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Minister Told To Rid State Of Mosquitoes

...rove the law and order situation in the state, but eliminating mosquitoes was also a priority. The problem was apparently emphasized 17 January night by some cabinet colleagues and top officials who said that Bihar should be rid of mosquitoes even before it is cleaned up of criminals. The mosquito menace has ...

Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated

...arrow derived stem cells derived from the patient, eliminating the ethical concerns regarding the use of embryonic stem cells. "There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury, " sa...

Mice With Human Thought Processes Could Be Developed In The Future

...re than 99% of the brain tissue remained original, eliminating ethical concerns regarding development of a human animal model. The success of the experiment can be attributed to the use of embryonic stem cells rather than mature nerve cells. The embryonic stem cells were found to differentiate into almost all ...

Swimming With Dolphins Can Help Ease Depression

...reatment was felt even at the end of three months, eliminating the need for further treatment. Hence biophilic treatment with animals could be more effective than drugs or conventional psychotherapy in treating mild to moderate depression. The healing properties associated with the dolphins could be attributed...

A Simple Test To Detect Heart Disease In Women Can Be Lifesaving

...dobutamine is injected to increase the heart rate, eliminating the need for exercise. Both tests are designed to reveal abnormalities of the heart wall following exercise. The incidences of cardiac events such as heart attack or deaths were considerably higher in women who had positive results in the stress te...

Fluorescent markers to distinguish Trypanosoma brucei strains causing Sleeping Sickness

...f the single strains to an applied treatment, thus eliminating the need for laborious cloning steps. The markers presented in this study broaden the spectrum of tools available for experimental studies on multiple-genotype infections. They are fundamentally different from isoenzyme analysis and other genotyping...

Childhood Asthma Can Be Kept Under Control By Cost-Effective Home Based Interventions

...ts that included specific measures for reducing or eliminating allergen levels inside the home such as the use of allergen-impermeable covers on the child's mattress, box spring and pillows; air purifiers with high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters; vacuum cleaners equipped with HEPA filters; and profess...

BCG vaccine to be boosted to effectively prevent tuberculosis

... the vaccine is active at a pH of 5.8, and thereby eliminating the need for utilizing the urease C gene of BCG that normally plays a role in pH neutralization of the phagosome. The lack of urease C allows phagosomal acidification and provides an ideal pH environment for listeriolysin. The new BCG vaccine strain ...

Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP

...h Minister Jaiveer Singh, "We cannot just think of eliminating pigs; after all, so many households are dependent on them. We live in a democratic country and everyone must have the freedom to earn his livelihood." But he added: "We are already in the process of undertaking large scale insecticide spraying and ...

Genetic Expressions Can Influence The Process Of Aging

...ne works, the researchers had devised a system for eliminating it from adult mouse tissues. The result was seen in the p63 deficient mice, which were aging prematurely. Mice that are born without the p63 gene do not survive. Therefore, Mills had previously conducted extensive studies of mice that are born with ...

Treating Epilepsy With Surgery

... to determine which treatment is more effective at eliminating seizures and improving quality of life. However researchers say not all patients respond as well to the surgery, and doctors warn the procedure is not for everyone and researchers say there is approximately a 1 percent risk of significant disabili...

Artificial Heart , Gives Hope For Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant

...both heart ventricles and all cardiac valves, thus eliminating problems commonly seen in the bridge to transplantation with left ventricular and biventricular assist devices. These problems include low blood flows, arrhythmias, and ventricular clots.The rate of survival to transplantation for the patients who re...

Nutrient Profiling System Launched By Food Officials in UK

...cluded in on-pack nutritional labelling, therefore eliminating the need for extensive further analysis by manufacturers. Officials say that the current system has been mainly developed for use by the country’s advertising regulator, currently looking at restricting the advertising of certain foods to children....

Diabetes and heart attack diagnosis now made simple with twin magic

...the needles can measure molecules inside the body, eliminating the need to withdraw blood from a patient. One device is Electro Needles, micron-sized electrodes capable of measuring molecules such as glucose. The other is μPosts, micron-sized posts that have the potential of painlessly measuring protein marker...

Combing Hair More Effective Than OTC Medicine For Head Lice

...n current over the counter chemical treatments for eliminating head lice, shows the research. Head lice are para...ur times more effective than chemical products for eliminating head lice (57% cure rate versus 13%), suggesting that the kit is a viable alternative to over the co...

Artificially made protein to inhibit angiogenesis

...only stop blood vessels formation but also help in eliminating existing blood vessels. Researchers are hopeful that the new protein will be able to control conditions of blinding wet form of macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and tumors, corneal injuries etc. The research was published in the last issu...

New hope for breast cancer patients

...howed that the treatment is 42% more successful in eliminating tumors than chemotherapy alone. In the in Herceptin-treated patients, the rate of pathological complete remission (pcr), where there is complete disappearance of cancer in breast tissue removed during surgery, was 66.7 percent. With such amazing resu...

Early Surgery For Treatment Of Epilepsy Questioned

... to determine which treatment is more effective at eliminating seizures and improving quality of life. For some patients , the surgery provides a way to get their epilepsy under control , however not all patients respond as well to the surgery, and specialists warn the results of the procedure may not be the s...

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...ector-General. "This report shows that the goal of eliminating iodine deficiency around the world is within reach...up to 5 g/day. WHO hopes that to meet the goal of eliminating iodine deficiency by 2005. The United Nations General Assembly at the Special Session for Children i...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

... to evaluate how well a standard practice aimed at eliminating the infection in a community works. The practice calls for everyone in a community where the infection is endemic to be treated with an oral dose of azithromycin. Researchers treated nearly 98 percent of the people living in the community with the me...

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