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Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected

...mnias, which is especially unstable delta sleep, a period of the slowest brain wave activity. Usually associated with sleepwalking, it has resulted in sexual talking, masturbation, fondling, sexual intercourse and aggressive sexual behaviour. Several rapes have been associated with this sleep state. Seven...

Tropical Cyclones Play Important Role in Climate-control

... that hurricanes occurred over too short of a time period and over too small of an area to affect the global system. This research provides evidence that hurricanes play an important role and may be one of the missing pieces in the climate modelling puzzle, said Prof. Huber. Prof. Huber said their researc...

TB and Measles Scare in Canada Now

...ease spread through close contact over an extended period of time and is not easily spread to others, said C...ptoms it's a signal that the end of the incubation period might be over and that the other students could potentially begin to develop symptoms and that's why...

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...otherapy had prolonged disease-free survival for a period of at least eight years. This outcome is considered particularly significant since all three long-term survivors were judged to be at high risk for recurrent cancer due to microscopic evidence of residual pancreatic tumor following surgery and two pa...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...hese unannounced checks, especially as it's been a period in which the number of deaths from MRSA has quadrupled."...

Mylan Wins Its Amlodipine Case With Pfizer

...les of approximately $2.7 billion for the 12-month period ending Dec. 31, 2006, according to IMS Health. Mylan Laboratories Inc. is a leading pharmaceutical company with three principal subsidiaries, Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Mylan Technologies Inc. and UDL Laboratories Inc., and a controlling interest ...

Cancer Drug Induces HDAC Inhibitor and Enhance Long-term Memory

...e need to administer the drug during this critical period when gene expression is required.,he added. Wood and his colleagues discovered that the protein CBP must be present for HDAC inhibitors to improve memory,When tested in mice genetically engineered without CBP, the HDAC inhibitors did not improve m...

Effects of 'starvation Hormone'-Newly Identified in Low-carb Diets

...ole in the metabolic shift seen in animals after a period of fasting and in those fed an Atkins-like diet. That shift is characterized by an increased reliance on fat stores as an alternative source of fuel when glucose, the bodys primary energy source, plummets. A team led by Eleftheria Maratos-Flier of ...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

... applied to carefully diagnosed BPD patients for a period of one year. The treatments included dialectical behavior therapy, supportive psychotherapy, and TFP, a specialized psychodynamic form of talk therapy, pioneered by Otto F. Kernberg, a study co-author and professor of psychiatry at Weill-Cornell, tha...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...d placebo during the first two days. The treatment period began on day three. The subjects received pramlint... their assigned regimen during a 5-week outpatient period (days 5-41) but reported for brief visits to the research unit on days 17 and 31. They returned for ...

Every Child Needs to Be Vaccinated to Lead India into a Polio Free Future - Ramadoss

... 1 poliovirus for the last six months, the longest period so far. Though the type 3 poliovirus cases are up slightly, they remain geographically restricted to western UP. The poliovirus transmission has also been low in Bihar. Since early this year, extraordinary efforts have been made in Uttar Pradesh an...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

... gene they laboriously constructed over a two-year period is believed to be the largest synthetic one ever built, and it successfully produces large quantities of the encoded protein, whose function can now be easily studied. The researchers say that with the addition of the recreated gene, PfMDR1 and ...

Robotic Surgery A Cutting Edge in Medical Field

...t (600ms vs 55 ms respectively). But after a short period of practice, the surgeon got used to this and there were no measurable differences in the quality of the surgery using the two forms of communication. The team thinks that virtual reality prediction would also greatly aid this type of surgery. This...

Now a Drug to Stop the Feeling of Hunger

... oral administration of reduced consumption over a period of 24 hours. Over a 12-day period of daily dosages, the mice weighed 40 percent less than the average for mice of their size and age t...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...he number of ketamine abusers soared over the same period from fewer than six to 1,845 -- it is now the most popular illegal substance -- and ecstasy has undergone a similarly sharp rise. Ah Yan, who said her parents travel up regularly to Shenzhen to feed their own addiction to cocaine and ice, insisted sh...

Research into Anti-epileptic Drugs Given to Children for Long Term Safety

...drugs showed a significant increase over the study period and that newer AEDs are increasingly being prescribed in preference to more tried and tested conventional drugs....

EMRI to Expand Emergency Care Services Throughout India

...and 39 advanced clinical educators over a two-year period in India. The four-semester programme, which begins on July 16 in Hyderabad, will be open for graduates in life sciences, nursing and physiotherapy. Mahadevan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, said the MoU may be exten...

Remicade(R) Get Approval for First and Only Biologic Treatment for Pediatric Crohn's Disease

.../kg intravenous infusion of REMICADE over a 2-hour period followed by additional 5 mg/kg infusion doses at two and six weeks after the first infusion, then every eight weeks thereafter. Some patients may require a shorter dosing interval to maintain clinical benefit, while for others a longer dosing inter...

New Balloon Catheter Available Worldwide for Carotid and Renal Angioplasty

...r renal intervention procedures helps to limit the period of distal ischemia, and the low profile may help reduce the risk of plaque disruption and embolization when crossing the lesion. Professor Horst Sievert, Cardiovascular Center Frankfurt, Sankt Katharinen, performed the first carotid live case with A...

Healthy Diet, Exercise can Halve the Risk of Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors

... much more likely to survive through the follow-up period than the rest of the study group. The mortality rate of such women was seven per cent, approximately half of that seen for the rest of the study population. Of particular importance is that this halving of risk was seen in women who were not obe...

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