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Advanced therapy offers cure for relapsed cancer patient

...here is renewed hope. “This is new medicine and it tells patients that cures are on the horizon,” said Stephen D. Williams, M.D., director of the IU Simon Cancer Center and a co-author of the paper.   ( Indiana University )...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...iversity of Munich in the Social Science Quarterly tells it all: Underperformance in Affluence: The Remarkable Relative Decline in U.S. Heights in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Americans had always been giants, with the tallest men in the world going back as far as the data exists (at least to the...

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

.... Three years later I picked up a mango," Soontorn tells AFP. "The mango tree does not need anything. 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 sun...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...al campaign from the American Legacy Foundation.It tells the story behind the smoke. People often judge these ads and now you know what the tobacco industry was doing trying to undermine them, Ibrahim said. Research has found ads that reveal the deceptive practices of the tobacco industry are the most eff...

Normal People can Only Remember Four Things at a Time

...Knowing the number of things a person can remember tells you nothing about how clear a person's memory may be," said Professor Awh. "So even though people with high IQs can think about more things at once, there are not guarantees about how good those memories might be," the researcher added....

Tourettes Syndrome in Children may also Result in Superior Learning Skills

... largely accurate, in certain language tasks. This tells us that their cognitive processing may be altered in ways we have only begun to explore, and moreover in a manner that may provide them with performance that is actually enhanced compared that of typically-developing children said senior researcher D...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...des and sharing them with their brothers. The book tells of Tripala Kumari, 18, whose husband killed her because she refused to have sex with his brothers. Instances came to light of male foetuses dumped in dustbins by doctors who aborted them to make money after lying to parents that the child was a gir...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...women have sought help from the 10-year-old group, tells one story of a troubled woman who saw a therapist for five years. Not once did they discuss her history of being sexually abused. "That's not very good therapy," said Gupta. But counselling is vital, Gupta said, especially for learning how to cop...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

...e womb for this. Lead researcher Dr Virpi Lummaa tells that both testosterone and the female hormone oestrogen can cross the womb, due to which the twin brother and sister are exposed to each other's hormones. Since male and female foetuses have similar oestrogen levels, the female child is more likely t...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

...cant find a cure, but its a great start because it tells you what proteins to study....

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...ical care to its citizen. But the present practice tells a very different story according to the patients and experts. The doctors, nurses and surgeons routinely demand payments even bribes from those they treat. A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked the country's health system 130th out of 19...

Scientists Identify New Possible 'biomarker' for Pancreatic Cancer

...ON receptor and pancreatic cancer. The report also tells that receptor tyrosine kinases are proteins on the cell surface used to activate specific body functions like cell growth and migration. "A normal pancreas has very low levels of RON, but our study showed that as tumours progress, so does the leve...

Cause of Gender Differences in Blood Pressure, Kidney Damage Under Study

...hich makes nitric oxide, a signaling molecule that tells smooth muscles cells to relax, may make more nitric oxide in females. Just how active an enzyme is depends on how its phosphorylized, or turned on by adding phosphate groups. Our preliminary data says that the phosphorylation status may increase ...

Aging Gracefully, With a Chronic Disease

...hole, he says. One very important thing that Fox tells his patients with RA is that they do not have to stop living their lives. Kossoudji, for one, has followed the advice. My job is to make sure that rheumatoid arthritis diminishes my life as little as possible, she says. My goal is not to overcome the...

Warrior Culture in Los Angeles Police Force

.... We are the professionals. We know better. No one tells us better." The Christopher Commission examined five years of reports, police radio communications and hearings and interviews with dozens of residents and police, and found that "a significant number of officers" routinely used excessive force. ...

Very Soon You can Eat to Your Hearts Content

...ACAT2 enzyme isnt present. Our research in animals tells us that ACAT2 is a potential treatment target to protect people against heart disease," he added. As a part of the study groups of female mice with and without the ACAT2 gene were fed six different diets enriched with one of these types of fat: fis...

It is Possible Reverse Hair Loss, US Scientists Say

...are many fold, but principally perhaps for what it tells us about the reprogramming power of adult stem cells, and it applications in regenerative medicine and wound healing."...

Now, Cellphones That Alert Against Impending Lightning Strikes

...them, works out the distance to the lightning, and tells the user if the strikes are getting closer. Researchers say as lightning can pose a major risk to people taking part in outdoor pursuits, such as golfing; the software could become an indispensable safety device for outdoor enthusiasts. As of now...

Researchers Make Insulin from Human Umbilical Cord Bloods Adult Stem Cells

...sized, by the engineered cells. "This discovery tells us that we have the potential to produce insulin from adult stem cells to help people with diabetes," Urban said. It doesnt prove that were going to be able to do this in people its just the first step up the rung of the ladder," Urban added. T...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

...te data on maltreatment and deployment. This study tells us only about population patterns. We did not study individual families she said. To fully understand what is happening within military families, we need more research on the topic that includes information about individual families. Also, its impor...

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