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Female Ratio Drops Alarmingly In Himachal Due To Feticides

...-long awareness campaign against feticides and the imbalance it has brought to the demography of the state. "Our women activists will stage protests outside clinics and health centres carrying out sex determination tests and abortions," said HGVS chief Kuldeep Singh Tanwar. "In the next one year we will ed...

Leptin Plays A Vital Role among Female Patients Suffering From Asthma

...-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Any imbalance may result in a variety of immunological disorders. The findings of the study were reported in the journal Thorax. The study analyzed information from almost 6,000 American adults who had participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition Exam...

Build Up of Protein in the Brain Linked To Alzheimer's

... how normal brains balance this protein and how an imbalance caused by aging, genetic or environmental factors may lead to or worsen Alzheimer's disease," Zheng said. It is well established knowledge that the cerebrospinal fluid in the brains of Alzheimer's patients do contain above normal quantities of beta-...

Malfunction Of Key Growth Factor Increases Mortality Rate From Pulmonary Fibrosis In Blacks

...disease' – that is its pathogenesis depends on the imbalance in expression and communication between many proteins," Bogatkevich noted. Using the proteomic approach they found that the amount of antifibrotic glycoprotein hypatocyte growth factor (HGF) was reduced in the blood and epithelial lining fluid of Afr...

Jolt to Quit Smoking

...gen level. Any of these factors can result in an imbalance of oxygen supply compared to oxygen needed by the heart. This oxygen deficiency predisposes the heart to dangerous rhythms. ‘Smoking is obviously hard to quit,’ Sánchez says. ‘Heart patients know it's harmful, yet a good percentage of them continue...

Introduction of Microbial Organisms: A Possible Treatment for Asthma

...during a critical period of infancy can lead to an imbalance in the immune system and result in diseases such as asthma, especially in high-risk groups, like children with parents who have asthma. The study seeks to determine whether stimulating the immune system by giving an active probiotic supplement, Lacto...

Good News For The Obese People

...meat and eggs, alter the body's acid balance. This imbalance could lead to increased bone turnover (more rapid depletion than formation of bone) -- increasing the risk for osteoporosis. "That's not what our study found," said lead author John D. Carter, assistant professor in the Division of Rheumatology, U...

Autoimmune Diseases – Newer Preventive Measure

...s from type 1 diabetes to alopecia, from which the imbalance of killer cells and immune regulating system, autoimmune disease can be understood//. By age 5, out of three problems – an underactive parathyroid, yeast infection of the skin and/or mucous membrane and adrenal gland insufficiency, two will result ...

Osteoporosis – A New Treatmen

...p,’ he said. ‘The balance has been tipped.’ This imbalance between bone formation and degradation could potentially be recreated by drug treatments for osteoporosis, Crabtree said. Very little NFATc1 must be activated to build extra bone, Winslow noted, which means that it may be possible to up-regulate the ...

Abnormal Abeta - Protein Level in Human Brain Trigger Alzheimer's Risk

...l Alzheimer's patients on the basis of a metabolic imbalance between Abeta synthesis and clearance rates,' Bateman says. The test combines technologies that have been available for some time but only through recent technical and procedural advances has become sufficiently sensitive. Via an intravenous drip,...

National Transplant Week to Raise Need for Organ Donation

... Transplant Week to raise awareness of the growing imbalance between the number of organ donations that take place and the number of people// awaiting transplants. Statistics show that only 22 per cent of the population in Britain has joined the Organ Donor Register. In addition it has been found that while ...

Overspending in Hospitals to Lead to Cutbacks

... as just one symptom of the HSE’s own illness: the imbalance between the ballooning number of backroom staff and the medical staff at the front line who are struggling to cope. Mr Naughten also said, ‘Meanwhile, key positions remain unfilled and services are being affected, like the six-year-old child waitin...

A New Approach towards Anti-Cancer Drugs

... a protein which destroys p53 due to a biochemical imbalance inside the cell. p53 is the guardian protein and is the tumor suppressor protein. Hence the lead researcher Dr. Kathryn Ball said that anti cancer drugs should be targeted against the MDM2 protein. The study has also pointed out a number of protei...

Understanding the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Decision-Making

...hen he let too much fuel out of a tank, causing an imbalance in the aircraft. He believes the mistake resulted from too many missions with too little sleep. After flying 12 six- to seven-hour missions and fulfilling all the briefing, debriefing and aircraft pre- and post-flight requirements, he recalled that h...

NOMID Symptoms Helped By Arthritis Drug

.... The mutations, scientists have found, lead to an imbalance of a cytokine, or chemical messenger, called interleukin-1 (IL-1), which is believed to drive the inflammation that causes damage in patients with the disease. Isolated case reports have suggested that anakinra might be effective in treating the ra...

Studying the psycho neurobiology of aging

...ding to acute challenges as one gets older. This imbalance between the anabolic and catabolic hormones is lik...he neuroendocrine system becomes off balance. This imbalance between the anabolic and catabolic hormones now appears to be the most common profile of aging and m...

Wear and Tear of Stress: The Psychoneurobiology of Aging

...ding to acute challenges as one gets older. This imbalance between the anabolic and catabolic hormones is lik...he neuroendocrine system becomes off balance. This imbalance between the anabolic and catabolic hormones now appears to be the most common profile of aging and m...

High-Fat, Copper-Rich Diets Associated with Increased Rates of Cognitive Decline

...e essential for brain development and function, an imbalance of these metals may play a role in the development of brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Previous studies have also linked fat intake, especially that of saturated and trans fats, to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive di...

Lower Birth Rate and Fewer Girls under China’s one Child Polic

... preferred family size have decreased, and a gross imbalance in the sex ratio// has emerged, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. The one child family policy has been in force in China since 1979 and was intended as a short term measure. To examine the impact of this policy, researchers analysed data from the 2...

Protein Molecules in blood predict preeclampsia development

...y, the researchers present strong evidence that an imbalance of two proteins produced by the placenta is respon...ine. The second protein involved in the chemical imbalance is called soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt1). The women in the study who had developed preec...

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