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Ebola Treatment Shows Promise

...infectious agent.” Noting rNAPc2 has a good safety profile in humans, they believe it might also have a role to play in other viral hemorrhagic fevers. “The clinical efficacy of this treatment modality now needs to be proven,” they conclude....

The Beneficial Effects Of Breast Feeding

...fant nutrition permanently affects the lipoprotein profile later in life and that breast feeding has indeed a beneficial effect....

FDA asks the doctors to take the patients’ dietary history before prescribing medication

...re adopted by physicians to find out the patient’s profile of response to drugs and decide on the unique treatment option best suited to the patient’s requirement. These are basically a set of tests developed to identify for example, which form of cancer responds to a certain kind of medication. The result ...

Obese children may have abnormalities of lipoproteins

...ren had high levels of LDL in their blood. A lipid profile with high number of small dense LDL, a condition called LDL pattern B, was found in 45% of white and 19% of black obese children. Obese white children also showed higher tendencies of having dyslipidemia than black children o the same category....

Heart rate can predict the risk of sudden death

...overy. Researchers had looked into the heart beat profile of 5713 asymptomatic working men of ages between 42 and 53 years who had undergone standardized graded exercise testing between 1967 to 1972, and all of them tested negative for cardiovascular disease. The results of the study showed that death fro...

Cancer diagnosis easier from microRNA

MicroRNA profile analysis has been developed as a tool to diagnose ... technology that will be able to test the microRNA profile through an easy and not expensive diagnostic test. MicroRNA (miRNA) are small RNA molecules that co...

Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines

...e providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible tre... eventually be able to analyze a patient's genetic profile and prescribe the best available drug therapyand dose from the start. FDA also approved the first l...

Personality profiles of gamblers and substance abusers are similar

... victimized, and rebellious. The total personality profile of these people may be matched with those of substance abusers, said the researchers. Reference: Archives of General Psychiatry, July 2005...

Emergence Of New Gene Scanning Technology In Disease Research

...ases in future can be streamlined based on genetic profile of an individual. Professor Day is exploring a combination of meltMADGE and endo VIIMADGE to identify variations in genes causing diseases currently....

Preserving the DNA of a loved one

... to their departed loved one's DNA// through a new profile preservation service offered by a US genetic testing company. The service is being offered by a New Jersey-based firm called Orchid Cellmark . Orchid says the DNA information would be useful for medical, legal and genealogy issues as well as generati...

MicroRNA provides new insight into birth defects

...t there exists an association between the microRNA profile of the human beings and the development of tumors in different parts of the body. The new study will open new ways of exploring the exact reasons of birth defects and will also provide new ways to learn more about the microRNAs and their impact on h...

Estimates For Number Of HIV/AIDS Deaths In India Still Not Available

...being paid to the disease because it has some high profile advocates. However, experts like Piot counter the argument by saying the real impact of the problem in terms of mortality rate would be felt five to 10 years from now. He feels that dealing with AIDS should be a top concern, and not enough is done ...

Size Of The Waist In Children Linked To Diabetes

...including obesity (BMI), insulin resistance, lipid profile (fats in the blood, including cholesterol and triglyceride levels) and blood pressure. Of the 84 children evaluated (44 girls), 28 were overweight, 40 were obese and 16 were normal weight. Statistical analysis showed that waist circumference was an...

Potato powder to stop bleeding

...past 40 years, none has had as small a side effect profile as this one. At a cost much less than other coagulants, the agent appears to be economical as well."...

Gene Activity connected to Schizophrenia

...eople. More work is needed until we have a genetic profile of variation that could account for the schizophrenia in any given person. The researchers honed in on chromosome 22 because people who have deletions or damage in this portion of DNA are known to have a 30-fold greater risk of developing schizophren...

Birth Defects Caused By Drugs Used For Epilepsy

...e mother and child to produce a neuropsychological profile for each child. It was seen that 41 children exposed to valproic acid during pregnancy had an average verbal IQ score of 84, while other groups in the study had higher scores. The study also shows children exposed to sodium valproate while in the wo...

New Information On Virus Goes Against The Age-Old Theory

... The researcher and others had made an attempt to profile the host-virus system using the electrical enginee... quantitative method that derives a characteristic profile or fingerprint from the IIS of any host-virus system. If their method can achieve results in hours i...

Delhi Hospital Opens Up Avenues For Computer-Aided Knee Replacement

...ctions received on the basis of the patient's bone profile registered on the computer with the help of infrared rays and sensors. On the basis of the bone profile, the computer guides the surgeon on the shaping of the knee bone as per the patient's requirement. Though the success rate of these surgeries dep...

Africa Is Not The Only Continent Struggling Against AIDS

... to AIDS treatment in Africa.// But due to high profile of Africa’s dire problems overshadow some of the important revelations of the 3 by 5 progress report and threatens to make the campaign against AIDS synonymous with the mass of other Africa focused anti-poverty efforts. The reports of WHO/UNAIDS on t...

French Fries In Cancer Controversy In China

... The Chinese actions may be prompted by the high profile media attention of the California lawsuit against fast-food giants. Last Friday, California Attorney-General Bill Lockyer filed a suit to request nine snack and fast-food providers to put a warning over the presence of acrylamide in some of their foo...

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