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Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...plummet. Many experts thought this was an adaptive response by the body to minimize metabolic demands during a time of crisis and that the best response was to do nothing. But there was never any proof of this, and researchers have suggested in recent y...

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

... the antibodies as foreign and generates an immune response that can exacerbate the disease. Naked DNA vaccination technology may counter these undesirable effects. This consists of introducing engineered genes based on the culprit peptides into the body. When the patient's immune system sees these genes as o...

New CPR Guidelines issued by Heart Association

...check for lifelessness" using breath, movement and response to stimulation as indicators. At least 35 percent of trained and untrained rescuers are wrong about whether or not a victim has a pulse. The United Kingdom and European Resuscitation Councils have already successfully deleted pulse checks by lay peop...

New drug to treat Heart Attack and damaged tissue

...ttack. During Ischemia / Reperfusion, Early growth response gene (Egr –1) level increases and acts like a common link between the pathways lead to tissue injury, such as the stimulation of chemokines, adhesion receptor molecules, procoagulants and permeability – related genes. By deleting Egr-1 gene, the ti...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...n an infection occurs, it triggers an inflammatory response by the body's immune system. Also infections can release endotoxins, which can damage the inner lining of blood vessels causing atherosclerosis.However there is no need to cry over the latest findings, as this will enable us to be aware of the compli...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...n an infection occurs, it triggers an inflammatory response by the body's immune system. Also infections can release endotoxins, which can damage the inner lining of blood vessels causing atherosclerosis.However there is no need to cry over the latest findings, as this will enable us to be aware of the compli...

The brain loves a surprise

...s and turns in life might show greater activity in response to a pleasant surprise than would a person who needs consistency. Being alert to out-of-the-ordinary conditions, Dr. Berns noted, is important to survival. So the next time you give someone a pleasant surprise, rest assured their brains would love ...

Women suffer from sexual dysfunction too

...the vagina, which can make sexual functioning, and response difficult. Researchers who studied these dysfunctions, while addressing the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting in Chicago, said much of the problem with female sexual dysfunction is due to the failure of patients and ...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

...ug 22.5 percent of the patients achieved a partial response to therapy -- that is, their tumors were reduced by more than 50 percent. Another 7 percent of patients were able to have their disease stabilized. Further studies of the drug are continuing in colorectal, head, neck, pancreatic and lung cancer. The...

Smoking spreads Cancer

...ely to spread or whether smoking causes a systemic response in the body that encourages cancers to grow and spread to other organs. There may also be other lifestyle factors unique to smokers that may also help explain the link. Smokers can still reduce their risk of dying by quitting - even after the cancer ...

ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions

...he patients at risk of seizures. GSK spokesmam in response to this commented that Zyban is a prescription-only medicine that must be taken appropriately and not by patients with a history of seizures. He also added that the rate of seizures seen was consistent with the clinical trials experience....

Cats to protect children from asthma

...found that 1 in 5 of the children showed an immune response to cat dandruff without having any allergic reaction. These children's immune system produced an antibody called IgG4 rather than IgE which causes allergies. Both antibodies are part of the Th2 system. Researchers believe that IgG4 suppresses the har...

Double impact vaccine

...s lymphoma, each having its own spread, growth and response to treatment. Chemotherapy alone or in combination with radiation therapy is the standard treatment for lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation is given in case of relapse. If proved effective, the treatment derived from me...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

...icide signal to kill the infected cell. The immune response that is generated depends on the ability to recogn...that the virus can learn //how to evade the immune response in one person, and that it retains this ability even after it is transmitted to the next person acco...

The feel of pain

... such people. If the anticipation part of the pain response can be removed, it would reduce the overall "pain load"....

The cocaine danger

...mplement proteins. These proteins normally form in response to invading microorganisms, and build up on cell membranes causing them to break apart. In a sense, the body is seeing the drug as a foreign body, or germ. When cocaine is introduced, the complement proteins build up on the body's own cells, causing...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...nd support by setting up walk-in clinics and rapid response teams. Dr Michael Faenza, head of the National Mental Health Association in Washington DC, says that he expects the prevalence of mental health disorders among Americans to rise over coming months and hopes the health services will have the resources...

Genesis of SUPAC

...like variation in supply of raw material and their response to processing and variation in instrumentation type. Problems crop up during scale up because at R&D scale the product is developed using fairly standard equipment and under controlled conditions compared to production level. The ultimate success of ...

Omega-3 fatty acids impair immunity

...tory condition of the joints. Yet the inflammatory response is a key component of the immune system in fighting infection. // The Missouri team studied how mice responded to bacterial infection when given diets containing either fish oil or no fish oil. Those on fish oil were slower to respond to the infect...

Wound healing made faster

...find that not only did it initiate a normal injury response in the cells, but heightened it. Dr Leavesley say...he QUT team has been able to stimulate the healing response of different types of cells including muscle, bone, skin, blood vessel and fat cells. "Our wound he...

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