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Britney Spears Donates $50 000 To Support Cancer Patients

...l cancers. Majority of the oral cancers affect the outer layer of mucous membrane covering the oral cavity. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/oralcancer.asp Information about Prostate cancer: When a person is affected by prostate cancer, the cancer cells may ...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

...l cancers. Majority of the oral cancers affect the outer layer of mucous membrane covering the oral cavity. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/oralcancer.asp Information about Prostate cancer: When a person is affected by prostate cancer, the cancer cells may ...

Lemons Could Give Relief For Patients Suffering From Asthma

...ne scavengers” produced by plants. “Ozone in the outer atmosphere is essential for life on earth because it absorbs the destructive ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun. But on earth, it is a dangerous component of air pollution. Numerous studies have shown exposure to ozone, even at low levels, indu...

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

...biochemically locks onto a specific protein on the outer surface of the virus. This alerts the body's immune system to launch a counterattack against the invading virus. Scientists tested two versions of the DNA vaccine in 15 mice over a six-week period. The vaccines differed in how much genetic material...

New oral antiviral treatment of cold sores approved

...er blisters, are ulcers or blisters on the lip and outer edges of the mouth caused by the herpes simplex virus. People who develop cold sores are advised to exercise high levels of caution, like washing hands immediately after touching the sore, as they are highly contagious, like other herpes infections. ...

Quicker healing with active bandages

...the mice, the dressings accelerated healing in the outer layer of the skin by 33 per cent. Deeper wounds healed in an impressive five to seven days. It's hoped that human trials of the hydrogel dressings will start early next year....

Novel biopsy technique for prostate cancer

...ctor biopsy. They took 12 samples - six from the outer rim of the prostate and six more from the inside of the gland. They did this on a group of 74 men and found cancer in 40 of them. In ten, the cancer was found only in one or more of the six inner areas - and would have been missed if the conventional...

How to avoid a bad hair day

...Zoe Draelos of Forest University explains that the outer layer of the hair - the cuticle - is readily damaged and that's what makes the hair look lifeless, dry and faded.// Hair damage occurs from a range of causes - from dyeing and blow drying to environmental pollution and sun exposure. Ideally, you'd pa...

Implantable Contact Lens Found Safe and Effective

...nearsightedness by reshaping the cornea, the clear outer covering of the eyeball, Dr. John Allan Vukich of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison told. // Vukich and colleagues analyzed the results of a multicenter trial of patients who had received the implantable lens, known as STAAR...

Beer does good

...y. When the mitochondria found in the cells of the outer lens of eye are damaged in this way it can lead to the development of cataracts. Dr John Trevithick, who presented the research to the International Chemical Conference of Pacific Basin Societies in Honolulu on Sunday, said the ingredients in the b...

A new contraceptive

...hout the CatSper gene were unable to penetrate the outer covering of the egg, the zona pellucida. But when the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs that had the covering removed, they fertilised normally. A contraceptive designed to prevent fertilisation would not interfere with the gene but simply inhib...

Common contraception

...hout the CatSper gene were unable to penetrate the outer covering of the egg, called the zona pellucida. But when the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs that had the covering removed, they fertilised normally. "It might be that this channel is involved in giving the sperm's tail a kind of turbocharge a...

Better prostate cancer detection

...ctor biopsy. They took 12 samples - six from the outer rim of the prostate and six more from the inside of the gland. They did this on a group of 74 men and found cancer in 40 of them. In ten, the cancer was found only in one or more of the six inner areas - and would have been missed if the conventional...

Prevention is better than cure

...he human nose and throat after travelling from the outer part of the nose or from the moist membranes of the eye via the tear duct.// People can catch cold from the coughs and sneezes of victims or from virus contaminated objects. Symptoms of a cold include one or more of the following: running or stuffy ...

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