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Alzheimer's Drug can be Used to Treat Nerve Agent and Pesticide Poisoning

...gents, such as soman and sarin, are among the most lethal chemical weapons ever developed. They have been us... be used as an antidotal therapy to counteract the lethal effects of even the most deadly organophosphorus compounds. "The only medication currently approve...

36 Children Die of Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh

...rea, but we cannot rule out the possibility of the lethal virus in days or weeks to come," said Gorakhpur Medical College principal O.P. Singh. The institution has been made the nodal centre for treatment and control of Japanese encephalitis that engulfs at least half a dozen districts in the region almost...

Using Multivitamins Before And After Conception Averts Preeclampsia

...ood pressure shoots up dangerously and could prove lethal for both mother and child. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh say that this condition could be avoided by taking multivitamins. The study is to be published in the Sept. 1 print issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology Overall, women ...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

...people in Ireland are being exposed to potentially lethal doses of radiation.// The warning issued by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) came after a house in Kerry was discovered to contain 40- fold the acceptable level of the deadly radioactive and cancer-causing gas, Radon. It i...

Malaria Truths Discovered By Einstein Researchers

...e new window into the genetic manipulation of this lethal parasite,” says Dr. William Jacobs, Jr., who is a Howard Hughes investigator and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology & immunology at Einstein and a major author of the Nature Methods paper. “Malaria researchers finally have an efficient...

"Serious Failings" Led To Spread Of Lethal Hospital Bug

...and said they were responsible for the spread of a lethal bug// at the hospital since they appeared to put NHS targets above infection control. A couple of outbreaks of Clostridium difficile at the hospital resulted in 33 deaths far more than the 12 originally thought. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt had...

New Way to Open Cellular Ion Channels, Implications for Drug Design

...cause cardiac arrhythmias, including a form of the lethal long QT syndrome. Voltage-gated ion channels are also present in the so-called non-excitable cells (such as immune, blood, and bone cells) whose membrane voltage stays largely constant, as opposed to the excitable cells whose membrane voltage const...

New Tool to Diagnose and Treat Breast Cancer

...ese undetected tumors will enlarge and become more lethal before they are identified in a later screening or when they become clinically apparent. (Source: Newswise)...

NHS 24 Is A Failure. Says Sheriff

...s has been blamed for failing to properly diagnose lethal conditions in two people who died later//. Sheriff James Tierney ruled that the system failed in case of a teenage girl and a 30-year-old man. "In each case, had these signs and symptoms which were presenting been properly identified, or [had] the ...

Gene Mutations Causing Rett Syndrome Occur in Both Sexes

... for a defective one, mutations in MECP2 are often lethal to the male fetus. This is why RTT is found overwhelmingly in females. RTT occurs in a variety of racial and ethnic groups worldwide and is now known to occur in 1:10,000 to 1:23,000 female births, but incidence may be far greater as new genetic evid...

Aortic Dissection - A Deadly Condition

Actor John Ritter died of a lethal condition called aortic dissection (a tear in the ...for IRAD. "Aortic dissection is still very much a lethal health crisis, with mortality approaching 2 percent per hour. But these results show we're doing a p...

WHO Warns That Bird Flu Virus Could Mutate Anytime

... said that the risk of the H5N1 virus undergoing a lethal mutation is still high. In a report analyzing 205 infections that occurred from December 2003 and April 2006. // Since the human infections have peaked in winter and spring months, the WHO also warned that the same could happen towards the end of th...

Cheaper Vaccines From Tomatoes To Fight HIV, Hepatitis B

...cine could be used against two of the world's most lethal viruses namely HIV and hepatitis B//. Researchers have declared that it would be possible to create cheap vaccines that could be grown and processed in poorer countries where there is a very large need but no funds available to produce the existin...

Bird Flu Vaccine Trials In Australia

...urne pharmaceutical manufacturer, CSL, against the lethal H5N1 virus, have begun by the scientists in Perth. The vaccine could prove a powerful weapon in the fight against bird flu and is the only one of its kind, being developed in the southern hemisphere. .Initial tests, conducted by Melbourne research...

Four Deaths Due To Bird Flu Caught From Wild Birds

...in Azerbaijan, and are believed to have caught the lethal H5N1 virus when they collected the dead swans to sell the feathers for pillows. They also said that three other people who were infected by the swans have survived the scare. Andreas Gilsdorf, an epidemiologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berli...

Added Stress To Pregnant Mothers From Pre-Scan Warnings

...age of 33. 15 of the 39 fetuses were affected by lethal anomalies and 11 were non lethal. Surgery was possible in a further 12, but five of these carried a significant risk of death. One displayed a number of anomalous markers, but the prognosis was uncertain. "The question about how much information sh...

Survivors of SARS Aid in Bird Flu Vaccine Development

Survivors of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu would help to develop a vaccine against influenza //. Research conducted by an international team at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by lead author, Prof Antonio Lanzavecchia has revealed the...

Striking a Gold Mine: H5N1 Vaccine may Serve as an Antidote for Mutants and Variants

...at the vaccine completely protected ferrets from a lethal nasal infection against not only the original virus the vaccine was made to thwart, but also against a newer variant that has already proved fatal to humans. The ferrets experienced a more significant reduction of virus multiplication than otherwise ...

Galloping Horse Disease

A lethal viral infection has affected a small portion of the horses in the Meath/Kildare region of Ireland, which is causing concern. // According to reports from The Department of Agriculture and Food in Ireland,this disease called EIA, or Equine Infectious ...

PIL Raises The Issue Of Spurious Drugs

...KEM hospital's drug store. But the shot produced a lethal reaction in Aman, who died on April 6. The injection was later found to be spurious, following which criminal case was initiated aginst the KEM authorities, which is still pending in the High Court. Source:PTI News...

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