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Male Fish Cannibalize Its Own Offspring Than Female

...isconsin – Whitewater). "These results support and extend previous findings suggesting that confidence of paternity is a key factor in determining a male's behavior toward his offspring, including whether or not to eat them." Predicted by theory, this pattern had never previously before been demonstrated...

Bird-flu Vaccine Adjuvant Contract Goes to Novartis

... vaccine that uses adjuvant could provide a way to extend a limited vaccine supply to more people,' said Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement. Chicken egg technique is the conventional method of making vaccines but experts find the cell-culture method is faster in producing...

Medicine Information Out of Date

... for PI. “Drugs have an expiry date, so why not extend the concept to product information? This would require a date to be set for a comprehensive check of the product information,” he said. The TGA should be able to recoup its costs from manufacturers, Dr Dowden said. Soure-AMA SRM...

Study: Older Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Survivors Live Long

...eatic ductal cancer, //that surgery does little to extend life and improve the quality of life,' says Dr. Yeo. 'Not too long ago, few lived for five years after diagnosis. Today that’s not true. There’s been a paradigm shift in the way we treat and think about this disease.' While only approximately 25 p...

The Food Pyramid Guide Enters Supermarkets

...cretary Mike Johanns said, "It's a powerful way to extend the reach of the federal nutrition guidance system,” adding that this campaign is a move to help people who are short of time, but want to eat healthy. Of course, if there are bouquets there are brickbats as well. Many officials have dismissed this...

Hypercholesterolemia Meets Its Match in an Experimental Drug

...If the LDL levels are cut down even by 50%, it can extend the life span of patients, researchers said. The drug functions by blocking blood fats in the liver. But the flip side to this drug is, that it could cause the liver to store up fat, which could trigger scarring and cirrhosis. The magnitude of risk...

New Gadget to Treat Insomnia, Stress

...sing the actual nerves that regulate stress, which extend from the brain stem throughout the body, we are able to affect many aspects of stress," says Michael Wood, chief science officer of Helicor. The device, about the size of a packet of cigarettes, has a pulse sensor and a display and works by helpin...

Kerala Drafts a New Health Tourism Policy

...er Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the government would extend all help to NRK investors who venture to set up health care centres, be it allopathy, ayurveda or nature cure. But only hospitals that conform to stipulations of the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Providers would qualify for Go...

Profiling of Cancer Genes May Lead to Earlier Detection Human Cancers

.... David Euhus allowed the research team to quickly extend its findings to breast, prostate and colon cancer. A Hamon Center postdoctoral researcher and lead study author Dr. David Shames was instrumental in identifying the genes, Dr. Minna said. “What would have normally taken us several years, David Sham...

Colonoscopies can Detect Cancer in the Early Stages

...Yale Medical School said that the timely action to extend the medical coverage to include all categories and not only the high risk category encouraged many people to avail of the detection procedure. According to the report, when the number of screenings increased, many cancers on the right side of the c...

Blood Transfusions Raise Heart Patients’ Infection and Death Ris

...y Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation to extend the research into elderly patients who recently underwent bypass surgeries in Michigan. Source-NewswiseBR>SRM...

Healthy Potato Chips: A Trans Fat Oil With Health Benefits

... vegetable oils — producing hydrogenated oils — to extend shelf life and make solid shortenings. Such trans fats increase levels of low-density lipoproteins, or LDL cholesterol, Fitch-Hilgenberg said, and reduce high-density lipoproteins, or HDL, which counteract the artery-clogging effects of LDL. Proc...

Ranbaxy Laboratories to Be Aided in Drug Research

..., the department expanded the support programme to extend loans at a simple interest of three percent to research and development projects in the pharmaceutical industry. Source-IANS...

Enzyme to Boost Effect of Tumor Vaccine

...yme called Akt1. This enzyme is expected //to help extend the life of dendritic cells. These cells are also referred to as the main switch of the immune system that improves the way the T-cells respond to attack a tumor. This was divulged in a report that appears in an electronic media, online in the latest...

Technology Predicts Outcome of Child Heart Surgery

...lation and how this blood flow might be altered to extend the life of the patients,” said Mark Fogel, M.D., director of cardiac MR in the Cardiac Center at Children’s Hospital and a key collaborator on the project. The Georgia Tech/Emory team began work on a system to help surgeons address the unique cha...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

... cilia and flagella (interchangeable terms), which extend from the cell surface. Recently, Rosenbaum and his students and colleagues have shown that the cilia are fundamental to the pathogenesis of one of the most prevalent of human diseases, PKD, polycystic kidney disease, forms of which can affect as ma...

University Evaluates New Device To Treat Brain Tumors

...stoma multiforme, the therapy, Engelhard says, may extend life for some people. In an earlier small-scale study, the therapy more than doubled survival for glioblastoma patients. Glioblastoma multiforme is the most deadly of all intracranial tumors. Standard therapy does not provide a cure and often resul...

New Study Weighs Benefits of Exercise, Diets

...ed study on whether a calorie-restriction diet can extend lifespan. However, while exercisers maintained their strength and muscle mass and increased aerobic capacity, those who dieted lost muscle mass, strength and aerobic capacity. “Exercise-induced weight loss provides the additional benefit of improvi...

Which Is Better For Losing Weight? - Diet Or Exercise

...e study on ‘whether a calorie-restriction diet can extend lifespan’. However, while exercisers maintained their strength and muscle mass and increased aerobic capacity, those who dieted lost muscle mass, strength and aerobic capacity. "Exercise-induced weight loss provides the additional benefit of improv...

Adolescents With A History Of Arrest Are At Greater Risk For HIV Infection

...crease their risk of contracting HIV. Our findings extend the prior research to suggest that any type of arrest history, not necessarily one that results in incarceration or detention, can serve as a marker for sexual risk, substance abuse and a history of mental health difficulties." In addition, researc...

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