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Bacteria Evolve Armamentarium Against Antibiotics By ‘Stealing’ Gens

... defend themselves against all these insults, gain resistance to new antibiotics and attain new abilities simply by ‘stealing’ genetic information from other better-adapted types of bacteria through the bacterial equivalent of sex, known as horizontal gene transfer. According to the new research, published i...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

...Gleevec, they acquired new mutations and developed resistance to the drug. In these patients, proliferation of white blood cells continues, leading the disease to the final (acute stage) called the blast crisis, where immature white blood cells infiltrate the blood and bone marrow. Clinicians know the signs an...

Novel Treatment Found To Prolong Survival Of Liver Cancer Patients

...ly sensitive to radiation. In addition, multi-drug resistance is a common problem manifested in a majority of the liver cancers. Therefore has not been regarded as a viable option in the treatment strategy. The study participants had a projected survival rate of eight or nine months. The treatment was found t...

Anti-Microbial Coating For Use Over Biomedical Devices Developed

...e bacteria. Therefore, the phenomenon of bacterial resistance would be virtually non-existent. The researchers next step is to work towards development of anti-microbial contact lenses and other anti-microbial biomedical devices. If fruitful, it would mean a considerable health benefit for innumerable patient...

Alzheimer's a new type of diabetes: Study

...o bind to corresponding cell receptors, creating a resistance to the growth factors and thus causing cells to ma...ons could be prevented. However, they add that the resistance of its receptors in the brain, along with the loss of insulin will have to be targeted. The resear...

Slimmer not happy compared to Obese people

...uicide, which may be due to development of insulin resistance which increases the hormone seratonin in overweigh persons which reduces the risk of depression and an intention to commit suicide....

Leukemia Can Be Cured By Garden Plant's Root

...ering from this condition have already developed a resistance to the Gleevec drug which is commonly used. The ability of the cancer cells to grow is reduced by 90% by forskolin, according to the research. Normal cell functioning can also be reinstated by forskolin, according to the study. CML results in the cre...

Genetic Code Of C.difficile Cracked

...e search can now commence for the other antibiotic resistance genes and toxins which will enable a better understanding as to why this strain causes the severe disease. The strain is reportedly responsible for similar outbreaks in parts of Europe and the US. Technology from the US was used for splitting the ...

Australian Government To Stockpile Anti-Bird Flu Drug Relenza

...Roche's Tamiflu. 'Relenza has not demonstrated the resistance that Tamiflu has and appears to be efficacious in conditions where Tamiflu is not,' he observed. The German government has also ordered 1.8 million courses of the drug, while the French government has placed the largest order of 9 million packs. He...

GRIP a boon for the nurses to monitor patients glucose levels.

...cessary to avoid stress hyperglycemia - an insulin resistance condition that causes glucose levels to go up and has been shown to decrease patient survival. Mathijs Vogelzang and colleagues from University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands implemented GRIP in a 12-bed ICU, for four months. GRIP moni...

Silicone Rubber Flap Restore Speech

...h it works is the vibrations felt by the flap, air resistance and the vocal sound was produced. All of which were tested in-vitro on a group of patients at the medical centre. The results were compared with those patients devoid the silicone rubber flap. The result of this study was that female patients ben...

Tamiflu Fails To Save Two Lives

...ug, Tamiflu. The virus appears to have developed a resistance // to the drug which is causing considerable conce...ove to be dangerous as this will result in greater resistance to the drug and undermine its effects altogether. The UK Government alone has ordered for enough of ...

Rising Rates Of C.Difficile Infection Among Non-Hospitalized Patients

... infection could only manifest in individuals with resistance to antibiotics. The high incidence of the infection even among non-hospitalized patients has created much panic among the scientific community. "That is really a remarkably high increase in cases. "I think this needs verification in another databa...

Government To Discourage Smoking

...ns, starving the heart of oxygen, and lowering the resistance of the body to diseases. Nicotine gum or nicotine patches will be offered to patients who want to give up the habit. The doses will depend upon the level of the withdrawal symptoms. Patients will also be given counseling for quitting smoking. The ...

PA-824 drug effective against Tuberculosis

...nges in these proteins which is responsible to the resistance of the bacterium to the drug PA-824....

Type 2 Diabetes Is Linked To High-Fat Diet

...y pump out too much insulin. This leads to insulin resistance and full-blown type 2 diabetes. The new studies suggest that people with an inherited predisposition to type 2 diabetes might have variations in the gene for GnT-4a, said the researchers. Edited (ANI)...

Fat rich diet is real dangerous and predispose lifestyle diseases.

...in of events leading from hyperglycemia to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. This finding suggests new approaches to the prevention and treatment of diabetes.” "Our findings suggest that the current human epidemic in type 2 diabetes may be a result of GnT-4a enzyme deficiency," said Marth, adding that ...

Harvard Proposes Drug Disposal Plan

...or dust bins can lead to development of antibiotic resistance in environmental microorganisms leading to new drug resistance organisms. Moreover, there are chances that these drugs disposed in environment can lead to killin...

New protein diet program questioned.

... increased triglyceride levels and showing insulin resistance lost more weight on high protein diet. Hence it was published in the Nature editorial as advantageous to all but the research showed that it was useful only to a select population experiencing metabolic disorders. The spokesperson for the Institut...

Wisdom behind High Protein Diet Questioned

...s pointed out that women who had increased insulin resistance shed more weight. This prompted the Nature editorial to point out, 'The diet is being promoted as beneficial for everyone, whereas the published research indicates that it is superior to a high-carbohydrate diet only for a sub-population of overweigh...

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