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The Other Side of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

...cells offers the chance of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, infections, and liver vascular obstruction as well as the potential long-ter...

Exercise In Childhood Provides Lifelong Benefits

...layers of bone. This results in a bigger bone than otherwise would be the case. 'With more bone layers on the outside, you have more bone to lose,' Warden said. By making the right forearm bones bigger during growth in their study, the researchers found these bones to be stronger, or more resistant to fr...

Review Urges Restricted Use Of Devices To Keep Heart Patients Alive

...aid. "These people are critically ill and would otherwise die without the heart assist device. So when you start with that group, it is quite remarkable the ability of these pumps to resurrect people," Miller said. "The fact that we see a 70 to 75 percent survival to a heart transplant with these devices is...

A New Study Analyses Benefits Of Statin Drug

...are at risk from heart disease or high cholesterol otherwise the benefits are limited when healthy adults are considered. An analysis of seven previous trials that involved nearly 43,000 adults aged 55 to 75 found that the average adult had a nearly 6 percent chance of suffering a heart attack over a 4 1/3-y...

Stem cell transplant recipients face significant risk of second cancer

...cells offers the chance of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, infections, and liver vascular obstruction as well as the potential long-ter...

Royal Brompton Hospital Finds A New Technique To Detect Child Heart Killer

...in doctors to dilated cardiomyopathy or DCM, which otherwise will go undetected. With DCM, the heart is either weak or enlarged, resulting in the difficulties for pumping blood. It is a common form of heart muscle disease with children. The gadolinium tends to linger around the scar tissue due to a lower blood...

Spiritual Leaders Join Together to Fight Against HIV/AIDS in India

... told IANS. 'One must win the trust of the people, otherwise it is not possible to provide care. 'There has to be close relationship between the care giver and the community. We have won that trust, and our mobile clinics are able to offer assistance in remote rural areas', he added. 'It is also very impor...

Alternative Splicing - Molecular Cloning

... way and use an alternatively spliced site that is otherwise poorly utilized. By offering a global understanding of how alternative splicing works across the genome, the map has implications for the treatment of a growing list of human neurologic diseases in which RNA regulation, and particularly RNA splicin...

Free health check-ups for captive elephants

...l perform all relevant laboratory tests, which are otherwise not possible in field conditions. The one-year project starting November will conduct health check-ups for nearly 600-900 captive elephants all over India. The initiative offers a one-time opportunity for a detailed check-up for elephants maintaine...

Stop Exploiting Children ! Anti Obesity Charter On Junk Food Ads

...eeteners or salt carry a mandatory health warning, otherwise the advertiser has to contribute to health campaigns. The WHO conference is being held in Istanbul on November 15. MAL...

Faster Approval Procedures Urged For New TB Drugs

...prevalent, especially in sub Saharan Africa. MSF otherwise called Doctors Without Borders(DWB) has urged that the regulatory bodies like the US Food and Drug Administraton(USFDA) and European Medicines Agency step up their pace in developing the promising drugs and make them available. It was thought earl...

100% Fruit Juice does not affect a child’s weigh

...min C, potassium and folate to the diet that would otherwise not be consumed. A one-half cup of juice is equivalent to one serving of fruit. The latest information about 100 percent fruit juice and how it fits into a healthy diet for children is available at www.fruitjuicefacts.org. Source-Eurekalert GYT...

Using Hormone Therapy to Shape Children’s Height to Social Norm

...ive to marriage suitors than shorter girls//, many otherwise healthy tall girls were given estrogen treatment t...nd Drug Administration for treatment of short, but otherwise healthy children with idiopathic short stature. Although estrogen for tall stature and growth hormon...

Iodine Deficiency: A Global Initiative to Weed Out the Problem

...ble symptom of the deficiency, can be a spot on an otherwise flawless appearance. Far from just the looks of it, iodine deficiency can cause deleterious effects on the brain, and can trigger a major setback to the social and economic development of many countries. Iodine deficiency is the main cause of avert...

Pick Apples for Good Neurological Health, Says New Research

...of TNF by interfering with this pathway that would otherwise damage or kill cells in the body. Gershwin noted that the method by which apple extract protects cells is different than that reported for other flavonoid-rich foods. Other more recent research demonstrated how apples and apple juice can help boost...

Home Is Where the Gym Is

..., this versatile device may accommodate people who otherwise might not be able to exercise using both arms and both legs. Whatever you choose, use it. Regular exercise not only can improve your overall quality of life, it also can help counter many negative effects of aging and an inactive lifestyle. Source...

First Major Study of Mammalian “Disorderly” Proteis

...o work, it puts a vise-like grip on an enzyme that otherwise would promote uncontrolled cell division. The St. Jude team developed a technique that uses heat to isolate IUPs in large, purified quantities from extracts of a standard type of cultured mouse cells called NIH3T3 fibroblasts. The IUPs were resista...

Lack of treatment for cocaine users

...ible and realistic by current and potential users, otherwise they will ignore what they're told. "Cocaine users who develop a problem will require treatment quite different from that offered by traditional services, which tend to be geared to heroin-related problems." GYT...

Iraqi’s Gripped with Insecurit

...mocracy, which might set the record straight in an otherwise embittered and torn Iraqi nation. The analysis is an outcome of the surveys conducted in Iraq in 2004 and 2006 as part of the World Values Survey. The research findings appear in an article coauthored by Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan), M...

Abortion Notification, Consent Laws Reduce Risky Teen Sex

...n, but the laws have been blocked by the courts or otherwise not yet enforced in nine of those states, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Source-NewswiseBR>SRM...

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