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Cancer Cells Trigger Supporting Cells to Turn Cancerous

... 100 percent of the animals studied. It's a strong selective pressure," said Dr. Terry Van Dyke, professor of genetics and biochemistry and biophysics in the School of Medicine, member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and lead author of the study. "Now the whole organ is evolving as a cancer, ...

Study Reveals Better Results in Patients Suffering From Depression.

...nts were given a newer class of antidepressants of selective serotonin reuptakes (Celexa). It showed that white women who were well qualified and patients who suffered from less number of diseases recovered quickly with initial treatment than who had severe depression and a number of co-existing diseases. P...

New Study Questions Cannibalism As A Worldwide Selective Force

...n associated with cannibalism has not been a major selective driving force on the prion protein gene, as has be... geographic patterns of variation, and to evaluate selective forces that have potentially influenced these patterns. "In contrast to the previous study, which...

10 Million Indian Females Aborted In 20 years

...ively estimate that prenatal sex determination and selective abortion accounts for 0.5 million missing girls yearly. If this practice has been common for most of the past two decades since access to ultrasound became widespread, then a figure of 10 million missing female births would not be unreasonable. Women...

Molecular Flaw Detected in Aggressive Breast Cancers

...titute. They suggest that targeting this flaw with selective drugs could help victims of this type of breast cancer. // The team of researchers led by Qunyan Yu, MD, and Peter Sicinski, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber details their finding in the January issue of Cancer Cell. They report that this particular growth...

COX-2 inhibitors Lessen Breast Cancer Risk

... The researchers observed that while daily use of selective COX-2 inhibitors was associated with a 71% reducti...sk of breast cancer. The study's results show that selective COX-2 inhibitors, as a group, were associated with a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer whe...

Alzheimer’s disease trial With EVT 101 For Successfully Complete

...lderly volunteers. EVT 101 is a highly potent and selective antagonist of NR2B subunit containing NMDA receptors. NMDA receptors are important players in certain pathological disease states such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, neuropathic pain and epilepsy. However, the clinical development of ...

Female Foeticide Practiced More By Educated People

...alth, and poverty is not the only reason for these selective abortions. This is happening in spite of selective abortions being made illegal in the country. The Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Societie...

Newborns Affected By Antidepressant Intake Of Mothers

... as 30% of the babies who had received exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) displayed withdrawal symptoms, and in 13% of the cases the symptoms were seen to be very severe. The Children's Medical Center of Israel’s Dr. Rachel Levinson-Castiel conducted the research study. The effects ...

New Drug Promises Hope In Multiple Drug Resistant And Latent TB Treatment

...cteria involved in the disease process and induces selective killing of the same. The other drugs target a broad spectrum of non-pathogenic microorganisms that enables development of drug resistance. Nearly all isolates have been shown to be susceptible to the compound and no resistance has been observed. Th...

Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug curbs the disease in mic

...rve cells. In the Alzheimer's disease there is a selective loss of neurons which produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. He said that by stimulating the M1 receptor one can boost the acetylcholine activity and AF267B does the stimulation. It was developed by the famous Alzheimer's researcher and study co...

Heart Patients Taking Anti-depressants Have Higher Risk Of Death

...ularly the newer class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), have been generally considered safe," Watkins said. "However, even after taking into account many patient variables, as well as the type of antidepressant, the risk still remained. So there is something important...

Female Foeticide Continues To Be On Rise In India

...n Tests Act bans misuse of modern technologies for selective abortions, but that has made no difference. "It ... "Easy access to ultrasound is the main reason for selective medical termination of pregnancy. As studies show, the fear among weaker sections of having to give ...

Benefits of Antidepressants to Pregnant Women Outweigh Risks to the Fetus

... depressants. These anti depressant drugs known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors //(SSRIs) affect the fetus. Drugs like Prozac and Paxil may cause a condition called persistent pulmonary hypertension in babies born to women who took the drugs during pregnancy. The recent study links SSRIs to this...

Rare Sexual Syndrome In Women Calls For More Research

...anti-depressants, more specifically drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Since the diagnosis, very few cases have been reported so far, preventing researchers from arriving at a specific conclusion about the prevalence or treatment. 'It deserves continued research, not only because it is a...

Two New Drugs For Breast Cancer Show Promise

... in women. It belongs to a class of drugs called selective benzothiophene oestrogen receptor modulator (SERM) and exerts an anti-estrogen effect. Hence it's use in breast cancer. In the trials where raloxifene was used as an osteoporosis drug, it also appeared to prevent the formation of new hormone dependan...

The Brain behind Facial Recognition

...ntegrated circuitry that recognizes faces based on selective processing of shapes of facial features. In their studies, the researchers first constructed a computational model that represented how their hypothesized neuronal circuitry would work. This model aimed at predicting how the circuitry could give ri...

Burning Fat, the Laser Way

...r Laser Medicine and Surgery the usefulness of its selective photothermolysis. It can be used for varied medical applications in the future. But further studies are necessary to probe and tap the usefulness of the technique....

Certain antidepressant drugs associated with pronounced suicidal tendencies

...children and teenagers prescribed drugs, called as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. But there has not been much research on its effects on the senior category of patients. David Juurlink, lead author of the study by Toronto's Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences said, "Suicides are mo...

Non Hormonal Therapies for Menopause Not Proved to be Effective

...s provides supportive evidence for the efficacy of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin noradrenergic reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) [such as paroxetine, venlafaxine, fluoxetine and citalopram], clonidine, and gabapentin in reducing the frequency and severity of menopausal hot flashes base...

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