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Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...nies don't tell anyone. They're desperate not to raise alarm over possible pharmaceutical fakes in case the market for their products drops like a stone," Anderson said. Government checks, he added, are also "wildly open to corruption." But officials in this former Soviet republic have vowed to stamp o...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...d the disease progresses. That forces doctors to raise the dose of this drug, which induces unwanted side-effects, including spastic, jerky movements. So, if isradipine can slow the death of dopamine neurons, the L-DOPA "honeymoon" could be significantly extended. "If we could double or triple the th...

Single Embryo IVF Increase Chances of Having Child Sans Risky Multiple Births

...ng one embryo at a time to the womb can marginally raise success rates. The study, led by Yacoub Khalaf, of Guys Hospital, London, may increase pressure on fertility clinics to adopt similar methods to reduce multiple births. The programme at Guys, has shown that one embryo can be transferred success...

Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash

...ith high feed prices, making farmers unwilling to raise sows, is also believed to have contributed to the rising prices. As of now, the ministry has ordered pig breeders to establish a nationwide immunization system; and has implemented a complete ban on the sale, transport and processing of pigs that ...

Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

... short-tempered: it can also stress your heart and raise your risk of cardiovascular disease and death, acc...rchers reported that extra sleep can help athletes raise their game. Investigators who tracked six men on the Stanford University basketball team found t...

Tritium Risks at New Heights

.... Greenpeace is the second influential entity to raise concerns about Canada's tritium standards recently. Last September, the Toronto Board of Health said it considered the drinking water standard out of date and it urged that it be tightened. Tritium, and the risk it poses, is among the most contenti...

Prostate Cancer Claims More Life Than Breast Cancer

...s from June 6 through Father's Day on June 17 will raise money for prostate cancer....

African NGO Sets 20-million-dollar Goal to Fight Disease

...ends Africa said Wednesday it is setting a goal to raise 20 million dollars (15 million euros) to combat A...ablished in 2006 as a private sector initiative to raise funds for the continent in the fight against the diseases that have claimed millions of lives in the...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...e team discovered two pathways that allow yeast to raise NAD levels with NR, improve their control of gene expression and live longer in the presence of high glucose. One of the pathways is new; the other was previously identified by Brenner’s lab. At the molecular level, elevating NAD to turn on Sir2 ac...

Smoking Influences Crohn's Disease

...e treated by surgery.” The results of this study raise interesting questions about why smoking would affect different parts of the intestine in different ways. “Fundamental differences in small and large bowel physiology may explain the differences in location of Crohn’s disease in smokers,” says Aldhous...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans, who have a higher risk for// the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a hi...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...night event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of the American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at schools, fairgrounds, or parks and take turns walking or running laps. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all ti...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...enators and congressmen in US and will ask them to raise this issue with the Indian government on how they (judiciary and a medical board) can discriminate against a person only because he or she is a US citizen." The Ohio based AIDS vaccine researcher, who has been fighting against malpractices in heal...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...na, which levelled New Orleans in 2005, could help raise human consciousness about the huge problems of climate change, Ernst noted. Source-IANS/V...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

Cats and cat allergens in the home clearly raise the risk of the allergic sensitisation of children up to the age of two. For older children//, however, the influence of the environment at home on the development of cat allergen sensitization decreases. This is the conclusion reached by scientist...

Women Unaware of When Breast Cancer Risk is Greatest

...sk campaign, Cancer Research UK is working hard to raise the awareness of breast cancer risk and to encourage, in particular, older women to attend screening." Source-Cancer Research UK SM/B...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...on late last year as a dress rehearsal, to try and raise the quality of air athletes breathe. Results are striking. "We expected a drop in nitrogen emissions, but not to this extent, and after only a short period of time," said study team member Yuxuan Wang of Harvard University. But contrast this ...

New Agent to Fight Genetic Disorders Found

...e findings described in this article significantly raise the possibility that new therapies could arise where defective DNA is deactivated more completely and more thoroughly than ever before. For instance, Zorro-LNA could be used in combination with "RNA interference" (RNAi). Like Zorro-LNA, RNAi has the ...

Reindeers Could Hold the Key to Elephantiasis Cure

...ial to implement community education programmes to raise awareness in affected patients. This would promote the benefits of intensive local hygiene and the possible improvement, both in the damage that has already occurred, and in preventing the debilitating and painful, acute episodes of inflammation. GPL...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans,// who have a higher risk for the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a hi...

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