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Researchers Devise New Compound to Treat Fungal Infections

...enzyme working and thus blocked protein synthesis, killing the fungal cell. "We have discovered a new compound that has the potential to treat common chronic nail infections caused by fungi," Alley said. The mechanism crucially depended on a boron atom that is part of AN2690, which is needed to link the ...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

... not have a precise figure of those wounded in the killing fields of Iraq or Afghanistan. The death toll is relatively easy to keep track of 3,500 in Iraq for instance. But in the case of the wounded estimates vary, between 35,000 and 53,000. But more important the precise numbers it is the lack of pro...

Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again

...ic killer from an asylum and their subsequent epic killing spree. As more violent games become available for the Wii, the debate about their participatory nature is intensifying. Researchers who have been critical of first-person shooter games -- in which the player pushes a button to activate a weapon -- ...

Potentially Lethal H5N1 Bird Flu Resurfaces in Europe

...st case was reported there in Dresden last August, killing a swan in the eastern city's zoo. The only incidence of the feared virus on a farm in Germany was reported in April 2006, after which more than 21,000 poultry were killed. Worldwide the virus has killed 191 people out of 313 infected patients, ac...

Presidential Commission Wants Proper Care of Wounded Soldiers at Their Homes

...tigating the plight of the soldiers wounded in the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan has focused on efforts to enable the GIs receive proper treatment in their own homes . During its seventh and last hearing Friday, the Commission admitted todays veterans are more likely than those of previous conflic...

Husband Cools His Heels in Jail After Kidnapping Wife from Hospital

...nst him was the use of brutal force and threats of killing his wife, if she didnt comply with his order. Apparently the lady had arrived for the surgery with a black eye. He had come to the hospital with a knife and seemed to be mentally disturbed. An arrest of McCarthy followed, even though he denied th...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

... adopting the Dutch recommendations is that active killing as a therapeutic option is seen as a slippery slop...argument. Another reason is the fear that active killing may have a negative impact on the psychology of professional staff, and that parents may feel pressu...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

Two teenage girls were jailed for killing a disabled Sydney cabbie last January. The driver died of a heart attack after he was beaten up by the two fourteen year olds. The two girls, cousins pleaded guilty to the manslaughter and were jailed for six years. The taxi driver Youbert Hormoz...

Two Australian Teenagers Sentenced to Life for Murder

...rs discovered neither of them would feel bad about killing someone, and decided to kill their friend. After...etachment and the desire to have the experience of killing someone," he said. Judge Reynolds said that while drugs "formed an integral part of their lifestyl...

Scientists Saying Against Trees Sparks Debate

...ctually changed the plants' metabolic preferences, killing off their methane emissions. Dueck counters that no literature reports suggest this might be a problem....

Gene Thought to Help Kill Cancer Cells may Actually Help Them Thrive

... in helping chemo patients because it turns on the killing mechanism for the cells that were damaged by chemo. But McDonald points out that p53 can also help repair damaged cells. If p53 is repairing cancer cells, that may lead to cancer recurrence. "We think p53 may actually help some cancer cells make a...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

... sharp fibers that poke holes in pancreatic cells, killing them. Though scientists already have a good idea of the healthy 'before' and dangerous 'after' hIAPP structures, the steps in between remain somewhat of a mystery and may hold clues to what drives the transition, says UW-Madison chemistry professor...

New Analytical Tool to Unravel the Cause of Diabetes

... sharp fibers that poke holes in pancreatic cells, killing them. Though scientists already have a good idea of the healthy "before" and dangerous "after" hIAPP structures, the steps in between remain somewhat of a mystery and may hold clues to what drives the transition. Researchers led by UW-Madison ch...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...first time such a therapy has proved successful at killing bowel cancer cells, albeit only in the laboratory....he first time it has been shown to be effective at killing bowel cancer cells in a laboratory model of human colon cancer. This is another stride towards the p...

Antibody-based Therapies Effective at Controlling Malaria

...tuberculosis as the world's most deadly infection, killing two to three million people a year or roughly one person every 30 seconds. The model described in this study provides both a test for therapeutic antibody efficacy prior to clinical trials in humans and an important tool in malaria vaccine developmen...

Combining NSAIDs With Chemotherapy May Improve Cancer Therapy

...ts genetic material. "The finding that the cell killing effect takes place in S phase is particularly exci...apy are in the S phase. Thus celecoxib's selective killing of cells in S phase suggests this class of drug may target the radio-resistant cells, and use of the...

Chocolate-makers Reverse Decision to Go for Animal Enzyme

...e the idea that you cannot make a Mars bar without killing a calf. "We have had no good, clear answer from Masterfoods why they have to use animal products when all these items were previously produced using vegetarian alternatives. "But we can no longer describe any of them as suitable for vegetarians." ...

AIDS Victims, Supporters Gather in Bond of Hope

...free. But our question is that will the virus stop killing people till then? Is it fair that someone should lose his life because the statistics haven't reached the 100,000-mark?" asked Elango Ramachandar, president of Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Ramachandar is HIV positive. "The cause ...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

... material leaked out from a nuclear plant in 1986, killing at least 56 people and exposing thousands to diseases like cancer. Shimatsu says the only way to avert potential disaster in the Himalayas is for the international community to start afresh the search for radiation detectors, the cost of which shou...

US Halts Import of Chinese Toothpaste

...n Argentina, Bangladesh, Haiti, India and Nigeria, killing hundreds. In 1937, more than 100 people died in the United States after ingesting a DEG-contaminated drug. Earlier this week the Dominican Republic banned the sale of two brands of Chinese toothpaste for similar reasons. Nearly 90,000 units of ...

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