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Dry Earwax Mystery Solved: Ear Wax Gene Identified

...body odour. The result of this interesting study represents the first example of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), being linked to a visible physical trait. The article appears in the latest issue of the journal Nature Genetics....

Inhaled Insulin Could Rock The Drug Market Soon

...er that can be breathed inside using a mouthpiece) represents a major milestone in diabetic treatment. It is contraindicated in current smokers or in those who have stopped smoking for less than six months and patients with lung disease. Pfizer would study the long-term effects of the new drug formulation sh...

Britain Announces Third Transfusion Related 'Mad Cow' Case

... a third case of variant-CJD (a brain disease that represents human form of mad cow disease) in Britain. The patient is said to have contracted the disease from a blood transfusion // that had taken place 8 years ago. The donor who had developed symptoms of the disease much earlier, 20 months following the tr...

Do Women Die In Childbirth Because It Is More Preferable?

...ared to sex-selective abortion. Female infanticide represents the deliberate or intentional killing of girl children over liking for baby boys. Inadequate breast feeding, lack of proper attention, inappropriate investment in the interest of the girl child, familial neglect are other less severe forms of prejudi...

Valentine's Day Attraction: Sale Of Condoms In School Proposed

...itical party in Australia.// Kate Reynolds, who represents the Democrats in South Australia's state parliament, said the issue was health, not morals. "The facts are simple - high school teenagers are having sex," Reynolds said. "They are not telling their parents, but they are certainly telling their fri...

Treatment Resistant Tumors Can Be Targeted Better Using Botox

... delivery of chemotherapeutic agents and radiation represents a new dimension of cancer research. 'Tumor vasculature is targeted by several advanced anti-cancer approaches that may appear contradictory. Anti-angiogenesis and anti-vascular targeting are methods aimed at destroying the vessels that feed tumors,...

The Return Of The Clemenceau: Happy India

...raft carrier Clemenceau to be sent back to France, represents the overall victory of Indian workers, social support groups and environmentalists worldwide. The order has been issued following dismissal of the proposed transfer of the ship that is laden with poisonous material (lead, mercury, asbestos and PCBs) ...

New Drug Promises Hope In Multiple Drug Resistant And Latent TB Treatment

...vercoming multiple drug resistance in tuberculosis represents a significant challenge in the successful treatment of tuberculosis. It is associated with a fatality rate ranging from 20 to 80%. The presence of an uncontrollable active infection and failure to respond to any therapy are strong indications for iso...

Free AIDS Treatment For 100,000 Patients: Indian Govt

...istance to the commonly used anti-retroviral drugs represents yet another challenge to be overcome. The public sector hospitals are currently not equipped with these second line AIDS drugs. More than 26000 AIDS/HIV victims are currently receiving anti-retroviral therapy provided at public health centres and p...

Men Might Get Their Share of Cervical Cancer Vaccine As Well

... national immunization schedule. Cervical cancer represents a major health care burden haunting women. This may be the focus for increased clinical trials in women when compared to the poor attention given to prevention of HPV-linked cancers in men. However, large clinical trials involving men are being condu...

Sex a commonplace in Chinese life

...es, married and unmarried. Experts, feel that this represents a sexual revolution in China. Many academic experts believe that this revolution is as a result of China beginning to open itself to the world in the late 1970s. Before this young lovers could only show intimacy to each other in public by grasping ...

Annual Budget 2006: Health And Education Sector Receive A Boost

...ildren in the rural and urban areas. Although this represents an accelerated growth of the health care industry, there are several areas such as public-private health care partnerships, control of infectious diseases and respiratory infections that need a facelift. The service and industry sector has contribu...

Marijuana Compound Offers Hope In Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention

...omplication, seen in diabetic individuals// Retina represents a light sensitive tissue behind the eye. Diabetes damages tiny blood vessels in the retina, eventually leading to blindness. Diabetic retinopathy that affects more than 16 million Americans is one of the leading causes of blindness in working-age adu...

The Novel Cut and Splice Method Is Used To Recognize Different Microbes

...eaning up radiological contamination. This study represents just one application of genome signature tagging. Further research could greatly speed the process of identifying genes that could be turned on and off in different types of cells. ...

New Cervical Cancer Vaccine to Be Launched By Glaxo Smithkline

...arch of a vaccine to protect against HPV infection represents on one of the active areas of drug development. The market for the cervical cancer vaccine has been projected to be approximately $4bn. 'Eleven years ago people first isolated HPV as an agent of cervical cancer. It is a great milestone that 11 ye...

Healthy, Bird Flu Infected Chickens In Chinese Markets

...flu pandemic//. It has been known that waterfowl represents natural hosts of the bird flu virus. This however is the first time that large-scale asymptomatic bird flu infection has been detected among seemingly healthy chickens. Infected chickens usually die within 24 hours of the infection. The research te...

Designer Strawberries

...: "The development of this protocol for strawberry represents a key milestone for researchers interested in improving strawberry and other fruit crops through genomics." He added: "We are now in a position to generate a collection of mutants that will serve as an invaluable tool not only for discovering new gen...

Cost-effective Meningitis Vaccine To Be Launched In Africa

...developed by researchers in the developing nations represents a groundbreaking approach in the competitive area of drug development....

Need For Low Cost, Heat Stable HIV Drug in Developing Countries

...f low affordability. Although sub-Saharan Africa represents only about 10% of the world’s population, more than 60% of people in this region are afflicted with HIV/AIDS. The development of drug resistance to the first line of anti-retroviral poses a significant challenge to management of the AIDS epidemic in...

US To Look In To Improving the Elder Care

.... The Society for Human Resource Management, which represents more than 200,000 human resource and other corporate officials, said 39 % of its members reported in 2003 that elder care benefits were too costly to be feasible....

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