Tag: "looking" at medical news

Breast Cancer Protein MSF Linked To Disease Severity

... two forms of this MSF protein, the scientists are looking into the properties of these two proteins, one protein was found in more than 90% of breast cancer patients and the other form is an inactive form usually found in people free of the disease. The researchers feel that breast cancer patients undergoin...

Men Victims Of Breast Cancer?

... she believes to be the first North American study looking at what men experience after a breast cancer diagnosis--important, considering the different ways men and women cope. Pituskin will be presenting her preliminary findings at the National Conference for Men's Health in Atlanta. Alberta's Cancer Regist...

Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

...plete epidemiological study involving more than By looking at more than 1,000 children’s with ALL were screened for gene fusion and found the pattern and type of gene fusion predicted the severity and prognosis to treatment. Children’s with fusion of etv6 with runx 1 - about 20% of children with ALL - had be...

Collaborations planned between British Organization and Indian health care industry

...he United Kingdom Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) is looking for collaboration and interaction with Indian Health care Hospitals. The Confederation of Indian Industry, CII had meetings with UKTI for new collaborations between // British organizations and Indian Health care providers. David Hawkins of UKTI ha...

Terminally Ill Patients Could Be Offered A Better Life

...amilies in their struggle to cope with the pain of looking after terminally ill people. "There is no legisla...a sympathetic ear to family members and caregivers looking after terminally ill patients. They also provide day care facilities and medicines and try to spread...

NSAIDS, Reduces The Risk Of Oral Cancer But Causes Heart Attacks

...esbyterian /Weill Cornell. "Specifically, we were looking for associations between the long-term use of traditional, non-COX-2-specific NSAIDs and the risk of oral cancer, since previous work has suggested that these drugs can lower risks for other malignancies, such as colon cancer," explained co-researche...

Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

...amilies in their struggle to cope with the pain of looking after terminally ill people. "There is no legisla...a sympathetic ear to family members and caregivers looking after terminally ill patients. They also provide day care facilities and medicines and try to spread...

Calls to combat deafness after chemotherapy

...s who survive chemotherapy. // The Institute is looking mainly at the effects of the anti-tumor agent cisplatin, which has been successfully used to combat a variety of cancers in adults as well as children. Cisplatin is a platinum-based chemotherapy, which has successfully cured 30 percent of cancers in ...

Limb Regeneration In Humans: A Future Possibility

...artly funded by The Healing Foundation charity, is looking to animals for clues to how the body can regenerate. Prof Amaya will focus on the genetics of wound healing and regeneration in frog embryos, which can heal without scars within hours, a feat possible for human embryos until the age of about six mo...

Home Based Rapid HIV Test Kit to be approved by US – OraQuick Test Ki

...We're watching this with great interest and we are looking for a change in UK law to allow and regulate home testing for HIV, but we need a test which combines sensitivity and simplicity, as currently, many people in the UK buy illegal home test kits for HIV over the internet and these are often of low quali...

Indian Government Sets Up Task Force For Avian flu

...e have spoken to Roche, Cipla and Ranbaxy, and are looking into the licensing and patent issues,’ said an official from the Health Ministry. The government is following the WHO Action Plan that classifies the disease in six phases. India is a Phase I country as no cases have been reported so far. ‘While w...

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...p Elmer-DeWitt, TIME science Editor said, “We were looking for people who had pioneered innovative ways to improve the health of poor people around the world and we have found 18 heroes contributing to health science from countries like Bolivia, China, Cambodia, Congo, Honduras, Kenya, Nepal, Mozambique, Mya...

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

... the same day. Only one man had the surname he was looking for, and within 10 days he had made contact. This ingenious investigation using the latest in Internet technology has massive implications for thousands of people who were conceived using donor sperm. There is an explosion of information of genetic...

Canadians flocking to India for quick and efficient medical treatment

...tional food. Even for dental care, Canadians are looking to India for treatment. Most insurance companies cover 80 per cent of the dental treatment costs. With simple procedures such as extractions and root canal treatments costing anywhere between Canadian $1000 to 1500, a visit to the dentist is a nightm...

A bird's eye view of the Bird Flu scare

...ns of this disease// and what exactly should we be looking at to avoid becoming a victim of this deadly condition. Bird flu basically is the viral flu that occurs in wild birds as well as domesticated ones including chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Normally, this condition is confined to the bird population an...

LINK Applied Genomics Programme Promises To Revolutionize Healthcare Systems

... an effective vaccine against salmonella. They are looking at mutant bacterial strains, which have proved effective against this pathogen. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) sponsored the LINKS pr...

Regular light exercise slows down aging of the brain

...ease and Parkinson's disease. Scientists are now looking to determine which natural chemicals and mechanisms are triggered by exercise to fight oxidative stress, and to test whether reducing the stress actually improves brain function....

Sugars Could Contain Key Cancer Inhibiting Compounds

... and nutrient supply to it. Cancer experts are now looking at sugar to halt the growth of tumors before they get out of hand and metastasize causing serious harm. The Clinical Cancer Research journal reports that this technique uses a complex natural sugar called heparin. "If someone has cancer, it has ofte...

‘India China Bhai Bhai’ on health Issus

...the traditional medicine systems. He said: "We are looking at establishing four medicinal plant processing zones - one each in North, South, East and West." He added that the government had plans to buy back 100 percent of the produce of farmers who plant medicinal plants in such zones. "I want to replicate ...

Apollo Hospitals Short-listed to Provide Diagnostics in the UK

...elling any of its facilities. Healthcare companies looking to participate in the NHS' outsourcing initiative will have to set up its own facilities to supplement the existing work and cover the back-log. No other Indian healthcare provider was in the fray. 'We have received the bid papers for one (London and...

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