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Turmoil Over Turkey

...ernard Matthews plant, which was infected with the lethal H5N1 strain// of bird flu in early February this year. The Public health minister Caroline Flint reiterated that almost 850 tons of turkey had to pass through the plant situated in Holton in Suffolk. This had occurred in the interim period between...

Flood of Fake Drugs Must Be Stopped, Warns UN

...ts means that second-rate medicines – which can be lethal – are sold to consumers. "It is important for co...ught on an unregulated market may have potentially lethal effects whenever the consumed drugs are not the genuine product or are taken without medical advice,...

Gene Cell Test may Aid Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis

...early 29,000 deaths. Part of the reason it is so lethal is that the disease is often diagnosed late. Patients frequently die shortly after learning they have contracted the disease. Only one fifth of patients are alive one year after diagnosis of the disease, which kills 92% within five years. The vast ma...

Triptolide: A Potential Drug for Polycystic Kidney Disease

...ation in a mouse model of this most common genetic lethal kidney disease,” Crews said. “Our results offer a novel therapeutic approach to this deadly disease and highlight the potential of TCM as pharmaceutical sources.” Source-YALE Univesity SRM...

Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

.... The virus when contacted initiates a potentially lethal liver infection. Scientists caution that vaccinations for hepatitis B should be made mandatory to professional// rugby players before they embark on a sporting tour. This would prevent the spreading of this dangerous disease among sportsmen and women...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...orrect labeling, are substandard and in many cases lethal if taken. The mushrooming of sites selling online drugs, are flamed by the accessibility to online affiliate marketing sites. These affiliate sites provide links to anyone and everyone having an audience to sell to. A report by a web analysis company...

Philadelphia Researchers Found A Novel Way To Fight Several Kind of Cancers

...ered to carry therapeutic radionuclides, which are lethal to cells in which TK is activated. Results of this study suggests that this strategy could be applied to other viruses associated with tumors, and that other drugs may potentially be used to activate these viruses, Pomper says. "Velcade is only on...

Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects

... night of December 2, 1984, when over 40 tonnes of lethal methyl iso-cyanate (MIC) spewed out of the pesticide plant, in one of worst industrial accident in the country, killing more than 3,000 people and maiming thousands for life. More than 15,000 people affected by exposure to the toxic gas have died sin...

Diet-based Method to Treat Brain Cancer

... diet. Malignant brain cancer is one of the most lethal types of cancer in adults and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among children. Many current ways of treating the disease fail to provide long-term management because they ineffectively target tumour cells and harm the health and vitali...

Bird Flu in Afghanistan

...akar, the deputy// from the health ministry. The lethal H5N1 virus was found in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Though initially a human case was suspected, later it was diagnosed as the case of malaria. The Nangarhar area has been quarantined and all the necessary precautions are being followed. Cul...

'Gateway' Gene Discovered for Brain Cancer

...lso plays a central role in the development of the lethal brain cancer malignant glioma. //In experiments on mice with such gliomas, they showed that knocking out the function of a particular regulatory protein, Olig2, almost completely eliminated tumor formation. The researchers said their findings sugges...

First Treatment to Directly Target Tumor Blood Supply

...wth signals, but with J591, one directly targets a lethal blow right at the tumor blood supply." As its name implies, PSMA was first spotted in prostate cancers. However, in 1998, Dr. Bander's team found the antigen to be present in the blood vessels of a wide range of tumor types -- but not healthy vascu...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...o on the night of Dec 2/3, 1984, that 40 tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate gas spewed out of the Union Carbide pesticide plant, killing over 3,000 people instantly and maiming several thousand others for life. More than 15,000 people have since died from the after-effects of the poisonous gases and over...

Mercury can Kill

... that we use for checking body temperature is most lethal and can pose serious health problems if accidentally spilt.// Mercury is a neurotoxin, meaning it attacks the nervous system and brain. In small children, mercury poisoning has been linked to birth defects, learning disabilities, walking and talkin...

Less-lethal Strains of Bird Flu Virus may Become the Biggest Killer

...e from an evolutionary viewpoint. If a virus is so lethal that it kills 50 percent of its hosts, then it will not transmit very far to infect many other people, and it will die out relatively quickly. It is less likely to become a worldwide pandemic," Tang said. The H5N1 virus has flared up in recent week...

Rhode Island Biotechnology Company Develops Tularemia Vaccine

...ospital, showed that TuliVaxTM protected mice from lethal bacterial challenge. “Our unique ability to dev...laremia is rare but does occur naturally; the most lethal pulmonary form is more common in Martha’s Vineyard than in most other places in the world. EpiVax co...

Young People Who Died Suddenly, Inexplicably Had Genetic Heart Defects

...f families because data show that they exposed the lethal mutations as the cause of death in 35 percent of c...eed to act immediately by getting screened for the lethal mutations, and treated, if necessary, he says. “Families who have lost a loved one to sudden unex...

Lethal Hospital Bug Tough to Knock Down, Statistics Reveal

...ses of infection by bugs including the potentially lethal hospital bug, Clostridium difficile and the ‘super bug’ MRSA. According to the released statistics the figures for Clostridium infections have risen drastically by 5.5 percent, which represents an increase to 42,625 from 40,390 cases over the first...

Bacteriophages may Boost the Effectiveness of Antibiotics

...in mice revealed that 75% of those infected with a lethal dose of Pseudomonas survived if the antibiotic gentamicin was administered in the presence of bacteriophages. None survived without the phages (Microb. Drug Resist., 2006, 12 (3), 164). The bacteriophage approach would also be particularly useful f...

Role of Hsp 104 in the Spread of Prion Diseases

Protein’s role in the spread of the lethal Prion diseases has been brought to light by researchers from Brown University//. This was published in an online edition of PLoS Biology. Researchers under Tricia Serio have revealed that the protein Hsp 104 is responsible for the spread and multi...

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