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Inflamed Intestines Cost Australians Heavily

... system anywhere from the mouth to the anus. It is named after the physician who described the disease in 1932. Crohn's disease is related closely to ulcerative colitis affecting the colon. The two are frequently referred to as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). They have no medical cure. Once the disease...

Novel Method to Inhibit Prostate Cancer

...ality in Applied Research for his work. The award, named for its donor, Yehezkel Barenholz, the Dr. Daniel G. Miller Professor of Cancer Research at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, was presented recently during the 70th meeting of the Hebrew Universitys Board of Governors. Prostate cancer ...

Four-legged Friends Connect Online at Dogster

... in South Africa; a New York City golden retriever named Copper, and Beanie, a poodle living in Malaysia. Annie has a blog, an online journal, to share her thoughts and adventures with friends. She is among more than 290,000 dogs worldwide with Internet personas portrayed in profile pages on Dogster. Fe...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...ation and peripheral neuropathy and died. The team named the strain pale tremor mice for their lack of normal pigment and the severe trembling they developed soon after birth. What could explain the mices debilitating symptoms" And could that knowledge be relevant in people with neurological diseases" Cl...

Pete Doherty "not Ready" to Quit Drug Use

...acqueline, as saying. Meanwhile Doherty has been named the "celebrity flatmate from hell" in a new poll. The results of the poll are based on the participants' responses to the question whether they would like to share the Big Brother house with some of the celebrities. According to British tabloid t...

Heart Care for Disadvantaged Children With American Help

...d the university for cooperation in the programme, named 'Save Heart, Save Child'. The first batch of operations under the programme began Monday. About 15 children, aged from one to 12 years will be treated over the next five days. American Consul General here David T. Hopper and Rajya Sabha member M.K....

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

... a family in Malaysia last year. The Melaka virus, named after the place it was discovered, is not believed to be a killer virus, but its symptoms of fever and respiratory illness are severe and it's easily passed on to others. It causes an illness with similar respiratory symptoms to deadly avian flu...

Chilean President's Cousin Successfully Tests Allergy 'Knockout' Technique on Mice

...s been honoured with the Barenholz Prize, which is named for the donor of the prize money and noted researcher Prof. Yehezkel Barenholz of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, in recognition of his contribution in the development of the "knockout technique" in special "antibody nose drops" agains...

Asian Workers Race Against Clock to Avoid Prison

...eer, told AFP. As Ghandi spoke, a badly-hurt man named Palani limped in to the Indian High School, supported by a sympathetic compatriot. Palani's lined face was etched with pain, his skin burnt by the sun, his chest covered in barely healed scars, and his legs hardly able to support him. His whispered...

A Fit of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgery

...throat, as she convulsed. This had led her to be named as "The Joker face," by her physician, Dr. Steven Schneider, of Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park. This girl, all of 3 years suffered a very uncommon type of epilepsy called gelastic epilepsy for the past one year. After the recent bre...

Brian Lara Opens Cancer Center Named After Him

...et Board at the formal opening of a cancer center named after him. He commended the persons and organizations involved in the construction and management of the Brian Lara Cancer Center for their "teamwork, integrity and use of technology," adding that these had "missed" the (West Indies) the Cricket Bo...

Two Australian Teenagers Sentenced to Life for Murder

...ir thirties. The two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named because of their age, pleaded guilty in March to the wilful murder of Eliza Jane Davis last June. Perth Children's Court President Denis Reynolds described the murder as "gruesome and merciless in the extreme". During lengthy sentencing remarks,...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

... loves, was born 22 years ago in Queens, N.Y. Then named Nick, she began wearing her younger sister's clothing when she was 5 years old -- at home and even at school. When her mother died a few years ago, Britney went to live with a grandmother in Baltimore who later kicked her out. Now unemployed and ...

Very Soon You can Eat to Your Hearts Content

...aturated fatty acids, "cis" and "trans," which are named according to their shapes. Trans-fatty acids are formed when vegetable oil is treated to make it less likely to go rancid and are found in many fried foods, baked goods and potato chips. Cis monounsaturated fat is naturally occurring and is partic...

Furious Reaction to insensitive Caption of the Picture of Abandoned Baby Girl

... counter depression. Catherine - as she has been named by her temporary carers - was found blue with cold in a cardboard fruit box, dumped outside the psychiatric wing of Dandenong Hospital early on Sunday morning. She is now being cared for at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital. "She (the mother)...

Study Implicates Protein as a Trigger of Advanced Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...blication in the journal on May 15. The protein, named Ack1, is a member of the tyrosine kinase gene family. Ack1 exerts its effect on the reemergence of the cancer by biochemically altering the now inactive androgen receptor in the nucleus of prostate of cells, according to a series of experiments condu...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

...es. The arrests bring to 17 the number of people named in the "rent-a-patient" scam allegedly operated out of Unity Outpatient Surgery Center in Buena Park. Deputy District Attorney Rick Welsh of the Economic Crimes Unit is carrying out the prosecution. The accused are Dr. Michael Cheeluen Chan, an o...

Hair Relaxers Not Linked With Breast Cancer Risk

...contain potentially harmful compounds. The study named Black Womens Health Study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Lynn Rosenberg at the Boston University and Howard University Cancer Center. Previous research has shown that breast cancer incidence is higher among African-American women age...

Australia Agonising Over the Problem of Cocaine Use by Lawyers

...g boss Tony Mokbel in which a Melbourne lawyer was named as someone using drugs. But the police also warned that the two parties having the conversation were unreliable witnesses. Using cocaine would be a ground for complaint as it is illegal; if it were proved to be affecting a lawyer's performance, he ...

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

...ing the course of study, the researchers initially named more than 100 features that appeared on scans, of which only 28 appeared to be significant for them to capture maximal information. Upon matching the imaging features with a vast stockpile of micro-array data generated from human liver cancer sampl...

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