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New Asthma Gene Identified

...hat we found," said Abecasis, noting that the gene has no known relation to allergic responses. Asthma, a complex disease caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Asthma occurs in 7-10 percent of children in the United States and one...

Curative Qualities of Tamil Nadus Kuttralam Waterfalls

...t and a picnic spot for families. Southern India has had good rains and the waterfalls have plenty of w... to Kuttralam since four or five years. The season has started. We take bath here because the water has medicinal qualities. I come here with my family." ...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...l known . Forget the politics of it all, the CIA has indeed been resourceful, even if they came to grief every time. Castro has already turned 80. Still the recently declassified documents of the agency do make fascinating readi...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

... the highly infectious disease. An investigation has found Dr Daniel Hameiri's Double Bay clinic where...eving they are "inherently dangerous". Dr Hameiri has been referred to the NSW Medical Board and Health Care Complaints Commission, but has been allowed t...

New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Drug-Resistant HIV

...drug used in combination with a second newer agent has proven to be effective in fighting drug-resistant ... currently living with HIV, and the HIV/AIDS virus has killed more than 524,000 Americans to date. Dr. Towner added that the trial is most uniquely signi...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...ge of cancers, Australian research released Friday has found. A new study, published in The Lancet medical journal, suggests a link between a depleted immune system and 20 different types of cancer and could be a breakthrough in the understanding of the causes of the malignancies. Lead researcher at...

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

...overseas-trained doctors. "There is nothing that has been presented to us by the police that would lead...f innocence exists in every police inquiry. No one has been arrested, charged or detained in relation to these inquiries," he said. "There is no suggesti...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...o or the drug nalmefene on an as needed basis. It has a robust and sustained effect in reducing harmful ...rs in the blood. In the United States, abstinence has been the traditional goal of the treatment of alcohol dependence, but in the last 20 years, there ha...

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

... mayor of one of China's showpiece economic cities has urged his 11 million residents to stop buying cars...n, just across from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the English-language ...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...blood-clotting protein found in circulating blood, has been found to inhibit the growth of central nervou...but this is the first blood-derived inhibitor that has been found. The discovery may open the door to a possible strategy to improving recovery after spin...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...lace in supplying America's energy and fuel needs has taken on added importance in recent months. A re...h institute at the University of Kentucky, though, has been exploring ways to increase the efficiency of converting coal to liquid fuel well in advance of ...

Boyfriend Bites Off Lip and Ear of 3-year-old Daughter of His Girlfriend

...lice said the child suffered bites to her face and has lost the upper part of her lip. In addition, police said, her ear was so badly mutilated that surgery could not restore it to its natural state. Children's Hospital, Boston, felt it was one of the most horrific abuse cases they have seen, according...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

... almost literally. Dan Didrick of Naples, Florida, has come up with a fascinating alternative for those w...Didricks X-finger is back to the future because it has no batteries, electronics, servos or actuators. Instead, each digit incorporates a simple mechanism ...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

...alia, are bracing themselves for a severe flu that has the potential to kill young children within a day . The fear comes after three Perth children, all aged under five, died from the fatal strain in the past 72 hours. Staff at The Gold Coast Hospital admitted its Emergency Department had been burst...

Chickens also Use Earth's Magnetic Field to Sense Direction

A new research by a Frankfurt University team has successfully demonstrated that domestic fowl, like many other animals and birds, also use the Earth's magnetic field to sense direction . As part of their experiment, the team of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko placed newly hatc...

Mira Nair Launches AIDS Awareness Project

Indian-born film director Mira Nair has launched an AIDS awareness project called 'Jaago' to highlight the spread of the disease and its danger to society . The project, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will use the powerful medium of Indian cinema to inform peop...

DNA Sample Suggests Greenland was Much Warmer During Last Ice Age

...om of a two-kilometre thick ice sheet in Greenland has shown that the island was much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than previously believed . The DNA came from the trees, plants and insects of a boreal forest estimated to be between 450,000 and 900,000 years old. Previously, the younges...

The Hospital Superbugs

...l cause disease. Until now 'knocking out' genes has been very difficult to do. Our breakthrough ClosT... Translational Infection Research Initiative which has acknowledged a lack of funding for research in the field of microbiology and infectious diseases. ...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...ley Management College and the University of Milan has concluded that the prescription costs for men over the age of 65 is significantly higher than it is for women. The primary objective of this study was to make the first step in the modelling of pharmaceutical demand in Italy to improve the govern...

Exercising Significantly Enhances Quality of Life Among Elders

A new study has revealed that exercise significantly enhances the quality of life among geriatrics . The study compared the efficiency of three programmes designed for reducing falls and improving quality-of-life among the elderly; education, home safety assessmen...

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