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Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...y of using sophisticated data mining techniques on historical texts to identify new drugs. Significance of the Mayo Clinic ResearchThe study provides a creative new model for drug discovery. It integrates nontraditional, ancient medical information with advanced technologies to identify promising natural prod...

Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug

...y of using sophisticated data mining techniques on historical texts to identify new drugs. Significance of the Mayo Clinic Research The study provides a creative new model for drug discovery. It integrates nontraditional, ancient medical information with advanced technologies to identify promising natural pr...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...y of using sophisticated data mining techniques on historical texts to identify new drugs. Significance of the Mayo Clinic ResearchThe study provides a creative new model for drug discovery. It integrates nontraditional, ancient medical information with advanced technologies to identify promising natural prod...

The Outbreak of Influenza is Now Predicted

...curate, but still beat predictions based solely on historical averages up to four weeks in advance. Dr. Polgreen and his coauthors imagine that infectious diseases prediction markets could be created almost overnight to address emerging infectious diseases, such as SARS. In the near future, Dr. Polgreen and h...

Increase Testosterone Levels To Slow Down Alzheimer’

... new data are logical, and they dovetail well with historical data." Using a mouse model of AD, in which three genes had been altered, researchers evaluated how experimental manipulation of sex hormones affected the progress of the disease. Researchers removed the testes of young adult male mice and over seve...

Impact of Climate Change in Africa

... global warming. 'It is important to use long-term historical and palaeoecological data to try to understand the frequency and effects of extreme events, and the way societies and ecosystems respond to them' Lindsey Gillson explains. Her work involved analysing sediments from the famous Tsavo National Park. Age...

Fears of Pandemic Flu makes Americans Ready for Change

...PH Professor Marc Lipsitch will also be presenting historical analyses of interventions in the 1918 pandemic, comparing cities that intervened early and those that intervened late, to assess the difference in epidemic curves in these groups of cities. This is the first report to attempt to tap the public's in...

Using Hormone Therapy to Shape Children’s Height to Social Norm

...reatment for healthy boys of short stature. In a historical review in the current issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, lead author and University of Michigan Health System Pediatric Endocrinologist Joyce Lee, M.D, MPH, explores the use of estrogen treatment during the past 50 years to i...

Menthol cigarettes harder to quit than regular cigarettes

...parison to 30% of the white smokers due to several historical and cultural reasons, according to the study. This finding and the difficulty in quitting menthol cigarettes could be the reasons for higher rates of cancer, heart disease and other smoking-related disorders in blacks in the U.S. in spite of them usu...

Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming

...To assess the period before 1978, the authors used historical records of sunspot activity and examined radioisotopes produced in Earth's atmosphere and recorded in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. During periods of high solar activity, the enhanced solar wind shields Earth from cosmic rays that produce t...

Vitamin D May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk by Nearly Half

...llowing health trends instead of looking at purely historical information, high follow-up rates and the ability to enable researchers like Skinner to incorporate data from two independent studies. Pancreatic cancer is a rapidly fatal disease and the fourth-leading cause of death from cancer in the United Stat...

Klebsiella Outbreak In Durban Blamed On Staff Shortage & Overcrowding

...to communicate these problems. We are looking at a historical issue from before 1994. It's (overcrowding and staff shortages) a known fact.” That is the reason, which had led to the failing of infection control steps, he explained at the release of the hospital's neo-natal mortality review. A Klebsiella outbre...

NHS acting chief’s intervie

...o get to that point. You are dealing with a lot of historical decisions that are either helping or hindering you. But the job of leadership is managing the context you are in. There is no reason why the problem we have got now cannot be addressed. "People should now have the feeling when they come with these di...

NHS To Be Reformed By Using A Hybrid Approach

...spending more than France, for health funding. For historical and ideological reasons, the NHS remains almost unique as a state monopoly provider of public health care paid for entirely from taxes. The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, said that the best way to improve the NHS was to pump billions of taxpayers' money...

Needle-Free Injection System Ideal for Pandemic Outbreaks

...e Board of Directors The statements which are not historical facts contained in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, additional financing requirements, devel...

Detecting Epidemics using statistics

... an outbreak. Model evaluation, which combines the historical data with actual disease outbreaks thereby, helps us to understand the disease pattern....

Ataxia: a problematic disease's gene deciphered

...he health of nerve cells. As mentioned about its historical implication, it has been discovered in an individu...ly. So this is a study with scientific as well as historical implications rolled in one...

Tourism Industry Affected By Bird Flu

...m Feast of the Sacrifice. Istanbul, which is a top historical site has not been spared either, as the poultry in the city are reported to have been infected by the flu. The H5N1 virus has so far affected 14 people in the country, resulting in two casualties. The country’s tourism industry provides employment...

New Study Questions Cannibalism As A Worldwide Selective Force

...ic associations with diseases or for evaluation of historical patterns of human migration. The prion protein gene (PRNP) encodes a protein that can abnormally fold and amass in brain tissues to cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as mad cow disease. These diseases, cumulatively known as transmissible...

More Severe Earthquakes May Hit Kashmir In Future

... nuclear explosion. These figures, juxtaposed with historical data, painted a worrying picture, as the last major series of earthquakes recorded in Kashmir started in 1501, culminating in a major jolt in 1555. "Although these records are not very accurate or detailed, I think we have enough to use the 1501 a...

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