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Bird Flu Confirmed in Sixth German State

... it carried the highly pathogenic strain which can kill humans. Tough new measures come into force in infected areas in five states on Saturday, with cats having to remain indoors, dogs on a leash and access to poultry farms restricted to employees and veterinarians. The H5N1 virus was first detected ...

Australian Snake Venom Can Arrest Bleeding During Surgery And Trauma

...ult of neurotoxins which eventually immobilize and kill the victim,' said Dr St Pierre. Snakes over the years have developed the ability to produce a faster acting and stable form of Factor X in their venom. This is the only alternative source for generation of Factor X, excluding the mammalian livers. ...

Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India

...ecause doctors had started acting as criminals who kill a child for money. It has nothing to do with education levels or ignorance. The problem, as Bedi put it, was more amongst the affluent who see sons as "ladders" to garner wealth. "Since people want smaller family they prefer a male child." The ...

Infections Of The Oral Cavity Can Be Treated By Photodynamic Therapy

... by exposure to light of a specific wavelength, to kill the cancer cells in a specific way. Active research is being conducted to expand the potential of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of diseases other than cancer. Following approval of the drug Photofrin? by the FDA, patients with esophageal an...

Healthy, Bird Flu Infected Chickens In Chinese Markets

...ok healthy but they can infect others and they can kill people,' said Guan Yi, the study author. This finding highlights that the potentially dangerous infection may be prevalent among more people than previously thought. This would make the detection of asymptomatic bird flu infection, more difficult. ...

Massive Culling Of Poultry Forces Farm Owner To Commit Suicide

...villagers were not convinced. They egged him on to kill more. Later officials intervened, and finally 550 chickens had to be culled in three phases,' said Sandhya Rani, his wife. Shaktinath had borrowed approximately 70% of the amount need to buy and feed the chickens. Following the massive culling of a...

Bottleneck: High on Spirits Can Cause A Dispirited Liver, Leading To Cirrhosis!

...rinking can have a sudden effect, but you can also kill yourself in 20 years, by drinking what some people consider a reasonable amount. The evidence is that drinking fell away in the 1930s and 1940s but it's been climbing since the 1960s and there's no sign of a plateau." ...

ADB To Provide Resources For Combating Bird Flu

...man flu pandemic - which experts have warned could kill up to seven million people - would cost Asia $297 billion in one year and throw the world economy into recession. --Edited IANS...

First Bird Flu Related Human Death Confirmed In Egypt

... thus spark a global human flu pandemic that might kill millions. Edited IANS...

Campbell Decides To Boost Publicity about Prostate Cancer

...illies contained an ingredient capsaicin which can kill cancer cells. Guy's Hospital in London was opening the UK's most comprehensive prostate cancer treatment centre. Treatments available include keyhole and robotic surgery, brachytherapy and high intensity ultra-sound. A survey for Prostate Cancer ...

Novel Metal Detector To Measure Zinc Level In Humans

...heimer's disease, how prolonged seizures or stroke kill brain cells and how the cell normally allocates zinc to different proteins, the scientists said. The new research is 'a critical step forward', they say predicting many more exciting breakthroughs in measuring levels of metals in human cells. Edi...

10-Kilo Tumor Removed From Cancer Patient

...urs of that size are almost always benign, but can kill by severing circulation or increasing pressure on sensitive parts of the body. Two doctors manipulated the tumour around, while Milinovic was cutting around it. It was the largest tumour ever extracted in the Gospic hospital - the old record was fo...

Type 1 diabetes has a cure?

...e probably there to provide the protein that helps kill T-cells. Dr. Faustman said that further research has to be done on humans to understand the mechanism of type 1 diabetics and the various methods of treatments....

Two New Drugs For Breast Cancer Show Promise

...). Preliminary results suggest that the drug could kill cancer cells that are not killed by other breast cancer drugs. Dr F. Cardoso from the Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, who is involved in the drug research said, "Raloxifene and lapatinib are exciting new drugs which will be of interest in preventio...

Israel Claims Eradication Of Bird Flu In Poultry

...t that Palestinian farmers might not be willing to kill their fowl if they were not compensated, and the flu might spread as a result. The World Bank announced over the weekend that it was going to funnel $2 million to the Palestinians to pay compensation to chicken farmers. The Palestinian foreign minis...

Potential Benefits Of New Nanotechnology

... to produce a higher temperature around tumours to kill cancerous cells without affecting nearby healthy cells. Dr Ding said: “With the strong research team here at Leeds we have considerable expertise in developing nanofluids and already have a number of prototypes under investigation. We are looking t...

Bacteria From Soil To Fight Hospital Accquired Infections

...used natural bacteria living in soil to attack and kill the infections. Researchers said the discovery wou...ions. Streptomyces naturally make antibiotics to kill other bacteria in the soil. Unfortunately these don’t make very good drugs for use in humans because...

Bird Flu Expected To Hit U.S. This Summer

...n recent years of a global flu pandemic that could kill millions, if it acquires the ability to pass easily from human to human....

Primal Scream's Return

...y alive. I've got two kids now and I don't want to kill myself. I just wrote some new songs, so take from that what you will," says Gillespie. He tired to distance himself from the Scream and became a family man, but that did not really help him. With this new album, there seems to be a satisfaction of ha...

Britain Prepares For Mass Burials To Encounter Future Bird Flu Deaths

...at swept through Britain in the 17th Century could kill people quickly, justifying that mass burials simil.... The report estimates that a flu pandemic could kill as many as 320,000 people in Britain. The flu pandemic that occurred in 1918 killed 50 million peopl...

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