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60% of Infertile Couples are Okay With Allowing Unused Embryos for Stem Cell Research

...so it may be possible to use them in the future to treat many types of diseases, from autoimmune disorders to cancer, by generating healthy cells to replace damaged ones. Embryonic stem cells are more versatile than their counterparts derived from adults or from umbilical cord blood. Currently, federal f...

Research Studies on Molecular Switches of Gene

...ight be possible to manipulate CREBs co-factors to treat disease. A drug that blocked the specific co-factors CREB needs in the liver to trigger activity of genes that make glucose could reduce blood levels of this sugar in people with diabetes, Brindle said. But at the same time, CREB could continue its o...

Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

...ved. Gene therapy could be a more natural way to treat the disease, said Dr. Feigin. This important study shows that gene therapy can be performed safely and may benefits patients. The gene therapy technique was developed by Neurologix, a New Jersey-based company. Parkinson's is a movement disorder cau...

Researchers Link Bacteria Destroying Proteins to Alzheimer's Treatment

...eins used to destroy bacteria and viruses may help treat Alzheimer's disease. Gunnar K. Gouras, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, and colleagues provide new insights into how these proteins, called antibodies, reduce the main hall...

Stem Cell Licensing Deal Positions Toronto as World Leader in Technology

...rner says that its development program designed to treat auto-immune and inflammatory diseases offers paren...pe of biological life insurance that could one day treat all the diseases mentioned above and more. What excites me is that our growing stem cell company in ...

Researchers Devise New Compound to Treat Fungal Infections

...iscovered a new compound that has the potential to treat common chronic nail infections caused by fungi," Alley said. The mechanism crucially depended on a boron atom that is part of AN2690, which is needed to link the compound to the tRNA. "We are now working towards finding related antibacterial comp...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...o add 200 psychologists and social workers to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues. No one knows what the ultimate cost will be. Harvard University economist Linda Bilmes estimates the lifetime health-care tab for these troops will be $250 billion to $650 billion a wide range but a...

Potentially Violent Individuals can Be Identified by STAMP System

...nd or pulling away from healthcare staff trying to treat them. Violence towards healthcare staff and other professionals such as police officers and social security staff are an increasing part of daily life says Luck. We feel that the STAMP system provides an easy to remember checklist that can be us...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...eatable it is with antibiotics. MRSA is hard to treat because the bacteria have developed resistance to ...as swelling in the area. Antibiotics are used to treat these infections. But there's been a gradual change in how well these antibiotics are working. While...

New Research Centre at Sydney to Lead Cancer Fight

...ding a cure and developing new, effective drugs to treat Cancer that still kills more than 12,000 people in New South Wales each year. The new research centre is being credited with attracting leading scientists home to undertake crucial research in cancer. It is the largest of its kind in the southern ...

Health Tourists Put Spanish Service Under Strain

...y say are the lack of funds and human resources to treat so many within the national health scheme. In 2006, "125,000 foreign tourists were treated by the Valencia regional health system," says Cervera, adding that their treatment cost the regional authority 88 million euros (110 million dollars). He a...

Norwegians Take in the Sun in Spain on Doctors' Orders

...orwegian towns -- Baerum, Stavanger and Oslo -- to treat mostly retirees in the softer Mediterranean climate for periods of up to a maximum of 12 weeks. It can accommodate a maximum of 38 people at a time in small apartments or studios, and they are allowed to receive visitors during their stay. Except f...

Shahnaz Hussain Takes Ayurveda to London's Harley Street

...a simple aim of 'total patient care.' We strive to treat all our patients using the 'saatvik' principles of truth and purity.....Truth of diagnosis and Purity of treatments. We welcome the addition of Shahnaz Ayurveda as it is in total keeping with our holistic principles."...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...lth care allows Cubans to see a doctor quickly and treat illness before it needs costly procedures. To make his point, Moore goes to Communist Cuba with a group of Americans who suffer from health problems derived from working as volunteers in the ruins of New York's World Trade Center after the attacks...

Common Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Older Adults

...as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) treat depression by inhibiting the protein that transports serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in sleep and depression, according to background information in the articles, and which has recently been discovered in bone as well. The findings raise the...

Too Much of Acidic Foods can Cause Permanent Damage to Teeth

...esensitizing toothpaste, the aim is to prevent and treat early or moderate signs of erosion on the teeth, said Dr. Bartlett. Early signs of tooth erosion consist of dentin hypersensitivity. In other words, if hot or cold foods and beverages cause pain or sensitivity this is an indication of tooth erosion...

Tree Bark Substance may Hold New Lung-cancer Treatment

...e a tumor, the levels of NQO1 go up. When you then treat these cells with beta-lapachone, you get synergy between the enzyme and this agent and you get a whopping kill, Dr. Boothman said. In the current study, Dr. Boothman tested dosing methods on human tumor cells using a synthesized version of beta-lap...

China Biopharma to Introduce an Immunotherapeutic Vaccine into China

...ffective drugs are currently available in China to treat this infection and this vaccine is greatly needed. The approval process may take about two years and once approved it would bring up to $20-30 million sales revenue every year....

Non-availability of Anti-rabies Vaccines Put Jackal Bitten Patients in a Fix

...nti-rabies vaccines in the government hospitals to treat the patients. In the last two days, the jackal has attacked and injured villagers - including women and children - in half a dozen villages under the Manjhagarh block of the district, about 200 km from here. The injured are being treated at dif...

US Lawmakers Considering Legislation to Restrict Payments by Drug Companies to Doctors

...tipsychotic is applied to a group of drugs used to treat psychosis. Common conditions with which antipsycho...is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and risperidone is also approved to treat irritability in childr...

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