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Emphysema surgery - unfavourable

...neficial for people with emphysema. It appeared to leave them with a smaller, but more efficient, lung by cutting out a lot of the diseased tissue. Following this report, the demand for surgery increased enormously and the National Institutes of Health launched further trials to see if the operation w...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...d RNA interference to switch off certain genes and leave others unaffected. This process was first identified as taking place in the nematode worm. It was discovered that the worm used tiny pieces of double-stranded RNA to switch off rogue genes that would otherwise harm it. Subsequently, researchers found...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

... in 18 of 22 patients. Nine of the patients had to leave the study early because of rapid disease progression. Dranoff said that the vaccine, as a single agent approach, would be potentially much more useful in patients in the early stages of lung cancer. It might be considered for testing in lung-cancer p...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

...e staying. Neighbors have been demanding that they leave the area. The residents insists that these people are carriers of the disease and should not be allowed to stay there. This raises the question, Are people completely aware of symptoms ? or Is the awareness on SARS been rightly spread ?...

Stopping Prostate Cancer from Spreading

...KIP, which controls the ability of cancer cells to leave their original location and enter nearby blood vessels.// After entering the blood vessels, cells can easily spread to the rest of the body.Results of the study show RKIP plays a vital role in vascular invasion, the term for what happens before a tum...

Alcohol and Sun Don’t Mi

New research suggests you may want to leave the alcohol at home next time you head to the beach. It may contribute to painful sunburn.Researchers found those who consumed //alcohol at the beach had more severe sunburns than nondrinkers and were more likely to need a pain reliever after the sun...

Teen brain changes increase cigarette addiction

... results indicate that early nicotine exposure can leave a lasting imprint on the brain," says Levin. "The brain continues to develop throughout the teenage years. Early nicotine use may cause the wiring of the brain to [develop] inappropriately."...

Rat joins list of cloned animals

...heir eggs begin to activate almost as soon as they leave the ovary. This posed a problem for a technology that requires painstakingly removing an egg cell, taking out its nucleus, and replacing it with the nucleus from a skin or other kind of cell from the animal to be cloned. Genetic researchers describ...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...prescriptions through a private drug plan or could leave Medicare and join a preferred-provider organization. In either case, premiums, coverage levels and deductible would be the same.House and Senate Democrats, who complained they were kept out of the talks, have attacked provisions that would establish ...

Weight Loss Supplements Questioned

...warnings from the Food and Drug Administration may leave some wondering if weight loss supplements really do what they claim.// Some of the products under scrutiny include, Ultra Carbo Blocker 3000, TrimSpa Carb Blocker, and Zone Fat Blocker.Many of these supplements claim to block starch, carbohydrates...

Tissue Transfer for Skin Cancer

...skin cancers on the face are often disfiguring and leave patients with gaping wounds or deep holes. Now, doctors at Oregon Health & Science University //are using the person's own body to heal the area and improve their appearance. Dorothy Fahland grew up sunbathing, first as a toddler and then as a teen...

Thawed Ovarian Transplant

...t can cause the ovaries to stop functioning // and leave the patient infertile. But doctors around the world have been working on ways to remove, freeze and restore a woman’s ovarian tissue. New advancement in the use of frozen ovarian tissue could prove to be very promising for women being treated for ca...

New Treatment Option for Colorectal Cancer

... targeted therapies because they attack cancer and leave healthy cells alone.Patients either received cetuximab and irinotecan or cetuximab alone. Researchers say, although modest, the patients on cetuximab alone or in combination with irinotecan saw improvements in survival. Thus specialists say that Cet...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...f four enzymes responsible for helping cholesterol leave the liver, where it is made, and travel to other parts of the body. ACAT2 most often helps cholesterol travel to the arteries, where it builds up into the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered not to produce ACAT2 researche...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...f four enzymes responsible for helping cholesterol leave the liver, where it is made, and travel to other parts of the body. ACAT2 most often helps cholesterol travel to the arteries, where it builds up into the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered not to produce ACAT2 researche...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

...ently in use kill the micro-filariae, they largely leave the adult worms unscathed," Bonn parasitologist Professor Achim H?rauf explains. "Due to the long lifespan of the wuchereria worms, therapy lasts several years, during which time the symptoms continue to persist." The drug to treat the micro-filariae...

Vitamin E May Not Reduce Risk Of Death Due To Heart Disease In Women

...ssure, or who don’t eat properly, habits which can leave them with inadequate levels of this essential vitamin.” However the study involving almost 40,000 American women confirms that Vitamin E does not prevent heart disease or cancer. What does the vitamin do then if taken regularly. The study found th...

Inherent similarities in identical twins may not be so strong

...ities they have may be lost over the time that can leave them very different form each other. Researchers have reported that this difference in identical twins is the direct result of their epigenome. Epigenome is the modifications that happen in the gene, not because of its genetic structure, but because...

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

...i-cancer toxins like a ‘stealth bimb’.// This will leave the healthy cells unharmed. The experiments currently done on mice cancer like melanoma and lung cancer have the potential of being a revolutionary form of drug delivery mechanism in cancers. The drugs that can kill cancer cells are available howev...

Immune Boost With LHRH To Help Cancer And Transplant Patients

...ting immunodeficiency can allow cancer relapse and leave patients at greater risk of fatal infections. The approach involves giving patients a constant dose of a naturally occurring hormone, known as Leuteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone (LHRH), via a slow-release implant under the skin. It is known to i...

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