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Setback to Medical Strike – AIIMS & MAMC Doctors to Resume Wor

... withdraw their strike today and most of them were turning back to work. While in AIIMS all the strikers wanted to resume work, Resident Doctors in Safdarjung Hospital have disassociated from the strike. In RML 60 per cent of doctors have come back, he said. He said simultaneously the government was planni...

Choosing your Bowel Cancer Test

...mers a choice of screening test. Eligible people turning 55 or 65 this year will be invited to complete an immunochemical fecal occult blood test (FOBT) in the privacy of their own home and mail it in for analysis. In his article for the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), Dr Glenn Salkeld of the Univers...

Treatment of Menopausal Symptoms Without Consulting Doctors

...rticular note because growing numbers of women are turning to alternative therapies to relieve such symptoms ...ut the new study shows that many women are instead turning to herbal and soy products to ease their menopausal symptoms. The most commonly used herbal products...

Parents Concerned over 16-month-old boy’s Overweigh

The 20 kg weight of a 16-month-old Orissa boy is turning out to be a major worry for his labourer parents //. Rahul is the only son of daily wage earner Mahadev Mahanand and his wife Puspanjali who live in Rasham village in the western district of Bargarh, 415 km from here. The parents say they feed on...

Researchers Have Linked Rett Syndrome to Mitochondrial Gene

...de by MECP2 is a master controller of other genes, turning them on and off, and scientists have been searching for these genes. Several have been identified, the best known being brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, which normally promotes neuronal growth. To find other genes that MECP2 controls, Bird...

Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal

... in April, there were regular instances of schools turning into battlefields with students and teachers among the casualties. Maoist guerrillas would hold indoctrination programmes in the schools, forcing the students and teachers to attend while security forces, learning about the plan, would launch an at...

Teeth Reformation could be Possible with Ultrasound Technology

... ask.’ The researchers are currently working on turning their prototype into a market-ready model and expect the device to be ready for the public within next two years. Source:Eurekalert...

Researchers have Identified the Gene that Spreads Skin Cancer

...nsgenic mice in which melanoma could be induced by turning cancer genes on or off. When tumors from these mice were transplanted into normal mice lacking an immune system, the cancers grew and a few of them became metastatic. Genome scans of the metastatic tumors -- known as "escapers" -- revealed an amplifi...

"Super Drug" Targets Disease-Causing Gene

...hachigian, a molecular biologist.The drug works by turning off a disease-causing gene called c-Jun, which is found in diseased blood vessels, eyes, lungs, joints and in the gut. The researchers said animal trials had shown great results. "We're talking about a therapy but whether or not it's a cure remains t...

Britain Reconsidering New Visa Rules for Indian Doctors

... a British Asian weekly: "This could prove to be a turning point for the campaign. We hope the department will see the unfairness of the new rule." A DoH spokesperson said: "As we stated in a letter to BAPIO, the guidance to the amendments to the Immigration Rules is currently being reconsidered." Mehta ...

Dolly Paves the Way for Exhaustive Stem Cell Research

...me researchers were trying to find a direct way of turning an adult cell into a stem cell without the need for cloning. Professor Shinya Yamanaka, of Kyoto University in Japan, managed to use a virus to give mouse skin cells some stem-cell-like properties which turned them to muscle, nerve, cartilage and fat...

Chennai Is The Number 1 Diabetes Management Training Center

Chennai is fast turning into a leading diabetes management training center, not only training Indian physicians, but also from other Afro-Asian countries//. The MV Hospital for Diabetes and Diabetes Research Centre, which is the World Health Organization’s collaborating cen...

Autoimmune disorders studied in detail by U-M researchers.

...y drugs block the function of enzymes, essentially turning them off,' said Gary Glick, who is the Werner E. B...ibit the enzyme in the way most powerful drugs do, turning it off, you deplete the cell of ATP, and that’s fatal,' Glick said. 'Our new work reveals the mechan...

How Does Leptin Work?

...in addition, our findings suggest that selectively turning on STAT3 may help prevent diabetes by improving glucose metabolism and help restore fertility as ell.’...

Australian Businesses Prepare for Outbreak of Bird Flu

...perts predict bird flu has a 10 per cent chance of turning into a pandemic this financial year. According to Telstra's network services managing director Michael Lawrey preparations for the likelihood of a pandemic were slightly higher in intensity than planning for other business risks such as fires, cyc...

Natural Approach to Immune Regulation May Help Transplant Patients

...zsko, who equates modifying the immune response to turning down the volume of a television. "We think we can help them into a tolerogenic pathway by giving HLA-G and get them to ignore the antigen coming from transplanted tissue," he says. Unfortunately, he notes, cancer and some viruses seem capable of simi...

Venomous Cone Snails Relieve Chronic Back Pain

...joying a popular resurgence as nautical themes are turning up in home furnishings, décor, jewelry, crafts and artworks. Shell dealers from Brazil, South Africa and the U.S. will display their collections and offer a variety of items for sale. There will be free shells for children and the chance to meet Spon...

It may be possible to switch off acute pain

...the PKG remains on, the pain persists. Conversely, turning the PKG off relieves the pain, making PKG an excellent target for therapy. Dr. Ambron and Dr. Sung have applied for a patent for the pathway that turns on the PKG, as well as several molecules that inhibit it. Based on the 2004 Americans Living ...

"Miracle" Cancer Drug Gleevec Can be Toxic to the Heart

...the first of its kind developed to fight cancer by turning off an enzyme that causes cells to become cancerous and multiply. In CML, an enzyme called ABL goes in overdrive because of a chromosomal mix-up that occurs during blood cell development. The genes ABL and BCR become fused and produce a hybrid BCR-AB...

High-altitude Illness Affects Pilgrims of Mansarovar

...t one of the holiest pilgrim sites in Asia is fast turning into a death trap for unwary Indian travellers. Meenakshi Devi Shriram Bhoyar, a 38-year-old god woman from Maharashtra, became the latest victim dying of malignant cerebral edema in a Kathmandu hospital Sunday. Bhoyar ran an ashram in Dattapur War...

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