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Solution to Bacterial Mystery Promises New Drugs

...uild their membranes has led to a discovery //that holds promise for effective, new antibiotics against these bacteria, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The finding is significant because the biochemical step the antibiotic would block is not used by humans. Therefore, s...

Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

... the manufacture of pharmaceuticals – it currently holds the 4th position in terms of volume and 13th in terms of the value of production. The country is also able to augment its stock of tablets, capsules, bulk drugs almost to the tune of 70%, the remaining 30% is enabled by the global market. Not surpris...

Study Says Chest Pain Toll in Women is More than Physical

...ngina over their lifetimes,' said Bairey Merz, who holds the Women’s Guild Chair in Women’s Health at Cedars-Sinai. Compared with women who have blocked arteries, women with nonobstructive CAD are at lower risk for cardiovascular death, but their ongoing symptoms and therapeutic interventions affect thei...

Women Are More Likely To Die Than Men When On Oxygen Therapy

...ie more quickly than men. Whether this observation holds true in other cohorts with differing severity of COPD is yet to be determined. Careful analysis from both clinical data and observational trials will shed more light on this important question and, it is hoped, provide guidance for how to better inte...

Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine, hits the market

...nine to 15 and girls aged nine to 26. This vaccine holds a world of promise, based on the results of the clinical trials, where nearly 20,000 women received 100% protection from cervical cancer and 99% insulation from genital warts....

Elusive Step In DNA Mutation Uncovered By Researchers

...ial to the reaction because it acts as a sink that holds one of the reaction products, (H3O+) together with the other product (the guanine base with an attached OH- at the C8 location). According to quantum simulations, the energy barrier leading to formation of the transition state complex, and thus the r...

Scientists Review Loeys-Dietz Syndrome in the Largest Ever Study to date

...that affect the connective tissue, the tissue that holds the body together. Marfan syndrome can affect many body systems, including the skeleton, eyes, heart and blood vessels, nervous system, skin and lungs. The vascular variant of Ehlers-Danlos also affects skin, muscles and ligaments and causes hypermob...

Alpha-blockers call for modification in cataract surgery

...k of the surgeon tearing a portion of the eye that holds the artificial lens in place, Chang said. "If we know that patients have ever used Flomax or the other drugs, we can use different, longer-lasting dilation eye drops or micro-hooks to keep the pupil completely dilated during surgery," Chang said. "...

A Human Brain Gene Could Hold Clues On The Evolution Of Brain Capacity

...uctures involve the same kind of base pairing that holds together a double-stranded helix of DNA. UCSC researchers were able to demonstrate a stable structure for HAR1 RNA from humans and other vertebrates. Furthermore, 10 of the 18 changes in the human HAR1 sequence involved compensatory changes that pres...

Cancer Patients Find Relief from Excruciating Pain with Novel Technique

...armed forces medical college in Pune, India, which holds a lot of promise// in alleviating extreme pain, during advanced stages of cancer. The Para Vertebral Neurolytic block, which is a concoction of anaesthetic and absolute alcohol, is capable of relieving pain when injected into the para vertebral spa...

Improving Treatment Options for Multiple Sclerosis

...ers, who have zeroed in on a genetic approach that holds promise in the development of novel strategies// to treat this severe neurological disease, for which a concrete cure is not yet in place. The study has indicted that an exercise to effectively impede the protein that is in charge of managing the ...

Emergency Heart Patients Do Better With Invasive Approach

... efficacy observed in randomized controlled trials holds up when tested in routine clinical practice rather than in the artificial environment of a clinical trial.” Hoenig agreed that more contemporary trials are needed and added that improving the medical care that patients receive after their initial h...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

...Further, researchers articulate that when a mother holds her child to her breast, she feels an overpowering psychological experience, which surpasses even the bond of carrying the child in the womb. Breast feeding sows the seeds for a life-long bond between the mother and child and all round health for the...

Orchid to Buy out Bexel Pharma, US

... Rs 13 crore (three million dollars). The company holds a majority 74 per cent stake in Bexel Pharma and would acquire the remaining 26 per cent stake as a part of an agreement reached between the two companies to bring the drug discovery activities under a unified structure, Orchid informed the Bombay St...

Alternative to the Conventional Seizure Treatment

...ion and were ineligible for surgery. TNS, however, holds several potential advantages over VNS, DeGiorgio said. Unlike VNS, the TNS stimulator can be tested externally to gauge results before implanting the device. Patients treated in the clinical trial wore the stimulator on their belt. Wires from the sti...

Applying brakes to symptoms of Alzheimer's with a tiny implant

In what holds promise for a large number of Alzheimer's patients, a breakthrough has arrived in the form of an inch long contraption designed to be implanted under// the skin on the abdomen. Indeed a promising treatment option, this implant contains a medicine tha...

Rajasthan to Conduct Audit to Find Out the Cause of Maternal Mortality

...egnancy related issue. State medical department holds the view that the lack of data has been the major impediment to take effective measures to check this nature of premature deaths. Besides, the fear of strict action prevents the officials to feed the department with correct figures and data. Due ...

Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist

...tary. Yet because we all grew up in a culture that holds men and women to different standards, people are blind to their inherent biases, Barres said. In his commentary Barres points to data from a range of studies showing bias in science. For example, when a mixed panel of scientists evaluated grant pro...

Worksite Wellness Programs Plays a Vital Role in Improving the Health of the Staff

...al environment must change.’ ‘The model we studied holds promise for extending the reach of worksite wellness programming to organizations, at-risk populations and communities not traditionally engaged by such efforts,’ she added. ‘However, many obstacles to organizational and individual engagement are app...

Same Genes Act Differently in Males and Females

...disease risk, rate and severity." "This research holds important implications for understanding disorders such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity, and identifies targets for the development of gender-specific therapies," said Jake Lusis, Ph.D., co-investigator and UCLA professor of human genetics. ...

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