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Two in One Cell Offers Hope to Find a Cure for Cancer

...munology laboratory said that Interferon-producing killer dendritic cell (IKDC) which is very rare and is se...ne cells that alert the immune system is a natural killer (NK) cell. NK cells poke holes in the invader's outer membrane. Then, NK cells inform the other immu...

New Technique Could Revolutionize Melanoma Diagnosis and Treatment

...eadily over the recent years. It is the number one killer of women aged between 19 and 50 years. In the U.S., the number of new cases has risen from 6000 to 9000 in just 10 years. Two main factors regarded to play a major role in the incidence of melanoma are genetic predisposition and exposure to UV ligh...

Health insurance in the future would depend on genetic test results

Breast cancer is the second-biggest killer of women in UK. The recent reports that many women will be barred from buying life assurance if they take a genetic breast cancer test caused a lot of commotion among them. // Statistics show that about 40,000 diagnoses are done each year and 13,0...

Relieving the Pain of Infants

...ts their future pain responses.” To see which pain killer worked best reserachers tested the response of infants while giving needle pokes. They found that morphine and the skin anesthetic tetracaine worked best. “Babies respond to pain the same way that adults do and children do. Their heart rate goes up a...

Wake Up Call: U.N Takes Stock to Curb Fake Medicines Racket

...drugs. The stark reality of Fake drugs, a silent killer , has its tentacles spreading world-wide and expected to sky rocket to the tune of $75 billion by 2010, making up almost 10% of the worldwide medicine trade according to the WHO, statistics. This will be a fatal blow to the sick, unwitting targets of...

Heart Failure Rates In The US Soars

...ovascular disease is reported to be the number one killer in the US. When a person crosses the age of 50, the chances of developing cardiovascular diseases are 51.7% in the case of men, and in the case of women it is 39.2%. Diabetes is seen to be factor which is most likely to trigger the disease. Efforts t...

Helicobacter pylori effectively killed by Sodium nitrite

...nas aeruginosa into a sticky, antibiotic-resistant killer also leaves it susceptible to destruction by slightly acidified sodium nitrite, a common chemical that is widely used in the curing of lunch meat, sausages and bacon. The bacteria is present in the form of Achilles heel in a formidable mucoid form in...

A Wristwatch For Detecting Malaria

...nated from the body. Malaria is the single biggest killer on the African continent, claiming close to three million lives a year. Traditionally when signs of malaria become apparent, the parasite count is at approximately 3,000, at which stage quinine (the malaria drug) needs to be administered which is r...

Doctor Pleads Not Guilty

... to have used the insecticide Chemail Ukrain, weed killer Dinitrophenol and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The Medical Board of Georgia State has suspended the license of the doctor who calls himself an alternative healer. Dan Conaway, the lawyer of the doctor has said that the clinic of the suspended medical...

Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled

...r in Stockbridge, earlier this week, of using weed killer and insecticide to treat patients. The jury had re...misbranded drugs, including Dinithrophenol, a weed killer and other insecticides. The two men also submitted false insurance claims, which disguised the types...

Stricter Screening To Reduce Instances Of Heart Problems

...therosclerotic disease. Heart disease is the chief killer of people in Ulster and the heart disease average in the province is higher than that of the average of UK....

U.S. launching cancer gene-mapping pilot

...ld determine the difference between a fast-growing killer or a less dangerous tumor, or decide whether a particular line of treatment is likely to work. But developing cancer usually involves about a dozen critical genetic alterations -- a domino effect -- that differ by malignancy, and scientists have un...

Indonesia Has Ninth Bird-Flu Death as Risk Mounts

... Pacific, last week. Avian flu, confirmed as the killer of at least 70 people in Asia since 2004, is fueling fears of a 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 an...

The Alarming Rates Of HIV Incidence In The Rural Districts Of Orissa

...een a significant increase in the incidence of the killer disease // amongst the tribal community, living close to coastal Orissa. Several districts of Orissa including Ganjam, Kendrapara, Balasore Nuapada, Koraput, Rayagada, Phulbani and Sundargarh have very high rates of HIV incidence, which poses a cha...

Are Women Not Hearty Enough Towards Seeking Heart Care?

... fact that cardiac disease remains the single most killer of both women and men. An exhaustive survey has been conducted among 490 heart patients treated for a heart attack or severe chest pain. The women under the study had lower heart capacity for daily activities, lower health-related quality of life, ...

Fewer People Die Due To Cancer

...Deaths due to stomach cancer which was the largest killer among cancers, declined by 45% in the case of women and 39% where men are concerned. In the case of bowel cancer, the number of casualties declined by 26% in the case of women and 22% where men are concerned. The number of breast cancer cases repor...

Alcohol: Liver's worst enemy

...ganization (WHO) says that it is the third biggest killer after tobacco and hypertension that is high blood pressure. 'Alcohol is a major risk to public health. Smoking causes more deaths, but the number of smokers is on the decrease,' said Colin Drummond, professor of addiction psychiatry at St George's Ho...

AIDS Picture In India Not As Rosy As It Seems To Be

... in a way responsible for the spread of the deadly killer virus. Prostitution is also to be blamed to a certain degree. A few of them who visit the prostitutes even pass it on their wives in rural areas. Expansion of the currently existing anti-AIDS projects for control of AIDS seems a sensible task that ...

High Levels Of Noise In Work Place Found To Increase Blood Pressure

...pressure (hypertension) is often called the silent killer because you can have it for years without knowing it. Blood pressure is typically recorded as the systolic pressure (as the heart beats) over the diastolic pressure (as the heart relaxes between beats). A consistent blood pressure reading of 140/90 m...

A Joint Venture by Golfers And Military Forces To Combat AIDS

...l prize money of Rs.1 million towards battling the killer epidemic in India's northeast. "You can't get HIV/AIDS by shaking hands" and "Sportsmen against HIV/AIDS" are the slogans for the tournament that is being organized jointly by the Assam Rifles Custodian Officers Golf Club and the Amby Valley PGAI T...

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