Trading Flesh for Discount Clothes Lands Young Women in Trouble -AIDS
... awareness in Iran regarding the infection and the manner of its spread. When questioned, some of the shopkeepers and salesmen in the Qaam mall in northern Tehran confessed to their escapades with prostitutes. Amir Fathi, head of the Iran Positive Life organization, which has the backing of the UNICEF and...Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug
...o himself as Rumphius, in the Latinized scientific manner of the day. Rumphius was a German-born naturalist who worked for the Dutch East Indies Company. His book is an account of the herbal healing traditions on the Indonesian island of Ambon. Rumphius' description of Atun kernels' therapeutic properties i...Healthy Potato Chips: A Trans Fat Oil With Health Benefits
...cent. The term “trans fatty acids” refers to the manner in which carbon atoms are bound together in the oil molecules. Jain adds iodine as a catalyst to destabilize double bonds that connect the carbon atoms. Proctor said energy from the photo irradiation causes those double bonds to shift position, a che...Embryonic Selection of Sex can Avoid Conceiving Blind Children
...s because, in order to select healthy embryos in a manner that does not involve sex selection, it would be essential to know the exact mutation in the chromosome, something that has not been achieved in this particular case. This embryonic selection enables the prevention of the transmission of this dise...US Biotech to Invest $400 Mn in Himachal Pradesh
...million for Himachal to be carried out in a phased manner to manufacture DNA Diagnostics equipment to enable highly accurate and reliable detection of DNA or RNA based pathogen within minutes," said Goel. She said Himachal Pradesh had the potential to emerge as a major centre of nano-biotechnology in Indi...Fake Vaccines And Drugs Cause Concern In China
...ure, will be handed over to the police in a timely manner for investigation," it said. The health ministry has recorded 2,254 rabies infections in the first nine months of 2006. PRI...Scientists Devise a Novel Way to Organize Stem Cells
... the top of this pattern and allowed to grow, in a manner mimicking the pattern of the base. Subsequently, the team would be working on creating cartilage and fat cells. This technique is indeed promising, but still needs to be researched and tested before it can be used on humans....A Snapshot of the Findings of the National Family Health Survey in India
...red during the survey ,can be used to evaluate the manner with which the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) tackles the disease in the future. SA...Medicinal Plant Rediscovered After 115 Years
... two sepals, was also found growing in a scattered manner in the state's Namdapha National Park in the eastern Changlang district. 'Actually we found the plant first in 2004 and again during another visit in October 2005 in the two places. But it takes time for verification and hence it took a long time ......nd is known to directly benefit metabolism and the manner with which energy is expended. The study found that mice which were given a fat laden diet in addition to resveratrol, did not gain as much weight as the mice on a normal fatty diet. The results were the same for resveratrol-treated mice consuming...Athletic Gear in Youth Not Protective Against Near Fatal Blows to chest
...enough for young athletes if the chest is hit in a manner that triggers an irregular heartbeat called ventricular fibrillation. "If the blow occurs directly over the heart at a particular time in the heart's cycle, the results can be catastrophic," said the report's lead author, Dr. Barry Maron, director ...Alternative Splicing - Molecular Cloning
...w the splicing machinery was able to assemble in a manner that again conformed to the predictions of the RNA map. In one case, Nova blocked specific components of the splicing machinery; in another it enhanced the ability of this machinery to assemble the right way and use an alternatively spliced site that...Patient Advised to visit Exorcist
...ations where Dr Pratt, is charged with acting in a manner that was 'irresponsible, unprofessional, intimidatory to her patient and liable to bring the profession into disrepute'. In addition the three-day GMC fitness hearing in Manchester will investigate accusations that the GP told the patient her moth...If The World Wide Web is Your Self Proclaimed Physician, Trouble Could be Just a Click Away
...no quality checks and may not impact the user in a manner that it claims. Moreover the drugs may have serious often irrevocable side effects which are seldom known to patients. In the scenario, readers must use their discretion to sift authentic information and patronize sites that provide reliable inform...A 100 years after the first diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
...nd vaccine research in an effort to understand the manner in which AD develops and progresses. Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, feel that this study would help to advance the treatment and prevention of this progressive brain disorder. About 20 million Americans ......trait and decoding them have helped understand the manner by which each of the cancer types develop. Scientists will study engagingly in the future to better understand the strategy behind the mutations, which could lead to the birth of high-end drugs....Antidepressants linked to infertility in men
... Effexor. The sperm count was affected in the same manner as with the previous drug. Similar effect has been found in several other patients. A clinical trial is being conducted on 30 men prescribed sertraline. Peter Schlegel, who presented the research yesterday at the American Society for Reproductive M...Brain's pleasure chemical doubles up for pain as well
...charge of sending signals between brain cells in a manner which extols a person or animal for the continuous activity that go on in succession. // Novel research has shown that certain drugs like cocaine and heroin can simply intensify this effect . Now, a new study from the University of Michigan adds a...Basis for Nerve fiber Damage in Multiple Sclerosis Discovered
...tment of a severe disease. The study indicated the manner in which immune system B-cells damage axons in the course of MS attacks by hampering the energy production in nerve fiber cells, ultimately bringing about natural death of these cells. Study is published in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Immunol......f HIV that will inevitably evolve in the body in a manner that was designed to reduce immunodominance. One such strategy – polytopic vaccination – involves giving vaccines against different strains of the same disease simultaneously in different parts of the body. The approach capitalizes on the fact that d...