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More about HIV

...here it inserts itself as part of the host DNA. In many cases, the inserted viral genes remain dormant, so... T cells. As a result, the patient develops one of many different infections and illnesses associated with AIDS.Stage IV: Progression to AIDS. T4 cell count...

Early Clue to Down Syndrome

...own syndrome, a grave genetic disease that prompts many parents to terminate pregnancies. Combined with other important risk factors for the disorder, such as a mother's advancing age, the test is even more accurate at catching affected fetuses. Dr. Kypros Nicolaides, a fetal medicine specialist at King...

A new contraceptive

...hormone-based contraceptive. Hormones are found in many different tissues. Working with mice, the researchers discovered that the sperm of mice without the CatSper gene were unable to penetrate the outer covering of the egg, the zona pellucida. But when the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs that had ...

Mouthwash as a weapon

...arried in the saliva of mosquitoes which causes as many as 3.2m deaths worldwide every year. While a pra... triclosan could prove cheaper to manufacture than many existing antimalarials.// Triclosan is the anti-bacterial ingredient of mouthwashes, and acne medi...

New therapy for pimples

... reducing the number of spots by three-quarters.As many as one in 18 adults have persistent pimples, which can prove stubbornly resistant to both creams and antibiotics. Some acne does clear up significantly when exposed to UV light. The new treatment, tested by doctors at Hammersmith Hospital in Londo...

How to prevent wrinkles?

...at a group of 300 people aged 60 or over living in many countries . They have found that whether they were fair or dark-skinned, those who ate lots of green leafy vegetables, beans, olive oil, nuts and multigrain bread, were less susceptible to wrinkling. Eating less butter, red meat and sugar was also l...

Sex life enhanced by cycling

...nd it hard to get an erection. The problem is that many of these men cannot take the anti-impotence drug sildenafil because it interacts with medication for heart failure. Researchers in France reported on the study of the effects of exercise// on men with heart failure and sexual dysfunction. They stud...

Chlamydia toxin- a secret killer

...ad to blindness and gynaecological conditions. For many years, it's been suspected that the pathogen produces a toxin that helps it invade cells and cause these chronic health problems.// Now, at last, the suspect toxin has been found by completing the Chlamydia genome. The toxin turns out to be similar...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...hanges resulting from a signficant slep debt mimic many of the hallmarks of ageing.''// The Chicago team... of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls many of the body's "involuntary" functions.Dr McKinley, a consultant respiratory physician at Edinburgh ...

Patients Pressure Would Result In Overprescription

...revalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But in many cases, doctors' over-prescribing of medication may not be due to misdiagnoses, but to insistent requests and subtle hints from their patients. // Scott and his colleagues analyzed data from a 1996-1999 observational study of nearly 300 outpatient v...

A need for new stem cell lines

...ase, Alzheimer's and diabetes. One issues is that many of the existing lines were "cultured with animal cells and serum" creating the fear that pathogens in mice or cows could be transmitted to humans if the stem cells are used for therapeutic applications. Another problem is that patient's immune syste...

Cardiac diseases develop early

...oted that the ages of 14 to 16 is a time span when many boys go through puberty. They went on to suggest that a healthy diet, regular exercise and weight control in adolescents can help to postpone or prevent serious health problems as adults....

Research of Ritalin

...cience."Children have been given Ritalin daily for many years, and it is extremely effective and beneficial, but it's not quite as simple as a short-acting drug,It does appear to be safe when used properly, but it is still important to ask what it is doing in the brain."said Dr Walker. Mice were used in ...

Hike in drug licence fee could hit several SSI units in TN

...tate is reeling under tight market conditions with many companies on the brink of closure. // The drug manufacturing licence fee in the state has been raised from Rs. 1500 to Rs. 5000 per product. The new rate for product inspection is pegged at Rs. 300 per product if a company manufactures more than 1...

Activated charcoal for poisoning treatment

...ne powder form of processed charcoal that binds to many types of poisons and can keep them from being abso...use of activated charcoal has been limited because many parents don't know about it or are uncertain how to administer it. Study found that parents could su...

Enzyme may be target for obesity drugs

...s very likely that the same pathway is involved in many cases of human obesity. Blocking the enzyme may be an important new tool for treating obesity and its complications....

Early delivery can prevent cancer

...d with a known carcinogen, they did not develop as many mammary tumours as expected. The research was carried out by a team at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US.// About 10% of women in the West will develop breast cancer at some stage of their lives. Epidemiological evidence has long point...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

...e phospholipid, Koo said.“This may be a reason why many studies found no association between egg intake and cholesterol,” he said. The phospholipid or lecithin, found in egg inhibits cholesterol absorption. The inhibition is not 100 present, he said. Some cholesterol is absorbed but amount is reduced in ...

A new treatment for liver cancer

...r size or the number of tumours. Till date, it has many patients have undergone this treatment with advanced liver tumours, who cannot be treated by any other means. TheraSphere involves injecting millions of microscopic glass beads containing the radioactive element yttrium into the femoral and hepatic...

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

... that in ICSI pregnancies there are three times as many sex chromosome abnormalities, including loss of the Y chromosome. However, the risk was still very low, with only 10 out of almost 1,600 fetuses created by ICSI containing the defects. The team say that mutations in the Y chromosome may be a sign ...

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