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World's Oldest Mother Admits Her Actual Age

... deliver her babies. She// gave birth to twin sons named Pau and Christian on December 29, 2006. Bousada, who turned 67 this month, lied by saying she was only 55, which was the clinic’s cut off age for treating single women. She said that she had to sell her house in Spain for raising $59,000, which has...

FDA Approves A New Pill For Treatment Of Acne

FDA has approved a new drug, named YAZ, which can be used as an oral contraceptive for birth control and also for treating acne.// The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have formulated this drug especially for woman, which can also treat emotional and physical symptoms of premenstru...

New Tool Improves Prediction of Stroke Risk

...early risk of stroke following a serious condition named transient ischemic attack, known as TIA and also called// a "mini-stroke," according to a study. About 240,000 TIAs are diagnosed every year in the United States and about 70,000 in the United Kingdom. A TIA is a serious condition caused by tempor...

New Computed Imaging Technique Uses Hazy Images to Improve View

...mages from hazy and unclear data. The technique, named Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy, ISAM is beneficial to optical microscopy, just the same way ‘magnetic resonance imaging’ is to nuclear magnetic resonance, and what computed tomography did for X-ray imaging, the scientists say. "ISAM ...

EU States Agree on Clone Food Plan

...od told DairyReporter.com. News of the UK cow, named Dundee Paradise, came less than two weeks after authorities in the US signalled they intended to approve milk and meat from clones for human consumption. “We will continue to monitor developments, but we recognise this technology is only emerging ...

Bird-flu Vaccine Adjuvant Contract Goes to Novartis

...ght changes in the existing seasonal-flu adjuvant, named MF59. MF59 was developed by Chiron from water and shark liver oil, and is used by older people who need to boost their immune systems. Health experts opine that two doses of a vaccine might be required to protect someone against H5N1, with 90 micro...

Stock of Adrenaline Runs Out, in New Zealand Hospitals

...lso worried that the US substitute for adrenaline, named "Epinephrine", could cause some delays during emergencies. "In an emergency situation, medical staff may not immediately recognize that the ampoules provided are indeed adrenalin, and treatment may be delayed," he said. SA...

Acid Test - Glaxo's Cervarix, and Merck's Gardasil, Compete

...hile Glaxo's Cervarix, uses a proprietary adjuvant named as AS04. Glaxo is confident of AS04’s effectiveness and that’s why the trial. Brian Lortie, Glaxo's vice president of operations for the vaccine, said, ``we as a company think that the adjuvants differentiate the company. These are always risks th...

Noah, the Great Survivor of Katrina

... Orleans' Lakeland Hospital. // The baby has been named Noah, after the great survivor. Noah Benton Markham was one among the 1400 embryos in coolant tanks, frozen in liquid nitrogen when floods hit the hospital. The embryo-containing tanks were moved from the first floor to the third as the hurricane w...

Conference on Drink and Drug Abuse in Scotland

...ce of senior police, academics and health experts, named as the Holyrood conference. The conference endeavors to conduct a thorough evaluation of drink and drug abuse. Tom Wood, who belongs to the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams, has stressed the importance of prevention methods in ...

New Gene to Help in Understanding Alzheimer’s Diseas

..., and Columbia University have discovered the gene named SORL1.The findings were published in Nature Genetics. The reasearchers spent five years locating the newly discovered gene, using DNA samples. These were collected from more than 6,000 volunteers from four distinct ethnic groups. Scientists have...

Indian American Doctor Fights for Information

...TI) Act, 2005. The petition filed on Jan 11 also named WBMC president Ashok Chowdhury, its registrar D.K. Ghosh as well as the West Bengal Information Commissioner, charging them with violating the act. Saha's wife Anuradha had died from alleged medical negligence during a trip to Kolkata in 1998. The ...

Bowel Cancer and Lifestyle Choices

...er week and healthier diet patterns. The study is named ‘LiveWell’ and hopes to establish a correlation between BMI, exercise and rate of recurrence and survival of the cancer. Survival rates of this cancer have improved considerably over the last years. A survival rate of 50 percent of patients, five ye...

A New Drug To Address Canine Obesity

...g manufacturer has made a new weight-reducing drug named Slentrol to control obesity in dogs. Nowadays as the owners work late hours, the dogs lounge around all day and the lack of exercise coupled with the fatty food they get to eat makes them obese. “This is a welcome addition to animal therapies, be...

Dawn Machine Beats Wintertime Blues

...nal of Psychiatry. They have found a Simulator, named as Dawn Simulator that mimics the atmosphere of dawn, helping in reducing depressions linked to lack of winter sun and the “Negative Air Ionization" delivered at the bedside, to be effective as well. Scientists have claimed that the machine that b...

Latest Research on Visual Skills is an Eye Opener

... study how visual skills are acquired. The project named "Project Prakash" aims to study, identify and, treat, children who are blind from birth, in India. The case of a lady born blind was studied by the professor, appears in the journal Psychological Science in the December 2006 issue. Dr. Sinha along ...

Britain’s Hearts in Good Care – Deaths Due to Heart Disease Falls by 3%

...the survival rates of CHD considerably. The report named “Shaping the future” has indeed shown the impact of strategies to combat CHD on a nation that was battling a mammoth killer accounting for nearly 270,000 heart attacks each year. The report has shown the huge strides taken in the treatment of patie...

Herpes Simplex and Alzheimer’s Disease Linked to Single Gen

...nce that suggests a link between a particular gene named ApoE-4 with the occurrence of herpes simplex infection//. The journal, Neurobiology of Aging, published the results of the research. In older individuals, the same gene is implicated in causing Alzheimer’s disease. This research now is of much inte...

Sex Ends as Seasons Shift and Kisspeptin Levels Plummet

...emperate climes. KiSS-1 and kisspeptin were not named whimsically. They were originally associated with metastatic tumor suppression (the SS in KiSS-1 stands for "suppressor sequence"). The subsequent connection of KiSS-1 and kisspeptin to reproductive function was entirely fortuitous. Source-Newswise...

Clones On the Menu

...at they had successfully created a copy of a sheep named Dolly. Clones are made by transferring genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose nucleus has been removed. Scientists then stimulate cell division in a lab until the cloned embryo is ready to be implanted into a female host animal. As thi...

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