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Compound Present in Plant may Help to Curb Craving for Cannabis

...ceived a dose of the synthetic THC through a small tube running into their body. It was observed that over a period of three weeks, the rats learnt how to enjoy the effects of synthetic THC, and frequently administered themselves the drug. But the animals who received saline solution did not press the l...

Scientists Create Synthetic Proteins

...technology," he adds. Chaput said that the test tube derived protein was not only stable, but could bind its target molecule ATP twice as tight as naturally evolved ones. The researchers say that they now have a technology potential with which they can improve the stability and function of any of th...

Heart-Assist Device Gives Culver City Man a Good Quality of Life

...ry with the patient on the heart-lung machine. One tube attaches the pump to the left ventricle and another goes to the aorta, said Simsir, who served as assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Duke University Medical School in North Carolina before joining Cedars-Sinai a day or two before Heiner...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

..."The villagers did not allow her to use the common tube well and stopped their own children from playing with her infected son," Parida told IANS. She also became an object of disdain at her own parents' house at Nagaspur. Although Sukanti's father Biswanath Das accepted her disease-free elder son, he...

New Wireless System Developed to Detect Esophageal Reflux

...cedures, which require placing a flexible catheter tube through the nose and down into the esophagus. Th...perly identifies simulated stomach acids in a test tube and that the transmitter can send the results through human tissue. The sensor is designed to detect...

Esophageal Cancer Patients' Positive Responses to Chemotherapy Accurately Identified by PET

...the inner layer of the esophagus, the 10-inch long tube that connects your throat and stomach. Adenocarcinoma is esophageal cancer that begins in cells that make and release mucus and other fluids. In this country, more than 14,000 persons are expected to die from the disease, and more than 15,000 new cas...

Pazopanib Shows Positive in Advanced Renal Carcinoma, Ovarian Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

...ib in patients with cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube or peritoneum, who have failed standard platinum-based therapy. Treatment is continued until disease progression, withdrawal due to AEs, or withdrawal of consent. Biological activity (measured as a decrease in CA-125, a biologic marker of clinical ac...

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

...c acid daily in order to reduce the risk of neural tube birth defects, especially spina bifida. According ... seen a 27 percent decline in the number of neural tube birth defects in this country. The importance of women getting the right amount of folic acid daily ...

CRN Emphasizes Importance of Folic Acid Benefits

...cularly in the area of reducing the risk of neural tube birth defects," said Andrew Shao, Ph.D., vice president, scientific and regulatory affairs, CRN. "There is also promising scientific evidence for folic acid in reducing the risk of congenital cardiovascular defects, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease. I...

March of Dimes Praises Folic Acid Fortification

...rth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs), between 1995 and 2002, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 2,500 babies are born each year with an NTD, and additional affected pregnancies result in miscarriage or stillbirth. The most com...

Nagaland Gets Its First Test-Tube Baby

...became the first one in Nagaland to deliver a test tube baby. Akheli successfully delivered a health boy weighing 2.5 kg at the Faith Hospital in Dimapur on June 3. The couple consulted all major hospitals in the region but all in vain. They ultimately landed at the Faith Hospital in December 2005 for...

New Therapeutic Approach for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

...r you can treat cells with retinoic acid in a test tube and transfer them to the organism to suppress inflammation in vivo, said Dr. Cheroutre. This may offer an important new avenue for treatment of autoimmune diseases like colitis and rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory diseases, as well as poten...

Brazil Spider Offers Hope for Those Suffering from Erectile Dysfunction

...he penis and also relaxation of those [cylindrical tube muscles],” Leite told LiveScience. “They need to relax so the blood will come inside and that’s how you get an erection, because the blood gets trapped into the penis.” But erections don’t last forever. The erectile party crasher, a substance call...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

...solder. The alloy is primarily used on the picture tube in monitors. In the past, monitors were simply put into landfills, leading to a situation in Habel's words where "40 percent of the lead contamination in landfills originates from old monitors." Measured in terms of weight, 65 percent of each compu...

The Pain Relieved With the Help of Palliative Workers

...ng a father how to care for his daughter's feeding tube and tracheotomy. They found a child psychologist to counsel a teenager distraught over his father's impending death. Coyne's staff connects patients to community resources such as Meals on Wheels. They may even make follow-up phone calls to grieving ...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...ood in the stomach back up into the esophagus, the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. While 10 per cent of the cause was blamed on spicy pizzas and curries - the major culprits, the others were stress (7 per cent), lack of sleep (6 per cent) and long working hours (9 per cent). ...

Bypass Surgery, Drug-eluting Stents Possess Similar Risk and Outcome

...ries' blood flow or a stent, which is a small mesh tube that helps keep arteries open after angioplasty, a procedure to open clogged arteries. Previous studies have found that placing bare-metal stents is safer than bypass surgery. However, "bypass surgery is much more successful for restoring patients...

HIV/AIDS- Possible Cure From Within

...nd called Virus-Inhibitory Peptide or VIRIP. Test tube studies showed VIRIP to inhibit 60 different strains of HIV. Says Kirchhoff: "A number of studies have suggested that some compounds in the human blood are able to inhibit HIV-1 and control it." VIRIP is a fragment of a larger protein, but the t...

Obesity may Be Linked to Middle Ear Effusions in Children

...34.7 percent of children who underwent ventilating tube insertion were obese, whereas with serum total cho...cent were obese." "The frequency of ventilating tube insertion in the experimental group was not related to obesity, whether measured by BMI or triglycer...

Hope for Ending the Pain, Infertility of Endometriosis?

...gery called laparoscopy, in which a small, lighted tube is used to see the uterus region. 4.Prevention: Endometriosis cannot be prevented. 5. Who is at risk: One in 10 women has endometriosis. Typically it occurs when a women is of childbearing age. Women have a five- or six-times greater chance of d...

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