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Drug saves heroin addicts

... with the aid of the injectable drug naloxone, the researchers report on the experiences of 22 addicts who had an opportunity to put their newfound skills to use. These 22 study participants put their training to the test on 34 occasions.Scientists reported in 10% of cases naloxone had saved lives. Only in one i...

The brain loves a surprise

...mething to do with the brain's "pleasure centers," researchers have found. In the study, Berns and his colleague... It was at this time of unpredictability that the researchers noticed marked stimulation in the brain's pleasure centers in many, but not all, of the participants...

Spirituality helps lessen arthritic pain

...heir pain and boost their sense of well being, the researchers say. Dr. Francis says, "One might expect that people coping with chronic illness or chronic pain might find it difficult to maintain a positive outlook or feel connected to God or the beauty of life. The results of this study suggest otherwise." In...

Ticks may cause more diseases

Ticks, researchers in California say, may actually cause more disease...ella bacteria. Of the 151 ticks they examined, the researchers found nearly 20% carried a Bartonella species, including those known to cause disease in humans. Th...

Alternative medicine more popular among HIV positive patients

...proved their condition. The study was conducted by researchers headed by Dr. Joan Duggan of the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo....

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...udy, children either got ear tubes immediately, or researchers waited up to nine months to do the procedure if the ear fluid persisted. In the group where doctors waited, one-third of the children eventually got ear tubes. "To many doctors this will come as a surprise because it's been a matter of some controve...

Breast cancer treatment to be determined by gene test

...y test positive for a breast cancer gene mutation, researchers said California on Monday. About 5% to 10% of all breast cancers are caused by an inherited genetic susceptibility. The majority of these cancers are linked to mutations or alterations in two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. It is estimated that mutation car...

Diabetic testing gets easier

... the pain and discomfort associated with them. But researchers and manufacturers have increasingly been developing new ways to minimize the pain from those finger pricks with a growing arsenal of glucose monitors, lasers and lancets. One of the newest monitors on the market is a device that allows a diabetic to...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...tific evidence to back them up. The studies, from researchers in the US, UK, France and Germany, should help fre...nufacturing its OPV. But the fact that mainstream researchers believe HIV arose from the related Simian Immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in chimps has bolstered the i...

Hemopurifier may revolutionise AIDS treatment

...of HIV’s vicious grip on human race. According to researchers at Aethlon Medical, a biotechnology firm in La Jolla, California, trials of the filtration system, aptly named the HIV-Hemopurifier, began in February of this year. Richard Tullis, Aethlon's chief project researcher said the HIV-Hemopurifier method ...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...to have 12 lead scientists and between 120 and 200 researchers and graduate scientists...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

...y metabolises DDT to DDE. An international team of researchers took blood samples from 24 men aged 16 to 28 who had not been exposed to DDT in their work. In these men the high DDE levels correlated to low levels of testosterone, low semen volume and low sperm count. However some health experts argue that the ...

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

A team of researchers who reviewed medical literature on the accuracy of...onception that they are allergic to the drug. The researchers led by Dr. Alan R. Salkind, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas ...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

...frican strains called A and C subtypes of HIV, the researchers say. Dr. Ernesto Freire of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland headed the team of researchers. The commonest strain of HIV in the U.S. and other Western countries is HIV-B. But the majority of people infected with HIV live in sub-Sahara...

No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report

... WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues. The researchers studied nearly 25000 women in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Cuba and Argentina. This report adds weight to the notion that if the pregnant woman has had safe deliveries in the past and if she can take care of herself well in the run up to the delivery, sh...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...e thinkgs like this".But some international health researchers are suspicious of the Bank's promises that this private-public venture will improve India's health. Kasturi Sen, a researcher in Cambridge University's department of public health, said: "This project is ill considered. It is intended for profiteeri...

Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice

...as shown promising results in mice. In the study, researchers led by Dr. Manish Gupta took antibodies from the immune systems of mice that had survived infection with the deadly Ebola virus and injected them into other Ebola-free mice. Later, these mice were then infected with Ebola virus. Nearly all the mice ...

Diabetes and Depression often go hand-in-hand

...likely as non-diabetics to suffer from depression, researchers say. The June issue of Diabetes Care carries the report of this study. Dr. Patrick Lustman of Washington University School of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri headed the research. Whether the diab...

Just spice it up!!!!! Anti bacterial effects of spices unraveled in the West

...a or Staphylococcus aureus. In a week's time, the researchers found that bacterial levels were reduced in the apple juice that had the added cinnamon in comparison to juice that did not have any cinnamon. Previously the same spice had been tested and proved to have anti E. coli properties. Though the research ...

Special proteins to fight TB identified

...s may help the immune system kill the TB bacteria, researchers in the UK report. According to a report in the June issue of the journal Nature Medicine, these heat-shock proteins, which are special proteins produced by the body help cells survive stressful times and bolster the immune system of the body. In th...

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