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A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...ispelled the phobia felt by healthy residents from nearby villages toward the leper colony. Conditions at Tanshan Leper Rehab Village are improving. Houses have been built with government subsidies. Construction has started on a cement road linking the village to the outside world. "I am a candle, I wan...

Anthrax Attack - Greater Potential Threat Than Thought

...onses in 123 subjects including 83 people who were nearby when the letter containing the anthrax spores was opened; 20 who were outside the building and presumed to be unexposed; and, for comparison, six individuals vaccinated against B. anthracis, two confirmed to have had anthrax, and 12 with no known B. ...

A Rehearsal To Deal With Possible Bird Flu Outbreak Conducted In Vietnam

...re infected with bird flu virus, 80 people from 60 nearby households also contact the disease. It was also assumed some of them contacted the virus from dead fowls 5 days before. The situation was specifically designed to treat bird flu patients, deal with the outbreaks, and also carry out preventive meas...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...tedly, tolerance is produced by stromal cells from nearby lymph nodes. Although they aren't classified as "professional antigen-presenters," as dendritic cells are, the stromal cells serve the same purpose: exhibiting normal-cell antigens to the immune system. "Our study points to a previously unknown mec...

A Laboratory Filtration System Kills 100 Percent Of Dangerous Microbes In Water

...er (they obtain the partner by stripping it from a nearby atom, damaging the "victim" in the process). In large quantities, the radicals can destroy toxic chemicals and even bombard bacteria to death or irreparably damage a microorganism's cell membrane. Applying their technique to water from the Industri...

Horse Heart Coherence May Be Key To Non-invasive Stress Detection

... state and can respond to the emotional state of a nearby human, according to a pilot study conducted by Alliant International University Professor Ellen Gehrke //and the Institute of HeartMath. When in contact, a horse’s heart rate may mirror a human’s emotions, signifying a close unspoken form of communi...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...rain cells, the result is a flood that overexcites nearby cells and kills them. A new method for ridding the brain of excess glutamate has been developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science. This method takes a completely new approach to the problem, compared with previous attempts based on drugs that m...

Scientists Map Key Landmarks in Human Genome

..., allowing the factors to regulate expression of a nearby gene. It has long been assumed that these factors can't bind to a stretch of DNA that is bound by a nucleosome; they can, however, attach to DNA "linkers" between two nucleosomes. With their new method, Fisher's group found that transcription facto...

Raw (or) Undercooked Sprouts May Carry Harmful Bacteria

... may have been contaminated with animal feces from nearby farms. Some other Experts feel that E.coli O157:H7 outbreaks are due to the cross-contamination of meats and vegetables in the factories. However, further tests are currently being conducted to determine what type of food may have caused the outbre...

Anaesthetics may Cause Brain Disorder in Elderly

...shape and increase the rate at which it binds with nearby proteins. Just six hours of exposure to halothane was enough to trigger protein clumping similar to that seen in people with Alzheimer's, says the study that involved animals and laboratory tests. "If the same thing occurs in humans, anaestheti...

FDA Clears Breast Cancer Specific Molecular Prognostic Test

...ters and no evidence that the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes (lymph node negative). FDA plans to publish a special controls guidance document within the next 60 days describing types of data that should support claims for genetic profiling for breast cancer prognosis. According to the American...

Medications for Restless Legs Syndrome may Trigger Compulsive Gambling

...an uncontrollable urge to gamble when visiting the nearby casino. As the dose increased, her gambling compulsion grew stronger. The transition of her therapy to another dopamine agonist, ropinirole, further increased her compulsion to gamble. Prior to her treatment for RLS, she had no history of gambling an...

Vaccine in the Dock- Suspicions of Intussusception

...on, one portion of the intestine telescopes into a nearby portion, causing an intestinal obstruction. The most common site is where the small intestine joins the large intestine. As intussusception can occur spontaneously without vaccination, it is still not known where the vaccine can be linked to the c...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

...n of other cells. When sensors on the surface of a nearby cell pick up this 'scent', mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) carry the message to the cell nucleus. The proteins mediate the cellular response through activating multiple genes. However, according to the John Hopkins team, biologists didn't...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

... to other provinces and countries. To the south in nearby Indochina, the strains appear largely limited to dispersal among local areas. Genetic sequences the scientists analyzed suggest that parallel evolution of different H5N1 strains lets the virus infect and cycle through different host species in a re...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

... earlier they had bought a bottle of liquor from a nearby outlet. One of them had made a final call on his mobile phone at 4.45 p.m. The girl was found dead inside the car while the bodies of two others were seen sprawled on the garage floor. Possibly two had rushed out of the car at the last minute bu...

Mumbai to Have Integrated Trauma Care Facility

... would start consulting an expert physician of any nearby hospital and take the patient to the hospital best... spot, treat him while on ambulance and bring to a nearby hospital depending on the kind of treatment required," Shah told IANS during a visit here. AAPI, t...

Integrated Trauma Care Facility in Mumbai

... would start consulting an expert physician of any nearby hospital and take the patient to the hospital best... spot, treat him while on ambulance and bring to a nearby hospital depending on the kind of treatment required," Shah told IANS during a visit here. AAPI, t...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...thers sneak off for a nip or two of toddy from the nearby palm groves," said Sanjay Solanki, a teacher. Efforts are underway to counter alcoholism among tribals, though the progress is not very encouraging. Since alcoholism is also associated with starvation and unemployment, the district administration t...

Jharkhand Elephant may Have Been Poisoned

...ause of death could be the pesticides sprinkled on nearby crops. "No external injury has been found on the elephant. Veterinary doctors will reveal the cause of death," said S.B. Gaikwad, a forest conservator. In the last five years, 330 people have been trampled to death by elephants. Over 70 tuskers h...

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