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Women aware of “feminine health” : their attituds

...number of today's American women are taking active roles in their own feminine health and hygiene. Nearly two thirds of women aged 18 and older (63 percent) report that they go to a gynecologist, and of those who go to a gynecologist, 61 percent say they "always" go for their annual exams. There is s...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...f films// in recent times depicting older women in roles that explore their sexual side has shot up once more. The made-in-Mumbai film features Dimple Kapadia as Katy, a Parsi woman, who is attracted towards Cyrus, essayed by Saif Ali Khan. The film also stars Naseeruddin Shah and Boman Irani. With the e...

Community Dentists To Receive 10 Percent Salary Boost

...in other branches of medicine and dentistry, their roles and working conditions support the delivery of high quality clinical services for patients, and recruitment and retention of staff." All dental associations welcomed this announcement. Acting Chief Dental Officer Barry Cockcroft said, "These reform...

Age-Related Macular Degeneration Linked To Two Genes

...re significant because they absolutely confirm the roles of these two genes and, consequently, the central role of a specific immune response pathway, in the development of AMD." AMD is caused due to the degeneration of an area called macula. This area is located in the retina and is responsible for mainta...

Genes That Were Responsible For The Cause Of Blindness Identified

...re significant because they absolutely confirm the roles of these two genes and, consequently, the central role of a specific immune response pathway, in the development of AMD," Allikmets said. "In just a few short years, we've gone from knowing very little about what causes AMD to knowing quite a lot....

Two in One Cell Offers Hope to Find a Cure for Cancer

... the cell encounters a pathogen, the cell switches roles from killer to dendritic like messenger. The cell sprouts long, hairy tentacles called dendrites. It uses its "arms" to increase the amount of surface area it reaches to communicate and interact with other immune cells. Then, the cell dies and is rep...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia May Attain a 90% Cure Rate

...gs. Such studies often include the analysis of the roles of hundreds or even thousands of genes. Another significant contribution made by St. Jude researchers is the measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD), that is the small populations of leukemic cells that survive initial treatment (induction t...

Aspirin Serves To Reduce Cardiovascular Events

...t known. It is also not clear if the beneficial roles between women and men vary. The Duke University’s Jeffrey S. Berger along with his colleagues performed a meta-analysis of the aspirin therapy which was sex-specific, to better understand the connection between the response to aspirin and sex. Six tr...

Important parameters of life: Longevity and quality: both improved by exercise

...ear study conducted in McAuley's lab looked at the roles played by physical activity, health status and self-efficacy in determining "global quality of life," or satisfaction with life among older adults. The research focused on a different sample of 249 older black and white women. Results of that study w...

India’s smallest premature baby brings immense joy to Indian parent

...om medical side and tender nursing care play major roles in intact survival of such foetus," Dr. Mehta said. He has also handled two similar cases where the babies were delivered with a birth weight of 650 gms at less than 26 weeks of pregnancy successfully. The act of saving the baby will be something f...

Chronic Pain Syndrome May Be In The Genes

...de the internal scaffolding of cells, and play key roles in the process by which cells divide. Out-of-control septins are implicated in certain abnormal cell divisions that lead to tumor formation, including breast cancer. Cells depleted of SEPT9 often fail to complete normal cell division. HNA is the firs...

Your Occupation May Protect You From Dementia

...rinking, exercise and leisure activities – and the roles they may play in the risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Occupation as an intellectual stimulus is yet another factor that needs consideration, particularly given the amount of time people spend at work. While occupational classification has b...

Researchers Feel The Need For Standards Of Practice In Immunoglobulin Therapy

...eatment, including the benefits and risks, and the roles of physicians, nurses and patients in achieving best results from therapy, as well as a comprehensive look at the expanding use of IVIG therapy and the associated clinical challenges. Primary immunodeficiency encompasses more than 100 distinct inher...

Platelets May Be The Source Of Gene Regulations

...in in an ancient molecular system that plays major roles in inflammation, defense against infection, organ development, and disease. When blood platelets are activated through biochemical signals in response to injury, the IL-1? pre-mRNA is processed into the mature mRNA and then directs production of the ...

Researchers Identified Process That Aids Spread Of Alzheimer’s’ Diseae

...s disease, an enzyme that has many other essential roles produces too much beta-amyloid. As a result, simply blocking the whole enzyme knocks out many of its other functions – which is fatal to the organism. Using cultured human and mouse cells, as well as test-tube assays, UT Southwestern researchers sin...

A new horizon

...ntiating into a more limited number of specialised roles - in this case, mesenchymal tissues. Researchers had previously managed to isolate from human bone marrow a different type of stem cell, one that renews circulating blood elements such as red and white blood cells. A combination of stem cell and c...

Mechanical forces drive early heart development

...search could help scientists better understant the roles physics and mechanics play in the developing heart and in heart defects. The heart either loops or it doesn’t, and if it loops it either goes left or right,’ and those often are the only distinctions made. It takes 21 days to hatch a chicken; at day...

New molecule to treat brain disorders found

..., Adenosine, a small molecule that plays important roles in controlling the heartbeat and normal sleep may also prove useful in treating these disorders of the brain and nervous system. When tested on rat brain cells in the laboratory, the molecule, adenosine, mimicked the beneficial effects of natur...

Breastfeeding Revisited thanks to WHO and UNICEF

...ears; women in society started taking up different roles and breast-feeding went on a steady decline first in developed world and then in developing world. All kinds of ‘substitute baby milk’ made a fortune for companies. However it was soon realized that there is nothing that was better than mother’s mil...

Proteinomics Research holds Key to Stomach Cancer

...ortantly without affecting Stat3’s other important roles in the body. Add to that the evidence suggesting that Stat3 is also involved in breast, head and neck, and prostate cancers, and we have a compelling case for investigating the development of therapies that target Stat3.” (Source: Newswise) Mor...

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