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Contemporary Therapeutic Guidelines For HIV Patients

In its quest to vanquish the big time killer AIDS/ HIV infection worldwide Center for AIDS Research at Case Medical Center spearheaded// by Dr Benigno Rodriguez M.D and his extensive team of experts on AIDS/HIV in the U. S. have presented their latest findings in the current issue of Journal Of...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

.... Black fever is also the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria. The sand flies multiply in cow-dung that villagers use as fuel or to plaster their shanties with. The flies survive on the sap in banana groves, bamboo stands and decomposed cow-dung and thrive in thatches used to make t...

This World Heart Day, Be Proactive, Get the Facts

...103,913 "Coronary heart disease is the number one killer disease in India and the best way to manage it, is to treat it early through timely detection. With the Volume CT system installed at our hospital, our doctors can help patients stop a heart attack even before it happens," said Mrs Mallika Mohan Das,...

India’s Silent Killer on the Prow

...ps must be adopted promptly to rein in this silent killer else the long-term costs to the country may prove to be devastating. <BR...

Cancer-Killing Viruses Employ Multiple Mechanisms

...ically communication between dendritic and natural killer cells (part of innate immunity) and certain types ...ng to the adaptive immune response, namely natural killer cells and T cells, to attack the tumor even after the virus no longer remains in the body. Experim...

Plateau Reached in the Battle against Breast Cancer

...mmon cancer in women and the second-leading cancer killer after lung cancer. Edwards said, "The fact that it's the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women means small changes in statistics have a substantial impact on a large number of women. Even a small decrease or change would represent a fair number ...

Cancer Drug Helps An Anti-Cancer Virus To Act More Exhaustively

... slows the activity of immune cells called natural killer (NK) cells and macrophages, which are the body's first line of defence against infections. The virus and drug cannot be used yet in humans because they require further study, as well as testing for safety and effectiveness through the clinical tria...

Pest Control research Leads to Pain Control Discovery

...ammatory drug (NSAID), voluntarily pulled the pain killer from the market in September 2004 due to safety concerns. A 12-month study, published in 2000, showed a four-fold increased risk of heart attacks. Merck hopes to replace it with another medication, Acoxia. However, the class of drugs benefits milli...

Protective Intestinal Antibiotic Protein Discovered

...s quickly destroy their bacterial targets. They're killer proteins with a sweet tooth." The protein, called RegIII gamma in mice and HIP/PAP in humans, belongs to a protein class called lectins, which bind to sugar molecules. These particular lectins' seek-and-destroy mission may help to create an "elect...

MP Forms Youth Network to Spread Awareness on AIDS

... "These clubs will go a long way in preventing the killer disease from assuming epidemic proportions since information is the key to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS," said Anil Gulati, UNICEF communication officer for the state. "We need to involve young people who can act as agents of change and help sprea...

How HIV "Exhausts" Killer T Cells

...he human immunodeficiency virus// (HIV) “exhausts” killer T cells that would otherwise attack the virus. The...scientists showed that they could reinvigorate the killer T cells by blocking that inhibitory switch, which is called programmed death-1 (PD-1). The study’s...

Biobank gets a go-ahead for the world’s biggest medical research

...00 Britons to unravel the genetic basis of several killer diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes,// dementia and joint problems. This project was approved on Tuesday. Since a local three-month pilot phase, involving 3,800 participants around Manchester succeeded, it means that the UK Biobank p...

Researchers claim That Regular Use Of Hib Vaccine In Africa Could Eliminate H. Influenza totally.

Researchers have explained that the killer disease of H.Influenza could be virtually abolished in Africa by routinely vaccinating the infants Hib vaccine. // Scientists from the Oxford University have shown in their research that the routine vaccination of infants in Kenya against H. influe...

Activated T-Cells Could Help In The Battle Against HIV

... in such a way that they will get the attention of killer T cells. Results of these studies will be incorpor...this year. “The goal of the approach is to teach killer T cells to more efficiently find, detect and destroy HIV infected cells. Our vaccine, as an immunoth...

Horse Sense: The Dublin Horse Show Shall Go On

Equine Infectious Anaemia, a killer horse disease, is not about to deter the organizers of the Dublin Horse Show, who have made no bones that the show will go on// , despite the outbreak of the horse disease in the Republic. Nine horses have been fatally hit by EIA, also called swam...

Device Can "Battle" Hospital Infections

...l says going to the hospital is the fourth biggest killer in this country," Garvey noted, because of the high incidence of hospital-acquired infections, a problem that he said is contributing rapidly to spiraling health-care costs. In addition, the device could be made compact enough to turn an ordinary h...

Malarial Deaths on Rise in Assam

Malaria continues to be a killer in Assam with 275 deaths reported so far this year - a new record in recent years, parliament was told Friday.// Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that Assam is endemic for m...

CD86 Found On B Cells Boosts Immune Response

...e against bacteria that cause pneumonia, a leading killer of people with weakened immunity such as cancer and HIV/AIDS, and of controlling autoimmune diseases. ‘Our findings describe a previously unknown signaling pathway in B cells that helps regulate antibody production,’ says principal investigator Vir...

The Lurking Tsunami: Are We Ready?

...ateful morning of the 26th of December 2004, giant killer waves struck the Indian coastline, wrecking havoc that was unprecedented in both its severity and impact. These waves, otherwise known as the Tsunami, was the most devastating that history has witnessed, and left behind an agonizing trail of death an...

Monsoon Related Diseases On The Rise In Mumbai

...i, had explained that Malaria has been the biggest killer of all. It was also reported that the additional municipal commissioner and a dean of a medical college have both contracted the illness, having since recovered. The health officials have said that the recent heavy rainfall in areas like Parel, Andhe...

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