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Faster way of producing Bird flu vaccine using Reverse Genetics

... preparation for bird flu //if a bird flu outbreak involving mutant strain of virus occurs. Due to world wide fear of a possible mutation of the avian virus which may be very lethal and may cause millions of death world wide. Scientists from University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Japanese colleagues f...

Gemcitabine with Capecitabine effective against pancreatic cancer

...ucted in England between May 2003 and January 2005 involving 533 patients with, advanced pancreatic cancer. The patients were given either Gemcitabine (Gemzar) alone or Gemcitabine plus capecitabine (Xeloda) and the results was found that patients receiving a combination of both the drugs had increased surviva...

Philippines Government prepares to counter bird flu

...the establishment of a crisis preparedness network involving the National Avian Influenza Task Force and barang...rces. The task force program is a combined program involving department officials from agriculture, environment and health. In this program 20 important migrator...

Women Get A Raw Deal In Treatment of Heart Disease

... Canadian researchers conducted a 28-country study involving more than 12,000 men and women. The study says that women at high-risk for coronary disease were often back at hospitals within a year due to the failure to get adequate treatment the first time around. As compared to men, women "don't have a higher ...

Simple Eye Movement Test For Early Detection Of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

...y in identifying the disorder." In a pilot study involving 25 girls and boys aged eight to 12, the Queen's team found that children with FASD have specific brain abnormalities which can be measured with eye movement testing. Defined as "birth defects resulting from a mother's consumption of alcohol during pr...

Indian Government Keen On JE Vaccine Supply And Patenting Of Indian Medicine Formulations

...ect with a fund of Rs 120 crore has been initiated involving ICMR, CSIR and Indian System of Medicine. A Tradit...een set up in addition to the translation services involving diverse languages such as Persian, English, French, Spanish, German and Sanskrit. Furthermore, he ...

Selenium linked to osteoarthritis

...anne Jordan and his colleagues in 4,400 volunteers involving both blacks and whites and the study results were reported in the Annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology. The researchers found that addition of additional tenth of a ppm (parts per million) of selenium in study volunteers the risk of...

A Joint Venture by Golfers And Military Forces To Combat AIDS

...ple living with HIV simply by shaking their hands, involving them in sports events, and raising mass awareness. -(IANS)...

VELscope instrument to detect mouth cancer

...is treated in its early stages. A clinical trial involving 400 patients is being undertaken using the new instrument and this VELscope would offer better diagnostic values to detect early recurrence in people who had been earlier treated for oral cancer....

Kidney Disease, More Significant Risk Factor For Heart Disease Than Obesity

...are clearly needed to resolve the complex triangle involving heart disease, obesity and cholesterol....

Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track

...He said the government would support any mechanism involving legitimate experiments. However, he stressed that... that she had informed ICMR about all her research involving stem cells harvested from human embroys discarded during IVF treatment, ICMR has not yet approved th...

Novel Actemra monotherapy in treating patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis

The first Phase III study involving the use of Actemra in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has revealed that it is superior to conventional treatment modality that uses disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs to inhibit // joint destruction. It has also been found to provid...

Dogs Can Help Heal The Heart

... patients were paid three separate types of visits involving a dog, a person or a dog with a person. Some patients in the first group, Cole said, "began to smile and immediately engaged in conversation with dog and volunteer." Their worries seemed to vanish from their faces, she said. The researchers examine...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

... card reports linked with it of adverse reactions, involving 161 separate side effects. One case was of agitation and two were of confusional state. Under the yellow card system doctors record symptoms that could be linked with a drug. The reports are intended to provide early warning of possible problems. In...

Obesity Common Thread In Pregnancy Complications And Cardiovascular Woes

...ease doubled when she had one of several disorders involving the placenta, including pre-eclampsia, gestational high blood pressure and separation of the placenta from the uterine wall. Maternal placental syndromes include preeclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy) and conditions where the placental...

Testosterone levels could serve as a marker for determining risk of SIDS

... levels following birth can result in a compromise involving the nervous system in otherwise-normal infants. In conclusion, further research is needed to determine whether testosterone is abnormal in living infants at risk for SIDS and to determine the value of monitoring testosterone or related hormones to i...

Viagra May Be Useful For Serious Lung Disease

...pulmonary arterial hypertension, a serious disease involving high pressure in the blood vessels that enter the lungs, a new study suggests.// According to a report by Reuters, the findings, which appear in The New England Journal of Medicine, are based on a study of 278 patients who were randomly selected to ...

Hospital Noise Raises The Risk Of Medical Error: Study

... majority of hospital noise problems, particularly involving the air handlings systems, are not that easy to fix. (IANS)...

Organ Scandals Compensation And The Aftermath

...e NHS which is the apex body had fought the cases involving organ-retention at 146 hospitals and trusts, but a...milies involved in a separate organ-retention case involving Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool were paid ￡5,000 each after the NHS settled. Among the ...

Antibiotics can raise the risk of getting cancer!

...t data from a Scandinavian Lymphoma Etiology study involving 3,000 patients with NHL and 3,000 healthy people drawn from Danish and Swedish population registers. Antibiotic use was strongly associated with all subtypes of NHL. Heavy users of NSAIDS were more likely to have an elevated overall risk of NHL and ...

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