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Light can help fight gum bacteria

...nd light (380 to 520nm). The light had selectively killed oral black-pigmented bacteria in the gum cultures ... obtained from patients. Medium strength light had killed bacteria like Prevotella intermedia and P. nigrescens, while stronger lights have been 99% successfu...

Reducing genetic expressions may help breast cancer patients

...n afterwards, the number of cancer cells that were killed by radiation increased to about 10%, in comparison with the cancer cells whose level of BRCC36 were not reduced. The researchers feel that this may be only a step to improve treatment for breast cancer. There is a need of having more research to fin...

It is safe to take influenza vaccine during pregnancy

... the flu shot is an inactivated vaccine containing killed virus that is injected into the body. This may be given to anybody older than 6 months, including people with chronic problems as well as healthy people. When 7183 pregnant women in a Houston clinic were studied only 252 were found to have taken th...

New clues about immune system from leprosy microbes

...rosy bacteria, the first bacteria was attacked and killed by both the sets of immune cells that formed as soon as the bacteria was detected by the immune cells. For the stronger form of leprosy bacteria, monocytes had not been able to produce key anti-bacterial fighters or the antigen-presenting dendritic c...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

...nt on a bacteria to survive and if the bacteria is killed the worm also will die. "This is why wuchereria is...s therefore quite possible that all the worms were killed and the remaining 20% are the result of re-infection, which would no longer occur if infection was e...

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

...iller in the last two years in July 2003; SARS had killed // 774 people worldwide and infected a further 8,000. A collaborative group of researchers from China, Germany, Denmark and Poland have spent the past year screening more than 8,000 existing drugs to find those that could combat SARS and now have id...

A New Product Offering protection against anthrax

...livestock carcasses and those that could be easily killed by just rubbing alcohol. Although Hegger has admitted that he exaggerated his claims and says he failed in adhering to the facts, Allan Lord refuses to comment on the newspapers findings, referring questions to the products' developer, who said he ...

Three Tropical Parasites Genetic Code Unravelled

...ulette because you don’t know who will be saved or killed by the treatment available” He further added that since the sequencing program is completed the hunt will now be on to concentrate on finding the ‘magic bullet’ medicines that will help eradicate these diseases. “Among these 6,200 genes that need ...

Influenza Avian Flu strain has become more contagious and dangerous.

...t infecting them, and this new evolving strain has killed a large number of birds. Since 2002, this flu virus strain has continuously reverted his characters to form less dangerous to the ducks but is still able to cause illness and death in chickens and humans. A new pandemic kind of threat as occurred due...

Pig Bacterium (Streptococcus suis) Kills 24 In China

...eported. The death doll from this rare disease has killed 24 people in southwest china with more than 117 people feared infected. Chinese health officials report that the disease is caused by known bacteria from pigs, though the size and virulence of the outbreak has baffled the World Health Organization....

Scientists use plant hormones to fight cancer

...the treatment, which has been patented by the CRC, killed 99% of the cancerous cells and with different types of cancers. Scientists said tests would now have to be done on animals and humans....

New Anthrax Vaccines Will Take time

...attack,'' Lucey said. Last fall's anthrax outbreak killed five people on the East Coast. The Washington Hospital Center tested more than 400 people after anthrax was discovered in the Washington area, but no positive cases were discovered. The anthrax vaccine requires a series of six shots over 18 months a...

A vaccine for lymphoma

... 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. Though clearly labelled, they have developed ways of switching off the immune system to their presence, thwartin...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...dwide before subsiding last June. In that time, it killed nearly 800 people. Civet cats, mongoose-like animals that are sold in live food markets in southern China, are the top suspect for first spreading the disease to people. Thousands have been slaughtered as a preventive measure.But scientists don't kno...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...dwide before subsiding last June. In that time, it killed nearly 800 people. Civet cats, mongoose-like animals that are sold in live food markets in southern China, are the top suspect for first spreading the disease to people. Thousands have been slaughtered as a preventive measure.But scientists don't kno...

Experts Recommend Preventive Measures For Avian Flu To Begin From Farms

...determine if the virus is the H5N1 strain that has killed over 50 people in Southeast Asia and more than 5000 wild birds in western China. Previously, outbreaks in wild birds have either been in close proximity to infected domestic poultry and waterfowl, or in regions where contact with domestic poultry c...

Policemen face trouble fighting malaria

Malaria has killed one policeman and affected at least 20 deployed to...e villages of Sambalpur district where Maoists had killed five people last month. "There is no basic healthcare in the villages where we are posted. We are n...

Super Bugs Contaminate UK Chickens

...of antibiotics in humans. Bacteria in chicken is killed if the meat is cooked properly and hygienically but one in three people in the UK get food poisoning each year - and the most common cause of food poisoning is the bug Campylobacter. Dr Caroline Willis, who led the team testing the chickens, said: ...

Bird Flu Strains Detected In Wild Birds Of Mongolia

...ine whether this virus is the H5N1 strain that has killed over 50 people in Southeast Asia and more than 5,000 wild birds in western China. As of today, preliminary tests from one dead whooper swan collected in Mongolia have shown the presence of the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza using RT-PCR, while result...

Calcitriol [Vitamin D] with combination of painkillers for cancer treatment

...illers like ibuprofen and naproxen with calcitriol killed 70 percent of the prostate cancer cells. ...

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