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Brain fever takes 185 lives

...he virus causing brain fever, 310 samples of blood serum and cerebrospinal fluid have been sent to the National Institute of Virology. A species of Culex mosquito spreads Japanese encephalitis. GYT...

Chocolate Chip Cookies to Keep Cholesterol at Bay

...mon fleawort, proven to be efficacious in lowering serum cholesterol), and plant sterols (which are extract...irection Cookies showed a ten percent reduction in serum LDL cholesterol (considered harmful as it can build up in arteries) and also reduces the possibility...

Antiretroviral Drugs: A Shot in the Arm to Fight Malaria?

...ium falciparum in vitro. The finding revealed that serum taken from people who were undergoing antiretroviral therapy, consisting of ritonavir-boosted saquinavir (Invirase) or lopinavir (Kaletra), showed remarkable anti-malarial activity. The presence of nelfinavir (Viracept), amprenavir (Agenerase) and t...

Pre-gestational Diabetes in Mothers enhances the Risk of Hypocalcaemia in Newborns

...ancy. Dr. Das and Dr. Pratibha Ankola studied the serum calcium levels just 24 hours after birth in 43 infants of mothers who had gestational diabetes and 6 infants born to mothers who were already diabetics before pregnancy....

Clinical Trial Shows Liquid Eggs Enriched with Omega-3 Deliver Heart Health Benefits

...duction in blood pressure levels without impacting serum cholesterol. The EPA and DHA blood levels of the t... their blood – greater than 90 mg per deciliter of serum (1 mmol/L). The men, between the ages of 30 and 65, were assigned to either eat an omega-3 enriched ...

Testosterone Levels in Men Decline Over Past Two Decades

...ng, can completely explain the phenomenon. “Male serum testosterone levels appear to vary by generation, ...dy. “In 1988, men who were 50 years old had higher serum testosterone concentrations than did comparable 50-year-old men in 1996. This suggests that some fac...

New Bird flu Strain Claims Refuted

... The report claimed that through the analysis of serum samples from 76 chickens for signs of antibodies against three H5N1 variants, including the Fujian-like strain, they found almost all of the samples displayed two to four times more antibodies to the other two variants than to the Fujian virus, sugge...

Heart Attack Damage Repaired with Stem cells

...rein half the patients will be injected with blood serum for comparison. The study is scheduled for after Christmas and is expected to follow up findings from trials in Germany on small groups of patients although the subject of the working of transplants is still surrounded by dispute, whether it allows...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

... measure DNA methylation in breath." Multiplexed serum markers screening for detection of pancreatic cancer. A panel of 10 blood biomarkers performed almost perfectly in picking out people who had pancreatic cancer from those who didn't, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. The adv...

Testosterone Replacement Therapy Appears Safe for Prostate

...ate tissue of 44 men, age 44 to 78 years, with low serum testosterone levels. The study was conducted betwe... 19). Testosterone replacement therapy increased serum testosterone levels to the mid-normal range with no significant change in serum testosterone levels ...

International Collaboration Takes Aim at Rabies

...pensate, equine immune globulin derived from horse serum is used in many parts of the world, but it can carry significant side effects and is not an optimal product. To address the supply problems and side-effect issues, the CDC and MBL launched an effort to find a MAB that could be used in place of hRIG...

Highly-Concentrated Botulinum Preparation Can Result in Severe Illness

...rapeutic use, no cases of botulism with detectable serum toxin have previously been attributed to cosmetic ...mated human lethal dose by injection. Pretreatment serum toxin levels in 3 of the 4 case-patients were equivalent to 21 to 43 times the estimated human letha...

Chinese Red Yeast Rice Lowers Lipid Levels

.... The results exhibited significant reduction in serum total cholesterol levels ,triglycerides levels and LDL-cholesterol levels and increase of HDL-cholesterol levels by RYR treatment in comparison with placebo. The changes in lipid levels were found to be similar to those of pravastatin, simvastatin...

Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products

...e oncotic pressure of the blood, which 'holds' the serum within the vessels. Until recently plasma proteins including Factor VII were mostly being imported. Reliance Life Sciences is now meeting this demand through indigenous research and development. It is manufacturing many of the plasma proteins...

Testosterone Decline in Men Linked to Lifestyle, Increases in Obese Girls

...in BMI – are accompanied by an accelerated loss of serum testosterone. While these lifestyle changes cannot...rchers have found that mean concentrations of free serum testosterone in obese peripubertal girls were two-to-nine times higher than in normal weight peripub...

Increase Vitamin D In Blood, Decrease Risk For Multiple Sclerosis

...tudy compared the levels of vitamin D in 257 blood serum samples, Multiple sclerosis cases which were identified through Army and Navy physical disability databases from 7 million samples of U.S. military personnel stored in the Department of Defense Serum Repository. The study results shows that among w...

HIV Treatments Improve Health, but Nutritional Issues Remain

...l, hypertension, abdominal obesity, high levels of serum glucose (blood sugar), and/or hypertriglyceridemia... could speculate that there is an optimal range of serum vitamin A needed for people with HIV that could contribute to maintaining lower viral loads.” The ...

Uric Acid Levels (High-Normal) Associated With Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly

...use. These findings suggest that older people with serum (blood) uric-acid levels in the high end of the no... physicians to ask elderly adults with high normal serum uric acid about any problems they might be having with their thinking, and perhaps refer those who e...

Uric Acid -Biomarker for Dementia

...l screening for elderly patients having high blood serum uric acid levels. SRM...

Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia

...er of promising biomarkers for delirium, including serum chemistries, genetic markers, serum anticholinergic activity, neurotransmitters, inflammatory markers and cortisol. Role of neuroimagi...

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