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Poisoning by fruits similar to blackberries

...ingesting the fruit, the child began to vomit dark material and presented a drunken-like state. The child was taken to a general practitioner who called the Poison Control Center in Marseille. Since, the plant species involved had not been identified at that time and given the severity of the symptoms, the ...

New sensors developed to predict effectiveness of radiotherapy treatment

...is based on the working principle of semiconductor material that senses the incoming radiation and transmits it to a display unit. INVORAD also developed a cylindrical 'body phantom'. The 'phantom' is given the prescribed dose and the sensors pick up the dose actually delivered. If the 'phantom' treatment m...

Emergency Treatment Found Wanting In Anaphylactic Reactions

...parent from this study that additional educational material needs to be reviewed with each patient. Not only do they need to know how to use their auto-injector, but they also need to know about the various symptoms and signs that might indicate that a anaphylactic reaction is occurring,” Dr. Westbrook conlu...

Cipla In India Can Manufacture Drug For Bird Flu

...here at a tenth of the price and stock it. The raw material for Tamiflu - shikimic acid is currently selling at $1,000 a kilo from the usual $40 a kilo due to the huge demand in the world market for Tamiflu. "Today price is the issue and tomorrow availability will be the issue,'' added Mr. Shah. D.G.Shah, Se...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

...marrow, results from mistakenly exchanging genetic material in chromosomes 9 and 22 during cell division. The translocation creates a new, fused gene (called BCR-ABL), that produces an enzyme called Bcr-Abl, which permanently "turns on" cell growth signals that are normally controlled by another group of enzy...

Link Between Hepatitis C And Liver Cancer Unraveled By Scientists

...’. A replicon is nothing but a part of the genetic material of the hepatitis C virus that has the intrinsic property of self-replication and protein production. Experimental studies involving the replicons have enabled researchers identify a tumor suppressor protein, named NS5B. This protein has been found to...

Mother Claims Hefty Compensation For Failed Abortion Of Twins

...id after the abortion in January 2001 that no live material was left behind in her uterus. She adds that doctors had given her contraceptives and advised her that she could gain weight and suffer from irregular menstrual cycles as a result of the injection. She claims that when she subsequently gained weight,...

Kirin Develops a Cure for Bird Flu

...n with the Japanese university has developed a new material to raze bird flu. <br.Hence this fabric could be used for mask, clothing by health care officials and other people who are required to work closely with the deadly virus. This fabric can also be used in poultry farms to prevent the spread of inf...

Decoding the Fungi Genome Will Save Millions of Lives.

...ng responsible for almost all degradation of plant material as well as recycling nitrogen. Aspergillus fumigatus is a major constituent of compost, and mould fungi have been important sources of drugs including penicillin and cyclosporin," said The David Denning, who coordinated the project. However, they a...

Illicit body parts from cadavers used for transplant

...ctious disease. The lawsuits allege the transplant material was not properly screened and fraudulently obtained, the Daily News said. A grand jury has been hearing evidence against at least a half-dozen funeral homes and Biomedical Tissue on allegations that they conspired to sell stolen body parts. Author...

Guidant sold defective defibrillators with full knowledge

...all associated with Guidant's use of an insulating material in a way that caused it to deteriorate. Dr. William H. Maisel, a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said yesterday in a telephone interview that all heart device makers typically perform hazards assessments after discove...

Queensland Bans OTC Sales Of Cold And Flu Drugs

...is genuine. Pseudoephedrine is often used as a raw material to manufacture speed and combination with cocaine. This is the most abused drug on the streets among the youth. It has also emerged that the Pharmacy Guild of Australia will monitor the sales of these cold and flu drugs so that amphetamine labs do ...

stents Result in allergic reactions

...rgic reaction is found to be caused by the plastic material used in the stents which may be the cause of allergic reactions. The researchers feel that the risk of allergy due to the plastic can be reduced by using metal stents or conventional surgeries....

Rehabilitate Sex Workers - Mata Amritanandamayi

... Pervez Musharraf to send relief workers or relief material to the quake-affected areas on the other side of the divide, but found no positive response. Source: ANI...

Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene

... of swapping and fusing of genes and other genetic material between chromosomes, but also an increase in the number of chromosomes compared to normal cells. The high frequency of DNA rearrangements in Rev3L/p53-deficient cells suggests that pol zeta in normal cells is responsible for preventing double-stran...

Metastasis of Neuroblastoma linked to Loss Of Caspase-8 gene

...ra cellular matrix. Extra cellular matrix is the material present outside the cell, which gives structure to the tissue. When caspase-8 goes and binds to these Integrin molecules it triggers apoptosis. But in case of tumor that is metastasizing the unbound Integrin molecules are free and when caspase-8 bi...

Unregulated Fish Industry Harms Health Of Women

...ng into various kinds of gloves and other handling material that could provide protection to the women workers. Affiliated to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), studies by NIOH have revealed that the fish processing units lack regulation, as they do not come under the purview of industrial regu...

Synthetic Bone Tissue Could Be the Answer to Disfigurement Caused by Oral Cancer

...tion (ADA) to build "a tissue engineered composite material for oral reconstruction." Brian Love, Virginia Tec...nstructions could result if a more viable scaffold material were used that was capable of faster and higher quality bone formation." His team is monitoring how ...

WHO Gives Its Approval For Bird Flu Test Kit

...ss lies in the test kit's primers, bits of genetic material unique to the H5N1 strain, which anchor onto their identical portions of the gene in virus samples, the company said. These are magnified through a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), enabling even minute amounts of the virus to be detect...

Norwegian Cancer Expert Faked Patient Data

...the treatment of oral cancer, it has emerged. "The material was fabricated," said Trine Lind, spokeswoman// for the hospital. "We are shocked. This is the worst thing that could happen in a research institution like ours." She admitted that Dr Jon Sudbo falsified data involving patients and their case histo...

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