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Antibody-based Therapies Effective at Controlling Malaria

...se novel human reagents cured mice of an otherwise lethal malaria infection, and protection was crucially dependent on human antibody receptors. Malaria currently rivals HIV and tuberculosis as the world's most deadly infection, killing two to three million people a year or roughly one person every 30 sec...

Pollution Induced Cancer Emerges as Top Killer in China

... showed that cancer topped the list of the 10 most lethal diseases for urban residents last year, followed by cerebrovascular diseases and heart ailments. Death rate from cancer had also risen to 19 percent in cities and 23 percent in rural areas, while in rural areas, 92 percent of fatalities were caused...

A Non-profit Drug Firms Injection to Fight Kala Azar Included in WHOs Model List

...e value of Paromomycin IM Injection to combat this lethal disease. This recognition is an important step in the realization of our drug development mission: Bringing the promise of safe, effective, and affordable medicines to those most in need, said Dr. Ahvie Herskowitz, OneWorld Healths Co-founder and Chi...

Suspected Human Infection of Birdflu Reported in Vietnam

...the north of the country could have contracted the lethal H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, for the first t... in Vietnam. A 30-year-old man tested positive for lethal H5N1 strain after being hospitalized in serious condition. If the diagnosis is confirmed, the res...

Fidel Castro Appeals for Investment in Health Rather Than in Arms

... submarine" in Great Britain, which can shoot down lethal Tomahawk missiles at a distance of 1.4 miles. "This ship," he said, "will undermine what little prestige is left for Great Britain." "The holocaust of the species is precisely the destination of that sophisticated ship," noted the Cuba head of Stat...

Why Malaria Parasite Affects Red Blood Cells Deformability Revealed

...of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium vivax, is less lethal than P. falciparum....

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

..., Clostridium botulinum, produces the world's most lethal toxin. Less than 2 kg is enough to wipe off humanity from the face of the earth! Botox , that contains miniscule amounts of the toxin, is used medically. Now, the genome of the organism is exposed. The report in Genome Research reveals that the bac...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

...ransatlantic flights this month to the potentially lethal disease. The man has since been quarantined. Now they authorities are looking for travelers who were aboard Air France flight 385, which left Atlanta for Paris on May 12, and Czech Air flight 0104, which arrived in Montreal from Prague on May 24. P...

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

...f the world's foremost experts on this potentially lethal form of tuberculosis, Dr. Kanti Daya,' continued DiGeorgia. 'I am convinced that the absence of a viable program against tuberculosis (TB) being used as a weapon compromises our state of national security,' says Dr. Daya. The Centers for Disease ...

Recurrent Gliomas: Vorinostat Shows Anti-cancer Activity

...gator of the study. Glioblastoma multiforme is a lethal primary brain tumor. The average survival of glioblastoma patients is 12-16 months. These tumors spread quickly to other parts of the brain, and because of this are difficult to treat and often recur. When the tumor recurs, treatment options are limi...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...ey are moving closer to understanding why the most lethal form of human malaria has become resistant to drug treatment in the past three decades. They have been able to artificially construct, and then express in yeast, a protozoan gene that contributes to such resistance. The gene they laboriously const...

Cord Blood Transplant Benefits Blood Cancer Patients

...r risk of graft versus host disease, a potentially lethal complication, especially when HLA types are mismatched. Rates of leukemia relapse also are lower with mismatched umbilical cord blood transplants. This study also showed that in addition to having a good match, higher cell doses for umbilical cord bl...

Combination Therapy Reduces Tumor Resistance to Radiation

...tin-induced tumor apoptotic pathway, which lead to lethal tumor damage. The study demonstrates a crucial role for angiogenesis inhibitors in shifting tumor radioresistance towards tumor apoptosis and suggests that a combination of radiation and angiogenesis inhibitors could potentially be used to overcome H...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

... more difficult and expensive to treat, the highly lethal XDR-TB....

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

Euthanasia for newborn babies with lethal and disabling conditions is illegal worldwide, but in reality, its acceptance// and practice vary between different countries. An editorial in this week’s BMJ asks should it be available? In the Netherlands, about 200,000 live births occur annua...

Chinese Medicinal Compound Stops Formation of Cysts in Polycystic Kidney

...ansplant or frequent dialysis, for one of the most lethal of all kidney diseases worldwide. Triptolide is derived from a Chinese medicinal herb, named Lei Gong Teng, which has been used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, inflammation, and auto-immune diseases and, more recently, also has been tested...

Execution by Lethal Injection Questioned

...estioned. A study by Plos medicine reveal that the lethal injection causes intense pain//. It also upholds t...ections is scheduled to present a new proposal for lethal injection procedures to U.S. District Court judge Jeremy Fogel, who has blocked executions in the st...

Tai Chi - More Than Magic

...ly practitioners reduce their risk for potentially lethal falls. Irwin's own work at UCLA found that Tai Chi reduced older people's risk for the immune disorder shingles. Another UCLA study, to be published soon in the journal Gerontology, showed that it boosted the function of the sympathetic nervous syste...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Claims Another Set Of Victims

...oper ventilation, obviously leading to build-up of lethal amounts of carbon monoxide(CO). Investigating police officer Purushotaman has informed that post-mortem reports will be available in a week’s time, possibly offering clues to whether the youngsters had consumed alcohol, too. Last October, three y...

Marijuana Helps to Combat Lung Cancer

... in marijuana may help fight lung cancer, the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, say scientists//. In lab and mouse studies, the compound known as THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) cut lung tumor growth in half and helped prevent the cancer from spreading, said Anju Preet, a Harvard University researcher in B...

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