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Novel Delivery Method of Insulin Gene to Combat Juvenile Diabetes Developed

... result of the loss of insulin, blood sugar levels rise too high, causing damage to fine blood vessels and nerve endings leading to debilitating symptoms. As a result patients become dependent upon daily insulin injections to survive. However, it is virtually impossible to match the sugar content of each ...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

...he African continent are hard pressed for funds to rise to the challenge before them. Like elsewhere in the third world, visitors to Zambia could observe in the capital city of Lusaka hundreds of persons walking aimlessly along the roads, talking to themselves or shouting at others, carrying huge wast...

Combination Improves Survival of Metastatic Melanoma Patients: Phase II Study

... The number of new melanoma cases has continued to rise at a rate of about 5 percent to 10 percent each year since the 1970s, Dr. Markovic says. Why" One cause, he says, is depletion of the ozone layer, but also, more cases are coming to light due to greater public awareness. "The increase in incidence ...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...s risen four-fold since 1999, although part of the rise is due to better reporting. The Health Protection Agency, which released the figures, said that although the rate of increase had slowed, from 17 per cent the previous year, the results "clearly show the scope for improvement".Cases of MRSA fell sl...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...are crazy." Health officials pointed to a recent rise in HIV infections in Groningen from 14 in 2005 to...5,000 as significant. "This doesn't mean that the rise is entirely explained by the orgies but it's probable that part of the rise has been caused by them...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

... on rising sea levels,the panel projects a further rise of 4-8 inches to the already existing increase of 7-23 inches, by the end of the century. In April,2007, volume 2 of the Fourth Assessment Report entitled "Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" was released. It paints a bleak pict...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...s in spasms and sustained contractions. These give rise to repeated jerky movements of parts of the body and awkward postures. Dystonia affects men and women; especially those above 40. Children may also be affected. As it is a progressive disease with unrecognized symptoms, it often goes unnoticed. In...

Global Emission of CO2 Rising Three Fold Than Anticipated

...aster than previously thought, and the bulk of the rise coming from developing countries , a new study by ...ear this decade, compared to a 1.1 per cent a year rise in the 1990s. Three quarters of this rise came from developing countries, with a particularly rapid ...

Effects of 'starvation Hormone'-Newly Identified in Low-carb Diets

...in the liver,' said Maratos-Flier, noting that the rise in obesity has contributed to a growing epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.Mammals survive periods of nutrient deprivation by shifting from carbohydrates to so-called ketone bodies as a primary fuel source. Ketone bodies are produced fro...

Breakthrough for Treatment of Fatal Heart Condition

...d protein in the body, known as REST, can halt the rise of the proteins causing cardiac hypertrophy, which, for the first time, offers an approach to treating the cause of heart hypertrophy rather than its symptoms. The challenge is now to find a therapy that controls the source of the problem on an ong...

Manmohan Singh to Meet UN Chief, Discuss Climate Change

... to limit global warming, and not let temperatures rise more than two degrees Celsius, a plan that would require halving greenhouse emissions by 2050. She has met with a lukewarm response, especially from the U.S., where greenhouse emissions have risen 1.6 per cent a year since 2000, and by two per cent a...

Soot-infused Snow Responsible for Arctic Warming: Study

...lsius. Dirty snow caused the Earths temperature to rise .1 to .15 degree, or up to 19 percent of the total warming, Zender and his colleagues claimed. As far the Arctic region is concerned, the researchers say that In the past two centuries, it has warmed about 1.6 degrees, and added that dirty snow cau...

Metabolic Syndrome may Be Associated With Heart Function

...re cardiac structural and functional abnormalities rise progressively with increasing degree of metabolic syndrome, regardless of symptoms. This association was independent of the 10-year predicted risk of coronary heart disease by Framingham risk score for indirect indices of diastolic dysfunction, but n...

FAO Says Biofuels Threatening Food Security

...or countries will have to cope with a nine percent rise on food imports and the poorest, which will import most, will pay an extra 10 percent", the FAO report said Thursday. It noted that prices of secondary cereals and vegetable oils used to produce biofuels have gone up while meat and milk product ros...

North India Reels Under Heat Wave

... above normal. "The temperature will continue to rise and the heat wave will continue," a weather official said....

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

...opiramate and levetiracetam - had seen a "massive" rise in prescribing. "The uptake of these drugs has been rapid, yet their long-term safety has not been established and further research must now be seen as a priority," said Wong. He noted that while newer drugs were less likely to react with other ...

Younger and Violent Sex Offenders on the Rise

...nce cases involving the young. There is a dramatic rise in cases by these Juvenile offenders. Some psychologists blame the increase in numbers 40 percent over two decades on a society saturated with sex and violence and the fact that many of the accused were themselves victims of adult sexual predato...

Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...in have worsened the problem. It's not so much the rise in temperature that affects dengue, rather the rising rainfall has lengthened the lifespan of the epidemic each season," says Wiku Adisasmito, a dengue expert at the University of Indonesia. According to official figures, the number of dengue case...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

...ty in various ways, including serious illnesses, a rise in crime and reduced work efficiency, he said. The ministry estimated the social and economic costs of alcohol consumption at 20.1 trillion won (21.59 billion dollars) in 2005, he said, without giving a full breakdown of how this figure was reached...

Sunstroke Claims Fourteen More Lives in Delhi

...itals in the city have recorded a 30 to 40 percent rise in the cases of stomach and intestine related problems....

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