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Garlic Helps To Reduce Cholesterol in Rats

...hat were fed with 500-mg daily dose of garlic were resistant to the cholesterol-raising effects of their diet. It was also found that garlic helped in increasing the time required for blood to clot. This is essential in preventing heart attacks and strokes. But so far no experiments were conducted in humans an...

Resistant Head Lice: A Study

...ildren found that nearly 4/5th of head lice become resistant to all treatments including organophosphates// (ma...or esterases. Around 80% of 316 lice tested were resistant to the treatment, equating to resistance to four out of five head lice affecting primary schoolchild...

A New Anti-Cancer Drug Keeps Resistance Out

...the usual drug named Gleevec. Patients, who are resistant to Gleevec drug can now be treated with dasatinib, which seems to regulate intolerance and complications of chronic myeloid leukemic patients - studies published in NEJM finds. In the phase I clinical trials dasatinib overcome Gleevec resistance in...

AMD Found To Affect People In Their 50s

...fers she suggests polarized sunglasses with impact resistant lenses, which won't shatter if hit by a golf ball. Factors that affect AMD are age, genetics and smoking. It is more common in women, blue-eyed Caucasians, patients with increased blood pressure and high cholesterol. According to statistics it is ...

Super-bug MRSA Getting Fitter And Out of Control

...lin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is a bacteria resistant to certain antibiotics. This bacteria occurs frequ...d into 'fitter' strains that could prove even more resistant to treatment. The researchers have stated that these strains could "potentially become explosive" in...

Drug - resistant microbes raise concerns

...ing, healthy bacteria in our gut, being multi-drug resistant is not a problem to a healthy individual. But of...hen they go into hospital, are carrying multi-drug resistant genes with them - in a sense, the resistance genes are kind of walking into the hospital with their ...

Surveillance Program for Haemodialysis Reduces Infection

...y do we reduce the risks of bacteria becoming more resistant and potentially harder to treat, but we can also reduce complications associated with antibiotic therapy, and the cost to the NHS. Source: Eurekalert...

Antibacterial Products Ensure Food Safety and Health

...y processed foods may be affecting the survival of resistant bacteria. ‘The current demand for minimally proc...ervative-free foods may increase the occurrence of resistant pathogens,’ says Doyle, the result of fewer antimicrobial applications to food that inactivate patho...

WHO Issues Fresh Guidelines To Long Distance Air Travelers

...inimise the risk. Those infected with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis must postpone any long distance air travel, the World Health Organization (WHO) suggested. Till now, no case of active TB has been identified due to exposure on a commercial aircraft, where the quality of air is high and under normal co...

Researchers Find Molecular "Brake" to Cell Death

...optosis," Tang says. Cancers that quickly become resistant to therapy, such as melanoma and ovarian tumors, do so because they have found ways to prevent mitochondria from releasing a lot of CC, he says. Tumor cells also don't want to decrease their nucleotide pool, because they need ATP for continued functi...

Effective Anti - Psychotic Drugs Pack Health Risk

... In addition to its superior efficacy for patients resistant to conventional antipsychotic drugs, clozapine also is the only medication currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of suicidal behavior. Physicians should monitor closely people who receive clozapine with regular te...

Antihistamine Could also be used as a Potential Antimalarial Drug

...ia in humans, including parasite strains that were resistant to traditional malaria therapies. The drug was also shown to be effective in mouse models. The findings are published in the July 2, 2006, advanced online edition of Nature Chemical Biology. “Time and money are major roadblocks when it comes to dev...

Socio-economically Excluded People, more affected by Tuberculosis

...persistent outbreak including over 200 linked drug resistant cases disproportionately affecting homeless people, prisoners and problem drug users in London clearly illustrates the urgent need to strengthen tuberculosis control among socially excluded groups. The occurrence of tuberculosis in England closely ...

Genes Responsible For Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Identified

...ignificant differences between the susceptible and resistant workers were found in the sequence of three genes KCNE1, KCNQ1 and KCNQ4," Van Camp said. "Further studies of KCNE1 show the version of the gene associated with increased risk to noise causes the encoded ion channel to open more rapidly than the norm...

Study Being Conducted On Treatment Of Cancer patients With Honey in UK

...o see if the honey can prevent infections that are resistant towards antibiotics, like MRSA. It was explained that MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which is popularly known as ‘Super bug’ is a strain of golden staphylococcus that was discovered in Britain in 1961, which has now developed ant...

Developing Countries Undertake Cataloguing of Human Mutations

... identified the genetic variants which make people resistant to the effects of the asthma drug salbutamol (known in Australia as Ventolin). That information should save the Indian government money. Rather than doctors having to give everyone newer and more expensive drugs, only that small proportion of peopl...

How Does Leptin Work?

...od intake. Since obesity occurs when people become resistant to leptin's ‘curb your eating’ message, this finding suggests that bypassing Leptin and directly activating STAT3 may allow one to normalize appetite and produce other health benefits as well. As it does with appetite, Leptin also influences glucos...

New UCSD Program to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria

...n developing innovative strategies from antibiotic resistant microbes. Nizet and his colleagues use molecular a...cteria that cause hospital-acquired infections are resistant to at least one of the antibiotics most commonly used to treat them. People infected with antibio...

The New AIDS Pill

...m will not because the virus in has already become resistant to one of the drugs in the new pill or because they cannot tolerate the side effects of the pill. Some of the side effects of Sustiva (efavirenz) are unsettlingly vivid dreams and birth defects. Statistics show that nearly 40 million people in the wo...

New Drugs To Combat Mutant Bugs

...dition to our therapeutic arsenal". Antibiotics- resistant hospital infections are a major issue for the Scottish health service. Research revealed that at the end of last year, 17.5% of patients who died following a surgery in Scotland in the year 2004, had developed an infection in hospital. Professor D...

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