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Tamiflu Shortage Can Be Better Handled By Combining It With Probenecid

...refers to the enhancement in action or effect of a particular drug than the individual effect of both the drugs combined. The phenomenon could be exploited in the present scenario where the avian bird flu is posing a serious threat across different regions of the globe. // Tamiflu is a prescribed drug for s...

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

...some signatures, is running 2400 projects to trace particular surnames. About 25,000 people have been born from donated sperm in the UK in the past 15 years. Also, around 90,000 donor inseminations happen in the US every year. The news will be especially unsettling for men who donated anonymously before the p...

Government Takes Tough Stand Against Falling Sex Ratio

...abound in Rajastan, Delhi, Haryana and Bihar. This particular yatra to save the girl child was organized by the World Council of Arya Samaj and is a fortnight long event that began on November 1 from Tankara, Gujarat, the birth place of Maharishi Dayanand. Ramadoss appreciated the measures being taken by the ...

Scientists breaking theory of cortex formation

...ivided into distinctly separate areas that process particular aspects of sensation, movement and cognition. To what extent are these areas predetermined by genes or shaped by the environment? The protomap and protocortex theories developed before 1990 claimed, respectively, that the task-specific regions of the...

Smoking and mouth cancer

...h the effect of their habit on the oral cavity. In particular they seemed to be aware of the damage // that smok...ngely reluctant to change their habits. This is of particular concern to the oral and maxillofacial surgeons, who are launching a massive awareness campaign as a ...

Co-infection of Two genetic diseases makes them susceptible to malaria

...frica." Interest in fighting malaria by studying particular genetic factors related to the disease has increased over the past few years following the sequencing of the genomes of the most deadly form of malaria and its mosquito carrier. For example, thanks to the genome sequence, researchers now have in th...

Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates

...s. As for genetics, some studies have implicated a particular gene that may be necessary to get the condition bu...ach sometimes called hair cloning. It focuses on a particular kind of cell, found at the base of the follicle, that can team up with skin cells to produce new fol...

Cipla In India Can Manufacture Drug For Bird Flu

...refers to the enhancement in action or effect of a particular drug than the individual effect of both the drugs combined. http://www.medindia.net/news/ view_news_main.asp?x=5515 India To Procure 1 Million Doses Of Tamiflu India is planning to procure at least a million doses of Tamiflu, the antiviral avi...

Cervical Cancer Can Now Be Better Handled With Gene Silencing Therapy

...are responsible for preventing the occurrence of a particular type of cancer. On the other hand, tumor-promoting genes help in the initiation and progression of tumor. A logical way to combat tumor is to either turn on the tumor suppressor genes or turn off the tumor promoting genes. Cervical cancer is the le...

Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?

...enic potential of a physical or chemical agent, in particular concerning the number of rodents for each experimental group (40–86, compared to 100–150 in the current study) and the termination of previous studies at only 110 weeks of age of the animals,” the study authors wrote. Source: journal Environmental H...

Oral Sex Linked To Mouth Cancer Risk

... the HPV16 strain was the most prevalent one. This particular strain has been found to affect one-fifth of women aged between 18 and 25 in some studies in Britain. The Johns Hopkins study found that people whose mouth tumors had the HPV16 strain were three times as likely to have had oral sex as those who did n...

Sudden Cardiac Death: Diabetes May Be The Culprit

...y increasing, and diabetes is suspected to carry a particular high risk for sudden cardiac death. The authors examined the association between blood sugar level, diabetes and the risk of sudden cardiac death among individuals enrolled in the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. The study included 2,040 s...

Historic Increase In Incidence Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases In Scotland

...mosexuals and heterosexual couples. Young women in particular show a tendency to develop sexually transmitted infections earlier in comparison to young men, probably highlighting a difference in the relative ages of partners. Consistent with the above findings, there is also a parallel increase in the incid...

Bird Flu Alarm In Indonesia

...e virus fleeing a hospital quarantine unit causing particular alarm. Outbreaks have been reported in 19 other provinces since October, killing or forcing the slaughter of more than a million birds. In southern Tien Giang province, a man who had been admitted to hospital after complaining of a high fever was t...

No need to hassel with children at meal time, just eat when pregnant!

...ing in a new study that children develop taste for particular foods even when in the womb. Making the task of mothers // easier by advising them to eat whatever they want their babies to when they are pregnant. According to science a foetus can swallow about 500 millilitres of amniotic fluid a day and it is b...

Adolescent Marijuana Smokers Face Risk Of Developing Schizophrenia

...des of the brain. The results of the finding hold particular significance in vulnerable individuals who smoke marijuana, as there might be an increased risk for development of mental illness. The study has provided valuable insights to further explore the brain mechanisms that could be involved in drug abuse...

India Marks World AIDS Day

...of HIV/AIDS preventive and treatment services with particular emphasis on youth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised on 1 December 2005. 'It is our goal to ensure that in the next two years our health delivery system will be restored to provide a comprehensive package of services to the community and the HI...

Novel Strain Detected In The Recent Outbreak Of Bird Flu At Ukraine

...checking the movement of people in and out of that particular area, people were asked to vaccinate themselves against human flu and a checkpoint was installed around 10-Km to stop all the migratory birds approaching Ukraine in search of warm climate. A virus H5 that may be fatal to humans is identified as the...

Chemotherapy Treatment Can Be Given To The Elderly also

...ous and assorted organizations but may feel that a particular guideline should not be used for each and every patient. This may be because for this type of guideline, the chemotherapy treatment may be toxic and the physician may not feel the patient will really tolerate it or the patient may be offered the ther...

“Super Broccoli” Could Confer Better Cancer Protectin

...search UK. "When it comes to food, there is no one particular 'super' fruit or vegetable that will protect you from cancer. Experts have proven that the best way to reduce your risk of many cancers is to eat a healthy balanced diet." Broccoli belongs to the cruciferous family of vegetables. These contain chem...

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