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Women - Do You Consider the Condom, a ‘must-have’ in Your Hand Bag, on a Night Ou?

... The cliché, 'better to be safe than sorry' still holds good, and women would do themselves and the world a great deal, if they just take note of this. <...

'Hen Factories' To Synthesize Cancer Drugs

...cializes in genetics and genomics of animals and holds a place of honor in scientific history for being the birthplace of Dolly, the first cloned sheep. In a novel research, scientists at the Roslin Institute have recently developed a way of pooling large amounts of medicinal proteins in the egg whites...

Selenium Supplements May Suppress HIV Viral Load

... possibilities," the authors write. One hypothesis holds that selenium's antioxidant properties may repair damage done to immune cells by oxygen, which is produced at higher levels in the bodies of patients with HIV. However, future research is needed to confirm this relationship. "Given the challenges o...

Baby Teether Beads Recalled

...e a choking hazard. The flexible plastic ring that holds the teether beads in place can crack or break, causing the beads to detach. The distributor, Kids II Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., had received around 24 reports, stating that the cracking or breaking of the plastic ring, though there have been no repor...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...ck’ being-someone accursed. This prototype, sadly, holds sway even today in several regions of the globe, with blackness being equated to backwardness and servitude, and has been used to justify slavery in various parts of the world. It is imperative that we analyze the scientific basis that paved way f...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...nology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute, now holds a patent for this method, and a new company based on this patent, called “Braintact Ltd.,” has been set up in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and is currently operating within the framework of Meytav Technological Incubator. The US FDA has assured t...

Outwardly Expressed Anger Affects Some Women’s Heart Arterie

...d Institute. Bairey Merz chairs the WISE study and holds the Women’s Guild Chair in Women’s Health at Cedars-Sinai. WISE was designed to study diagnostic testing and pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease in women and how sex hormones and other gender-specific findings influence the clinical aspects o...

Technology Making LASIK Safer for Those Who Have Had Previous Eye Surgery

... option for visual rehabilitation,” he said. “This holds a lot of promise for those whose last resort was corneal transplantation.” Technology Improving ResultsAccording to Kanellopoulous, the two main areas of improvement have been in the delivery of the procedure and in diagnosing a patient’s vision pro...

Researchers Discovered the Gene Responsible for Brittle Bone Disease

...ich serves as a kind of molecular scaffolding that holds together bone, tendons, skin and other tissues. The collagen defects result from dominant mutations, requiring only one copy of a mutant gene to cause bone disease. The NIH researchers discovered that mutations in the CRTAP gene accounted for a reces...

Molecular ‘On/Off Switch’ Controls Immune Defenses Against Viruss

... microbiology and the study’s senior author. “This holds great potential in developing new disease therapies, because the tactics employed by hepatitis C to trigger immune response are similar to those employed by other viruses such as West Nile, influenza and the common cold.” Dr. Gale’s research center...

Tsunami-Hit Coastal Regions Needs More Relief

Now, a young man holds the hand of a little boy, looking at a row of new houses glistening in the morning sun, the area, which was in wreck two years ago, washed away by the devastating tsunami.// Angalamman Kuppam village is exuding life now. Along the innocent-looking ...

Genetically Modified Cells Attack Tumors

...lar Pharmacology at St. Jude. Therefore, the study holds special promise for children with high-risk neuroblastoma because as many as 80 percent of these patients relapse with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic cancer. Neuroblastoma is considered high risk if the tumors have certain genetic mutations or hav...

Researchers Use Stem Cells to Regenerate Parts of Teeth

...ooth function in an animal model. The breakthrough holds significant promise for clinical application in human patients. The study appears December 20 in the inaugural issue of PLoS ONE. Utilizing stem cells harvested from the extracted wisdom teeth of 18- to 20-year olds, Shi and colleagues have creat...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

... directs the medical center’s Pituitary Center and holds the Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Endowed Chair in Investigative Medicine. “Despite the improvements, acromegaly remains a very challenging and very complex disease,” he said. “If it occurs before the end of puberty, the patients become giants, suf...

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Stimuli from Nervous System

... human beings said the researchers. This research holds promise in timely detection of onset of diabetes, Type 1,which may help in nipping the illness in the bud. <...

Ways to Fight Childhood Obesity

...option, as suggested by Professor John Wilding who holds an obesity clinic at University Hospital Aintree. He agreed that this surgery would be a crucial option for children and also said, “but it is right that the NHS is given the go-ahead to take radical action when faced with such a major threat to the ...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...ickly than normal cells. “A normal cytoskeleton holds up the cell wall, and gives it direction to sit down in its proper place and basically to behave,” said Brentnall. “In cancerous cells, the cytoskeleton doesn't work correctly, and instead of sitting, the cells get up and invade areas where they don'...

Indian American Scientist at Work on Multi-targeted Drug

... his newly founded company CDG Therapeutics, which holds exclusive commercial rights to the patent held by ...sion for human clinical trials. Chakrabarty, who holds five patents in the US, is keen that the proposed Indian research centre should study whether the ca...

Dr. Reddy's To Launch 'Polypill' For Treating Heart Disease

...ssioner to India Graeme Waters said: 'This project holds open the possibility of revolutionising an important aspect of healthcare in both developing and developed countries.' The new drug will be cheaper to administer and more effective in preventing strokes and heart attacks, said Anthony Rodgers, a res...

Sea Urchin Genome Similar To Man And May Cure Diseases

...ercede to repair and to heal,' Calestani said. 'It holds a lot of promise.' Source-Eurekalert RI...

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