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New Compound Offers Hope In Liver Cancer Treatment

... compound has been found to increase the intrinsic resistance to carcinogens (cancer causing substances) by enhancing the function of enzymes that remove toxins from the body. Further results about the compound have been published in the journal Cancer Research. The compound has been found to be active (100 t...

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

...een shown to be susceptible to the compound and no resistance has been observed. The compound is the first eve...rug for commercial use. Overcoming multiple drug resistance in tuberculosis represents a significant challenge in the successful treatment of tuberculosis. It i...

Free AIDS Treatment For 100,000 Patients: Indian Govt

... percentage of patients who have already developed resistance 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-retr...

Strong Link Between Obesity, Diabetes And Periodontal Disease

...ance. Infact, a direct association between insulin resistance and the severity of periodontal attachment loss ha...1.1 teeth loss in individuals with highest insulin resistance compared to the controls. Individuals with high body mass index (BMI) were found to produce elevat...

Periodontal disease can be predicted by trends in obesity!

...eters viz periodontal disease, obesity and insulin resistance //The study carried out at the University at Buffa... this relation the researchers stress that insulin resistance mediates the relationship between obesity and periodontal disease. The study was conducted on a tota...

Rise in Deaths Rates Due To MRSA

...actors such as lack of better reporting, increased resistance to antibiotics, lack of proper maintenance of hosp...tal hygiene and difficulty in treatment due to its resistance to standard antibiotics. A Department of Health survey, said that people are not satisfied with th...

A potato (couch or not) in the diet adverse for diabetics.

...I foods because they often have underlying insulin resistance - a precursor to diabetes in which body cells lose their sensitivity to insulin. Thomas L Halton, the lead author of the new study found women with the highest potato intake were 14% more likely than those with the lowest intake to develop diabetes...

Hot or cold: Chocolate milk is the answer for longetivity

...arbohydrates. Consuming proteins and sugars after resistance training increases the synthesis of proteins used for force i.e. it builds muscles, is a well documented fact and so Dr Miller's research would unravel the mystery that doing the same after aerobic exercise can also increase the synthesis of mitochon...

Infections Of The Oral Cavity Can Be Treated By Photodynamic Therapy

...going cancer therapy, HIV patients who demonstrate resistance to antibiotics and the elderly with persistent oral infections,' concluded Dr. Thomas S. Mang, the study author....

Wal-Mart under Pressure from Health Care Officials

...rdable health coverage for employees, to its stiff resistance to unionization. The Clintons also benefited financially from Wal-Mart. Bob Ortega said that Clinton used her position to urge the company to improve its gender and racial diversity. These were things the company was not addressing and wouldn't hav...

Increase in Waist Size Contributes To Increased Risk of Heart Disease

...tream, raises cholesterol and increases the body's resistance to insulin which is essential for controlling blood sugar. Statistics show that about 30,000 people a year die from obesity-related diseases in Britain. Professor Steve Haffner, from the University of Texas, a member of the study executive, said that...

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

... 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 these regions. Such patients have to be provided with the drug lopinavir/ritonavir as a second line of treatment. In line with the above situat...

Researchers Discover Two Proteins Involved In Cellular Destruction Of HIV Virus

...octors fear that the virus might mutate to develop resistance to this combination therapy. In the current study, it was found that cells with high levels of proteins XPB and XPD has lower levels of HIV provirus in their chromosomes. Before HIV enters the cell its genetic material is in the form of ribonucleic a...

An urgent need for prison reforms: California!

..., which seems to run in rough weather, reveals the resistance to a badly needed overhaul of the nation's largest prison system.// This was revealed by a leading expert on prisons and the psychology of incarceration. "The governor took on this incendiary issue when his political capital was high, and the depa...

New Research Points To Prevention Of Mad Cow Disease

... same technique can be exploited to induce disease resistance in other animals such as cow, pigs etc. The resear... by this technique) have been found to demonstrate resistance against disease mediated by the PrP protein such as mad cow disease. The same technology can soon be...

TB: Hurdle To Indian Economy

... TB patients not properly treated can develop drug resistance and potentially incurable forms of the disease, au... discovered since 1968, the germs can develop drug resistance and can transmit the resistant germs to the community," Chauhan confessed. --Edited IANS...

‘Drug Resistant TB’ Rattles the Union Ministy

The lurking danger of drug resistance TB is becoming apparent to the Government Health officials, albeit for the first time. The Union Ministry is now pulling up// its socks and gearing up to take stock of multi-drug resistant MDR-TB. DOTS Plus, or directly observed treatment, short-co...

Diabetes Risk Pronounced With Too Much or Too Little Sleep

...od pressure, obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance which may lead to heart disease and stroke Source : Eureka Alet...

India to Implement National Action Plan against TB-HIV

...ds in resistance. According to the statistics drug resistance in new cases is less than 3% and in old cases it is about 10 %. Reports and data say that about 1.8 million people in India develop tuberculosis every year and nearly 3,70,000 die from it. The disease has devastating social costs. About 3 lakh child...

Loneliness Results In High Blood Pressure In Elders

...liness is related to increased peripheral vascular resistance among young people. Although both lonely and non-l...ng people showed that stress caused an increase in resistance to blood flow brought on by their response to stress. Greater resistance to blood flow in lonley peo...

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