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RMIT Business School Building Declared Safe

... investigation found radiation levels in the areas surrounding the building to be safe and ruled out the possibility that mobile phone towers on the roof had caused the tumors. The report prepared by Dr John Gall of Southern Medical Services, and Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne of the University of Melbourn...

Molecular Therapy Holds Promise in the Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

.... A small catheter is then implanted into the area surrounding the spinal cord, in order to pump antisense oligonucleotide drugs directly into the nervous system. The investigators noted that if the antisense approach works for ALS – by delivering therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases across the hi...

Cell Behavior Better Understood with Nano Probe

...acts //to a broad spectrum of complex biomolecules surrounding it. This would help to better create drugs that are capable of targeting some of the most devastating human diseases. Most sophisticated tools currently used for studying cell communications suffer from significant deficiencies. Typically, these to...

Radiation Cocktail May Reduce Risk of Damage To Other Organs In Breast Cancer

...'s edge, dramatically reducing radiation damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The researchers expect their approach to provide benefits for reducing collateral damage in the treatment of shallow tumors in the breast, chest wall, and head-and-neck region.Associated Meeting Papers: TU-D-224A-6, "Advanced Mixed B...

New Carrier Developed To Deliver Drugs to Gliomas

...red was ‘tightly localized to the tumor cavity and surrounding regions, suggesting discrete binding to the tumor.’ The drug was eliminated primarily through the urine, with radiation doses to the thyroid and other vital organs remaining extremely low and harmless. Mamelak said TM-601 binds to tumors other than g...

Students of Dharamsala Hospitalized for Diarrhoea

...ted stream and chemical fertilizers applied to the surrounding fields. As a precaution, the school is now using the underground water, even for washing, and that for the time being vegetables have been cut off from the menu of the school mess. (Source: IANS)...

NICE supports application of advanced biological therapies as treatment option for acute psoriasis

...any patients in Europe due to the financial issues surrounding it. Yet, this is a reprieve for many thousands of patients across United Kingdom who are not left with too many choices in treatment options, especially when health care systems are held sway with NICE implementations. Leeroy Blake in England was f...

New Treatment Option in the Pipeline for Those Suffering From Lung Cancers

...otic arm aims the x-rays precisely enough to avoid surrounding healthy tissue. To track the moving tumor, the CyberKnife takes real-time x-ray pictures of the patient while using external markers attached to the patient's chest or abdomen to follow tumors in real time with a few millimeters of accuracy. The rese...

Are children living as well as they are meant to be?

... of this study is to 'challenge the misconceptions surrounding children and encourage fresh thinking about childhood. The Good Childhood Inquiry will have a far reaching impact on children's lives this century.' Prof Layard, emphasizing the apparent difference in childhood between generations said, 'Our wealt...

Meeting To Discuss Issue Of Personal Health Records

... privacy, business, societal, and technical issues surrounding personal health records. The first meeting on Personally Controlled Health Records Infrastructure (PCHRI 2006) will be held on October 10-11. // "The work done at this meeting will further the development of the right kind of healthcare information...

Experiments In Outer Space To Determine single Cell Survival

...ly serves as an interface between the cell and the surrounding silica nanostructure, but acts as a template helping to direct the formation of the surrounding silica nanostructure. This improved architecture seamlessly retains water, needed by the cell to s...

New Technique Developed To Help Fight The Problem Of Alcohol Abuse

...our. The participant must then identify the colour surrounding the non-alcoholic bottle as quickly as possible. "This training causes people to become faster at ignoring alcoholic stimuli," explains Professor Cox. "Over a course of four sessions, our sample of excessive drinkers showed significant reductions i...

Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury with Embryonic Stem Cells

...ion, the scientists found no damage to the tissues surrounding the spinal cord indicating that the transplantatio...he cells may have caused to the spinal cord or the surrounding tissue." Keirstead is working with Geron Corp. to bring this treatment for acute spinal cord injur...

Researchers Use Bubbles in Cancer Treatment and Drug Delivery

...e bubbles are formed, so blockage of blood flow to surrounding tissue is minimal, said Joseph Bull, assistant pro...the emboli to the tumor to minimize destruction of surrounding tissue, without extremely invasive procedures, Bull said. The emboli must be delivered by a catheter...

New Tool to Diagnose and Treat Breast Cancer

... provides a two-dimensional view of the breast and surrounding tissue and only detects 80 to 85 percent of tumors. One of the main strengths of MRI is its precise delineation of soft tissue and its ability to image the breast in fine sections dynamically by taking multiple MRI images over time. The percentage of...

Regulation of Infertility Clinics Needed

... of practices and procedures, including procedures surrounding consent forms. Last year the Commission on Assisted Reproduction called for such regulation to be introduced. Senator Henry pointed out that 1,000 children are born in Ireland each year as a result of assisted human reproduction and regulation wa...

Southern States Health Ministers To Discuss Ways To Stop Chikungunya

...ing in December 2005. But it spread rapidly to the surrounding areas and currently chikungunya has been reported in 1,408 villages. Chikungunya causes fever, severe joint pains and swelling of legs and causes a lot of problems to infected people. Around four lakh cases are reported from Karnataka. Teams fro...

Neurotoxins might Reverse Mononeuronal Disease – Study Find

...sed by Dr Meunier's research and the opportunities surrounding it. ‘The therapeutic applications of this research are important, as it could help prevent or cure motoneuronal diseases,’ Mr Henderson said. ‘Also, the research potentially has important applications for the treatment of other diseases.’ Sourc...

Researchers have Identified the Gene that Spreads Skin Cancer

...o migrate beyond the initial skin tumor, to invade surrounding tissues and ultimately to metastasize to distant organs. While the protein itself does not lend itself to targeting by cancer drugs, say the researchers, insights gained in this study suggest that disrupting genes and proteins associated with NEDD9 m...

Environmental Factors Leads to Obesity in Rural Communities

...acilities, stores, churches and schools within the surrounding area make rural people obese.// The study is thought to be the first to examine the link between obesity and the environmental factors within rural communities. It builds upon previous Saint Louis University School of Public Health research that exa...

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