be suffering chronic diseases like liver cirrhosis, cancers and brain disorders. The region is also witnessing a surge in drinking among 18 year olds who also portray acute withdrawal symptoms. The government is facing flak at not being able to effectively control the crisis. ...

Novel Technology to Locate and Treat Tumors

... pHLIP. Acidosis is a physiological marker of many diseases and pHLIP feels acidity, said Reshetnyak. Therefore, pHLIP could also be used for monitoring of disease development and therapeutic outcomes. It might play very important role in the study of arthritis, ischemia and stroke. Lead author Oleg Andree...

Rural Heart Patients Missing Out

...iversity, Melbourne. Mortality from circulatory diseases has been shown to rise with increasing remoteness. Professor Krum and colleagues examined differences in primary care management of chronic heart failure between rural and urban areas. Their study, published in the latest issue of the Medical J...

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