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Western Australia Witnesses Rise In Ross River Virus Infection

...ty members. The northern and inland areas are at particular risk due to increased chances of rain and flooding from Cyclone Clare. Residents of these areas have been urged to protect themselves against these highly contagious diseases. "In most areas of the south-west, where there are still fairly substanti...

Parenthood can have adverse mental health

... big boon to life and these results are views of a particular country and the study results cannot be accepted universally. <br...

Norwegian Cancer Expert Faked Patient Data

...wed. In the current article, it was claimed that a particular drug would reduce the risk of developing oral cancer....

World Bank urges $ 1 billion to fight bird flu

...ed for stockpiling bird flu drugs or vaccines in a particular region or country but should serve the entire world and mostly should help fight bird flu in poor countries. The meeting also emphasized that control of the animal strain of bird flu is very important and research has to be done on controlling H5N1 b...

New trend of birth induction is on the rise

... pregnant women prefer induction as they want that particular doctor to handle their pregnancy. The patients don’t want to undergo the risk of being handled by unknown doctors. Robert Ford, the previous president for New South Wales (NSW) of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynae...

Need More And Better Drugs To Tackle Stoke

...-San Francisco and her colleagues said that in one particular center the use of activase jumped from 1.5% of patients to 10.5%. The government is also taking all possible measures to increase the use of activase among the stroke patients. It has issued a ruling that U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Servi...

Tumor Suppressor p53's Contradictory Regulatory System

...e in the development of many human cancers. //This particular study was carried out by Min Hu, Yigong Shi and colleagues. To provide a bit of background, when there a cell injury, p53 triggers the activity of several stress-induced genes. In healthy cells, however, p53 levels are controlled by MDM2, a protein...

Exposure To Cadmium Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

...is associated with an increased risk of cancer, in particular lung cancer. The researchers studied participants from an area close to 3 zinc smelters (high exposure) and compared them with a reference population that lived in a low exposure area. Cadmium in urine was measured from 1985-89 (baseline) and incid...

Molecular Flaw Detected in Aggressive Breast Cancers

...anuary issue of Cancer Cell. They report that this particular growth flaw interacts with a mutated oncogene and triggers a potentially fatal type of breast cancer. This flaw is seen in 10 percent of all breast cancers. This flaw causes the overproduction of a protein called cyclin D1, which triggers CDK4 kinase...

Understanding “The Brain

...to all the related neurons that can comprehend the particular stimulus or related stimulus. For example in case of an object, which has a concave shape on the top, a neuron that responds to all the objects like concavity on the top or bottom or convexity is triggered. After a few milliseconds the neurons begi...

Unusual Tumor-Suppressor Gene Switches Off in Lung Cancer

...g cancer. //Their study shows that activating this particular gene could slow up the development of the aforemen...lls through a process called DNA methylation. This particular process is reversible and by targeting drugs at this the development of lung cancer can be halted. T...

Protein Found to Be Essential For Maintaining Nerve Health

...versity of Viennas Institute of Pharmacology. This particular research throws light on the intricate mechanisms involved in the brain's ability to learn and to memorize information. Original work:Goetze B, Tuebing F, Xie Y, Dorostkar MM, Thomas S, Pehl U, Boehm S, Macchi P, and Kiebler MAThe brain-specific ...

New Rule Results In The Complete Makeover In The Field Of Drug Advertising

...ngs and then summarize any recent changes for that particular drug. Also information about the dose, the information that the doctor should tell the patients and usage of the drugs are to be mentioned in the label. Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, the drug agency's acting commissioner, said that this rule is an ...

Inhaling Concentrated Saline Could Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Patients

... and by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation funded this particular study. Cystic fibrosis is a chronic, genetic often-fatal disease that affects children right from the birth. The most common cause of death is respiratory failure and this study if applicable in young children as well as adults could delay the advent...

Antidepressant drugs interacts with Immune cells

...he dendrite cells to increase its memory against a particular antigen by which it produces immediately T cells which is responsible for producing immune cells against the antigen or infecting organism. The researchers are trying out to find the mechanism of how these antidepressant drugs interact with immune ce...

Novel Technique Can Enhance Stem Cell Multiplication By 30 Fold

...haps, we could have adequate stem cells to treat a particular patient. Gene therapy is yet another area, where the above finding can be useful. Issues related to the possibility of carcinogenesis as a consequence of gene therapy has to a large extent restricted the approval of any gene-therapy clinical trials...

Hospital kitchen food investigated for underfed patients

... staff and senior nursing staff to ensure that the particular needs of psychiatric patients are met," "Concerns have been raised about potential weight loss by patients; although there is no evidence that this is related to the food provided. We are however taking this matter very seriously and the acting direc...

Genes May Determine Craving For Cigarettes

...of the CYP2A6 gene, and this is more pronounced in particular parts of the world, and the Asiatic people show a remarkable variations where this gene is concerned. Researchers in Tokyo decided to compare how different forms of the gene influenced the cigarette consumption of 200 Japanese people aged 50 or over ...

Parkinson's Disease Has Genetic Roots

...had a very minor role to play in the disease. This particular mutation is quite rare where people living outside the Middle East are concerned. Other mutations may be responsible for the incidences of Parkinson’s disease beyond this region. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Susan Bressman led the study....

Large Scale Study On H5N1 Conducted

... the most important discoveries made was that this particular virus has a molecular feature which is absent in human influenza viruses, which makes them all the more toxic while infecting human cells. The scientific community has also been provided with more data to combat this deadly virus as a result of this ...

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