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Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

...ns. The level of fFN in the woman's cervicovaginal secretions is highly associated with pre-term labor and pre-term delivery. The fFN immunoassay detects concentrations of fetal fibronectin protein in cervicovaginal fluids; the presence of more than 50 ng/mL is considered positive. The fFN test has been appro...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...ns chemically related to snake venom and frog skin secretions may lead to the development of new treatments for a range of stubborn digestive disorders. The findings, mark the discovery of two naturally occurring human proteins, which the researchers have named prokineticins.How the proteins were //discovered ...

The Logic Behind The Spread Of SARS

...h lower concentrations of the virus in respiratory secretions than in urine and stool, researchers conclude the spread was not initiated by respiratory means but by virus-laden aerosols spread through dried up seals in a bathroom and passed on by an exhaust fan....

Approval for DNA test to detect cystic fibrosis

... can cause severe and fatal lung infections. These secretions can also affect pancreas and cause serious problems of food digestion. Cystic fibrosis is expressed as a disease in a child when he inherits the faulty genes from both the parents. The FDA approved Tag-It test identifies a set of genetic variation...

Extracts of grapefruit heals stomach ulcers

...ls of gastric secretion. Unusual levels of gastric secretions are one of the major causes of gastric ulcers. Using a combination of acetic acid with or without a COX-1 inhibitor and a COX-2 inhibitor the researchers did the test for ulcer healing. Rats who were given 10mg/kg of grapefruit seed extract had a ...

Cystic fibrosis patients may require a new treatment for bacterial infection

... can cause severe and fatal lung infections. These secretions can also affect pancreas and cause serious problems of food digestion. Cystic fibrosis is expressed as a disease in a child when he inherits the faulty genes from both the parents. New research suggests that the bacteria Pseudomonas can use the an...

Critically Ill Patients More At Risk Of Infection If Glucose Is Present In Their Lung Secretions

...cose were measured in their blood samples and lung secretions (bronchial aspirates). The lung secretions were also routinely tested twice weekly, or whenever an infection was suspected, for the presence of...

Pomegranates Found To Slow Prostate Cancer Progression

...ales. The main function of the gland is to produce secretions that add volume to the semen//. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed and is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. The incidence of the cancer in Asian men is comparatively lower. With respect to cancer prevention, ...

Meningitis is rocking the capital again

...ugh infected droplets of the respiratory or throat secretions and other form of close contact. In addition, more than 20 % of the cases can progress to septicemia that can result in death within a short span of 12-24 hous....

Pakistan On Alert After Cases Of Fatal Fever

... well as through direct contact with the blood and secretions of an infected animal or patient. Hospital authorities sought to downplay the death with RGH Medical Superintendent Habib Ahmed Khan saying that it was a mishandled delivery case. "When her relatives brought her to the RGH the patient had been blee...

Botox Can Be a Competent Painkiller

...n Hailey-Hailey disease, the drug is used to block secretions of sweat, saliva and mucus. Dr Wollina is the Director of the Department of Dermatology at the Hospital Dresden-Freidrichstadt in Dresden, Germany. The author concludes by saying, "Botulinum toxin A has important applications in proctology where it...

Frog Secretions Could Be Used To Ward Off Mosquitoes

Scientists have found that the secretions of a frog, found in Australia, could be used as mo...rchers at the University of Adelaide gave mice the secretions of the dumpy tree frog and found them remaining bite-free for around 50 minutes compared to 12 minut...

Possibility Of A Meningococcal Outbreak In NSW

... easily and is transmitted through nose and throat secretions of an infected person. Prolonged contact with the infected individual is necessary before meningococcal infection can be passed on from one person to the other. The only effective way to manage meningococcal infection is to seek immediate medical t...

Inquiry Led In To the Hepatitis B Infection in the Hospitals

...nd occurs when there is contact between infectious secretions (mainly blood) and cut skin. It is serious disease and is caused by a virus. The symptoms occur depending on the patient’s immunity level. In some adults complete recovery occurs normally within six months, and then they remain immune for life where...

Gap Exists between Medical School Teaching and Physician’s Practic

... but does not require the analysis and charting of secretions required to follow older natural methods. This new method, known as the TwoDay Method?, is 96 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. All family planning methods have characteristics that may be perceived by some as advantages while others conside...

Safety of Cancer Therapeutic Viruses Enhanced

...easles virus that turns on only in the presence of secretions specific to malignant cancer cells. In effect, the Mayo Clinic virus makeover uses proteins secreted by cancer cells as the unique key to the virus' ignition. Their report on the topic appears in the Aug. 1 edition of Cancer Research (http://cancerr...

Researchers Enhance Safety and Effectiveness of Therapeutic Virus that Fights Cancer

...easles virus that turns on only in the presence of secretions specific to malignant cancer cells. In effect, the Mayo Clinic virus makeover uses proteins secreted by cancer cells as the unique key to the virus’ ignition. The investigation was performed in laboratory mice that were transplanted with a huma...

Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

...s, researchers collected vials of infectious nasal secretions from each participant at the study start. Then, two to four months after their colds ended, five of the same participants individually touched three contaminated surfaces in a hotel room. Participants were exposed to only their own infectious secreti...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...f the same species. Chemicals isolated from bodily secretions such as sweat, saliva or urine of several mammalia...date, no scientifically rigorous study using human secretions has led to the isolation and chemical identification of a true human pheromone.' On the other hand...

Tears Reveal Some of Their Deepest Secrets to Researchers

...y and Visual Science. They collected oily meibum secretions from the meibomian glands of healthy volunteers. The meibomian glands are tiny, grape-like clusters of cells that line the rim of our upper and lower eyelids – the outlets to these glands are roughly adjacent to the eyelashes. Researchers gently pres...

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