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'Families' - Doesn’t Cause Anorexia Nervos

...." Anorexia nervosa is a serious and potentially lethal illness, with a mortality rate greater than 10 percent. It is characterized by the relentless pursuit of thinness, emaciation and the obsessive fear of gaining weight. Anorexia nervosa commonly begins during adolescence, but strikes throughout the li...

Scientists Unravel Superbug That Kills in 24 Hours

...a disease that rapidly destroys lung tissue and is lethal in 75 per cent of cases. In 2004 it killed Richard Campbell-Smith, an 18-year-old Royal Marine, who died after scratching his legs on gorse during a training exercise in Devon. An outbreak last month at Norfolk and Norwich University hospital kill...

Lethal Staphylococcus can Be Fatal to Pneumonia Patients

...e bacteria are resistant to methicillin, it proves lethal with the damaged lung tissue and immune system. As a part of defense mechanism, washing hands and following a stringent hygiene programme would come in handy to combat this bacterial attack. JY...

Drawing Parallels to H5N1 Virus and a 1918 Flu Virus

... across the world. This strain of virus was highly lethal and the affected bodies exhibited a strange type of reaction //wherein the defense mechanism of the body itself proved counter productive to the person affected. American researchers reconstructed this virus in a laboratory condition on seven macaq...

Thailand Confirms Bird Flu Outbreak

Thailand- The lethal H5N1 virus has struck in Northern Thailand; health officials have confirmed the outbreak, which has led to the death of more than 100 ducks in Phitsanulok province.// Nirand Uaebumrungsut, a veterinarian with the Agriculture Ministry's Department ...

Better to Chicken Out of This

...r the spreading of the avian flu could result in a lethal pandemic should the avian flu virus mutate with that of the human flu virus. So far there have been 157 deaths from the avian flu, though all were caused only through direct contact with affected birds. AN...

3,600 Dead in Iran Due to Air Pollution, in One Month

...result of flouting emission standards has led to a lethal type of air pollution called smog, spread by the c...ean air committee, said, 'It is a very serious and lethal crisis, a collective suicide. A real revolution is needed to resolve this problem.' The most recent...

Beware of Fatty Liver Disease

Consuming rich food and lack of exercise is lethal for the liver, much more than booze, researchers say. Termed as fatty liver disease,// it is characterized by collection of fat around the liver. The disease debilitates the liver and could be a cause of scarring or cirrhosis or even cancer of the li...

Bird Flu Suspected in Japan

...5N1 virus getting mutated which would prove highly lethal for human population. JYT...

Genetically Altered Cells Prevent Lethal Infections in Substituted Skin

...d skin substitutes, may help fight off potentially lethal infections in patients with severe// burns. Cultured skin substitutes are grown in a laboratory using cells from a burn patient's own skin. These cells are cultured, expanded and combined with a spongy layer of collagen to make skin grafts that are...

Sugars in Liver Found to Clear Fats from the Bloodstream

...ssue in mice, in this case the liver, we avoided a lethal effect,” said Esko. In the lab, the researchers combined the heparan sulfate mutation with a mutation in the LDL receptor, which has long known to be responsible for clearing cholesterol from the arteries. The UCSD team showed that heparan sulfate is...

Avian Flu Unlikely to Spread Through Water Systems

...ans, is physically similar to H5N1, which has been lethal to millions of birds globally and more than half of the almost 200 infected people mostly through handling infected birds, since 2003. Researchers and officials are concerned that if H5N1 mutates to transmit easily between people, a deadly global pan...

Researchers Discovered the Gene Responsible for Brittle Bone Disease

...in the current paper might occur in 2-3 percent of lethal OI cases. Although there is no treatment for the disorder, the finding does allow OI experts to test families who have lost a child to OI for the presence of the recessive CRTAP gene. Couples who have lost a child to this form of OI could be appri...

Safer ICU’s: Cheap, Simple, “Low-Tech” Steps Wrk

...y slash the rate of common, costly and potentially lethal catheter-related bloodstream infections in their intensive care units (ICUs) by using cheap//, low-tech, common-sense measures like hand washing, timely removal of unneeded catheters, and use of sites other than the groin to place lines when possible...

Illicit Drug Use Among U.S Teen’s Declines, but This is Not the End of the Stor

...edicines. Overdose of such medicines could lead to lethal side-effects. Dr. Grant Mitchell, chief of psychiatry at Northern Westchester Hospital Center, in Mount Kisco, N.Y said, "This doesn't surprise me. As we write more and more prescriptions for potentially legitimate uses for parents, it provides acc...

Anti Allergy Drugs Reduce Tumor Growth

...ts with pancreatic cancer, believed to be the most lethal of all cancers. More than 95 percent of patients diagnosed with the disease die from it, and half of those deaths occur in the first six months after diagnosis. "Our goal is to offer longer life to these patients, and the combination of these two a...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

...ble genetic and reproductive after effects, of the lethal gas leak in Bhopal exactly// 22 years ago that kil...l (ICJB). On Dec 2-3 night in 1984, 40 tonnes of lethal Methyl-Iso-Cyanate gas spewed out of the Union Carbide Corporation's pesticide plant here. The trage...

Highly-Concentrated Botulinum Preparation Can Result in Severe Illness

...in toxin levels up to 40 times the estimated human lethal dose, according to a report. Botulism is a rare p...ave received doses 2,857 times the estimated human lethal dose by injection. Pretreatment serum toxin levels in 3 of the 4 case-patients were equivalent to 21...

Lethal dose of cosmetic injections paralyzed recipients

...lism toxin A, which was 40 times greater than the lethal dose for humans, reported by The Journal of the Am...aralysis of airways endangering life as well. The lethal dose is not clearly known, but scientists point to studies done on primates .Those studies suggests...

Malaria: The Invincible Might of a Parasite, Nestled in a 'Mite'

...asites of the genus Plasmodium and is considered a lethal vector borne disease. Four species of Plasmodium triggers the disease in several forms. They are Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium malaria. P. falciparum is by far the most common and perilous of the four types...

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