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Aggressive Tobacco taxation policy can reduce cigarette smoking

...urers are continuously promoting smoking that will kill 50% of those who acquire the habit....

Body compounds can protect you against pain

...compounds like marijuana that can help the body to kill its own pain in case of pain from severe trauma // like accidents. Scientists have always known that sudden shock, like wounds from gun shot, or accidents causing severe damage to body, delays the body’s pain due to the trauma. This is known as str...

15 Anti-SARS Drugs Identified By China-Europe Team of Researchers

...ified 15 existing drugs that have the potential to kill the virus that causes SARS. This three-year research collaboration is funded by the European Commission and was launched in 2004 to identify 50 compounds that have the potential to treat SARS. A paper published last month by the group in the Journal...

Abnormal heart rate and depression may increase death risk

...bnormal heart beats in a depressed person that can kill him. Depression had long been taken as a factor for increased risk of death from heart disease. Now the team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has established that abnormal heart rate variability is the prime ...

New findings come to light about monkeypox

...S in 2003 in an outbreak// of the disease, did not kill anybody, although it is considered to be fatal disease. A new research unveils that these cases were amongst the few strains of the virus that are not fatal. Monkeypox is a very rare viral disease said to originate from African continent. It had bee...

Influenza Avian Flu strain has become more contagious and dangerous.

...n to person causing a pandemic disease, which will kill millions of people across the world. Medindia on Avian flu – Further Information: Avian Influenza: Avian influenza (AI) or Bird Flu is a disease of viral etiology that ranges from a mild or even asymptomatic infection to an acute, fatal dise...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

...oison which is obtained from the coral is found to kill the cancer cells. Eleutherobin, which is produced from corals, to stop the fish from feeding on the corals, these toxins paralyze and kills the fish which come for feeding on the corals. The toxins were found to be 100 times stronger than taxol (dru...

Estimates For Number Of HIV/AIDS Deaths In India Still Not Available

...roups in India that argue that even road accidents kill many more people than AIDS and much more attention is being paid to the disease because it has some high profile advocates. However, experts like Piot counter the argument by saying the real impact of the problem in terms of mortality rate would be...

Metabolism cycle of Kala-Azar parasite revealed

... So, it is possible to develop new drugs that will kill the parasites by selectively disrupting the mannos...can be fatal if left untreated. It is very hard to kill these parasites, as these parasites are so similar to ours that the drugs we use kill our cells too....

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

... delivery mechanism in cancers. The drugs that can kill cancer cells are available however they cannot be given in a high dose due to their side effects. However the double-acting, drug-packing "nanocell" can prove to be effective and safe and prolong survival of cancers. This study reported in the Ju...

E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana

...e smoking pot and cigar of the 70s. If you want to kill your brain //cells in true 21st-century style, just stay on your cell phone and check your e-mail multiple times over the course of an afternoon. A study commissioned by Hewlett-Packard shows that today's dependency on daily technology, including e-...

Sleep Apnea Related To Death And Loss Of Brain Cells

...ad given rats a cell specific compound targeted to kill half or more of the preB?tC neurons. The results showed that rats stopped breathing when they where in their first stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements. The rats were then forced to get up and this continued and increased in severity. ...

Antibiotic from crab blood indentified

...ria. Infact they have cloned this protein that can kill the bacteria. They have found that this prote...ding relationship in doing so they make a hole and kill the bacteria in a very short time.// Professor Ho Bow of the National University of Singapore h...

Scientists use plant hormones to fight cancer

... scientific charity, are using fragments to IAA to kill cancer cells. Indole acetic acid is harmless to humans but when bits of IAA are added with an enzyme, toxic by products, which destroyed cancer cells without harming, healthy cells were produced. By targeting only the cancerous cells, syn...

Fight oral cancer with gene therapy mouthwash

...e crippled virus will enter precancerous cells and kill them. So far this breakthrough treatment has effectively made the patches disappear completely in 10 patients. They have partially cleared up in others. The doctors hope to test the approach in 20 patients. If that goes will, the next step wi...

Prostratin- Drug to eradicate HIV

...order for the immune system and the HAART drugs to kill it, will be the most challenging part of developing prostratin for clinical use. It's too soon to say that prostratin, for all its promising performance, will eradicate HIV-disease. When protease inhibitors were given to patients, researchers claime...

New Anthrax Vaccines Will Take time

...dn't replace antibiotic treatment. But antibiotics kill only anthrax bacteria, not the cell-killing toxin those bacteria produce in people's blood. The hope is that immune globulin would neutralize the toxin....

A vaccine for lymphoma

...which produces huge numbers of cells to attack and kill the invaders. Head of the research team Professor Freda Stevenson said: "In theory tumour cells should be killed by the immune system because it is programmed to destroy anything which is not a normal, healthy cell. "However tumour cells are cunning....

Molecule aids fight E. Coli Infections

...s the cells to release toxic molecules that try to kill the bacteria but can kill the person as well," Ezekowitz told UPI. "This work provides a method for using a simplified system ...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...ating side effects of taking drugs that chemically kill cancer cells and damage other cells in the body. The study also found that for post-menopausal women whose breast cancer was not affected by estrogen, chemotherapy followed by tamoxifen offered the best hope of disease-free survival. Tamoxifen works...

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