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Electric Field Therapy to Zap Cancerous Tumours

...nts such as chemotherapy and radiation also target rapidly dividing cells, but they can cause severe side eff...tudy of 10 patients with recurrent glioblastoma, a rapidly growing type of brain tumour, to test the effectiveness of the treatment. The researchers use spec...

Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

...for dominance. The winner became the new queen and rapidly became reproductively active. Social stress acts through brain pathways that control reproductive hormones which are likely to be similar in both animals and humans, said Dr Faulkes. Social suppression of reproduction in marmoset monkeys is very ...

The Hospital Superbugs

...cidence of infections, for new diagnostic tests to rapidly identify C. diff or MRSA and to develop novel antibiotics in order to treat these infections. The success of this research will be judged by both improved patient outcomes and savings to the NHS in the costs of treating infections. CHAI was offici...

Contraceptive Spray Shows Positive Clinical Trial Result

... Our strategy over the last 12 months has been to rapidly demonstrate the broad applicability of the Acrux spray technology across a range of contraceptive products, including combination formulations. We have made material progress in this area, which has further strengthened our commercial prospects in th...

Organically Grown Food More Healthier

...tt, its policy director, said that there was now a rapidly growing body of evidence which showed significant differences between the nutritional composition of organic and non organic food....

Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...to image a whole circuit simultaneously - and very rapidly - to see the effect. "What surprised me most was how specifically the measure tracked the depression-related behavior," said Airan. "We usually think of psychiatric disorders as fuzzy and intractable, and this study showed me that, with the right t...

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

...developed the computer infrastructure to collect a rapidly growing library of 3-D mouse brain data, and make all the data available on the web http: tinyurl.com/3cgj6z. Its goal is to use mouse brains as surrogates for human brains to study the connections between genes and brain structure. Investigators ...

Fossilized Midges can Predict Climate Change: Study

...ng. Scientists found that the atmosphere cooled rapidly and cold periods lasted up to 50 years for one event and 150 years for the other. The detection of these events will allow experts to understand more clearly what can happen when the climate system is disturbed. Professor Jim Marshall, from the...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...steries of the susceptibility to disease is moving rapidly since the publication of the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003. Says Gruber, The mystery of the relationship between our genetic code and disease is now starting to become clear, and many scientists are turning to the same chapter to find...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...he said. "Sometimes the right ventricle can fail rapidly and even result in death, like in lung transplant surgery, for example. In such a case, Viagra may increase the right ventricle's performance and save the patient," Dr Nagendran added. Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a U of A cardiologist, the Canada Res...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...lished in the top scientific journal Nature could rapidly advance research into the next generation of painkillers for relief of chronic conditions such as migraine and backache. Complete and lasting relief of chronic pain is rare and often the clinical goal is pain management through one or more medicatio...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

... present different hazards. Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing sector of the economy that will represent an estimated 2.6 trillion dollars in manufactured goods by 2014, or about 15 percent of global manufactured goods output. In addition to the TSCA document, the agency issued papers for public commen...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

...inants that killed a small number of animals moved rapidly into the human food chain. Says H. Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University in Indiana: "We're in a situation now where we're talking about health teams of physicians and veterinarians and nurses. "If...

Tomato Fever Replaces Chikungunya in Kerala

...effect of Chikungunya. Tomato fever is spreading rapidly in the areas of Mudakayam, Varzur and Kanirapally in Kottayam and Pathinamtita districts, which were earlier affected by Chikungunya. Chikungunya is a virus which spreads through mosquito-bite and causes a non-fatal self-limiting illness, marked by...

Right Foods Could Improve Drug Effectiveness, Lower Drug Costs

... effectiveness of drugs and dramatically lower the rapidly rising costs of treating patients, experts say . University of Chicago oncologists Mark Ratain, MD, and Ezra Cohen, MD, have released their expert comments after examining research that showed taking a breast cancer drug with fatty food, rather th...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...etween food and drugs could dramatically lower the rapidly rising costs of several anticancer drugs, and perh...ents would get a little vitamin C to boot." "The rapidly escalating price of medications (especially for cancer and other life-threatening diseases) has prov...

Apples and Lentils Could Help You to Shed Off Those Extra Pounds!

...ke blood sugar levels. Foods that release sugars rapidly are said to have a high glycaemic index - those that release it slowly have a low glycaemic index, and Cochrane researchers led by Dr Diana Thomas, the Scientific Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Paediatrics Gastroenterology and Nutrition, i...

Four Percent of American Youths are Requested to Post Sexual Snaps on Web

...se. The authors suggest that it is important to rapidly educate youth about the dangers of these sexual picture requests. They emphasized on the need to understand the criminal nature of the requests and the serious pathology that may typify those doing the requesting....

Interactions Between Food and Drugs Could Lower Drug Costs

...etween food and drugs could dramatically lower the rapidly rising costs of several anticancer drugs, and perh...ents would get a little vitamin C to boot." "The rapidly escalating price of medications (especially for cancer and other life-threatening diseases) has prov...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...many low-level resistant HIV strains that can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure, as it is limited to detecting resistance mutations that are present at levels of approximately 20 per cent or greater in the circulating viral population in a patient. This study clearly sh...

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