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From Computers to Vaccines

...icrobicide (use of beneficial/harmless microbes to kill the other harmful microbes) against HIV/AIDS....

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

... more the poison pumped into the veins of women to kill it. But this approach has undergone a sea change in 2004. According to guidelines recently adopted in Europe unveiled this weekend at a conference in Texas, very few women with breast cancer get chemotherapy in future. The new approach calls for cho...

Indonesia Has Ninth Bird-Flu Death as Risk Mounts

... pandemic that the Geneva- based WHO estimates may kill as many as 7.4 million people. There have been at least 137 human cases from the H5N1 strain, WHO said on Dec. 9. Thailand has announced three bird-flu cases this month, adding to the two new infections that Indonesia and China have both confirmed ...

Penicillin To Pave Way For New Antibiotics

...and likelihood that a less powerful medication can kill the bug just as well as a more powerful drug. In the case of throat infections, doctors try to preserve their strongest antibiotics for the most severe cases. But most doctors would view a drug that fails in one out of four patients, as penicillin do...

Artemisinin May Prevent Breast Cancer

...to allow the artemisinin to selectively target and kill the cancer cells for when it comes into contact with iron, a chemical reaction ensues that spawns free radicals – highly reactive chemicals that, when formed inside a cell, attack the cell membrane and other structures, killing the cell. As a part...

Detection of Weak strains of bird flu virus – Target of European Unio

...etection and spread easily as it is less likely to kill the host (poultry). Although such strains do not pose a direct health risk to humans, it can mutate suddenly into a highly pathogenic form in no time. The agreement by the members of the European Union could eventually pave way for massive vaccina...

PA-824 drug effective against Tuberculosis

...doses of anti-tuberculosis regimen and is found to kill both the actively dividing and slow dividing Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, where by it controls both the active and latent form of the disease. The researchers have also found the proteins responsible for the emergence of resistant forms of My...

USA’s Plan to Tackle the Bird Flu Pandemi

...d of the disease. This disease has the ability to kill more than half of the people infected with the disease and result in a pandemic. Throughout history we have seen flu pandemics but each of them were due to a different strain and were worse from the previous one. There ware recently two pandemics i...

Immune Response Of Human Beings Can Be Re-energized

...elpless" CD8 T cells -- restoring their ability to kill infected cells and release infection-fighting substances called cytokines, substantially reducing the animals' "viral load." Edited (ANI)...

Toni Braxton Can’t Have More Kids Due to Pericarditi

...atal heart condition. She fears the condition will kill her if she plans to have another baby. The 37-year-old mother of two said she always wanted two have a big family, but health issue forced her to give up the idea. "I want to try for another, for a girl, but I'm afraid 'cause, you know, I have th...

Experts urging artery screening in the UK

... in the main blood vessel from the heart which can kill if it bursts, accounts for 1.36% of deaths in men over 65 in the UK. The National Screening Committee (NSC) has backed routine screening for men in that age group, Pulse magazine says. An aortic aneurysm is a swelling caused by damage or weakness i...

Life of wolves in danger due to dog disease

...ase can cause extreme diarrhea and dehydration and kill more vulnerable animals, like young pups. "It requires two vaccinations to build up an immunity, and we'd have to catch every wolf," he said. If parvo virus is confirmed, there is little officials can do besides monitor the population and hope ex...

Guidelines to tackle bird flu pandemic

...ion among men. This would result in a pandemic and kill millions of people. If this happened in US then he results would be very devastating as it would cause 2 million deaths, closure of schools for months together and disrupt industry and commerce. The only alternative to prevent a pandemic would be t...

New warning signs for child meningitis

... C, but other strains, most commonly meningitis B, kill children and adults indiscriminately. How Meningitis strikes‘Classic’ symptoms: ·Red rash ·Headache ·Stiff neck ·Sensitivity to light ·Impaired consciousness ‘New’ symptoms: ·Severe leg pain which prevents the child standing or walking ·Cold hands...

Old flu drugs not effective against seasonal influenza

...imantidine which were used to control symptoms and kill influenza was not found to be effective against present flu virus strains and they don’t have any effect against them but only lead to side effects of the drug. The researchers also said that the new antiflu drugs which were said to be useful agai...

Medicare Drug Plan Is Not Working in The US

...ds and unless the government acts, it could really kill someone, says Foughnor. 'Somebody's going to end up dying.' Robert Hayes, president of the Medicare Right Center advocacy group said that this new plan was a "train wreck waiting to happen.'...

Better Survival for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Radiation Therapy

... Radiation therapy is given to cancer patients to kill the cancer cells by daily irradiation given daily ...er guided programs mostly at a range of 2.25 Gy to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy has been the only source of effective treatment for NSCLC, which i...

Hybrid antibodies to protect from small pox infection

...e use of small pox virus as a bioterrorism tool to kill people. Small pox referral strains are only available in two places in the world one at CDC, Atlanta and the other at Russian Laboratory. Anti-vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) is the vaccine used worldwide against small pox virus which is prepared f...

Helicobacter pylori effectively killed by Sodium nitrite

...e which is used as a food preservative is found to kill Helicobacter pylori; the bacterium which is responsible for causing stomach ulcers//, these bacteria is predominant in cystic fibrosis patients and is also responsible for disease severity. The study was conducted by the researchers from University o...

Sodium Nitrate Destroys The Bacteria That Plugs The Air Passage In CF Patients

...products. A study shows that it has the ability to kill the bacteria that causes thickening of the mucus in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. // The experiment is carried out in laboratory animal models. Daniel Hassett, Ph.D., an associate professor of genetics at the University of Cincinnati sai...

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