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New breast cancer genes discovered

...sorder marked by bone marrow failure. If the child survives to adulthood,// they are at high risk of a number of cancers, including brain, head and neck, and breast. Researchers at the Faber Cancer Institute and the Children's Hospital, Boston, have been studying a number of Fanconi families. They already k...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...acterium is found naturally in the environment and survives drying and thrives in dust and on inanimate surfaces for long periods. This bacterium which is not harmful to healthy humans can pose serious threat to patients in the ICU who are critically ill and whose body defences are weakened. Acinetobacter can...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

... gone. But the acrolein that these attacks release survives in our bodies much longer, for several days at least, and its toxicity is well documented." For example, acrolein has long been known to cause cancer when its concentration in the body rises, and not much is needed to be dangerous. When a person inh...

Indian Scientists Identify New Way Of Combating TB

...s to understand how the tuberculosis (TB) bacteria survives in the human body. // This will help in developing newer and more effective medicines to combat the disease, which claims as many as 2 million lives across the world annually. The research team led by Rajesh S. Gokhale have identified the genes that...

Banana in grave danger of extinction!

...ety that contains genes that resist black sigatoka survives as a single plant in the botanical gardens of Kolkata, he said. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Bacterium Overtook Patients At Brisbane Women’s Hospita

... intensive care unit to be closed. Since the germs survives over 20 years there needs a more tremendous efforts to be undertaken by the health authorities to overcome the spread....

Heart Has Enough Oxygen to Survive Hypothermia; CPR Crucial

... the critical variable in whether a mammal’s heart survives while in a hypothermic state.// Writing in the July issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, researchers found no significant difference in the amount of oxygen available to the heart between rats exposed to one...

Micro-world of Prehistoric Bacteria Found in Amber

...entropyxis hirsuta, is identical to a species that survives today. Amber is solidified tree sap, which can preserve small creatures and plants and freeze them in time. Flies, beetles, ants and spiders dating back many millions of years have been found trapped in amber. But soft bodied amber specimens olde...

13,000 Cases of Dengue Found in Brazil in January

...apidly through Mato Grosso do Sul. A person who survives one type of dengue is not immune to the other two strains, and a second infection with dengue is usually much worse and can lead to hemorrhage and death. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Scientists Tout New Prostate Cancer Test

...h both groups had clean prostate biopsies. If it survives scientific review, it could help save the lives of men with serious cancers and avoid repeated biopsies in others. "It's that 1-in-10 men that do have a life-threatening cancer that we wanted to identify," said Dr. Mark Garzotto, an Oregon Health &...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

...needed by next month. Indigenous wild poliovirus survives in only parts of Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where transmission has never been stopped. Ten other countries are currently fighting the tail-end of outbreaks caused by importations of poliovirus. The meeting outlined specific milestone...

Aedes Agypti Mosquitos Immune System Revealed

...nding of the mechanisms by which a pathogen either survives inside the insect body, or is killed by the insects defences. The international research team, led by Imperial PhD student Robert Waterhouse, focused on comparing the immunity genes of the Aedes mosquito with similar groups of genes in the harmless...

Vietnam Bird Flu Death a Call for Action, Say Experts

...culling all sick animals. Experts warn that H5N1 survives both in the respiratory system and the gastro-intestinal tract of birds -- meaning farms, markets and slaughterhouses have to be vigilant about hygiene and biosecurity. Vietnam, once the country worst affected by H5N1, was hit by three waves of avia...

Uninsured Adults Increase Medicare Costs

...t by 2020 as a larger percentage of the population survives well beyond age 65. Despite the size of the program, Medicare may still not be helping enough people. The expansion of Medicare coverage to uninsured adults before the age of 65 has been proposed in Congress in recent years, in part because if adul...

Eco-architecture Takes Root in Thailand, but Growth is Slow

...ything. The mango tree recycles everything, and it survives by the wind and the sun." Unfortunately for this middle-aged professor of architecture, he is ahead of his time in Thailand, where despite abundant sunshine and a construction boom, talk of solar power and energy-efficient building design is largel...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

...ns, Dr Kai Pinkernell: "The supercharged fat graft survives really well and fills in the volume defect left by a partial mastectomy." The technique is touted to offer huge medical and psychological benefits for this group of women, with around 300,000 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in Europe every year....

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