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Researchers Find New Target for Anti-cancer Drugs

...ce it has been so difficult to target the ras gene itself with drugs, we tried to determine if something that ras activates could be a possible target for a drug or therapy, said Christopher Counter, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology and cancer biology and senior member of the research team. We f...

Now You can Marry in a Mughal Ambience, If You Wish to

...Sheesh Mahal, Rang Mahal and Jal Mahal. The garden itself is surrounded by a fort-like high wall. The present-day garden has a mango grove, a mini-zoo, shops and restaurants for hundreds of tourists and visitors that come every day....

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

...th for all' is to be attained by 2012. The FICCI itself has put forward five models of public-private partnership (PPP), which are PPP options for primary and secondary healthcare, a network of diagnostic centers, capital expenditure sharing, equity sharing and premises on lease model. The chamber stresse...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

Afghanistan has set itself a target to eradicate the deadly poliomyelitis virus within two years with the support of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Afghan Health Minister Muhammed Amin Fatimi said here Friday. About 7.4 million children in Afghan...

Boffin Identifies Gene Causing Otosclerosis

...lved is a growth factor, and the disease manifests itself by the abnormal growth of bone in the middle ear, it may have a large potential for therapy", she added. Thys and her team decided to study a gene called TGBF1 which they already knew had non-genetic indications of involvement in otosclerosis: it pla...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

... consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being; and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest, utterly beyond words." The connection between seizures and the genius t...

Major Surgeries and Operations Could Prove Deadly for Anaemic Older Men

...ay be caused by an additional condition, which may itself add to mortality in the days after surgery. Kay-Tee Khaw, Professor of Clinical Gerontology at Cambridge University, welcomed the findings, but said that as a result, treating the blood count "may not necessarily improve surgical outcomes". "The au...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...your room has air conditioning, place the computer itself as close to an air conditioning vent as possible -...articularly hot spells. If you need to keep the PC itself running, look for other heat-generating electronic components that can be powered down while the com...

Abbot Sues French AIDS Group

... doesn't break the law." Act Up-Paris will defend itself against the lawsuit and plans to use media coverage of the lawsuit to draw attention to Abbott's actions in Thailand. "We're going to use the forum [Abbott is] offering us to talk about Thailand again and the horrible consequences their decision has ...

Notice Sent to Courts Asking Them to Stop Courting Mosquitoes

...ospital earlier this month. This disease manifests itself with a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, muscle and joint pains and rashes on the lower part of the chest. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials said that due to rain, dengue has raised its head in mid-June as against its usual ...

Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars

...uicker. "It isn't surprising that this manifests itself in larger numbers of young children with mental health problems, including eating disorders." It has also been seen that anorexia, an eating disorder which is usually seen among the girls is fast gaining grounds among the boys too. Hospital figur...

Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment

...ide. The drug blocks viral replication by plugging itself into a polymerase enzyme in the hepatitis B virus that helps produce new viral DNA. However, the hepatitis B polymerase closely resembles the reverse transcriptase enzyme that HIV uses to copy its genome inside an infected cell. Thus, there was a p...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

...nly promotes breast cancer progression but that by itself PTN secretion from human breast cancer cells may be sufficient to shift that progression to a more aggressive form of breast cancer," he said. As a part of the study, three animal models were tested to determine if inappropriate expression of PTN al...

Japanese Humanoid Happy to Work on in the Rain

...d while leaning forward on its left arm, balancing itself just like a human would. The robot weighs 68 kilograms (149 pounds) including the battery. "Our country is rapidly ageing and it is an urgent task to develop robots that can perform tasks only done by humans now," the statement said. "If a humanoi...

Cigarette Smoking Delays Ligament Healing

...oke. We think exposing the mice to cigarette smoke itself is most relevant because when people smoke, they don't get individual components. They get everything." Sandell and Wright say their findings point to yet another reason smokers would do well to quit. "Many patients don't want to hear it, but these...

'Hi, can You Hear Me? I'm at 30,000 Feet'

...associated with this then it would have manifested itself already."...

Novel Treatment Beneficial for Colon and Liver Cancer

...t gene in the diseased body can cause it to repair itself and destroy the tumor. In addition, the researcher of the University of Navarra noted that colon cancer alone causes more than 500,000 deaths per year in the West, and currently the only effective treatment is surgery. Despite this treatment, noted...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

...ng the field, says Pierce. This research in and of itself cant find a cure, but its a great start because it tells you what proteins to study....

Autism Could Be Related to Higher Level of Growth Hormones

...lunteers from girls for the project. Anyway autism itself tends to afflict boys more than girls. "The study authors have uncovered a promising new lead in the quest to understand autism," said Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Future research...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...ce, with the collapse of Iraqi society replicating itself in an increasing number of broken homes....

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