Tag: "elusive" at medical news

Syphilis uncovered

... represents an encyclopedia of information on this elusive bacterium."We can now figure out ways to disarm its defences through vaccines, identify it quickly through new diagnostic tests and eliminate it with specific, targeted antibiotics."...

Cure for common cold

The cure for the common cold remains as elusive as ever. A federal advisory committee recommended recently that the first drug aimed at treating the cause of the cold// rather than just its symptoms not be approved. In a unanimous decision, the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel on an...

Chemists Discover Cation Considered Too Unstable To Exist

...ckly recognized the structure as an example of the elusive cyclopentadienyl cation of textbook fame. Lambert and Lin currently are studying the chemistry of the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl cation by carrying out reactions with the cation to learn more about its properties...

New Drug to Stop Gambling!

...eir feet. Pulsing music. Flashing lights. And the elusive jackpots. That's what keeps gamblers coming back.Jeff was gambling five times a week -- losing about $400 each time. That's $2,000 a week. He says, "I'd drive 100 miles out of my way to go to a casino, spend the night, come back at three in the morni...

Doctor demonstrates `psychic surgery'

...ybody's knowledge and the organisers have remained elusive to date. The police have said that Orbito is not a proclaimed offender to arrest him from another country. "There are charges against him and we will arrest him when he comes next to Bangalore," they added....

SNUPPY – Woo Suk Hwang reveals World’s first dog cloe

...er”. Successful nuclear transfer in dogs has been elusive until now because it is difficult to get egg cells to mature in the lab. Hwang used naturally ovulated egg cells, those which have naturally been released from the ovaries into the fallopian tubes. Snuppy is the latest mammal to be cloned after sheep...

Chancroid Vaccine Holds Promise In Reducing HIV Transmission

...able chancroid bacteria. An HIV vaccine has been elusive in part because the virus constantly varies its surface molecules, making it an ever-changing target. But H. ducreyi, unlike other sexually transmitted bacteria, doesn't have such a protective mechanism. The current study and other studies suggest ...

Hospital Services Still Paralysed Inspite Of The Withdrawal Of The Strike

...dey had withdrawn his resignation, but he remained elusive and sources claim that his efforts to hold talks with the agitating students proved futile. Certain of the agitating medicos blamed the government for continuation of the stir. An agitating medico stated on Sunday that the impression that was creat...

Gates Foundation Announces $287 Million In Grants Towards AIDS Vaccine

...ion that they wish the program would transform the elusive AIDS vaccine effort by rewarding individual labs that come up with innovative ideas and to help them develop those ideas, and also at the same time ensuring that they collaborate with other researchers, who normally would often be considered rivals. ...

Expanding waistlines: Only a tip of the iceberg?

... The problems of obesity hover around a simple yet elusive truth. We don’t have a true account of what we take in, but tend to overestimate the calories burnt through exercise. A simple calculation is all it needs - balancing the intake of calories and calorie utilization, is the clue to warding of obesity. ...

Sex Among Teens More Rampant says Irish Reports

...and 24 admitted that they do use contraception, an elusive 10% admitted that they don't usually when under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Since its clear by this report that the major chunk of the society are now indulging in sexual activity at a very young age, the Irish Minister for Health, Mary Harn...

Popular Antiaging Supplement Has No Beneficial Effects

...d dispel much of the quackery associated with this elusive hormone,” Dr. Stewart writes. Source-Neswise SRM...

Substance P May Pre-empt VIP in Regulating Temperature

An elusive neurotransmitter pathway in the skin may have been isolated by University of Oregon researchers, a discovery that, if confirmed, //would be a leap forward in understanding how temperature regulation occurs. In other words, they may have found a major...

Quest for an hour glass figure results in rise of eating disorders by the hour

...ity and all the euphoria about fancy diets for the elusive ‘hour glass’ figure, has resulted in many young women getting anxious about food, resulting eating disorders. The government and health officials have come down heavily on websites that are advocating extreme measures to stay slim and promoting eat...

Dermatologists Provide Unique Evidence of Possible Cause of Rare Skin Condition

...tant first step in understanding the cause of this elusive disease,” said Dr. High. “Until more data becomes available, we urge patients with end-stage kidney disease and their health care providers to be aware of this potentially fatal association between gadolinium and NSF/NDF and make every effort to avoi...

Yeast Model Shows Promise as Alzheimer's Test

...d significantly in recent years, a cure remains an elusive goal. A new research tool developed by Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, may ultimately provide a means for treating the earliest stage of Alzheimer's, thereby stemmin...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

...Aplysia neuronal genes are shedding light on these elusive processes. In 2000, senior author Eric Kandel, M.D., of Columbia University in New York shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work using Aplysia as a model of how memories are formed in the human brain. Despite its simple nervous...

Researchers Explore the Effect of Engineered Immune Cells on HIV

...hers are still working on ways to manipulate these elusive bone marrow cells and get them to generate "designer immune cells." Another problem seems to be making sure lentiviral vectors target only hematopoietic stem cells, and not other types of cells, to achieve the desired targeted delivery. With a group...

Survivors of Childhood Cancers at Higher Risk for Secondary Cancer

...rs write. "Diagnosis of a sarcoma can sometimes be elusive because symptoms are often nonspecific." Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Bacterium Could Treat PCBs Without the Need for Dredging

...arch, the exact microbes responsible have remained elusive — until now. "For the first time we have been able to cultivate in defined media naturally occurring bacteria that can extensively dechlorinate PCBs right at the site of the contamination," said Donna Bedard, professor of biology at Rensselaer and ...

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