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Enticing Doctors to Rural Community an Uphill Task

...rt of this money goes into the paycheck of a newly employed recruitment officer, whose job is to see more country GPS beginning life at Albury and Wodonga. The visitors will be shown everything from medical facilities and houses, to schools and even 'lifestyle choices'. Dr Mike Moynihan, president of the ...

No Increased Risk of Certain Cancers from Electromagnetic Fields Among Energy Workers

...companies in Denmark. All the employees had been employed at the companies for a minimum of three months since 1968, and they were tracked for an average of nearly 23 years or until death. When the data were linked to the Danish Cancer Registry where all new cases of cancer in the country have been record...

New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

... girls. It dropped to 35% for women when the drugs employed were street drugs. SAV/B...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...or 46-year-old A. R. K. Reddy, an engineer who was employed in a multinational company till he fell on his back from a height of 11 feet about two months ago. He suffered multiple fractures to his lumbar spine and was rendered completely immobile. Today, after stem cell therapy, Reddy is able to stand and ...

Researchers Developing New Therapy to Re-activate Silenced Genes

...-- in which case, paradoxically, the compounds are employed to stimulate the death of rapidly multiplying cells. The molecule known as SAHA recently received approval by the Food and Drug Administration for use in cancer therapy and is the first of the histone deacetylase inhibitors to be marketed. "The u...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...uld join 9,000 mental health professionals already employed by the VA to help veterans....

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...of DNA variations across the whole genome has been employed to study the joint effects of a subset of DNA variations within a defined biological pathway (genomic pathways approach). This study serves as a blueprint for how we can study all complex disorders. By studying genomic pathways, we might be able to...

Researchers Develop Material That Self Heals Like Human Skin

...rocess called direct-write assembly. The process employed a concentrated polymeric ink, dispensed as a continuous filament, to fabricate a three-dimensional structure, layer by layer. Once the scaffold was produced, it was surrounded with an epoxy resin. After curing, the resin was heated and the ink whi...

Australian TV Channel to Study Breast Cancer Incidence in Its Women Staff

... an underlying high risk of breast cancer in women employed at Toowong due to their sharing of known genetic or lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer," the panel found. "While we have not been able to find a cause for the increase in risk of breast cancer at the ABC Toowong, we believe that we have consi...

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

...direct auditory nerve implants. These measurements employed neuron -monitoring technology developed earlier at U-M. The scientists found their sensitive 16-electrode microarray resulted in several advantages over cochlear implants. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1984, cochlear implants have...

Hunger Awareness Day to Shed Light on Surprising Face of Hunger June 5

... are serving growing numbers of families headed by employed mothers and fathers, households whose monthly food stamps allowance is depleted after two and a half weeks, children seeking an after-school meal to substitute for the one they will not get at home, and grandparents who are forced to chose between pa...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...D student at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, employed an unusual method to construct the PfMDR1 gene. They first obtained the PfMDR1 protein sequence from the NIH PubMed data base. They then back translated the protein sequence using a computer program to change the parasite gene sequence -- which ...

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...apy. For many applications, gene transfer is being employed to engineer cells for therapeutic factor production, expansion, selection of a desired cell type and even fail-safe suicide. These applications often require precise regulation in order to ensure gene expression in the correct tissue and prevent it i...

Death Due to Drowning can Be Identified With the Aid of 'Virtual Autopsy'

...eliefs. However, in most cases, MDCT would best be employed as an adjunct to routine autopsy. Dr. Levy and colleagues performed total-body MDCT exams on 28 consecutive male drowning victims and a control group of 12 men who were victims of sudden death from coronary artery disease. Following MDCT, routine a...

Coca Cola To Distribute HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Prevention Playing Cards Among Chinese Migrant Workers

...he cards will be distributed among migrant workers employed at construction sites and railway stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hangzhou. Coca Cola also will work with the Chinese Foundation for the Prevention of STDs and AIDS to distribute HIV prevention cards in Henan, Guizhou and Yunnan. Coco ...

Global Heartbeat Control Suggests Therapy for Beating Heart Failure

...chers explained. In their study, the researchers employed a powerful combination of genomic tools to identify the gene promoters to which ERR and bind in the adult mouse heart and to investigate changes in gene and protein expression when levels of ERR are manipulated. That investigation provided evidence ...

Scientist Observes real Time Generation of Neurones in Mammals

...points of communication between them. The model employed in the research was the new-born neurone population which develops into the olfactory bulb of adult mice, providing them with a sense of smell. The development and maintenance of such neurones in this area was assessed by time-lapse imaging over seve...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...37 million ducks. Five million people are directly employed by the poultry industry, millions of households rely on poultry production for income generation and nutrition, FAO said. India on high alert Surrounded by bird flu-affected countries, both on the western and eastern borders, India is on high ale...

Risk of Traumatic Workplace Injury Increased by Obesity

...cal and injury surveillance data on hourly workers employed in eight plants of one aluminum manufacturer to determine whether increased BMI was a risk factor for workplace injury. The plants were scattered across the United States. Employees were grouped into five categories: underweight, normal, overweigh...

Nurturing Our Nurses for Healthcare Par Excellence

...ce is an absolute requirement. Many hospitals have employed strategies to reduce work loads with a view to reducing rate of injuries. It is crucial to have the right balance between workload and resource allocation, as anything in excess will put a strain on the nurses' health, exposing them to injuries. ...

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