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Treatment of SARS Still a Mystery

...of the tried treatments which make it difficult to pass judgment on proper medical options for SARS. According to Stockman, an epidemiologist at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the kinds of structured treatment procedures needed to make a proper, comparative research was absent du...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

...t road maps possible for beating cancer. Who would pass up the opportunity to read the enemy’s game plan?' Some gene alterations already have led to successful detection and treatment strategies. These include the breast cancer drug Herceptin – which targets a breast cancer cell receptor made by the Her...

Successfully Separated Conjoined Twins In A Critical Yet Stable Condition

... moral support to the parents and for helping them pass time by playing Monopoly. Shaw who was wearing a green T-shirt with the words ‘Feelin Lucky?’ said, “I'm kind of a superstitious person.” Both of them gave their heart filled thanks to all the staff at the hospital stating that, “ We've been here s...

Indonesia To Conduct Mass Vaccination Of Poultry

...n animal disease could mutate into a form that can pass easily among humans, which could possibly kill millions. It has to be stated here that so far Indonesia has refused to conduct mass culling of poultry, giving reasons of expense and logistical difficulties in capturing and killing millions of backyar...

Brain Defect boy Compensated for Medical Error

...his urine. Now he cries when it is time for him to pass urine, and he is taken to the toilet. Every member of the family is attached to the boy and sleep with him at night. Thomas says with the verdict, the judicial fight is over. "You don't know the mental agony all of us had to undergo because he...

Bird Flu Vaccine For Humans Found to Be Safe and Effective

...nimal disease, could mutate into a form that could pass easily among the humans....

Ducks Culled As They Test Positive For H5N1 Virus

...ause a pandemic if it mutates into a form that can pass easily among people. According the U.N.'s World Health Organization 141 people worldwide has so far died from avian flu. After the virus reemerged in late 2003, Indonesia reported most deaths due to the virus with 46 people dying from the diseas...

Microcapsules target cancer cells

...medicines, cosmetics, or nutrients, which can also pass through cell membranes. André Skirtach and his colleagues equipped the capsules with a kind of "open sesame". But it didn't require any magic - just nanoparticles made of gold or silver atoms. The scientists mixed together charged metal nanoparti...

Nanotechnology – to detect and treat ovarian cance

...cer. Such nano ultrasonographic contrast media can pass through the smallest capillaries. These tiny bubbles light up on ultrasound and may be able to show the earliest vascular changes associated with ovarian malignancy. If this is successful, further research will be conducted to study targeted imaging ...

Risk of Death Greater With Low Literacy Levels

...e first pass. Fifty-two percent needed a second pass and 20 percent needed three or more passes before ... most subjects had poor comprehension on the first pass - in spite of the form being written at a sixth-grade reading level and read aloud, and also in spit...

Dealing with IBS

...ueeze too hard or not hard enough, causing food to pass either too quickly or too slowly. The disease typically affects women, most often around age 20. The symptoms of IBS include abdominal cramps, constipation, diarrhea, bloating and gas. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians stress, ...

Parental Role In Embryo-Selection Urged

...election" and does not allow parents the choice to pass on genetic mutations. The report was launched at a Parliament function on Tuesday, and was attended by several ministers, including Ruth Dyson, Disability Issues Minister, who did not comment on the report. Health Minister Pete Hodgson has rec...

Marijuana Use Can Compromise Pregnancy

...as suggested that pregnant women who smoke pot can pass on memory problems to their offspring....

IVF Price To Be Reduced If Women Opt For Egg Sharing Scheme

...unced that the women who agree for this scheme and pass on their spare eggs to the cloning researchers could potentially reduce the cost of IVF treatment by almost half. The researcher team from Britain are hoping to use the harvested eggs to create embryos from which they could obtain stem cells that ...

New Carrier Developed To Deliver Drugs to Gliomas

...inds to glioma cells and has an unusual ability to pass through the blood-brain barrier that blocks most substances from reaching brain tissue from the bloodstream. ‘We're using the TM-601 primarily as a carrier to transport radioactive iodine to glioma cells, although there are data to suggest that it ma...

Gene That Causes Atrial Fibrillation Identified

...particles in and out of the cell, and in this way, pass electrical currents in and out of the cell to regulate each heartbeat. The KCNA5 mutation causes loss of function of an atrial-specific potassium ion channel, disrupting electrical synchronization. This leads to susceptibility for atrial fibrillation...

EHRVA Supports EHR Product Certification

...roup of Electronic Health Record (EHR) products to pass the CCHIT certification process, Electronic Health Records// Vendors Association (EHRVA) recognizes this achievement and calls on industry stakeholders to do more to accelerate EHR adoption. “EHRVA works to encourage the widespread adoption of EHR ...

Scientists Uncover The Secret Behind The Speed In Nerve cells Conduction

... of a key protein// used by the nerve cells use to pass information quickly. Two new studies, one of whi...e function of a key protein used by nerve cells to pass on information. It was explained that in the second that it takes for us to read these words, tens o...

New Law On HIV/AIDS To Be Implemented At The Monsoon Session Of Parliament

The monsoon session of Parliament is to pass a law that would protect HIV/AIDS patient's rights to privacy, work, and admission in a hospital, along with the right// for a woman with the right to seek an HIV test from a prospective groom before marriage. India is supposedly the country with t...

Stern action against AIIMS Medicos, warns Ramadoss

...ident of the institute. Defending the decision to pass a resolution against the director, Ramadoss said: "Venugopal's appointment for a period of five years was inappropriate. He is 64 but is still the director. His appointment letter empowers him to work till the age of 66, which is completely inappropr...

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