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Shot Supply: Reduced Dosage of Seasonal flu Vaccine, Works!

...to her, preliminary research has shown that a more potent dose would be required for bird-flu than the dose used for the seasonal flu experiment. The paucity of flu vaccine in 2004 inspired Kirkland's study. Nearly 1602 people who were healthy were injected with the reduced dose that produced parallel res...

Bamboo Shoots Causes Botulism Outbreak

...cterium Clostridium botulinum. Botulin is the most potent known toxin, blocking nerve function and leading to respiratory and musculoskeletal paralysis. Symptoms include double vision, blurred vision, ptosis, muscle weakness, difficulty speaking, difficulty swallowing, difficulty breathing and nausea. This ...

Pranab Mukherjee Urged Military Doctors To Remain On The Cutting Edge

...llenges. // Military medical forces are the most potent form of delivering healthcare both to the armed forces and to civilians in times of natural disasters, the minister said while opening the 16th Asia-Pacific Military Medicine Conference here on Monday. Pointing out that the threat of nuclear warfar...

Fruit And Vegetable Peels Are Rich Source Of Potent Antioxidants

...which are thrown away as wastes are best source of potent antioxidants//. So it's better to have a second thought next time, when you want to throw away those peels that fights against aging and keeps you young. As reported in foodconsumer.org the sales of functional foods containing antioxidants have soa...

Botox Treatment Now With A Lesser Dose And Increased Safety

...imes occur with frequent injections. Smaller, more potent doses would even lead reduce the prices for the popular wrinkle remover, they feel. Botox is also used to treat a growing number of other conditions, including migraine headaches, lazy eyes and excessive sweating. It is developed from the botulinum...

Researchers Identify The Cause To Obesity

... blood that could inhibit leptin. CRP was the most potent of the five serum leptin-interacting proteins they identified. In one set of studies, the researchers delivered human leptin continuously for six days into mice with receptors for leptin but without the ability to produce it. As expected, the plum...

Alcoholism Drug Vivitrol Approved By FDA

... starting VIVITROL treatment because VIVITROL is a potent opioid antagonist. "Any attempt to overcome the opioid blockade produced by Vivitrol using exogenous opioids may result in fatal overdose," the companies said. "Should a patient receiving Vivitrol develop progressive dyspnea and hypoxemia, the dia...

Superfoods make super healthy humans??

...hewing on a carrot a day like Mr. Bunny provides a potent dose of alpha and beta ' carotene which collects in the fat ' layers of our skin and reflect harmful ultraviolet radiation. The result is a glowing skin which has extra protection from skin cancer and from remature skin ageing and wrinkles. Tomatoe...

A new medicine source: wallaby milk

...ctive against bacteria such a E.coli than the most potent form of penicillin. This could be the answer for super drugs with antibiotic properties. The study is published in latest issue of New Scientist.Research director in animal genetics and genomics for the Victoria Department of Primary Industries in ...

Smuggled Birds To Bali Culled Due To Bird Flu Fear

...r that the bird flu virus would mutate into a more potent form, triggering bird flu pandemi....

Brachytherapy Shows Promise for Cancer Treatment

...rapy quickly, in about 10 to 20 minutes. A single, potent radioactive source is often sent through one or more catheters to the tumor for a particular amount of time. In contrast low-dose-rate afterloading requires at least an overnight hospital stay ifor the required dose of radiation therapy to be adminis...

Fear Of Spread Of Bird Flu Leads To Widespread Culling Of Ducks

...r that the bird flu virus would mutate into a more potent form, triggering bird flu pandemic. ...

Dispensing Drug Dosage To Children Through Computers

...t even greater risk because the general dangers of potent chemicals are compounded by the dosing challenges. "Our findings reveal that using a Web-based calculator makes it less likely to order and give a child the wrong dose or commit other errors, such as omitting patient information, weight parameters o...

Reaping the Benefits of Tomato

...arotenoid in the human body and is one of the most potent carotenoid antioxidants. Besides tomatoes other fruits and vegetables that are high in lycopene include watermelon, pink grapefruit, papaya, and rosehip. While nutrients such as vitamin C is often diminished upon cooking of fruits and vegetables, ...

UIC Study Throws Light On Sexual Assaults

...ositive for Rohypnol, a tranquilizer 10 times more potent than Valium that has been banned in the United States. When the subject's voluntary drug use was queried, 35.4 percent were likely to have been impaired at the time of the sexual assault. "This study demonstrated the need for toxicological analys...

Learn From a Leader: Smitherman shares a personal story about his battle with drugs

...rom alcohol, to kick the drug habit. Smitherman's potent message to people who do drugs, is that barring all the despondency , if somebody has the will to give up drug addiction, one can really come out if it....

'Oncomodulin'- Path To Nerve Regeneration

...o protein messengers and this combination was more potent than ciliary neurotrophic factor CNTF in the same conditions. Oncomodulin has been known to scientists for more than two decades to be present in tumor cells and placenta before the pathbreaking discovery in the axons of the nerve cells...

PI-103 Effective against Brain Cancer

...ancer. // The compound called the PI-103 acts as a potent drug candidate against lethal brain tumor. In anim...) with human glioma grafts the drug is found to be potent against proliferating cancer cells. The unique effectiveness of PI-103 stems from its ability to att...

Australia Set To Implement A national Strategy Tackle Cannabis Abuse

...h part of the plant they use. Rather than the less potent cannabis leaf, the flowering head of the cannabis plant, its most potent part, is being used increasingly. Very frequent use is also being reported among young people. Evi...

Researchers Develop Potent Cancer Killer From Vitamin E Derivative

Researchers have now developed a potent cancer killer based on the finding that alpha toco...logical Chemistry. ‘Our findings could lead to a potent chemopreventive agent that has both strong anticancer and antioxidant properties,’ says principal in...

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