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Antihistamine Could also be used as a Potential Antimalarial Drug

...hers screened the drugs for their effectiveness in killing the malaria-causing parasite and found that astemizole was one of the more promising. The researchers then gave astemizole, along with the drug’s major human metabolite, desmethylastemizol, to mice infected with Plasmodium. They measured 80 percent...

Cessation of blood supply to cancer cells may curtail spread, novel research

...pable of stopping the blood supply to tumors, thus killing them naturally. The researchers said “By blocking the blood supply to the tumors, actibind halted the ability of malignant cells to move through the blood stream. Their approach has been shown to inhibit the malignant cells without affecting normal...

Punjab Plans of Banning Sex Determination Kit from US

...esults within 48 hours has sparked fears of a mass killing of unborn girls in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. "We will take all steps to get the kit banned," Punjab's Health Minister Ramesh Chander Dogra told a news channel Sunday. The central government's help would be taken to ban the entry of sex determina...

Euthanasia : ‘Merciful’ Terminatin

...n, 1951 Euthanasia is defined as ‘the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependant human being for his or her alleged benefit’. It is also referred to as ‘mercy killing’. The word ‘Euthanasia’ takes its origin from the Greek words, ‘eu’ meaning ‘good’ and ‘thanatos’ meaning ‘death’. Euthanasia is ...

Bird Flu In Zambia-Panic Among Locals

...med the dead birds, if the disease suspected to be killing these birds is proved to be H5N1," she said. The UN's Food Agriculture Organization has sent some of the samples to South Africa to be further examined and the results are expected during the weekend. Migratory birds are the main carriers of the...

Exposure to Pesticides May Raise the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease in Me

...men who are exposed to pesticides that is used for killing bugs or weeds are at the high risk of developing Parkinson’s disease //. Parkinson's disease is a disorder of the brain that affects the control of muscles and so may affect movement, speech and posture. Mayo Clinic researchers Roberta Frigerio an...

Pneumonic plague Might Be Responsible For The epidemic In Congo - WHO

...uspects that ‘Pneumonic plague’ is responsible for killing 100 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to preliminary test results// that it has conducted. The authorities from WHO have said that isolation wards have been set up to treat patients. They also explained that the control measur...

Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel Develops A New Bird Flu Vaccine

...ad over 10 countries, infecting around 224 people, killing 127 of them. It was explained that poultry could get infected by the avian influenza virus in several ways like, direct contact with infected poultry, through contact with cages, water and feed that have been contaminated with the virus. People, ve...

Radiation Therapy Made More Compatible

...ined ‘target’ inside the subject to increase their killing potential there, while retaining the technique's hallmark feature of sparing healthy tissue outside that target. First, they exposed the spinal cords and brains of healthy rats to thicker (0.27 to 0.68 millimeter) microbeams at high doses of radiatio...

What Ticks the Mosquito immune system?

...ake the mosquito's immune system more effective in killing malaria parasites at multiple stages that would render the development of evasive mechanisms impossible for the parasite," said Dimopoulos. Source :Eureka...

Six More Bhopal Gas Tragedy Continues to Take Toll

...ide's pesticide plant on the night of Dec 2, 1984, killing over1,700 people instantly and affecting thousands for life. The hospital management is often accused of giving priority to privatepatients at the cost of gas victims for whom the hospital wasestablished. Six gas tragedy victims are reported to h...

UN Conference Calls For Monitoring System To Check Bird Flu

...suggestion of trying to stop the spread of HPA1 by killing wild birds. 'Destruction of wild bird habitats or indiscriminate hunting of wildlife is scientifically and ethically unjustified as response,'they said in the final document. Source:(PTI News)...

Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia Attack On Farmed Trout

A rare virus threatens the government by killing thousands of rainbow trout.Due to an outbreak, fishes were destroyed on a farm in Yorkshire//. A very first case of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) attack on wild fish was noticed by fishery official across the catchment area of the river Ouse i...

Nepali Rhesus May be Used as an Alternate for HIV/AIDS Research

...people seeking to solve this problem by chasing or killing macaques. 'One of the goals of our international program is to assist our collaborators in creating the first primate research center in Nepal and to help address some of Nepal's most pressing health concerns that include HIV, tuberculosis, hepatit...

Regular Exercise Is Essential To Keep Arteries Healthy

...d clot forms that can block the artery completely, killing the cells that depend on that artery’s blood supply. If this happens in an artery leading to the heart or brain, the result is a heart attack or stroke. Exercise helps prevent atherosclerosis in a number of ways. It keeps arteries healthy by loweri...

Autoimmune Diseases – Newer Preventive Measure

...cine. The body should maintain a balance between killing and suppression,’ says Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi, immunologist and lead and co-senior author. ‘If you are killing too hard, it can induce autoimmune disease. If you regulate suppression too hard, you can get cancer...

No Mutation Of Bird Flu Virus: WHO

...s into a deadly pandemic that has the potential of killing millions worldwide, the World Health Organisation said yesterday. Meanwhile, WHO and Indonesian health ministry have intensified probe following the possibility that six members of a family in North Sumatra who died of bird flu could be the case of ...

First Case Of H5N1 Bird Flu In Poultry In Denmark

... immunity to it, it could sweep the world quickly, killing millions. The virus has killed 122 people since 2003 in nine countries and territories, according to the WHO....

EU Countries Pushed To Make All the Preparation to Handle the Bird Flu Pandemic

...ight mutate and spark a global pandemic capable of killing millions. Hence various measures are taken to tackle such situations in case the need arise in Europe....

Tumor Resistant Mice Point To Novel Cancer Treatments

... blood cells of the tumor resistant mice induced a killing process called cytolysis. A combination of WBCs (neutrophils, macrophages and natural killer cells) from the special mice was then injected into mice with tumors. As expected, these injected cells were found to destroy the tumor, even the most aggr...

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