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Penn Scientists Engineer Small Molecules to Probe Proteins Deep Inside Cell Membrane

...g such tools as antibodies, they have not had such methods to investigate the membrane-embedded portions of proteins. To probe the secrets of these seemingly inaccessible proteins, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have designed peptides that are able to bind to specific regi...

A Sweet Step Toward New Cancer Therapies

...acterize these glycans, but traditional analytical methods have not been sufficient.Now, Hakansson's research group has demonstrated that their technique can be used to identify and structurally characterize glycans. Their work is described in the April 15 issue of the journal Analytical Chemistry.Typically,...

Malaysia Seeks Help to Set Up Ayurvedic Hospital

... and saw the teaching and training activities, the methods of preparing different kinds of medicines in the pharmacy and other hospital activities," Sharma added. NIA is an apex institute under the central government's department of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy). The...

Cryoablation: A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients

...ng home. Surgeons continue to seek less invasive methods than the traditional radical nephrectomy (removal of cancerous kidney) for the treatment of small tumors, and percutaneous cryoablation is now on the list. With the incidence of kidney cancer steadily increasing over the last 20 years, and the Americ...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

...a cycle of pain and poverty. Low-cost preventive methods include providing safe drinking water supplies, filtering water through fine-mesh cloth and treating ponds with Abate, which kills water fleas. To contain infection, health workers clean the ulcer, gradually pulling out the worm, disinfecting and ban...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...ys better than cure, and one of the most important methods is colon screening. Colon screening performed via a test called the colonoscopy should be mandatory for all persons above 50, say doctors. "Everybody is supposed to get screened for colon cancer right after they reach the age of 50," says DuBois...

Gene Test Shown to Measure Heart Function After Transplant

...who can be monitored and managed using noninvasive methods such as the GEP test. Those patients may benefit from being more aggressively weaned off intensive immunosuppressive regimens. This new research suggests that the use of this test may have much greater potential than simply identifying patients witho...

Number of Specialists Best at Treating Children's Fractures Decreasing

...ing general orthopedists about the latest surgical methods available for pediatric fracture care. The hope is that this type of training will help fill a gap that could have potential negative health outcomes for children. As part of their commitment to the care of children with orthopedic injuries, HSS h...

Detection of Malignant Breast Tumors Made Simpler and More Effective

..., mammography, according to Frangioni. But the two methods used together, he says, may potentially catch more cancers than mammography alone. Mammography is still considered the “gold standard” for early detection of breast cancer, but the method often gives false positives, requiring additional screening...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

...ges in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the low cost methods to prevent people from being infected are providing safe drinking water supplies, filtering drinking water using fine-mesh cloth, and preventing infected people from wading into water sources to relieve the pain. It is also possible to gradually pull...

Inquiry into Past NHS Treatment Disaster

...ks of transmission of blood -borne viruses, recent methods are the use of artificially created such proteins. The Hemophilia Society of UK has welcomed the inquiry. NN...

Autistic Children can Interpret Mental States by Facial Expressions: Research

...clusions of previous research are largely based on methods that present static photographs to participants,” Back continued. “Our study indicates that a more accurate measure of the abilities of those with autism can be obtained through the use of sophisticated digital imaging techniques with animated facial...

A New Test Kit to Detect Spoilt Food

...detect by the average consumer. Current scientific methods used to identify foodborne pathogens often require expensive equipment, are time consuming (ranging from hours to days) and involve complicated analyses carried out by trained professionals. The researchers are working to improve the speed, sensiti...

Chinese Doctors Perform World’s First Disc Transplant

...ngland for degenerative back problems. But current methods do not offer guarantees that the pain will go or that it will not recur. These methods include spinal fusion - which surgically joins bones in the spine, making them rigid - or artificial...

Energy Supplement Under Study for Parkinson's Disease

...ys Buff Dill, MCG study coordinator. A number of methods will be used to periodically measure disease progression, including the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale. Following disease progression over many years and measuring endpoints such as falling, nursing home placement, dementia and death is t...

New Screening Techniques for Cervical Cancer in Chennai Government Hospital

...he equipment, it has been stated. The screening methods are simple enough for a village health nurse to adopt, officials say. Under the `varumun kappom' (preventive healthcare) scheme of the state government, the KGH has screened 17,092 women of whom 1,000 were identified for further evaluation. In ...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...d to confront the under-use of current needle-free methods driven by the pain and discomfort experienced by p...ns, the team established bioequivalence of the two methods with absolutely no adverse side effects using the new technique in contrast to the bleeding and brui...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect of Smallpox Vaccine

...ard Jenner used in the late 1700s to develop early methods of vaccination. The boy has received the primary treatment for eczema vaccinatum, a drug called vaccinia immune globulin, or VIG. The drug came from a stockpile the CDC keeps in case widespread vaccination ever becomes necessary. He had also got ...

TB Vaccines: Ring Out the New, Bring in the Old

...advises more research into the matter coupled with methods of making the present vaccines more effective. The Health Protection Agency of U.K welcomed the research and added that EU sponsored clinical trials were in the process of re-evaluating older strains. The agency was quoted: "A number of other app...

Barking Up the Right Tree to Cure Retinoblastoma

...UCSF, in their quest to find alternative treatment methods for retinoblastoma devoid of strong side-effects, sought to experiment with the tree bark extract, called beta-lapachone. The extract was found to be useful in the treatment of other types of cancers like breast and prostate cancer. Their experimen...

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