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African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

... with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV-A is the dominant strain in the northern region of sub-Saharan Africa, and HIV-C is more common in southern parts of Africa. Protease inhibitors, the drugs used in combination therapy to fight HIV infection, were all designed to treat HIV-B. These findings find a pla...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...ompany to commercialize an oral version of today's dominant injectable drugs could gain the lion's share of a market. // Scios' drug has shown promise in early trials. But the size of the potential market makes it a prize that many big pharmaceuticals companies also covet. So far, Scios' prospects look good....

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

...ear study did not prove that A-1 protein, which is dominant in the milk New Zealanders drink every day, actually caused heart disease or diabetes, but showed further research was needed. Bob Boyd, New Zealand’ Food Safety Authority's (NZFSA's) Principal Public Health Advisor said that though the study was an ...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

...f its nature and it attained significance with the dominant role played by computers in modern day living....

A Better Understanding Of The Brain Network

...a synthetic glove with fiber-optic cables on their dominant hand. The glove translated hand movements into signals, which were sent to a computer. Researchers then used fMRI to observe which areas of the brain controlled the participants' hand movements as they aligned a cursor on the computer screen with 50 ...

Surgery For Obesity May Need Invasive Monitoring

...bid obesity. This type of surgery leads to many dominant damaging respiratory and homodynamic changes that may be of temporary variety. Most of the changes happen at the time of making of pneumoperitoneum. In such cases the use of intra-operative homodynamic monitoring using a pulmonary artery catheter and...

Genes More Important Than Exercise for Bad Cholesterol

... may be the determining factor and may play a more dominant role than exercise// for increasing bad cholesterol as per recent study. Now we know why some people never gain weight or increase their cholesterol despite eating all the sweets and butter laden food to their hearts content!! The July 8, 2005,...

New clues to maternal aggressive behavior

...mygdala reduces the levels of anxiety and promotes dominant social behavior in females. Reference: American Physiological Society's 2005 Conference, July 2005...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

...y against genetic conditions caused by a so-called dominant negative mechanism -- when a single copy of the mu...ase because the protein from the faulty gene has a dominant adverse effect over the protein from the normal gene. Several human forms of inherited deafness, inc...

Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled

...tale of official apathy. In 2004, the perennially dominant virus - at least for the past 27 years - killed 225 people. One of those who survived was four-year-old Abhishek, reduced to a vegetative state where he can neither sit, nor move, nor talk. "The doctors at the Gorakhpur hospital did save his life, ...

Higher incidence of bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

...n BDIs (54.0%) were diagnosed postoperatively, the dominant manifestation being biliary fistula (44.1%). This study confirms a higher incidence of BDI during LC. It highlights the relevance of the number of previously performed LCs and of the correct surgical technique to avoid BDI. The need for correct pro...

The Slow And Steady Race To Eradicate Polio Offers Hope

...on program using an improved vaccine to combat the dominant strain of the polio virus has been responsible for elimination of the dreaded disease in Egypt. This effect would soon be observed in India, where there has been a considerable reduction in the incidence of paralytic polio. From 200, 000 polio case...

Do Celebrities Conquer Cancer Better?

...reast and ovarian cancer consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance, a personal history or family history of male breast cancer. If you are still thinking over taking up a New Year resolution, this is just the right time to involve yourself helping curb the deadly disease of many women worldwide. As it ...

Ataxia: a problematic disease's gene deciphered

...taxia. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) is a dominant gene disorder; if a parent has the disease, each of their children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutation and developing ataxia sometime during their lifetime. Now that researchers have identified the specific mutation that causes SCA5, t...

Heart disease: Men Are From Mars, Women From Venus

... stupid sometimes' were regarded to be hostile and dominant while statements like 'I don't want you to do that; I want you to do this' were rated to be dominant or controlling. 'I'll do what you want if you get off my back' was regarded an unfriendly submissive...

PM Launches Healthcare Foundation For India

...India has not been very good even though it is the dominant source of health care provisioning,' he said. 'We are all familiar with reports of unethical practices, including commissions given in return for referral and diagnostic work. We must have appropriate measures to tackle this.' At a meeting that was g...

Gender Equality among Older Couples Plays a Vital Role in Their Sex Life

...y of their sex lives in countries where men have a dominant status over women. The study interviewed about 27,500 people between the ages of 40 and 80, questioning equal numbers of men and women. It was also found that majority of the people with partners remain sexually active throughout the second half of t...

Pakistan experiences an increase in Aids cases : WHO

...,000).// Of the reported cases, causes, the most dominant during the quarter ending June 2004 was injecting drug use (73.72 per cent). Close second was heterosexual relations (22.18 per cent), men who have sex with men (4.0 per cent) and mother-to-child transmission (0.1 per cent). Recently compiled data ...

Mapping Of Brain Highly Beneficial For Safer Brain Tumor Surgery

...apping as the rule, rather than the exception, for dominant hemisphere gliomas," Sanai said. "The findings support the conclusion that cortical language mapping may be used as a safe and efficient adjunct to optimize glioma resection while preserving essential language sites."...

Jealousy In Men Peaks When Partners Are Most Fertile

...rs felt that men// become more jealous and wary of dominant males when their wives or girlfriends are at their...hose with ovulating partners were vary wary of the dominant looking men who attract women around this time. As compared to those whose partners were not at risk...

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