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Chinese Province Offers Free Treatment to HIV/AIDS Patients

...reatment //to more HIV/AIDS victims this year with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Addressing a provincial health meeting that ended Friday, Yang Hongsheng, deputy chief of Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Health, said the province would build more infrastructures, bringing the number of TCM AIDS treatment cent...

Technology Changes in Glucose Monitoring Implants

...plants are not to be intended as an alternative to traditional self-monitoring of blood glucose. The FDA cautions...tion on glucose trends that are not available from traditional self-monitoring.' Yet hopes are high for diabetics round the world that technology will manufactu...

Pichkaris Not So Popular in Jharkhand

...makeshift stalls outside the shop. Over the years, traditional pichkaris were replaced with other forms such as guns or airplanes but the sale was good. In the last few years its been steadily going down." The price of sprayers varies from Rs. 5 to Rs. 90 depending on the shape, make and size. He admitted th...

French Psychiatrists to Study Indian Value System

... how to tackle it. India is a huge country and its traditional knowledge should be explored further. At the same time, we will share our expertise with our Indian counterparts," Bantman said while speaking to IANS. Nearly 225 Indian and French psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are deliberating...

Circumcision Does Not Prevent Spread of HIV, Experts Warn

...e study of HIV transmission in the context of both traditional and medical circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa. ANN...

Homeopathy and Hypnosis Come to Dentistry

...these treatments are effective." Nonetheless, many traditional medical practitioners are learning more about natural medicine. "Our research institute offers about 100 hours a year on topics such as acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis and jaw massage techniques," says Peter Minderjahn of the North Rhine Dental A...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

...henko. "This is far beyond what you can do in a traditional biology lab dish that's filled with a large colony of cells." The microfluidic chip was invented and patented by a team that included Levchenko and Paliwal, who teamed up with Alex Groisman, a physicist from the University of California, San Diego....

New Cost-cutting Cancer Drug Delivery System

...adable, hydrophilic material that can be used with traditional therapeutic agents and thus greatly improve solubility of the drug. In addition to this, the firm points out that most compounds used as therapeutic agents are comprised of very small particles whereas combining them with the polymeric carrier inc...

Targeted Compound Helps Recurrent Prostate Cancer Patients

...ancer patients whose diseases no longer respond to traditional chemotherapy. Pertuzumab, marketed under the brand name Omnitarg by Roche and Genentech, is just one of many targeted cancer therapies that give researchers hope that cancer may one day be a lifetime disease that can be skillfully managed. Source...

CMV Vaccine Prototype Successfully Tested in Guinea Pigs

... Prototype The experimental vaccine differs from traditional vaccines, which are made from a whole killed virus. Called a vector vaccine, the experimental vaccine uses an altered virus to deliver one gene from the viral DNA to the animal’s cells. The cells then begin manufacturing the viral protein. Cells of t...

An Aspirin a Day Keeps Heart Disease Away

...C-reactive protein, should immediately be added to traditional assessments of women's risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke or severe chest pain (angina). Blumenthal, an associate professor and director of the Ciccarone Preventive Cardiology Center at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says do...

Modified Ligament Surgery Improves Outcomes Players, Athletes

.... Dr. Altchek’s procedure also differs from the traditional Jobe surgery by minimizing the number of holes dri...nt had postoperative nerve complications. With the traditional Jobe surgery, studies have shown that only 68 percent of elite level throwers return to either their...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

... believe it can be a fast and useful supplement to traditional biochemical tests, which are far more time-consuming, costly and labor-intensive, and do not always yield conclusive results. “When people are diagnosed with certain types of cancer, other family members sometimes get genetic testing to find out if...

New Hope for Regenerative Medicine

...sidesteps many of the ethical concerns that plague traditional ES cell therapies. However, uniparental ES cell research faces the biological hurdle of genomic imprinting, in which specific gene expression patterns are dictated by the parental origin. Uniparental cells only have the imprinting marks for one paren...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

...d their parents, Lieberman says, is to step beyond traditional treatment that focuses primarily on the parents’ own experiences of helplessness and fear. “It is important to focus on trauma, but we have learned that it is more effective to simultaneously help parents to focus on events in their lives that give t...

Scientists Partner to Develop and Distribute New Tuberculosis Vaccine

...ians have long seen a need for alternatives to the traditional BCG vaccine and current treatment strategies. T... and viral-based vaccines, to be dried without the traditional problems associated with standard freezing. "Unlike traditional freezing techniques, spray drying ...

Scientists Boost Production of Cheap Malaria Drugs

... develop a strategy for using Artemisia annua as a traditional herbal tea to tackle malaria for poor communities who cannot access or afford to pay for antimalarial products developed by the pharmaceutical industry. A separate study explored new technologies to make extracting artemisinin cheaper and more env...

Five Die of Food Poisoning in Chhattisgarh

...gations into the cause of death. "There was some traditional food offered to select women guests. As per preliminary investigations, we do not see any conspiracy angle," Korram added. Source-IANS...

New Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models Developed for Women

... these major risk factors, whereas many women with traditional risk factors do not experience coronary events." T... risk algorithms for women based on a large set of traditional and new risk factors. The researchers assessed 35 risk factors among 24,558 initially healthy women ...

Women Wary of Coronary Diseases Get Two More Risk Factors to Worry About

Scientists have revamped the traditional risk factor list for coronary diseases in women, b... absence of these risk factors and many women with traditional risk factors did not have a coronary event. The researchers sought to figure out which of the pot...

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