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Discovery of World’s smallest laser

...e highly collimated beam of a typical laser, which spreads little over distances as great as hundreds of miles. This is not necessarily a disadvantage, Yang said. If a strong, collimated beam is needed, the light from many nanowires could be channeled into an optical waveguide. If a small footprint and tin...

Kidney Cancer Vaccine

Kidney cancer spreads fast, and when it does, it can kill within months. Now there's a vaccine that may stop the cancer in its tracks. Faith was more than a mere crutch for Rev. Jerry Burnside when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. "I was not afraid of dying. My faith ...

Solarium use is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer

...d then spread rapidly throughout the body. "If it spreads to the lymph nodes or to the internal organs, it is time to put your affairs in order", say doctors . Once it has spread, there's nothing that can be done . There are treatments that might buy some time, but that doesn't cure anybody. In the study, ...

Drug might prevent Prostate Cancer Spread

...prevent bone loss. Estimates show prostate cancer spreads to the bone in about 85 percent of men. The researchers recruited 311 men who were being given hormone therapy for bone metastases. The patients who received oral sodium clodronate had a 21-percent reduction in risk of bone metastases and a 20-percen...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...rus, which is carried by the domestic mosquito and spreads from person to person through what may seem like a harmless mosquito bite. The Infection with dengue viruses causes clinical illness ranging from a less dangerous non-specific viral syndrome called 'Dengue fever' to severe and fatal hemorrhagic dise...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...eath when the fever reaches the brain. The disease spreads through the bite of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Reservoirs constructed for scores of big and small housing projects, water collected in road excavation sites, accumulated garbage and rooftop water accumulation are the breeding ground of the Aedes mo...

Human Brain Continues To Evolve And Grow

... bear it a greater likelihood of survival, it then spreads in rest of the population. The microcephalin gene, the variation arose about 37,000 years ago and this coincides with the time period when art, music and tool-making were emerging. For ASPM, the variation arose about 5,800 years ago, approx. coincid...

PUFA Good For Heart: Gets The Scientific Seal

...iquid oils and soft, trans fat-free soft margarine spreads were elevated in importance in that they "help mee...sterol per serving whereas margarine and margarine spreads have no cholesterol because they are made with vegetable oil, a good source of vitamin E. ...

Recurrence of aggressive uterine cancer reduced by new form of therapy

...e women. The disease looks like ovarian cancer and spreads just as rapidly, restricting the choice of treatment to only chemotherapy. A state-of-the-art treatment program now developed at Yale School of Medicine has been found to increase survival from the aggressive uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPS...

Indian Researcher Discovers Reason For Malignancy of Skin Cancer

...y overexposure to the sun's harmful rays, Melanoma spreads rapidly if not caught at an early stage. Gupta and the team of researchers at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research found that while other cancers have to learn how to spread, melanoma is equipped with the mechanism to spread. Th...

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

...monly called bird flu. Although the disease mainly spreads from birds to other animal species, even to humans, In the avian form, the disease is borne by wild birds, especially ducks, and so it may be difficult to contain the spread of the disease. The first cases of humans being infected by the strain of H5...

Chiron Corporation Gets US Contract To Produce Bird Flu Vaccines

...monly called bird flu. Although the disease mainly spreads from birds to other animal species, even to humans, In the avian form, the disease is borne by wild birds, especially ducks, and so it may be difficult to contain the spread of the disease. The first cases of humans being infected by the strain of H5...

Gemcitabine with Capecitabine effective against pancreatic cancer

...ll cancer deaths. That's because pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and is seldom detected in its early stages. This clinical trial, which is called the GEMCAP trial, was conducted in England between May 2003 and January 2005 involving 533 patients with, advanced pancreatic cancer. The patients were given e...

Indian Psychiatrist in UK Accused of plagiarism

... been criticised by some colleagues who suggest he spreads himself too thin - an allegation he rejects. (Source:IANS) Medindia Related Links MedIndia - All about Health, Medical news, Indian doctors, Medical ...Child Psychiatrist. Date Posted. 9-Sep-2004. Speciality. Psychiatry. Location. Riyadh, Saudi...

Legal Action against Authority Regarding Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Diseas

...isease is caused by a bacterium that most commonly spreads through air conditioning units. It is more common in summer and was first identified in 1976 at a Philadelphia hotel where the American Legion organisation was holding a meeting. Young people usually recover completely from the disease that has a mor...

Bird Flu: India faces threat from China this winter

...d can then pose risk to humans. And once the virus spreads to pigs, it is only a matter of time before the H5N1 type avian flu mutates and affects humans. So far India has been spared so far but the danger of outbreak is always lurking. Indian authorities have already stepped up vigil and about 3,500 dead b...

Religious groups overcome objections to cervical cancer vaccines

...sed by the Human Papilloma Virus or the HPV, which spreads exclusively by sexual contact. Religious groups had feared that introducing these vaccines would promote uninhibited sexual activity among teenaged girls, but these concerns have now been largely addressed and religious organizations are in fact begi...

Novel Strain Detected In The Recent Outbreak Of Bird Flu At Ukraine

... to mutate has risen great concern because once it spreads to humans there will be a number of causalities and result in increased death tolls but so far the situation has been kept under control with no human causalities reported....

Biovac, Hepatitis A Vaccine Marketed By Wockhardt

...ich has an incubation period of almost a month and spreads to humans through feco-oral route damaging the liver. The strain (H-2) used for the preparation of the vaccine is been marked as Biovac and will be available in India cities by Thursday. The vaccine is available as a single dose, given subcutaneou...

U.S. Hospitals may help Spread Bird Flu Pandemic

...ns of the virus could turn it into a pandemic that spreads quickly among people. Many reports have shown that hospitals can be a source for spreading such diseases, because health care workers fail to follow even basic hygiene practices such as washing their hands after touching any patient or piece of equ...

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