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Himachal Pradesh Launches Strawberry Wine

...research by experts and will be called Kalpa wine, named after the tribal town Kalpa in Kinnaur district, which produces some of the best wines in the country. "We have received a large order for the new product from the governments of Goa and Kerala," said C.R.B. Lalit, the company's managing director. ...

Glucose Sensor That Controls Glucose Metabolism Identified

...rpose of storage in adipose tissue. This sensor is named Liver X Receptor. Its dual function makes it a potential site that can be targeted to treat clinical disorders such as diabetes and obesity. This research may also be the forerunner for therapies for stroke and other heart diseases. In some recent a...

Optimum Period is Five Years to Treat Osteoporosis: Study

... out that women who stopped using a bisphosphonate named alendronate after using it regularly for half a decade seemed to have the same incidence of fractures of spine as those who continued using it for a indefinite time period. Over thousand women took part in the research for a period of ten years. The...

Women Faces No Risk on Discontinuation of Osteoporosis Drug

...tmenopausal osteoporosis. The initial study was named the Fracture Intervention Trial or FIT, and its results were reported in 1996 and 1998. The follow-up study now being reported is known as FLEX, for FIT Long-Term Extension. It was designed to evaluate the effects on BMD for a total of 10 years, c...

Therapy Modulates Highly Sensitized Immune System to Let Mother Give Kidney to Daughter

...ited States. For 18 consecutive years, it has been named Los Angeles’ most preferred hospital for all health needs in an independent survey of area residents. Cedars-Sinai is internationally renowned for its diagnostic and treatment capabilities and its broad spectrum of programs and services, as well as b...

Novel Brain Scan to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

...proved to be agile and healthy. A chemical tracer named FDDNP which is a marker was injected to all volun...proved to be agile and healthy. A chemical tracer named FDDNP which is a marker was injected to all volunteers. This compound after reaches the brain cells...

How to Bell the Fat? –Most U.S Citizens Concerned, Reveals Surve

...he response from 800 adults, found that nearly 27% named 'obesity', as the most worrying health factor; inadequate health care or insurance followed next with 16% strongly advocating action, while 9% felt the most important health issue is to address 'nutrition and unhealthy diets'. The survey also esta...

Italian Court Presides Over the Judgment of Incurably Ill Italian Man, Pleading Euthanasia

...residing over a milestone case regarding a patient named Piergiorgio Welby - suffering// from muscular dystrophy, paralyzed and terminally ill – who has petitioned the court to allow the doctors to disengage him from the respirator, and allow him to die. Italy, largely influenced by Roman Catholic sentim...

Stem Cells In Brain Have Potential For Sensing Damage And To Repair

...e in such a way that they lacked two key proteins, named Numb and Numblike. A postnatal mouse brains autopsy conducted 7 and 14 days after the genetic modification revealed that absence of proteins Numb and Numblike led to severe brain ventricle enlargement. To the astonishment of the researchers, the ...

A New System To Regulate Use Of Chemicals

A new system named REACH: Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals, has shifted the burden or responsibility of handling safe chemicals to the// manufacturers. The chemical companies would be bound by law to make use of only safe chemicals for safety o...

Wine, Women And Longevity

... in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and named The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.The group of women comprised of non-drinkers, occasional drinkers and moderate drinkers. The study found that non-drinkers and women who rarely drank had a significantly higher risk of dying durin...

Art of Living Foundation to Set Up University in Orissa

...an amalgamation of science and spirituality. To be named as Sri Sri University, it will be built on 200 acres of land on the outskirts of the state capital. It will have a capacity to cater to 15,000 students, up to 1,500 faculty members and a matching number of the non-teaching staff. The proposed uni...

Impotent? No Problem – Have An Injectio

...studied. The procedure involves injecting a gene named hSlo (for the human slowpoke gene). This gene encodes a protein, which relaxes smooth muscle in the penis and allows blood flow into it. The gene is incorporated into a packet of DNA called a plasmid, which acts as a carrier. The lead investigato...

Survival of Mice With Human Breast Cancer Extended by Monoclonal Antibodies

...r 2006 issue of Journal Neoplasia. The antibody, named JAA-F11, targets a particular disaccharide, an antigen known as TF-Ag, which aids the adhesion and spread of certain cancer cells. While the antibody did not kill the cancer cells, it blocked stages of cancer-cell growth that allow the cells to adher...

Funds Allocated To Prevent Transmission of HIV From Mother To Child

...dia, has come up with another project. This scheme named "Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS" //is expected to cost Rs 342.81-crores. The Global Fund aids the financial assistance for this scheme. The fund will also be spent for reducing the transmission of HIV to women from their p...

Gene Discovered by Researchers Tied to Pancreatic Cancer

...nts die within five years. Palladin, which Otey named for 16th century architect Andrea Palladio, “is very involved in the architecture of cells, specifically via the actin cytoskeleton, a polymer protein complex that provides much of the basis for cell shape,” Otey said. In 1996 Dr. Teresa A. Brentna...

Targeting a Single Gene Could Inhibit Bone Decay and Stimulate Bone Growth

...eniors with osteoporosis.” Dr. Choi was recently named the 2006 winner of Korea’s prestigious Ho-Am Prize for his work in osteoimmunology. The award recognizes scholars and researchers who make outstanding achievements by international standards while encouraging future activities of even higher levels a...

Acomplia Reduces Blood Sugar And Promotes Weight Loss

A six-month study named SERENADE (Study Evaluating Rimonabant Efficacy in Drug Naive Diabetic Patients) announced its findings// at the World Diabetes Congress in Cape Town. The study involved 278 patients with type 2 diabetes who were not taking any diabetic drugs. Its m...

Hair-Growth Drug Artificially Lowers Psa Levels in Prostate Cancer Screening

...onverted to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by an enzyme named 5-alpha reductase. DHT activates the genes responsible for the development of male-pattern hair loss. Finasteride interferes with this process by blocking 5-alpha reductase and preventing the conversion of testosterone to DHT. The data in The Lance...

Seniors More At Risk from Large Scale Weight-loss Surgery

... have garnered national recognition as well, being named bariatric surgery Centers of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery and United Resource Networks’ Clinical Sciences Institute. Source-Eurekaler SRI...

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