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Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

...or has not spread beyond the abdomen. Scientists have long known that the "myc" family of genes plays a prominent role in tumor formation, also called neoplastic transformation. The Hopkins team, focusing on c-myc, found that another gene called the HMG-I/Y gene is a key genetic "target" necessary for M...

More to Garlic than warding of Dracula

...ction as an antioxidant. However, not all studies have demonstrated a link between garlic and a lower risk for heart disease....

Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants

...term infants born before 25 weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Irela...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...there was never any proof of this, and researchers have suggested in recent years that transient hypothyro...ormone may be potentially harmful for patients who have serious cardiac dysfunction, and this form of treatment may be useful....

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...e proinflammatory peptides. Recent clinical trials have proven successful at inhibiting rheumatoid arthritis by using antibodies to counter inflammation-causing cytokines. There are, however, two key problems associated with using the neutralizing antibodies tested in the trials. First, they require frequ...

New CPR Guidelines issued by Heart Association

...anders and CPR-certified lay people will no longer have to check an unconscious person's pulse before admi...United Kingdom and European Resuscitation Councils have already successfully deleted pulse checks by lay people from CPR training. Pulse check is not effect...

Genetic Dentistry: Your Dentist may be able to grow you a new set of Teeth.

...sity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have successfully regrown mouse teeth in a petri dish from single mouse cells - and they think humans are next. They hope to push the research in the direction where they could take initial tissue from a [human] patient, put it in a culture dish and grow ...

Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments

Researchers have found pore-like holes in the membranes of red bloo...b nutrients. In fact, each infected red blood cell have a thousand or more such channels, which are not present on normal, uninfected red blood cells. For m...

Long-Term Survival can be Predicted by a Simple Lung Test

Researchers have found a simple pulmonary test can predict overall ...ied in age from 20 to 89 years at enrollment. They have been participating in the Buffalo Health Study from 1960 to 1962. Last year, after Twenty-nine, rese...

Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

Medical officials in Russia have reported to have said that more than two-thirds of births in Russia are marred by complications, and every second new...

Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched

...0 years by helping with immunosuppresion. Novartis have so far had the patent for the drug and enjoyed the...wever in the past few years other pharma companies have been allowed to manufacture the drug giving Novartis a competetion. The current tablet size are big ...

Check if your “Favourite medical web-site” is indulging in Quackey

...et. Now a millennium project by like minded people have listed 500 health related web-sites that are such havens of quackery! This information should serve as a guideline for surfers to be weary of tall claims made out by such sites. The information can be accessed on http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/catego...

Endangered species may be successfully cloned in another animal's womb

Scientists for the first time have found a way for the survival of endangered animal species of the world. In a major breakthrough a Massachusetts scientists who engineered the feat has managed to clone cells from an endangered animal (Asian Gaur) and successfully impregnated an Iow...

Nobel Prize for Medicine shared by Three scientists

...erstanding of the normal function of the brain and have resulted in the development of new drugs and anti-depressants like Prozac. The studies have also helped in better understanding of Parkinsons disease....

Cough Syrup Ingredient Linked to Stroke

...iversity's School of Medicine, says, "Case reports have linked exposure to PPA to the occurrence of hemorrhagic stroke." A hemorrhagic stroke results when an artery wall ruptures and prevents blood flow to the heart and brain and causes paralysis....

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...the UCLA School of Medicine says, "A lot of people have a high PSA and don't have cancer. The free PSA helps you discern those people from the people who do have cancer. Free" PSA le...

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...rence at the National Institutes of Health doctors have agreed to a consensus on the combination therapy for the cancer.Dctors have agreed that the combination therapy for women with breast cancer is beneficial. Depending on a woman...

Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

... to support the new findings no new recommendation have been made that people with HIV avoid deep kissing....r virus and not herpes virus 8 is that most people have Epstein Bar virus, but relatively few have herpes irus 8.”...

Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma

... asthma. "Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticoste... effects in children were not clear, and questions have been raised about their possible effects on growth," said Dr. Claude Lenfant. "CAMP confirms their e...

Evidence Links Protein Damage to Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

...the body's cells are overwhelmed by molecules that have changed because they have combined with nitrogen (nitration) or oxygen (oxidation). Both types of oxidants damage lipids, nucl...

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