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Germ - Chemo Combo Fights Cancer

...t difficult to kill cancer cells. The challenge is killing them while sparing normal cells,” says Bert Vogelstein, M.D., professor and co-director of the Ludwig Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The bacteria’s cancer-killing effects were first discovered...

New Bird Flu Cases Suspected In South Korea

... flu had been discovered in a Farm in South Korea, killing around 6,000 chickens and prompting authorities to cull thousands more, South Korea’s Farm// Ministry officials said on Thursday. While speaking in a news conference, Kim Chang-sub, a top official at the Ministry’s Quarantine department said: 'Thi...

Innovative Movies Show Real-Time Immune-Cell Activity within Tumors

...ssues, making direct contact with tumor cells, and killing them. Insights from this new view of the body’s on-board defenses against cancer may open the way for improved immunotherapies to treat the disease. With a series of movies made under different experimental conditions, the researchers resolved im...

Cancer Stem Cells Alone spread Cancer

...Killing the cancer stem cells is the equivalent of killing the root of the weed.' Dick identified cancer st...Colon cancer is the fourth most dangerous cancer , killing 655,000 people every year, according to World Health Organisation. SR...

Britishers 'Stiff Upper Lip' Causing More Deaths Due To Heart Attack

...eases are reported to be the biggest killer, often killing at least one in every five minutes especially due to heart attack. The poll was conducted under the BHF's 'Doubt Kills' campaign aiming at raising awareness of heart attack symptoms and to encourage people to call 999 (ambulance service), when they...

A novel vaccine proves a shot in the arm for colorectal cancer patients

...an immune-system protein that is very effective at killing cancer cells," said Lindy Durrant, senior author of the study and professor of cancer immunotherapy at the university. The vaccine works by stimulating the patients' immune response to generate infection-fighting white blood cells called T cells, wh...

Edible Food Coating Kills Bacteria And Adds Flavor

...ide a more concentrated, longer-lasting method for killing bacteria," says Research Leader Tara H. McHugh, Ph...th of E. coli, oregano oil was the most effective, killing over 50 percent of sample bacteria in 3 minutes at concentrations as small as 0.034 percent, says Mc...

Bad acne in teens Linked to Suicide Attempts

...g people who had an acne problem had thought about killing themselves while 13 per cent had attempted suicide. Dr Watson said, "There is now increasing recognition of the association of skin disease with mental health." "At this age young people are developing a sense of identity and self-worth, and so...

Kerala nurses for Maldives hospitals

...siness it is fully controlled by agents who make a killing by demanding hefty charges. ODEPC has been made to lie dormant by these agents. While recruitment agents charge more than Rs.100,000 as charges from a nurse bound for the Middle East, ODEPC collects a very nominal fee. ODEPC is also to get busy r...

Diptheria Toxin And Interleukin2 Help Killing Melanoma Tumour Cells

...ay to prompt the immune system for recognizing and killing tumour //cell of patients suffering from advanced melanoma (Skin Cancer) In the first part of a phase II clinical trial to test the drug denileukin diftitox (also known as DAB (389) IL2 or ONTAK) in melanoma, five out of seven patients with stage I...

35 dead in suicide attack on Pakistan army base

...f up in a Pakistan Army training centre Wednesday, killing 35 recruits and injuring about 40, state-run and p...akistani Army bombed an Islamist school on Oct 30, killing 80 people and alleging they were terrorists with links to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in neighbouring A...

Lice now dried to death by novel dryer

...s to kill nits had found out that it is capable of killing only 60% of eggs whereas studies regarding Louse Buster has shown that it is able to annihilate almost 98% of nits. This dryer also has the advantage of not having to contend with the chances of drug resistant strains of lice thus making it the mos...

Consider Euthanasia For Severely Disabled Babies, College Tells Doctors

...l college in Britain - the proposal suggests mercy killing of// new borns who are severely disabled. The Ro.... The doctors said that if the options for mercy killing were legal and available, late abortions which may endanger the mother could be prevented. "We wou...

Diabetics’ Blood Sugar to be Tracked in New York Cit

...the middle of an epidemic, an epidemic of diabetes killing people. It's causing blindness, kidney failure, amputations. We need to do what we can do to help people get the best possible care." Under the program, labs are required to forward test results to a central database, where their blood sugar levels...

Antacids also control oral bacteria

...es, primarily controlling stomach hyperacidity and killing Helicobacter pylori (the bacteria responsible for stomach ulcers). Now, the compounds are brandishing potent antimicrobial actions that interfere with the dirty work of other types of bacteria that cause plaque buildup and gingivitis. Such bacteria...

Drop in smoking rate stalls

...use of premature death in the United States today, killing some 400,000 people annually, " Mr. Pechacek said. According to the report, smoking rate is highest among American Indians and Alaskan Natives at 32%, and then come the non-Hispanic whites at 21.9% and non-Hispanic blacks at 21.5%. The smoking rate...

Lack of Equipment and Skilled Doctors Costing Civilian Lives in Iraq

...nuary and June 2006. And reports indicate that the killing of civilians is rising, with more than 5,800 deaths and over 57,000 people injured during May and June 2006. But emergency medicine in Iraq has never developed to meet such unprecedented demand, they say. As a result, emergency departments are staf...

500 People Affected by Gas Leak Near Bhopal

...gushed out of the Union Carbide's pesticide plant, killing 15,000 people. Source-IANS...

Researchers Develop Technologies to Devour Food Pathogens

...sults have shown the gas to be highly effective at killing microbial pathogens. The largest obstacle remaining is optimizing the system to dispense the appropriate amount of chlorine dioxide, Morgan said. Enough of the gas must be deployed to kill the pathogens, but too much can cause a decrease of quality i...

All in the Name of ‘Breast Cancer Awareness

...in being afflicted with the disease each year, and killing about 12,400. However the question arises as to whether getting women to expose their breasts really the best approach to fundraising, or to raising awareness? American commentator Barbara Ehrenreich, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, h...

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