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Gene Therapy Helps To Cure 'Incurable' Illness

... chromosome. In this condition their bodies cannot kill invading bacteria and fungi and they often have internal infections. Currently the disease is treated using bone-marrow transplants. The new technique involved the scientists to take blood stem cells from the men and introduced a healthy gene to the ...

Advance Funeral For AIDS-infected South African

...ovince in 2004, told the newspaper he had tried to kill himself several times after he was diagnosed with the disease. More than five million South Africans are infected with HIV/AIDS. Few people disclose their status. (Source:IANS)...

Spices Could Be Employed To Treat Certain Cancers

...res. It was astonishing to know that ginger can kill ovarian cancer cells. But the study was done using cells in a lab dish, which is a long way from finding that it works in actual cancer patients, but it is the first step to testing the idea. Ginger killed the ovarian cancer cells in two different wa...

Donor Nations Urged To Pledge More To Combat Bird Flu

...an to human and spark a global pandemic that could kill millions. Nabarro, who is on a five-nation trip through Asia to assess bird-flu preparedness, warned in against prolonged debates on whether more money should be pledged so soon after the Beijing conference. "The potential cost of a global influe...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...n India too. Indian cotton farmers turn to Cola to kill pests. They were flocking to buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy drinks kills pests. Farmers say scientists advised them to mix pesticides with a sugary syrup to control pests, and they found the mixture cheaper and more ef...

Yellow Oleander Plants Fuels Suicide Rates In Sri Lanka

...gle large seed and one of these seeds is enough to kill you, the online edition of BBC News reported. Although the plant grows in large parts of the tropics, it's only in Sri Lanka that it has become associated with suicide - and only fairly recently, with an incident 25 years ago. Two girls in the n...

Malaria Claims 35 Lives In Assam

... of disinfectants and fumigation are being done to kill mosquitoes across the state," the minister said. Government authorities are worried the disease might spread among hundreds of Indian troops deployed along the India-Bhutan border for counter-insurgency operations. "We are providing soldiers with...

Cervical Procedures Increase Risk Of Pregnancy Complications

...e technique, referred to as ablation uses laser to kill the cells. Yet another technique called as Cold knife conisation involves removal of a cone-shaped wedge of tissue around the abnormal cells, using a scalpel (blade). This can also be done using laser and is referred to as Laser conisation. Large l...

New Research Offers Hope In Kidney FailureTreatment

...lf-destruction. 'We want to see how the drug can kill kidney cells and if we can find a protective mechanism to prevent kidney cell death without stopping cancer cell death,' says Dr. Dong, one of the senoir researchers involved in the study....

Chicken Farmers In Northern Nigeria Face Huge Losses

...feathers, bones and even cages, though cooking can kill it. According to the Tribune, many experts are convinced that the illegal import of infected chicks introduced the virus into Nigeria, Which might have set off Africa's first and largest epidemic, which is limited to poultry farms and has not affecte...

Ginger Offers Hope In Ovarian Cancer Fight

... University of Michigan has showed that ginger can kill cancer cells//, the results of which were presented at the American Association of Cancer Research. Additionally, it was also found to prevent the development of drug resistance, a phenomenon that makes cancers difficult to treat. This study highli...

Lactic acid a potent energy giver if used properly!

...ng regimens and also avoid overtraining, which can kill muscle cells," Brooks said. "Athletes may instinctively train in a way that builds up mitochondria, but if you never know the mechanism, you never know whether what you do is the right thing. These discoveries reshape fundamental thinking on the orga...

Killer protein for anthrax bacteria discovered

...logical agents being the scariest, easy to spread, kill effectively and call for special actions by the pu...ins we, or anyone, has ever identified — they only kill anthrax and its very close relatives. This feature, and the wide pH range offered by PlyPH, is why w...

Epidemic Of Cholera Continues To Sweep Over Angola

...ct with an infected person. Left untreated, it can kill up to 50 percent of those it infects. The water-born epidemic infects people with symptoms like vomiting and diarrhoea that combine to cause dehydration. ...

Cure For Pompe Disease

...ed enzyme deficiency that destroys muscles and can kill infants at a very young age. Myozyme is a drug developed by Genzyme// to treat this disease. Genzyme, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass said that it has spent more than $500 million since 1998 to develop Myozyme. It has also received ince...

Certain antidepressant drugs associated with pronounced suicidal tendencies

...o be connected to the use of aggressive methods to kill oneself, that did not exclude the use of firearms, jumping from heights and hanging....

Soldier of Revenge

...to be a teacher. I want to be a soldier. I want to kill those terrorists." Jagdish Kumar Bhagat, the vil...e-month-old son Sumit, keeps asking: "Why did they kill them? Now I can never meet my sister and father." Sumna took three bullets in her legs - two in up...

US Not Ready To Face The Bird Flu Outbreak

...an flu pandemic, amid fears that an outbreak could kill as many as two million Americans and cause economic havoc. The US and the European Union will jointly host talks in Vienna on June 6-7 to review strategies to combat the bird flu crisis, including vaccine development. Vaccine production was a to...

Tumor Resistant Mice Point To Novel Cancer Treatments

...ncer treatment. ‘The idea of cells being able to kill tumor cells ... is very exciting. But this is a mouse, and there is no guarantee that the same gene will exist in people,’ said biologist Howard Young of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research. ’This is a truly remarkable phenom...

Beer to Ward off Osteoporosis

...ther liquor. However overconsumption of beer can kill brain cells causing causing memory deficits, and an oft seen symptom of impairment of verbal and motor skills. Therefore Prof Powell says: ‘Moderation, of course, is the key, and we know that drinking too much beer can have real adverse effecs.’...

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