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46-Year-Old Canada Man Donates A Part Of His Liver To A Complete Stranger

...ear old comatose child to help him recover from an incurable liver disease //. He further stated that he had no regrets about donating his organ to a complete stranger or about putting his own life at risk, adding that he would do it again, if necessary. The impact a kidney donation had on one of his family ...

Beware Of A Silent Killer Called Haemophilia

...y is observed every April 17. // Haemophilia is an incurable genetic disorder that is characterised by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding. It usually affects males. India has some 1,00,000 patients suffering from Haemophilia, experts say. Even as the country focuses on more glamoro...

Gene Therapy Helps To Cure 'Incurable' Illness

...her operations for treating other such chronic and incurable conditions due to inheritance of defective genes. These cutting-edge techniques have mainly been used in the past to help sick children. Dorothee von Laer, gene therapy coordinator at the Georg Speyer laboratory in Frankfurt, said two males, aged 25 ...

TB: Hurdle To Indian Economy

...reated can develop drug resistance and potentially incurable forms of the disease, authorities said. "Since no new drugs have been discovered since 1968, the germs can develop drug resistance and can transmit the resistant germs to the community," Chauhan confessed. --Edited IANS...

Cruel life for baby MB

...on and would die rapidly if it was removed." His incurable condition, SMA - which affects one in 6,400 newborns, is set to lead to almost full paralysis. In the views of his mother : "We want our son to have a tracheotomy so we could take him home and give him a life, instead of being stuck in a hospital. We...

Life Or Death: Parents Await High Court Judgment

... MB, hails from North England, and suffers from an incurable disease called spinal muscular dystrophy. The disease is characterized by progressive muscle-weakening and wasting, eventually leading to total paralysis. The boy can only move his eyebrows and fingers and feet very slightly. He is dependent on med...

'Chikungunya' Epidemic On French Island Claims 52 lives

...s of French National Health Agency (INVS). // The incurable crippling disease, called chikungunya, has affected more than 110,000 people since the epidemic broke out in the Indian Ocean Island in March 2005. As many as 22,000 have contracted the disease over the past week, according to Philippe Quenel, an epi...

New Treatment Offers Hope For Lung Cancer Patients

... that even patients generally considered as having incurable disease have some hope. Even that small window of hope can help people cope with things much better. But ... we need longer follow-up to recommend it as a standard treatment,' concluded Prof Mac Manus....

Respirator Can Improve Quality Of Life Of Motor Neurone Disease Patients

...present just one drug is licensed to treat MND, an incurable disease of the nervous system. But this drug only extends patients' life by two to three months. A team of researchers of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Britain, found that the ventilator can help patients maintain adequate blood oxygen leve...

Ataxia: a problematic disease's gene deciphered

... type of ataxia has been deciphered. Ataxia is an incurable degenerative brain disease affecting movement and coordination. A first with this neurodegenerative disease is its nature that it is caused by mutations in the protein, a-III spectrin which plays an important role in the maintaining the health of ner...

Small Doses Of Radiation Can Help Certain Lung Cancer Patients

... Society says that many patients with apparently// incurable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survived for up to five years after being given small doses of radiation therapy meant to ease the symptoms of the cancer. The study says that this group of patients appears to have a different variety of lung can...

Miracle Cures Do Exist

...tudied as many as 2,337 patients who suffered from incurable lung cancer. Alternative medicine served to extend the life of 25 people for a period of five years, while another 18 were completely cured. Dr Macmanus said that the data showed that a chance for survival and complete recovery existed for about 1...

Lazy Eye Can Be Effectively Treated By New Approach

.... Until now, the condition has been regarded to be incurable in children over 8 years. The new study however promises a restoration of vision by as much as 70% in individuals above 19 years of age. The average one-year retention rate was 90 percent. The study participants were trained to detect a small ‘g La...

Euthanasia To Be Permitted In Swiss Hospital

...s who are mentally competent and suffering from an incurable disease access to an external doctor or to a member of Exit, the Swiss voluntary euthanasia society.Terminally ill patients will be allowed in this hospital to take their own lives on hospital premises, as long as they are of sound mind, are already ...

Scientist Calls Upon Media To Retract His Work

...lly hailed as offering potential breakthroughs for incurable diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease and diabetes in which replacement cells could be genetically matched to patients, thereby removing the fear of tissue rejection. The work also led Hwang in October to launch the World Stem Cell Found...

British Scientists Doubt Delhi Doctor’s Stem Cell Claim

...nd purified stem cells from human embryos to treat incurable diseases does not have many takers in the British medical fraternity. The Guardian reported Friday that experts here have called // on Indian authorities to impose tighter curbs on clinics in India that make extravagant claims about the use of embry...

Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track

... field which has the potential to cure a number of incurable diseases. Mr Hota praised the work done by Dr Shroff who claimed to have cured many incurable and terminal diseases like paralysis, spinal injuries, genetic and auto-immune disorders and said st...

Novel drug holds promise for treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

..., lungs, heart, blood, nerves or kidneys. It is an incurable disease, with most therapies focusing on symptom relief. Current medications for treating RA range from anti-inflammatory drugs, such as aspirin, to corticosteroids and medicines that alleviate symptoms by suppressing or killing the body’s immune re...

Need for early screening and effective cancer treatment in India

... treatment. Mouth ulcers, a fever not abating, an incurable cough, a growing mole // or a wound that does not heal fast are symptoms that need to be screened for cancer. Unlike in the US, where the cure rate is 55 percent as two-thirds of the people seek treatment in the first and second stages, in India it...

Identification of gene

...toms remarkably similar to human SLE.// SLE is an incurable and potentially fatal multi-organ disease that turns victims’ immune systems against them. The disease affects about one in 300 people, 90 per cent of them being women.It causes damage to kidneys, liver, brain, heart, spleen, joints, and lungs. The ...

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