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Babies Need Vaccination

...ge from the group's list last year. For one of the first times in recent years, no new shots are recommended; both lists recommend a series of seven vaccine shots starting in infancy for all U.S. children. The list is published in January's Pediatrics. The recommendation for hepatitis B shots was made out...

Unpredictable Premature Birth

...ed at preventing prematurity from occurring in the first place....

HIV infections have reached a new high

...e UK is likely to increase by almost half over the first five years of the 21st century, according to public health experts.// New figures released by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) predict that the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis may rise from around 23,000 in 2000 to almost 34...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

...moking. Glaxo had targeted 50,000 patients for its first year with Zyban. It has already crossed the target... a 150-mg tablet. The dosage is once a day for the first three days and from the fourth day, two tablets for seven weeks....

Broccoli's role against cancer

A cancer preventing compound in broccoli, first isolated a decade ago at Johns Hopkins, may protect against a much broader spectrum of diseases.A new study shows that the compound, sulphoraphane, helps cells defend themselves for two or three days against highly reactive and toxic molecules called...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...hern California in Los Angeles. To capture images first an external camera mounted in an eyeglass frame captures the image and converts it into an electrical signal that is electronically transmitted to the flexible silicon biochip surgically attached near the retina.The chip electronically stimulates the...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

The government approved the first pocket-sized EKG machine, so small that it promise...sible heart attack victim's bedroom. It's also the first hand-held computer-based medical device, part of a growing trend to miniaturize some of medicine's m...

Immune cells halt round in space

...the cells in the bioreactor began to change in the first 15 minutes. One of the first changes was that T-cells were somehow forced to remain round and the researchers believe this could ...

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

...easurements and treatments on a diary card for the first month. Researchers found that patients with low POD were more likely to suffer from fatal and near-fatal asthma attacks than those with high or normal POD.The researchers said that patients identified with low POD should be monitored carefully and ...

Knowing how weight loss aids in diabetes

...es and the researchers are joining people into the first long-term study on how weight loss affects the outcome in type 2 diabetes. With about 30 per cent of the population now classified as overweight, and diabetes seemingly reaching epidemic proportions, it is never been more urgent to look at this ques...

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...ween 30 and 50 per cent and an increase in time to first exacerbation. Researchers found that the beneficial effects of tiotropium on lung function persisted over a period of more than 24 hours. The researchers add that, once-daily treatment with tiotropium should be considered an effective first-line tre...

New Birth Control Pills increase the stroke risk

...e dangerous than the second-generation ones. The first generation pills, introduced in 1960, was a mix of high doses of estrogen and one of two other hormones, lynestrenol or norethisterone. However, they increased the risk of clotting, which can lead to ischemic stroke. The next version, released in the...

Plague creates panic in India

...ple to stay away from the area" Thakur said. The first victim died on February 4 after he had gone hunting in a forest last month and had been possibly infected by a wild rat. The highly contagious disease later killed three of his relatives. Twelve more infected people from the same village were being t...

Heriditary dental disorders

...use model compared to normal animals. "This is the first time that overproduction of TGF-b1 in teeth has been shown to result in reduced functioning of the dspp gene," Dr. Kulkarni said. "We think the gene might contain elements that respond to TGF-b1. Or perhaps other genes, influenced by TGF-b1, may indi...

New swift therapy limits stroke damage

...rs at University of Texas, they have shown for the first time that this drug can be used in the field, before the patient even reaches hospital. The study has been done thanks to a unique partnership between the University and local paramedics. Twenty patients presenting with stroke symptoms between a co...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

... a little more than $1 billion. That's because the first company to commercialize an oral version of today'...rs. They include drug giant GlaxoSmithKline, which first isolated the p38 kinase in the early 1990s. Glaxo's drug is in early stage clinical trials for rheum...

Smoke less to stay young

...research team questioned 118 young people in their first year of high school to understand their cigarette comsumption patterns and determine their level of nicotine dependency. Among the young people who said they had smoked only once or twice in the month before the interview, 11.5 percent displayed one ...

Fresh approach to TB treatment

...ound in fungi, animals and plants but this was the first that this gene had been found in bacteria. We now see the gene in several of the databases containing the genetic blueprints of different mycobacteria. “It gives us the prospect of using existing anti-fungal compounds where there is knowledge about ...

Laser to help in root canal treatment

...ures on hard and soft tissue.//The approval is the first by the FDA for a laser root canal and covers all enamel, dentin and pulpal removal as well as shaping of the root canal. The Waterlase is not a direct laser, the but alternatively furnishes optical energy to water, and the water particles themselves...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

...or Richard's study in 1950 and the 1995 study. The first study was concerned with identifying the main causes of the rise in lung cancer, which showed the prevailing role of tobacco. The second study was concerned not just with reconfirming the importance of tobacco but also with assessing the lesser effec...

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