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Monoclonal Antibody Induces Death in Liver Cancer Cells

... originates and spreads. Most patients live only a short time after diagnosis. Dr. Satdarshan P. Singh Monga, Associate Professor in the division of cellular and molecular pathology at the university, directed his colleagues to obtain rat and human liver cancer cell lines so as to analysed the cell lines...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

... or credit-cards 24 hours a day to rent cycles for short trips, dropping them off at any of 750 bike points... progressive charging system designed to encourage short rents and quick turn-over. There is also a small subscription fee. Registered bikers pay 29 euros ...

Miraculous Recovery for Australian Child Whose Throat was Speared

...or nerves in his neck and throat and just stopping short of his brain. Doctors say the fall could have killed him instantly. Instead he was able to pull himself off the spike and scream for his mother, Priscilla Boswell, who was inside with her other child, eight-month-old Tom. "It's really barbaric to...

Reason Behind Trouble Remembering in ADHD Kids Revealed

...ir medication were able to remember numbers in the short term as part of their working memory, the researchers used the card game Snap. "In Snap, you have to recognise that the same two cards have appeared in a row, but we found that children diagnosed with ADHD had incredible difficulty detecting doubles ...

Boffins Find Evidence for Novel Brain Cell Communication

...of transmitter chemicals, and may be thought of as short circuits linking or cutting across the pathways th...t this site, on axons, would be expected to act as short circuits for nerve signals and to produce cross-talk. However the new data raise the provocative ...

Wrestler Chris Benoits Son was Sedated - Says Investigators

...using testosterone at least within some reasonably short period of time prior to the time that he died." Although testosterone was found in Christopher Benoit's urine, there is no evidence of any other of the illegal types of steroids, or the whole laundry list of anabolic steroids that are out there to be...

Lack of Medical Facilities Have Claimed Lives of Newborns at Chhattisgarh Hospital

...aid the government hospitals across the state were short of 2,000 doctors....

Steroids may Reduce Recurrence of Asthma

Giving patients a short course of corticosteroids after they have been discharged from hospital for an asthma attack reduces the chances of a relapse, a Cochrane Systematic Review has found. Giving the steroids also reduces their use of inhalers. The benefit lasts for abou...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...e programme is supposed to give the penal system a short respite after months of unrelenting pressure. However, prison healthcare continues to be strained to breaking point in many areas. The BMAs dossier, 'Crisis in the Cells', provides a small snapshot of the nationwide and daily serious issues afflictin...

Mills Rejects Macca's 20m Divorce Settlement Offer

...Justice Bennett. "Five days is only a relatively short hearing but then the issues are fairly straightforward and it was a short marriage," the lawyer added. McCartney and Mills are taking the services of Fiona Shackleton and A...

Steroids may Reduce Chances of Asthma Relapse

Researchers have found that a short course of corticosteroids to patients after they get discharged from hospital for an asthma attack reduces the chances of a relapse. Giving the steroids also reduces their use of inhalers and the benefit lasts for about three weeks. The study wa...

Indian Government at the Crossroads in Implementing Anti-smoking

...what style of warning is printed on packets -- far short of a demand by the country's health minister for the mandatory use of the skull and crossbones symbol. "Some kind of warning will be there," cabinet spokesman Priyaranjan Dasmunshi told reporters as he explained the measures. Cigarette packets in...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

...is drug therapy may be best used over a relatively short period of time, to be replaced or supplemented with behavioural therapy," Dr. Milner says. Dr. Milner, however, admits that it is too early to say whether the changes noted in the Ritalin-exposed brain will be of either benefit or harm to humans. ...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...ecifying who the workers were. Rodriguez died a short time later of a perforated bowel that probably occurred in her last 24 hours of life, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled. Experts have said her death might have been prevented had she received treatment sooner. But this episode has drawn nationa...

Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Vessels for Vascular Grafts in Mice

...almost immediately or, at most, after a relatively short culture period. This suggests that we could make these available off-the-shelf, which is an essential element for clinical translation, he explained....

Paris Launches Drive for Clean Cars

... or credit-cards 24 hours a day to rent cycles for short trips around the city, dropping them at 750 bike points in the capital....

Genome Annotation by Mutation

...utate genes or none-gene DNA, Wu and Capecchi used short pieces of DNA known as loxP. Pieces of loxP act li...y large stretch of DNA that is located between two short pieces of loxP DNA can be mutated. Because the whole mouse genome has been sequenced the order an...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...ld take several hours to transport casualties even short distances to a field hospital. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) insisted that military medics had the resources needed and that Vietnam comparisons were misleading due to advances in military capabilities. Parker, writing in the Royal Army Medical Cor...

Delhi Sees the Sun but Turns Cloudy Again

Heat and discomfort made a short comeback Tuesday morning as the sun shone bright over Delhi after a four-day wet spell. But with cool breeze and thick clouds making an appearance by noon, it looked like rain again. The temperature recorded at 10.30 a.m. was a cool 33 degrees Cel...

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...Women with LAM often need oxygen, are continuously short of breath, and are unable care for their children or walk up a flight of stairs, Henske said. Many women with LAM die prematurely. As part of her work, Henske discovered that mutations in the tuberous sclerosis gene, which triggers TSC, a genetic d...

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