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Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

BUDAPEST - In what is the first promising news regarding the deadly bird flu virus, the Hungarian veterinary services department (ANTSZ) has said that a prototype //of a vaccine developed against the disease was proving effective against birds. 'The effectiveness of the prototype vaccine agains...

Bulgaria Agriculture Minister ban import of poultry from Macedonia and Croatia

...ar the Aegean Sea in Western Turkey. Following the news of bird flu all farm animals and birds are being slaughtered in order to prevent the spread of the disease and possible transmission to humans. Though, wildlife and health experts maintain that indiscriminate culling of wild migratory bird population...

Remote Robotic Surgery Using Miniature Robots

...r in Omaha Dr.Dmitry Oleynikov said at a Wednesday news conference, 'We think this is going to replace open surgery' NASA will teach astronauts on how to use the robots by next years so that surgeries could one day be performed in space. The communication delay due to the distance of space from earth wo...

Hormone Treatment Before Radiation for Prostate Cancer

...eutic Radiation and Oncology, 2005) The following news tips are based on Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center presentations made at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology 47th Annual Meeting October 16-20, 2005, in Denver, Colorado. For more information or to arrange interviews, contac...

Diabetic Type II Women Have Elevated Bone Density Mass

...o have increased cardiovascular risk factors The news published in the November-December issue of Journal of Diabetes. For the study, 92 patients (36 males and 56 females) were studied and cardiovascular risk factors were measured: total cholesterol, triglycerides, lipoprotein(a), low-density lipoprotei...

Controversy Surrounding The HIV Positive Reports Of One-Year Girl In Kerala

...o submit its inquiry report within three days. The news has been responsible for spreading panic among patients who turn up for treatment. ...

A Boon For Gastritis Patients In The Form Of Broccoli

... as simple as eating more broccoli sprouts is good news for the many people who are infected," said Akinori Yanaka, who is from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and served as lead investigator of the study. In the study, scientists examined the protective properties of a chemical derived from broccoli ...

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

...nor inseminations happen in the US every year. The news will be especially unsettling for men who donated anonymously before the power of genetics was fully appreciated. Donors were often college students who traded their sperm for a little money. Many of them, now married and with kids, are likely to fac...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

...ts in unbearable agony. Soon after they heard the news of Ahmed's death, the parents made a surprising decision: to donate his organs to sick people, "no matter Israelis or Arabs". A few hours later, Ahmed's heart, liver, kidneys and lungs were sent to many hospitals with the help of the national transp...

Prostate cancer drug not found cost-effective

...te Cancer Charity said, "This decision is very bad news for men in Scotland. I urge the SMC to review its position as the drug is regarded by many doctors as the treatment of choice as Taxotere is the only drug proven through rigorous trials to offer improved survival and quality of life to men with prost...

Frequent Vacations Ease Mental Stress

A news study suggests that those who take vacations frequently are less likely to be affected by mental problems like tension, depression or tiredness and are more satisfied with their marriages.// Cathy McCarty and other researchers at Marshfield Clinic s...

FDA Warns Against Birth-Control Patch

...pill. Citing federal death and injury reports, the news agency also found that about a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch, and dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems. More than 4 millio...

Now medicated coir to cure ailments

...nt, who led the pilot study team. BHWS was in the news recently after it developed medicated clothes using herbs. -(IANS)...

Vietnamese Scientists Unravel Genetic Code Of Bird Flu Virus

...local newspaper Youth has claimed.// If true, this news is really a shot in the arm in the global fight against bird flu and could herald in a better understanding of the variations and the mechanism of transmission of the bird flu virus. Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute and the Regional Veter...

First Human Bird-Flu Death Confirmed In China

...rding to a report Thursday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. It is likely, however, that the woman's death was the second from bird flu in the world's most populous country. A 12-year-old girl died Oct 17 in central Hunan province with symptoms of bird flu, but she was cremated and not enough blood w...

Watching Violent, Churning Movie Scenes Affect Problem-Solving Ability

...ental flexibility, reported 'Newswise', the online news service for universities and research institutions. Those who watched the first 20 minutes of 'Saving Private Ryan', which graphically depicts the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II, struggled with cognitive flexibility when compared to ...

Bird Flu Spreading in China's Poultry

...tbreaks — 72,000 people in all, authorities told a news conference this week. At least 67 people have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu since 2003, most of them in Vietnam, according to the WHO. Most human cases have been traced to contact with sick birds, but experts warn the virus could mutate into...

Malaria Vaccine May Be 10 Years Away

... and reason for cautious optimism, others said the news isn't good for Africa. While malaria has been all but eradicated in wealthy nations, scientists say they're hindered in Africa by twin hurdles: insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and drug resistance in the parasite. Malaria is spread by mosquitoe...

New Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Holds Promise

...t the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center said in a news release that as of now there is no widely accepted standard to treat pancreatic cancer and surgical removal of the entire area affected by this cancer is the accepted modality. "Even though our results are preliminary, the survival rates are an impro...

Adult Kids Of Alcoholic Mothers Face Health Risk

... of alcohol disorders in young adults. "The good news is that there is no need to intervene at a very early age to prevent alcohol problems later on," Alati said. However the study found that birth outcomes, infant and early childhood influences were not strong predictors of alcohol problems. "In our...

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