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African Americans Tend to Suffer More from Drug Abuse

...per cent of them) are Black or Latino. New York itself is home to two prisons housing female inmates, Taconic and Bedford. Forty-eight percent of the women in Taconic are there for non-violent drug offenses. And 78 of the inmates are African American or Latino. And in Bedford those booked under non-vio...

Chicken Pox Rears Its Head in Tamil Nadu, Yet Again

...l is increasing. In the state capital of Chennai itself over 50 patients are undergoing treatment in the government-run Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH). Normally April would see the highest number but this season-related viral infection would be on the decline from May. The disease generally lasts...

Ladakh was a Coastal Region Millions of Years Ago

...in forests in the Amazon and Indonesia. This in itself is surprising, for tropics are not known to have much of a variation in weather patterns. GPL...

Indian Pharma Authorized to Market New Anti-TB Drugs

... fight against TB. The latest reports by the WHO itself have indicated that the drug-resistant strains are proving a great challenge to health administrators worldwide. XDR-TB is a "super bug" which resists three or more classes of second-line tuberculosis drugs. It has been identified in 28 countries ...

Study Attributes Elevated Liver Enzymes in HIV/hepatitis to Coinfection Rather Than Antiretrovirals

...r Antiretrovirals) study indicate that coinfection itself may be the major risk factor for LEE. The study investigated whether coinfected individuals on antiretroviral therapy had a higher risk of LEE than coinfected patients who were not on therapy. Results indicate this may not be the case. ICoNA is ...

Small Implant To Check On Cancer

...ibodies, immune system components which can attach itself to specific molecules inside cancer cells. These particles cluster together whenever the target molecules are present which can be spotted while MRI scanning. The tiny silicon container that houses the nanoparticles are important as it permits the ...

Tai Chi Augments Immune Response Against Shingles

...The virus remains latent in the body and manifests itself in a situation when immunity is low. The rashes can last for three to five weeks. Almost one third of adults above sixty years are vulnerable to shingles attack. For this research Irwin and his colleagues studied 112 senior citizens who had atte...

Nature Behind Most New Drugs

...ia, China and Germany on plant-based drugs, the US itself remains underdeveloped on that score. The National Cancer Institute itself has tested 35,000 species of higher plants for anticancer activity. While many of these have shown a...

NRI Doctors Relocate to India

...s one will handle in India would be a challenge by itself and hence exciting, he feels. Max Healthcare, New Delhi, is another leading institution and it claims to offer an integrated healthcare system. It says it too receives a lot of inquiries from foreign doctors who are keen to come to India. Dr Shab...

Researchers Discover Proteins That Protect Against Skin Cancer

...tional time to repair its DNA and potentially save itself from becoming cancerous or from dying in response to ultraviolet radiation. 'What we discovered here was that the cell can send out an additional SOS and slow DNA replication even after it has begun,' said Dr. William Kaufmann, a professor of patho...

Winter Warmth Breaks All Records

...link the developments to global warming, the study itself had been taken up as part of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A draft document of this committee made available to the media last month had warned that harmful effects of global warming on daily life were already s...

World Kidney Day – Caring for the Kidney

...n of protein in the urine. Kidney damage manifests itself in the form of high BP, anemia, heart disease and swelling of the body and in advanced cases as difficulty in breathing. Simple laboratory techniques, consisting of simple urine and blood tests help in the detection of this complex disease. If ...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

...rt the finer aspects of how the fruit fly protects itself against S. pneumoniae. Schneider and Pham said they hope their work encourages the search for a similar adaptive response in the innate immune systems of humans or other vertebrates. "One of the things that I thought was really cool about this work...

Mothers of Rebellious Teens- Blame It on THP

...t the mechanism normally used by the brain to calm itself down in stressful situations appears to work in the opposite way in teenagers, making them actually more anxious. When the brain senses a stressful situation, it reacts by switching on receptors, using a range of chemicals, including THP. In an adu...

No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

...been filed on this work. "In this case, the drug itself acts as its own carrier," said Haridas Pudavar, Ph.D., UB research assistant professor of chemistry and a co-author. The nanocrystals present a major advantage over methods of delivery involving other carriers, according to Paras Prasad, Ph.D., SUN...

Nearly 2,500 Mentally Ill Women in Delhi are Destitute: Abdul Kalam

...ho have no home. "While mental illness for women itself is severe enough not only for themselves but also for their families, it becomes critical if they are disowned by their families," Kalam said here at the beginning of a two-day conference "Mental health - is destitution the answer". "A study conduc...

Genetic Tests to Reveal ‘substance Abuse’ Tendencis

...ng a particular gene expression change does not by itself predict that a person will act a certain way. Howe...actors may be at play. Genetic variation in and of itself is not deterministic," he added. In a related study also published online March 6, Philibert and c...

Protein Blockade For HIV Infection

...this study, the HIV uses langerhans cells to carry itself to the T cells which are present in the lymph. It has always been believed that HIV infects langerhans cells. But the presence of the protein langerin is found to have a blockading effect on HIV. According to Geijtenbeek, langerhans cells act more...

Falls and Hip Fractures Are Not Inevitable

...use of prescription medications. However, aging by itself may not be the sole factor. Increased falling and hip fractures may be a product of our industrial computerized age. An underlying concept that contributes to imbalance and falling is learned disuse. The popular phrase “use it or lose it” applies. ...

Bird Flu Reappears in Vietnam

...son to person. But some fear the virus could adapt itself to humans, and it has an unusually high fatality rate, killing half of those infected. Vietnam once had the highest number of human bird flu fatalities at 42 people dead since 2003. However, no human cases have been confirmed since October 2005. ...

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