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Study Findings Could Help In Developing A Better Drug Delivery System

...ells, for example a required nutrient, in order to transport drugs directly to the targeted cells while avoiding significant delivery of the toxic drug to normal cells. A commonly used agent, referred to as a ligand, is the vitamin folic acid. Cancer cells need folic acid to grow and divide and, therefore, hav...

A New Approach to Heart Bypass Surgery Provides Patients with 'One-stop Shopping'

...ath labs are on the first floor. Orchestrating the transport of patients requiring both open-heart surgery and interventional procedures is cumbersome and often inefficient, with lag times of up to seven hours. And the need for an X-ray of the procedure would also require transporting patients from the third t...

Abolish Car Parking Charges at Welsh Hospitals, says BMA Cymru Wales

...ey have to pay to access hospital care. "Public transport is often inconvenient and troublesome to patients ...me any moves to reduce car parking fees. “Public transport is not always capable of enabling older people, especially those who have difficulty in walking, to ...

Exercise alleviates Anemia in Breast cancer patients

...in circulating red blood cells and hemoglobin that transport oxygen in the body. According to studies, fatigue and anemia can be reduced by physical rehabilitation after the completion of the therapy. But, the effect of exercise on red blood cells has not been studied so far. Jacqueline S. Drouin, P.T., Ph...

Bird flu Alert in Kenya after Outbreak in Southern Sudan

...aguli said, "People should not touch, eat, sell or transport poultry or wild birds found dead. They should instead report such cases to the nearest veterinary or public health office." He reported that so far all tests carried out in Kenya showed that there was no bird flu virus in Kenya and assured people th...

Authors Review Astrodome Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina

...ased on the premise that it is easier and safer to transport people from an unsafe to a safe area than to transport resources into a disaster area. He suggests outfitting disused military bases as a network of evacua...

Potential New Therapeutic Target for Asthma, Allergies and Cancer

...ncer in terms of developing drugs that inhibit the transport of SIP out of cells. Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., professor and chair, VCU Department of Biochemistry, and colleagues reported how S1P, which also regulates many important physiological functions in cells, is transported out of mast cells. S1P is produced...

Radioprotective effect of Heat Shock Proteins

...ssion of aquaporin 5, which is important for water transport in salivary glands. It is interesting to note that the results with HSP25 were similar to those observed with amifostine, an FDA-approved radioprotective drug. However, differences did exist: only amifostine protected all components of salivary flu...

Human Strain Of Bird Flu Virus, Just A Matter Of Time?

... hospitals, empty schools and offices , and public transport in shambles. The British government's Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan predicts that upto 750,000 people could die in the UK, while the US says 2 million could die. In fact the US govt. is asking its citizens to prepare themselves for the worst b...

Eradication of Lung Cancer in 20 years

...dhood obesity is also rising. He said, the food, transport and leisure industries needed to work together to change eating and exercise habits. He said, "If we continue as we are, the prevalence of obesity in the population will continue to increase. Ultimately, this will see the return of children dying bef...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

...he flagella. They named the process intraflagellar transport (IFT). These initial observations led to biochemical and genetic studies showing that molecular motors controlled movement of the IFT particles. When the motors were stopped, flagella would not form, and already-formed flagella became shorter. They...

Public Transport Causing Backaches in Delhi, Mumbai

...rs from backache, caused mainly by the poor public transport system, says a new study. // Carried out by Healt... New Delhi and 77 percent in Mumbai who use public transport as the sole mode of communication reported back problems. "Bad roads, overcrowded public transport...

Link Between Huntington’s and Abnormal Cholesterol Levels in Brain Establishe

...cks the railroad system of brain cells and impairs transport of essential materials required for neurons to function. When this transportation system goes awry in the parts of the brain affected in Huntington’s disease, motor skills, cognitive skills and even speech can be affected. A person cannot move withou...

Free Plan B Faces Controversy

... FDA. They act by preventing ovulation or delaying transport of sperms, and by inhibiting implantation. This summer the FDA sanctioned the sale of Plan B across the counter as a contraceptive measure for women who are 18 or older. This has raised an uproar from many quarters. Since Plan B ECP contains a ver...

Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products

...in a statement Monday. Plasma is the storage and transport medium of clotting factors. Its protein content is necessary to maintain the oncotic pressure of the blood, which 'holds' the serum within the vessels. Until recently plasma proteins including Factor VII were mostly being imported. Reliance Life...

Unfolded Proteins May Protect Cells from Dying

...e where proteins are manufactured and packaged for transport to the cell surface, unlike some other forms of the unfolded protein response that occur in the cell's cytoplasm. To understand what impact the unfolded protein response had on the cell, Hyung Don Ryoo, a former postdoc in the Steller lab, used a ...

Carriers With Alzheimer's High Risk Gene Type Age Normally Until the Disease Strikes

...r's changes in the brain." The APOE gene helps to transport cholesterol through the production of apolipoprotein E. People carry two copies of APOE, each being one of four APOE alleles. APOE4 raises Alzheimer's risk. In this study, researchers at the University of Melbourne and Australian National University ...

Researchers Explore the Effect of Engineered Immune Cells on HIV

...e headways towards the development of an effective transport system, equipped to deliver therapeutic payloads t...n harm cells." Viruses are efficient carriers or transport vehicles in the body because they are naturally able to penetrate cells, inserting the genetic mater...

Meningococcal Disease In Uganda

...ng with injection materials, oily chloramphenicol, transport media, and rapid-test kits. Source: Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Europeans Developing First-Ever Dengue Fever Vaccine

...rience only limited symptoms, they can unwittingly transport the virus from the tropics back to their home country. The Dengue virus increases the permeability of blood vessels causing blood loss leading to shock. An international research team claims to have identified the enzymes, which ultimately lead to bl...

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