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Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...ine Institute of Mexico) or INMGEN will manage the resulting ‘Mexican HapMap’. According to Gerardo Jimenez, director of INMEGEN and the new collaboration, INMEGEN will begin by sampling individuals in six remote regions of Mexico to construct a consensus genetic map that fits the entire Mexican mestizo popu...

Using Eyes As The Line Of Reference For Fetal Brain Imaging

...enter that uses the eyes as the line of reference, resulting in 50 % reduction in the time necessary to take MRI images of the fetal brain. According to Keyanoosh Hosseinzadeh, MD, Chief of Body MRI at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and lead author of the study, one of the challenges of imaging...

Fruits and vegetables found to interact with drugs in a dangerous way

...nt of a drug needed to produce the desired effect, resulting in overdose. The components of grapefruit juice believed to be clinically active are also found in limes, pumellos, and Seville oranges. Natural food products, citrus products and cabernet sauvignon wine are also known to interact with drugs. This in...

Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...ulture to bio fertilizer is clubbed under biotech, resulting in sub critical funding,” India needs ‘to set priorities in the R&D work program,” it says, and should urgently address problem arising out of a large number of agencies dealing with biotech which has led to duplication of research funding and a lack...

HIIP- A Novel Inhaled Insulin Delivery System As An Alternative To Injectable Insulin Therapy

...s threatening, more satisfying manner, potentially resulting in improved patient compliance and better outcomes....

Historic trial for tuberculosis launched together by leading drug companies

...losis infects one-third of the world's population, resulting in nine million new cases of active TB and two million deaths each year. Current TB therapy involves the use of four drugs discovered forty or more years ago and must be given for six to eight months, under the direct observation of a healthcare prov...

Cannabis exerts protective effect against cancer

...l have a carcinogenic potential comparable to that resulting from exposure to tobacco smoke," he said adding that the same was true of breast, colon and rectal cancer; all of which have strong causative links to smoking. "While both tobacco and cannabis smoke have similar properties chemically, their pharmacol...

Weight-Loss Medication Evaluated By Nutrition Expert

...sk of these folks progressing to obesity - and the resulting more serious medical problems - is significant."...

Opioids And Abnormal Pain Perception

...can elicit unexpected changes in pain sensitivity, resulting in hyperalgesia (abnormally intense pain in response to painful// stimulation) and allodynia (abnormally intense pain in response to non-painful stimulation). Interestingly, previous studies have found evidence for hyperalgesia only subse...

A Component In Milk May Help Control Inflammatory Diseases

...inoleic acid, or CLA, prevents inflammatory damage resulting from immune response," says Mark Cook, a professor of animal science in UW-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. "We've identified the biochemical mechanism by which this occurs." CLA, which is synthesized by microbial fermentation in...

Rural India shows apathy towards dental problems: Survey

... survey notes that poor oral hygiene practices are resulting in a myriad of dental problems across the country especially in the rural countryside. The survey also found that a paltry 2 percent actually visit the dentist for regular check up, while more than half are unconcerned about preventing or curing the ...

Passive Cigarette Smoking Increases Isoprostane Formation

...ncreased risk of coronary heart disease eventually resulting in vascular damage. Isoprostanes, a reliable marker of in vivo oxidation injury, have been shown to increase in active cigarette smoking. However, the data for passive smoking are lacking. Recently, researchers from Austria and Greeec examined th...

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

...have the capacity to make this lineage and all the resulting cells that come from that that make up all these organs," Baetge told a press team "If you were to use human embryonic stem cells to make products that treat disease, such as diabetes or liver failure, you'd have to go through the endoderm stage to...

Teens not interested in early sleep

...ntil 11 PM //and they get up early in the morning resulting in a reduction in sleeping hours. Professor Carska...heir parents who insist on them to go to bed early resulting in a reduction of chemically driven pressure leading to sleep building up more slowly. Study was con...

Sick Swedish seagull was drunk, not affected by bird flu

...well and truly here to stay. Experts fear that any resulting pandemic could kill millions, as there is no cure for the deadly disease if the H5N1 virus mutates and starts spreading easily from person to person. Currently, the bird flu does not spread through direct contact, but experts including those from the...

Pakistani Quake Survivors Face Outbreak Of Diarrhea

... affected by diarrhoea to use separate lavatories, resulting in further unhygienic conditions. UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator Jan Vandemoortele stressed the need for more resources to help the Pakistani government, especially the ministry of health and the federal relief commission. "We...

Simple Eye Movement Test For Early Detection Of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

...th eye movement testing. Defined as "birth defects resulting from a mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy", fetal alcohol syndrome is associated with hyperactivity, difficulty in learning and deficits in memory, understanding and reasoning, as well as problems dealing with stressful situations. Th...

Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates

... shorter and the resting phase gets longer. So the resulting hairs get shorter and shorter with each trip through the cycle. Eventually, they don't even poke out through the scalp. What's more, affected follicles take longer to start growing hair again after they've shed the last one. And they shrink, so the ...

A new study by John Hopkins University proposes formula for good health

...ally reduce blood pressure and cholesterol levels, resulting in a substantial reduction in overall risk of heart disease, // according to government-funded studies by researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere. The Hopkins team found that shifting about 10 percent of calories from carbohydrate to either prote...

US Regulator Sees No Link Between Tamiflu And Japan Deaths

...five million people worldwide catch flu each year, resulting in 250,000-500,000 deaths, according to statistics from the WHO....

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