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QUT Scientists on the Way to Sifting Out a Cure for HIV

...ology scientists. QUT scientists have developed specially designed ceramic membranes for nanofiltration, which are so advanced they have the potential to remove viruses from water, air and blood. Associate Professor Huaiyong Zhu, from QUT's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, is leading the develop...

Doctors Still Deny Older Patients Tests and Treatment

...ment of 72 fictional patients with angina, using a specially devised computer programme, and face to face structured interviews. The fictional patients were all aged between 45 and 92, with varying degrees of severity of heart problems. Head and shoulders photographs of people who had agreed to be the fictio...

Natural Brain Substance Linked to Parkinson's Symptoms

...eded to control movement. Researchers used mice specially bred so that target cells in the striatum - a region deep in the brain where endocannabinoids and dopamine operate - could be identified and recorded when the mice were given toxins to mimic the symptoms of Parkinson's. The mice were administered a d...

Singapore Reports Fewer Dengue Cases in 2006

...s to check their premises and the plants that were specially brought in for the Lunar New Year for mosquito breeding, the report said. The agency has distributed thousands of posters to residents and companies, urging them to take their parts to minimize mosquito breeding. Homes or commercial areas which...

New Test Kits for Dengue, Hepatitis Developed

...ic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) here, use specially designed synthetic antigens and can accurately detect the diseases. Sibal said both kits use antigens and produce a visually readable signal that makes it easy for early diagnosis. "The price of these kits would be half the price of available kits....

Insulin Tablets-No More Injections

...educed with the ingestion of a solution containing specially packaged insulin. The scientists reported using a chemical called chitosan derived from shrimps, crabs or lobsters, to coat insulin. These were then made into very tiny nanoparticles. The chitosan -shelled insulin was found to escape attack by sto...

Soy Compound May Fight Breast, Ovarian Cancers

A compound produced by specially grown soy beans may prove to be successful in fighting the growth of breast and ovarian cancers, says Tulane //University cancer researcher Matthew Burow. Burow tested the compound, known as glyceollin, on mice with ovarian and breast cancer tumors...

Indo-American Doctors to Build Emergency Medical System

...ing hospitals will be networked through a group of specially trained doctors, centralised ambulance service and paramedical forces. The 25-year-old AAPI is a network of 42,000 physicians and almost 15,000 medical students and residents. Explaining the process, Balasubramanium said: "We may need at least 30 a...

New Technique to Identify Bacteria for Food Safety

...y takes several hours and requires that samples be specially treated and prepared in a lengthy series of steps. DESI eliminates the pretreatment steps, enabling researchers to take "fingerprints" of bacteria in less than a minute using a mass spectrometer. "This is the first time we've been able to chemicall...

Will The Combination Of Calcitriol and Docetaxel Work ?

...vitamin D. This clinical trial will test whether specially formulated high-dose vitamin D, taken in combination with a chemotherapy drug called Docetaxel, increase survival time and improve quality of life in men with advanced prostate cancer.Presently there is no effective treatment for patients who have s...

Are The Short And Dark Days Of Winter Making You SAD?

...ight. 'Patients are advised to sit in front of a specially designed light box that emits about 10,000 lux from a fluorescent bulb, most often in the morning for at least 45 minutes. Then later, they can also be given antidepressants or try cognitive behaviour therapy,' says Dr Sameer Parikh of Max Healthcare...

Aggressive Stem Cells Might Improve Transplant Outcome

...lass II and III antibodies into mice that had been specially bred to lack an immune system. The cells traveled to the thymus, where they were trained to produce different families of T lymphocytes, each of which was genetically programmed to attack a specific target. Half of the mice that received cells select...

How Taste-buds Develop?

...he sites of Wnt signaling are easily visualized in specially engineered transgenic mice, using an enzymatic assay. "We noticed in the tongue that there was this beautiful pattern of blue spots that correspond to the developing taste papillae," says Millar. "This connected the Wnt pathway to their development."...

Enzyme to Boost Effect of Tumor Vaccine

...e work to develop the super form of Akt1. Using specially designed adenoviruses, he and his colleagues put the modified 'super' Akt1 molecule into the dendritic cells. 'As predicted, these dendritic cells lived longer and were more potent, both in the laboratory and in mice,' he said. 'It led to the elimina...

Unsafe Sex, HIV Infected Transfusion Spreading AIDS in Madhya Pradesh

...iety (MPSACS) official. Western Madhya Pradesh, specially 14 districts of the Malwa and the Nimar regions touching commercial areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat, are in fact highly susceptible to AIDS. Of the 1,933 known cases of AIDS in the state, about 70 percent (1,380) have been reported from these distri...

Customize Hospital Infrastructure to Suit the Obese

...00 heavy-duty bed as well as lifting equipment and specially designed wheelchairs." It is also imperative to train the staff adequately to take care of the needs of such patients, even during crucial surgery or during diagnostic intervention using hi-tech machines....

Pharmacy Care Program Can Increase Medication Adherence in Elderly

...cy// care program that includes patient education, specially packaged medications, and pharmacy follow-up, according to a study. The “Federal Study of Adherence to Medications in the Elderly (FAME) Study,” funded by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Research and Education Foundation, f...

Pakistan Medical Association To Fight For Shoaib, Asif

...ted as saying in The News Monday. On Wednesday, a specially constituted PCB tribunal had banned Shoaib for two years and Asif for one year from playing any class of cricket after it was confirmed that they had taken the banned steroid Nandrolone. "We feel the ban is unjust, and if it is not lifted after app...

Indian radiologist spearheads cure for osteoarthritis sans surgery

...ntensity quantum magnetic resonance beams from 288 specially designed guns that are focused on a target tissue. The beams are delivered in the sub-radio and near-radio frequency spectrum by a computerised device called Cytotron to alter the cell membrane potential. "Like other tissues, bone and cartilage are...

Bird flu outbreak prevented by Tamiflu

...and HA2 of the virus and studying the 10 proteins, specially HA and NA present in the virus, said, "Timely administering of Tamiflu to those who were quarantined on suspicions of having been in contact with H5N1 virus infected birds, helped us avert the transmission of the virus to humans. DNA analysis of the ...

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