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Biologists Trace Cause Of Early Blindness To Tissue Defect

...ave the reason why people go blind. If our results translate into treating humans, it should lead to design of potential therapies. But at the very least, it helped settle the controversy of why photoreceptors are failing and why people go blind. Knowing the right cell type to target is half the battle, and we...

Medical Personnel Can Save More Lives by Screening for Oral Signs of Disease

...The clinic's multilingual staff and students often translate for patients whose first language is not English, and students gain invaluable experience from having full patient contact eight to 12 hours each week. Dr. Cohen-Brown is also the force behind the upcoming "Send a Soldier a Smile" campaign. On Apri...

Genetics may Play Role in Heart Health

...o find new drug targets, as well. It might one day translate to meaningful prevention, Horne says. "If we could substantiate what genetic markers have an effect on disease, we might be able to tap someone in childhood or infancy and predict risks for the future, help parents understand how to tailor their li...

Siddha Medicine Texts to Be Published in English

A project to translate the ancient Tamil texts of Siddha system of medicine into English is on the verge of completion. // One set of translations from the texts, contained in palm leaf manuscripts, would be published soon, according to Arcot N.Veerasamy, a senior minis...

Indian Pharma Industry Wants Customs Duty on Life-saving Drugs to Go

...d in the budget, the 5 per cent tax could actually translate into 9.4 per cent. In the end a host of new life-saving drugs would become that much costlier. Hence it calls for the new levy to be repealed forthwith. In its memorandum, the OPPI, an organization of major pharma companies, also suggests that ...

Asthma Incidence Shows a 50 Percent Increase in Fat People

...all changes in mean population body mass index may translate into significant decreases in asthma incidence in children and adults." The researchers noted that obesity in the absence of asthma causes physiologic impairments in lung function, including reduction in lung volume, chest wall restriction and an i...

Fruit and Vegetable Diet 'could Prevent Asthma'

... such as dust mites. But these do not appear to translate into respiratory allergies, such as asthma and allergic rhinitis. The research found 80% of the children ate fresh fruit, and over two-thirds of them fresh vegetables, at least twice a day. Eating oranges, apples, tomatoes and grapes each day, ...

Denim Lovers Beware, Fertility Could Be in Danger, Says a New Study

...t likely it does not lead to infertility. We don't translate this information into clinical practice." Previous studies have raised alarms about other factors that could affect male fertility by raising scrotal temperatures. French researchers reported in 2000 that driving a car for two hours raised the temp...

Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

...th control pills, but that increase in use did not translate to a drop in the pregnancy rate. “Even though advance provision increased use, we don’t know if women were using EC at the times when they were at risk for pregnancy, when it was really needed,” Polis explains. “If women aren’t going to use Plan ...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

...ing the ability to do so. Another 26 percent never translate labels. New York City is home to 130 languages a...nts. A number of pharmacists said they prefer to translate verbally, rather than via printed labels, because they feel it is more personal. However, study auth...

Canadian Scientists Create Human Cancer in Mouse

... cancers too," Dick said. The animal model could translate into more effective therapies, according to the latest issue of the journal Science. "By just studying the tumour at the end, we didn't know how the tumour was created," Dick added. This crucial new tool could help scientists better understand th...

Cancer Patient’s Life Improved With Anti-reflux Valv

...om life expectancy is limited, this difference may translate into fewer procedures to maintain bile duct patency. That means a better quality of life for these cancer patients,” says Dr. Dua. “Our next step is to do electron microscopic analysis of clogged standard and anti-reflux stents to evaluate the role...

Bird Song Study Provides Clues to Human Speech Disorders

...e normal and variant songs, then we may be able to translate these findings into treatments for patients with disorders such as stuttering and verbal dyspraxia," said Henning U. Voss, Ph.D., first author on the PNAS paper and assistant professor of physics in radiology at Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center of...

Scientists Observed Live Cell Migration

...ve counterparts in humans, Montells studies should translate to a better understanding of clinically useful cell migrations, such as when immune cells move en masse to an open wound or cancer cells detach from a tumor to metastasize....

Breakthrough for Treatment of Fatal Heart Condition

... on an ongoing basis. If a way can now be found to translate this research into a therapeutic application, our findings will have an enormous impact on individuals suffering from the condition, says Dr Ooi. Dr Oois work on cardiac hypertrophy has recently been recognised at the Experimental Biology conferen...

Lymphoma Patients Maybe Helped by Adding Radioimmunotherapy to Chemo

...her complete response rate. We hope that this will translate into long-lasting remissions, said Samuel Jacobs, M.D., lead investigator and associate director for clinical investigations at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers. In the study, a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody ...

Novel Delivery Method of Insulin Gene to Combat Juvenile Diabetes Developed

...nsulin production from the pancreas. In order to translate this technology to clinical use, the team developed a novel method to deliver the insulin gene to the target K-cells in the gut using nanoparticles. The nanoparticles contain a component called chitosan that provides protection to the insulin gene wh...

Step-Based Guidelines in New Pair of Studies

...or Disease Control and Prevention, was designed to translate ACSM/CDC public health guidelines for 30 minutes of daily moderate-intensity physical activity into steps. Researchers at San Diego State University and Arizona State University utilized commercial pedometers on a community sample of adults. Their re...

Anti-obesity Drugs Claimed Additional Benefits on cardiometabolic Risk Factors Questioned

...her rimonabants effects on individual risk factors translate into a reduced long-term likelihood of cardiovascular events, the article adds. . Rimonabant has not been directly compared with other, less expensive, drug treatments for obesity. Orlistat is the drug for obesity for which there is the most eviden...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...to treat this devastating disease. We hope to help translate this knowledge into more effective vaccines designed to generate these types of protective antibodies, Kain said....

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