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Double impact vaccine

...dmonston-B, strain of the measels vaccine to study its effects on the lymphomas. Dr. Feilding cited that...'s disease and non Hodgkin's lymphoma, each having its own spread, growth and response to treatment. Chemotherapy alone or in combination with radiation th...

CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

...tion between maternal weight and heart defects has its implications in preventive medicine....

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

...ngladesh, a low-lying area, has been the victim of its own success in providing clean drinking water to nearly all of its 130 million people. More than 3 million wells have been sunk across the country.At least 27 percent ...

A sunscreen from the sea

...re market in global terms for the new compound and its formulations is estimated at several hundred million dollars each year", said AIMS executive Dr Peter Isdale. The sunscreen, code-named 855, is structurally unlike compounds in current use. It has an It has demonstrated great efficiency in absorbing...

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

...duce the potential for dispensing errors involving its antiepileptic drug Lamictal(lamotrigene). As a result, GlaxoSmithKline has worked closely with the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) in an effort to educate pharmacists and physicians about the potential for Lamictal dispensing errors. The containe...

E Merck introduces Livogen Z with zinc sulphate

...a with Rs 3 crore revenue.Glaxo India Ltd has sold its Livogen brand to E Merck India Ltd. According to a notification sent to the // Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Glaxo India signed a memorandum of understanding with E Merck India, selling all the rights, title and interest in the registered trademark ...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...enting prostate cancer and treating the disease in its earliest stages.// Dr. Frederick Khachik, co-aut...pene. The tomato, however, appears to be unique in its content of lycopene. The National Cancer Institute is to begin a study soon assessing the effects ...

Starch fights cancer

...rs have discovered that resistant starch which, as its name suggests cannot be digested, passes into the colon where it releases substances that protect against cancer. Resistant starch is found in undercooked vegetables, partly-cooked pasta, baked beans, bread, brown rice, white rice ,wheat and almost a...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

... be calculated.// When the programme has completed its analysis, it outputs atleast three characteristic ...ndividual patients' health. The reliability of its prediction has been tested in collaboration with practising physicians at the major hospital in Ludw...

Tea Tales

...contains polyphenols in the form of flavonoids and its sub group flavanols, which gives the tea its antioxidant properties.Polyphenols protect the cells from damaging physiological process known as ox...

Focus on DNA transcription

...on for all the genes in an organism is containd in its DNA.For this information to be translated into function, sections of the DNA must be copied into an RNA chain. The RNA is then translated ino proteins that must carry out particular functions such as wound healing which is at the end of a complicated...

Headache decreases appetite

...is usually happens either before nausea or even in its absence. Then the researchers gave pain stimuli to rats and discovered that they activated not just brain cells that transmit pain signals, but also those involved in appetite suppression. Headache stimuli lead to an acute fall in food intake durin...

Bayer Voluntarily Withdraws BAYCOL - A Drug Associated With 50 Deaths

...y. Bayer Pharmaceuticals has voluntarily recalled its cholesterol drug Baycol( cerivastatin ) because // it has been linked to approximately 50 deaths. Baycol can cause a muscular side effect called rhabdomyolysis – destroyed muscles cells are released into the bloodstream and cause severe muscle pain, ...

Reversing heart failure

...to support the failing heart - taking over some of its workload. It's used a bridge to transplant - buying patients some time while they wait for that scarce donor organ. Researchers at Dallas, USA, have now shown that the LVAD does more than just keep the patient going - it actually improves the conditi...

Iron supplements proves helpful in dry cough .

...ailure.But however this drug produces dry cough as its most frequent side effect.// In most cases, patie...The subjects scored their symptoms on the basis of its severity which ranged from no cough (0) to severe cough that persisted and interfered with daily act...

Prevention of cataracts

... A cataract is a condition in which the lens loses its clearness and often occurs late in life. Researchers found the prevalence of cataracts was significantly lower in the group who ate the most amount of nutrients than the group who ate the lowest amount. The nutrients studied included vitamin C, vita...

Relieve hot flashes

...ot flashes in most women, but concerns remain over its use in breast cancer survivors because the hormone may stimulate breast cancer growth.// The herb black cohosh seems to alleviate hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, and is approved for this purpose in Germany. Vitamin E, at a dose of 800...

Early puberty linked to nutrition

...at is a source of extra feminine hormones, because its secretion doesn’t only depend of the activity of the ovaries. In the adipose tissue a complex biochemical mechanism takes place through which the androgens become in estrone and estradiol. This way obesity and estrogens constitute an explosive coup...

Dentist's note for vegetarians

...un exposure, but a diet lacking in calcium hampers its production. Dr Leibsohn recommended consuming fish, dairy products and green leafy vegetables, or taking cod liver oil, yeast tablets or multi-vitamins daily to prevent problems. "The potential for deficiencies is greatest among children and teenag...

Stay young the Chinese way

...tion is a chemical reaction in which an atom loses its electron, and this change, if it happens in the human body, results in aging of human cells and tissue. The world medical community found in the 1990s that a kind of oxygenic molecule, scientifically called free radicals left by metabolic performance...

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