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AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

... cost of treatment, which combine to a cocktail as lethal as the fatal inevitable end, the grandfatherly Briton, Jack Preger, is the god who has not failed them. Preger has not only rushed to a HIV/AIDS combat zone that even the Indian government with its high-on-propaganda-low-on-action report card has ...

Vaccine Made from Live bird flu virus vaccine Offers Protection to Animals

...cine, given in a nose spray, all survived normally lethal doses of H5N1. It was found that mice and ferrets given two doses of vaccine were not only protected but that their bodies also suppressed the virus. The team artificially constructed their viruses using weakened flu strains and added key proteins...

Connection between alcohol consumption and suicidal tendencies

...erful link between alcohol and depression, but the lethal connection between alcohol and suicide is more apparent in women rather than in men....

Latest Weapon in Battle against Drug-Resistant Bacteria

...teria could be killed only by giving the patient a lethal dose of antibiotics. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used microwave-assisted chemistry for designing compounds called N-acylated L-homoserine lactones (AHLs) which although similar to those used by bacteria, differ in that when t...

Closing in on Lethal Heart Rhythm in Young Athletes

...s Hopkins experts on the genetics of a potentially lethal heart rhythm defect that runs in families and targets young athletes report they have greatly narrowed //the hunt for the specific genetic mutations that contribute to the problem. Their new findings, described in the July issue of the American Jou...

Babies under two years of age to be administered Meningitis vaccination

...ly take the shot that accords protection against a lethal meningitis form. The number of doses of the vaccine will depend on the age of the children. Nearly 700 cases of meningitis and septicemia have been reported in Scotland during the past five years, and nearly 69 of them happen to be children less t...

Bird-Flu Vaccine to go for second round of testing on humans

...orded by the vaccine in the human body against the lethal H5N1 strain. It is required that the vaccine undergoes three phases of trial before being considered safe for administration. In the first round, nearly 120 people got the vaccination shots, which did not trigger any adverse reaction, except for m...

Inhibitor That Blocks Host Receptors Found To be Effective In Treating Anthrax

... the receptor sites used by the bacteria to gain a lethal foothold in the body and thus can help reduce the number of deaths caused by inhaled anthrax once it is fully developed. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, inhaled anthrax still has a fatality rate of 75 percent eve...

Study Provides Evidence That Obesity Leads To A More Aggressive Ovarian Cancer

... will die in five years, making it one of the most lethal cancers. There are several types of ovarian cancer, but tumours that begin from surface cells of the ovary (epithelial cells) are the most common type. A few recent studies have shown that obese patients have a worse outcome. Scientists hypothesize t...

What does High-fiber Foods Really do?

...embranes use those membranes to repair potentially lethal outer-membrane injuries. When an outer membrane ...e the cell rushes in. Although too much calcium is lethal the first entry of calcium causes several of the internal mucus-filled compartments in epithelial ce...

Lunging to Death: Lung Anomalies in Infants Enhance Cot Death Risk

... also retrograde the lung development, making it a lethal proposition for the affected babies. Dr David Drucker, who led the study, said: "This research greatly advances our understanding of the basic causes of SIDS, which is not a single disease but a collection of different causes of death.Being able t...

Sheer exhaustion makes a junior doc’ kill a patient!

...cording to an inquest heard, a patient was given a lethal overdose of insulin by a tired junior doctor, after working more than 100 hours in a week.// Dr Helen Pike, 30, gave the injection herself, in spite of 2 nurses warning her. The patient, Tony Wright, 58 suffered a massive cardiac arrest just a few ...

Failing Heart Failure Patients

...tack. “Heart failure is a common and potentially lethal complication of MI, conferring a four-to-fivefold increase in mortality,” says Professor Henry Krum, co-author of the study and head of the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Therapeutics at Monash University in Melbourne. He says card...

US Courts Say No To 'Light' Cigarettes

... the tobacco industry had 'marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted.' But Kessler said she did not have the authority to order the industry to fund ...

Watchful Waiting Effective for Low Risk Prostate Cancer

... states, "Just as a failure to treat a potentially lethal prostate cancer is generally considered inappropriate from a quality-of-care perspective. Aggressive treatment of indolent cancers (i.e., overtreatment) may also reflect suboptimal care in that it confers risk to patients and increases costs without ...

Cancer Stem Cells Could Hold Key to Brain Tumor Therapy

... characteristics with normal stem cells propel the lethal growth of brain cancers by promoting tumor blood vessel// formation, and may hold the key to treating these deadly cancers, a research team reported in the August 15th issue of Cancer Research. Led by Jeremy Rich, M.D., associate professor at the P...

New Approach to Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

...and chemotherapy, ovarian cancer is still the most lethal form of gynecologic cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer death among women// in the United States; claiming 16,210 lives in 2005. Survival rates for ovarian cancer have remained stubbornly low because symptoms are often vague and mimic oth...

Bitter Pill: Thrills That Kill

...his life. Another prodigal had mixed a potentially lethal combination of a painkiller with beer that nipped his life in the bud. And God help those who underestimate the innocuous cough syrup which can turn wily, if you choose to drown yourself in it! When does use (of drugs) end and abuse begin? WHO h...

Anthrax claims lives of 700 animals.

...anthrax and hundreds of them have succumbed to the lethal bacterial disease//. The Canadian Food Agency has reported that nearly 118 animals in Manitoba have died owing to Anthrax. Health officials have down played the effects of this outbreak on Humans, owing to the precautionary measures of quarantine an...

"DES Daughters" Have High Risk Of Breast Cancer

...types, so are expected to be neither more nor less lethal than is commonly seen. Only a few deaths have occurred in the combined group due to breast cancer, so survival statistics are not yet available, she said. Scientifically, the study may be the first to provide direct evidence that prenatal exposur...

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