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Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years

...ingh led to disclosures of the rape and killing of grown up girls too," a police official said. Police teams have been sent to Ludhiana to interrogate other members of Mohinder Singh's family including his wife. His farmhouse near Chandigarh has been raided in search of other missing girls and boys. Sou...

Medical Care Lacking In LA Jail

...ured bones and bulging hernias. "I basically saw grown men crying because they were in such pain," Kent said. Sheriff's Lt. Stephen Smith who is in-charge of the jail system's medical services bureau, said "We face unique challenges, and we do the best we can," Smith said. "These are difficult, angry, ...

Health Care Suffers at Los Angeles Jails: Report

... American Civil Liberties Union. "I basically saw grown men crying because they were in such pain," Kent said. Sander Peck, chief physician in the jail system says: "I could have every doctor in the county of Los Angeles here, and it still wouldn't be enough. I don't know what 'enough' would be." Am...

Stem Cell Activity Deciphered in the Aging Brain

...he researchers also are grafting neural stem cells grown in culture dishes into the hippocampus, to stimulate those already present. Additional approaches include using behavioral modification techniques, such as physical exercise and exposure to an enriching environment, that are known to stimulate prolif...

Herbal Supplements Fail to Relieve Hot Flushes

...pausal hormone therapy in some women. Interest has grown in alternatives to hormones, including herbal supplements, for controlling hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause," says NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. "Testing the safety and efficacy of various treatments in randomized clinical trials suc...

Organic Food Fever Catches Up In Delhi

...or them. It is more convenient for them." Produce grown without the use of pesticides or artificial fertilizers is used to make organic products and experts maintain that such food reduces the chance of developing heart disease and cancer among its users. The government-run Indian Organic Certification A...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

...itions. In many cases, however, the tumor may have grown too large or is positioned too close to vital structures for complete surgical removal to be possible or practical. Also, not all patients are good candidates for surgery. Improvements in radiation therapy and radiosurgery, along with advances in c...

Gene-Altered Foods -Still Not Sure

... all of soybean, cotton and more than half of corn grown are genetically modified. Since most processed foo...fit for human consumption and that long grain rice grown in the US was accidentally contaminated with a modified gene, but in general, few are aware of the s...

Gene-Altered Foods ? Still Not Sure

... all of soybean, cotton and more than half of corn grown are genetically modified. Since most processed foo...fit for human consumption and that long grain rice grown in the US was accidentally contaminated with a modified gene, but in general, few are aware of the s...

Diabetes Rates Soar High in NSW

...t two decades the incidence of diabetes in NSW has grown two-fold, according to a recent study. // Obesity which is one of the major contributing factors is also on the increase and presently 50% of the adult and 25% of the child population is on the overweight or obese side. In 1997 the incidence of dia...

A New Rapid 3-D Cell-Growth Technique For Growing Heart Muscle

... produces pulsing, organized tissue. Though it was grown in the lab, it looks, contracts //and responds alm...search Part A. The three-dimensional tissue was grown using an innovative technique that is faster than others that have been tried in recent years, but s...

Telomerase Expression Linked To Body Mass

...the 15 species. The capybara, nearly the size of a grown human, was not expressing telomerase, suggesting evolution was willing to forgo the benefits in order to reign in cancer. The results cannot be directly related to humans, but Gorbunova set up the study to produce very strong across-the-board indic...

A New Research Demonstrates HIV-1 In Resident Immune Cells Of Human Testis

...ed organ cultures in which human testis tissue was grown in culture. This testis culture, which retained the same tissue architecture as in vivo tissue and continued to secrete testosterone, was able to support infection by HIV-1. Virus produced from the testis culture was fully active as collected virus w...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

...has been conserved even to humans, and they can be grown in quantity to isolate flagella in large amounts. Further, their cell division is easily synchronized and the genome sequence of Chlamydomonas and the flagellar “proteome,” or complete catalogue of proteins, has been published. Using this organism,...

Pig Stem Cells Show Promise in Repairing Animals’ Heart Attack Damag

Johns Hopkins scientists have successfully grown large numbers of stem cells taken from adult pigs’...f results revealed that stem cells had matured and grown in the border zones of the damaged area, where researchers suspect both dead and living tissue mingl...

Adult Stem Cells Show Potential for Diabetes Solution

...ional Academy of Sciences. Adult stem cells are grown from donated human bone marrow. They have the potential to be used therapeutically because of their ability to repair many tissues in the body, such as insulin secreting cells in the pancreas. Tulane researchers Darwin Prockop and colleagues at th...

Alarming Rise in HIV Cases in China: Report

...al public as the number of reported infections has grown by nearly 30 percent this year, the China Daily sa...h ministry showed the reported number of cases has grown to 183,733 this year, up from 144,089 at the end of last year, the newspaper said. Of the reported c...

Afghanistan's double-edged problem - AIDS and Heroin

... cases reported from strife-torn Afghanistan, have grown from a manageable 8 to a formidable 61. //The increasing use of heroin has raised concern amongst health authorities as a significant cause of abetting the spread of AIDS in the nation. Anti-narcotics Minister Mohammad Zafar explained how the numbe...

Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative and Hawaii Biotech Partner Against Dengue Fever

...o vaccine research and development. “The IVI has grown rapidly in its short life and we are enthusiastic about this close association with Hawaii Biotech. We believe this partnership will greatly accelerate our work to reduce the burden of dengue in developing countries” said Dr. John Clemens, Director G...

Beta Agonists May Alter the Immune System

...ct of beta-agonists on white blood cells that were grown in the laboratory. They were surprised to find that the drugs promoted a preferential accumulation of type 2 T cells. Beta-agonists belong to a class of chemicals that include the hormone adrenaline produced by the body. Consequently, conditions th...

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