Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines
...// development of new medical products through the science of pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenomics allows health care providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible treatment option for this individual. This technology has enabled the development of tar...Link between Faith, Health and Healing
...forefathers believed it, some of us believe it but science is skeptical about it.// However there certainly s... “holistic approach to wellness”, which unites the science of medicine with that of the spirit. It is an amalgamation of body, mind and soul. In the words of G...Good bacteria to rescue of colitis patients
...may soon get help from a bacteria mixture, reports science portal www.eurekalert.org. Richard Fedorak, a professor of gastroenterology at the University of Alberta, and researchers from the University of Bologna in Italy and the University of North Carolina administered probiotic bacteria mixture VSL#3 over...Monkeys offer genetic clues to adult blindness
...ould help treat blindness in older adults, reports science portal www.eurekalerts.org. Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in older adults, yet researchers are still in the dark about many factors that cause this incurable disease. William W. Dawson, professor of ophthalmolo...Exposure to tobacco smoke causes genetic damage in fetus
...g, and it is the same kind of damage, according to science portal EurekAlert. Grant's study reports that both active maternal smoking and secondary maternal exposure result in similarly increased rates of genetic mutation that are basically indistinguishable, it said. "These kinds of mutations are likely...Psychological Stress Delays Wound Healing
...closing of wounds by more than 45 percent, reports science portal eurekalert.org. A range of cell and genetic changes accounted for the slow recovery, it said. "The cells that help remake tissue didn't differentiate the way they would have in normal animals. They didn't line up the way they were supposed...Wound healing affected by Psychological stress
...closing of wounds by more than 45 percent, reports science portal eurekalert.org. A range of cell and genetic changes accounted for the slow recovery, it said. "The cells that help remake tissue didn't differentiate the way they would have in normal animals. They didn't line up the way they were suppos...Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly
...on we have with food," said Collins, speaking at a science briefing in London. Dieticians were becoming concerned by the way vitamins and mineral supplements had moved into the realm of 'pseudo-medicine'. "People are using vitamins and minerals no longer as an adjunct to diet, but as medicines in their o...Grant of $7 million for Orissa Medical College from Japan
...y areas spanning security, economic engagement and science and technology. -(IANS) Medindia on Medical Colleges: Medindia provides you with a complete list of Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, Nursing, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Siddha and Unani colleges from all India as recognised by various Councils for the co......iled these findings at the Edinburgh international science festival last week.These researchers have been working on this project for the past two years. This way, a wide range of diseases can be treated and daily administration of injections can be stopped.Diabetes apart, other diseases that can be tre...Innovative yeast genome may handle Cancer Clues
...the fission yeast genome, which is reported in the science journal Nature, are similar to genes linked to human diseases such as cystic fibrosis, hereditary deafness, diabetes and cancer. By studying the smaller and simpler genome of fission yeast, scientists hope to discover new clues about cells and how ...Antibiotic, Gene Therapy Help Treat Angina
.... Juan Carlos Kaski, a professor of cardiovascular science at St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, England, and colleagues studied 40 men, average age 55, who were randomly assigned to receive for five weeks either azithromycin, a common antibiotic used to treat Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, or a ...Perfect babies boon or a bane?
...lationships and on being human, warns a leading US science organisation. Many aspiring parents with inheritable diseases hold out great hope for IGM technology, which offers them the possibility of avoiding passing diseases such as Huntington’s Disease and schizophrenia on to their children.// However, the...Soy, Omega 3s convalesce artery health
...d Jenkins, a professor of medicine and nutritional science at the University of Toronto , in his study led by the scientists, looked at 20 men and 15 postmenopausal women all with elevated cholesterol levels. Study participants rotated through three one-month diets low in saturated fat. In the first diet, t...Hope For Patients With Muscular Dystrophy
...strophy. Elite athletes are also interested in the science and its potential to increase muscle mass in healthy people too. Thus researchers say , that their research gives them a great deal of hope that agents already known to block myostatin activity in mice may be able to increase muscle mass in humans to...A Protein That Increases Risk Of Tumours
...mours in mice exposed to a carcinogen, reports the science portal eurekAlert. The study compared the effect of urethane, a lung-specific carcinogen, on two sets of mice -- wild-type mice, which have two functional genes that express Bcl-xL, and transgenic mice that have only one functional gene expressing t...Scandals Can Affect Medical Research
... wane, these findings show that media reporting of science can have important implications for those who conduct and regulate science, they conclude. Source: Newswis...Couples in Britain can have “designer” babis
...piece of legislation but, in the past 5 years, the science had changed along with public attitudes. “The act ...ver unchanged in the face of major developments in science and medicine.” The existing law bans the alteration of the genetic structure of any cell that is par...Parents Should Beware of Violent Video Games
...t in the short term, reports the online edition of science journal Nature. Some researchers had earlier said that playing such games was directly linked to aggressive behavior in children. The study also shows that children who play violent video games are much less likely to be helpful to others than the...... a protein, has been known for many years, reports science portal EurekAlert. The researchers were able to demonstrate that the proper loss or generation balance in bone tissue is regulated by the level of activity of interleukin 1 in the brain. A normal, optimal level of interleukin 1 activity in the brain...