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Pay Back Time

...m being involved in private deals or any work that holds a financial interest for them. This follows a two-year-old move made by NIH to curb its scientists from fattening their wallets with private consultations and deals. The last such indicted was Prem Sarin, a cancer researcher at NIH. . He was asked ...

Elastrography, may Call the Shots During Initial Stage of Breast Screening

...lumps in women’s breasts. This method of screening holds promise in the better utilization of breast biopsies, currently in use to detect the presence of breast cancer. Biopsies are rather costly and cumbersome; additionally the results may take days or weeks. Statistics show that eight out of 10 biopsie...

Downstate Researchers Target Multiple Sclerosis

...ltration in a dose- and time-dependant manner, and holds promise in treating both the acute and chronic phases of MS. The inhibitor may also prove beneficial for treating other degenerative illnesses, such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease. Source-Eurekalert...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

...adily to mind is — myelin.// Conventional wisdom holds that myelin, the sheet of fat that coats a neuron’s axon — a long fiber that conducts the neuron’s electrical impulses — is akin to the wrapping around an electrical wire, protecting and fostering efficient signaling. But the research of UCLA neurolo...

International Collaboration Takes Aim at Rabies

...his is an exciting partnership, one that I believe holds out hope to address many serious public health problems in the world today.” Soure-Newswise SRM...

India Finds New Use for an Old Bug

...irst sequencing effort of a complete// genome that holds promise in the treatment of several diseases, including tuberculosis and leprosy. Recent evidence that a vaccine made from killed Mw drastically reduces treatment time of tuberculosis (TB) including the multi-drug resistant (MDR) variety is driving...

Anorexia Nervosa – Uproot the Disease by Understanding Key Triggers and Motive

...ot take cognizance of the significance the illness holds in the patients’ lives, may not realize an absolute cure of the eating disorder, leading to a recurrence of the problem. During the study, the patients who were between 20 and 34 years old had been subjected to detailed one-on one interviews. The s...

Naked truths and Basic Instincts

...sures beseechingly captures the focus of a man and holds him in rapt attention// and causes a man to file away the first impressions indelibly in the recesses of his mind says scientists who conducted a study on heterosexual men, heterosexual women, homosexual men and bisexual women in groups of ten each....

Botox – The 'Celebrity' Dru

... order to 'feel good'. Moderation, as they say, holds the key. After all, as Voltaire said, 'Beauty pleases the eyes only, sweetness of disposition charms the soul'. Source-IANS SM...

Swelling of Prostate Gland Prevented with New drug

...ar these are very promising results.” “This work holds out the possibility that we may be able to help patients with benign disease as well as men with prostate cancer by using these designer drugs.” Enlarged prostate, or benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is a common disease in men over 60 causing urina...

Revolutionary Eye Cancer Treatment

...er is fatal if left untreated. The new treatment holds promise for a simpler, more effective and less-toxic treatment for retinoblastoma that would eliminate the need for the current, complex therapy, according to senior author Michael Dyer, Ph.D., a Pew Scholar and associate member of the St. Jude Depar...

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

...ry short men.” Lee says estrogen treatment, too, holds important implication for future use and study of growth hormone therapy to modify children’s height. “We need to realize that scientific advances are always applied within a specific social context, and those societal norms and beliefs can greatly i...

A potent therapy to combat fatal viral infections

... zeroed in on a recent// combination therapy, that holds promise for reducing the infection rate of three viruses, while cutting the lurking danger of death in transplant patients whose immune systems are not up the mark. The stage1 of the trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,...

Partial-match cell transplants for kids with resistant leukemia

..."The overall success of this procedure suggests it holds promise for children who are likely to fail standard treatment for leukemia because they have treatment-resistant disease and no matched donor," Hale said. The key to the St. Jude strategy--reduced intensity conditioning regimen (RICR)--is that it ...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...was made at Cedars-Sinai by Pimentel. Cedars-Sinai holds patent rights to this discovery and has licensed rights to the invention to Salix. NLA...

Commonplace Sugar Compound Silences Seizures

...pra is planning future studies to test whether 2DG holds promise for combating breast cancer, or fast-spreading glioblastomas. The UW-Madison team has patented 2DG for its use against epilepsy in collaboration with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, UW-Madison's technology transfer arm. Source-Ne...

The Dope on Alzheimer's – Does Marijuana Halt the Progress of Alzheimer's

...rchers said in a recent communiqué. The finding// holds a clue as to the why people who regularly smoked marijuana in the 1960s and 1970s are at a lesser chance of developing Alzheimer's disease, as compared to others of their age. Investigation on rodents showed that an ingredient in marijuana had the ...

Cause of ‘Down Syndrome’ cannot be pinned down to maternal age aloe

... and therapeutic restoration of a stringent screen holds promise not only for Down Syndrome.” Source-Eurekaler MTS...

Researchers Chew on the Modest Cabbage as a Cure for Breast Cancer

...advice regarding a balanced vegetarian diet indeed holds water!...

FDA Gives the Nod to 'Risperdal' For Use in Autistic Children

...ug in question, Johnson & Johnson's 'Risperdal'//, holds promise in effectively managing irritability, aggr...up in autistic children. Risperdal, an oral drug, holds a niche position as Johnson & Johnson's acclaimed product and has been in circulation since 1993, fo...

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