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New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...tem cells that can differentiate into several cell types and which would not trigger an immune reaction when transplanted into another individual. "If true, this means that you may be able to develop a universal cell source for smooth muscle cells, so that you could potentially make these vessels into an...

Nanospectrometer Aids in Identifying Nutrient Cycle

...o track the flow of carbon and nitrogen inside two types of cells in the freshwater organism Anabaena oscil...p and are being transported around these different types of cells, Capone said. Its basically allowing us to image elements at very high resolution. The or...

High-risk Patients Need Better Guidance on What is and Isnt a Heart Attack

... to be able to tell the difference between the two types but in reality they do not. In particular, high-risk patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) - which causes a reduction in the blood supply to the heart, usually felt as angina - are given varying advice from doctors, health organisations and d...

Rapid Response Teams Formed in Madhya Pradesh to Fight Diseases

...ted rapid response teams to combat diseases of all types in the state. "Rapid response teams have been formed to combat both contagious and non-contagious diseases in the state under the integrated disease surveillance project (IDSP)," Madhya Pradesh health minister Ajay Vishnoi told IANS. He said t...

Cancer Risk is High Among HIV/AIDS and Kidney Transplant Patients

...ents are at higher risk of developing 20 different types of cancer than the general population. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Professor Andrew Grulich at the University of New South Wales National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR). As part of the study...

Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles

...oked at the ability of prions to bind to different types of common soil materials. One, known as montmorillonite, is a type of clay and prions seem to have a special affinity for latching onto the microscopic particles. "We expected the binding of the montmorillonite to be the highest among the minerals ...

European Commission Seeks To Dispel The Darkness Out Of Sunscreens

...ainst UVA rays.Experts opine that exposure to both types of radiation can increase the risk of developing skin cancer. Cancer Research UK says that the skin cancer rate has more than doubled in 20 years, with more than 75,000 new cases diagnosed last year. Recent tests by Which? -a consumer association,...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...There have been other cases of EEE, one of several types of encephalitis carried by mosquitoes, in Massachusetts. It has affected people of all ages, including Sheila Clark, a Lakeville resident who went into a coma. Phillips attended a fund-raiser in May for Clark, and expressed her sympathies to the fami...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...es might affect horses, which often share the same types of pastures. In addition, the majority of the horses studied were under-exercised. They were left on pastures to eat, but did not have an actual exercise regimen. Horses today are managed much differently from their evolutionary roots, indicated ...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...n American women tend to have breast cancer tumour types that are more aggressive and have poorer prognoses...y technology to examine the more aggressive tumour types in African American women and compare them to tumours in Caucasian women to try to sort out differen...

Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

...encourage the population to be screened on certain types of diseases such as cancer, which has significantly helped better patient management," notes Frost & Sullivan Program Leader Dr. Fiona Rahman. "In the case of cancer, patients have more than 90 per cent five year survival rate if their condition is d...

Mutated Gene Zaps Pancreas Cancer in Mice

...son Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology. Two types of mice were treated after they were infected with two aggressive lines of pancreatic cancer, one in a very advanced stage. Infected control mice in both groups died within 40 days without treatment, while at least half those who received the aggre...

Online Counterfeit Pills Kills Woman

... counterfeit drugs. Zolpidem was also one of three types of pills found in Bergeron's home containing "significant quantities" of metals. Bergeron also purchased an anti-anxiety medication that's for sale in Canada only with a doctor's prescription, said Regional Coroner Rose Stanton. "In the days prior ...

Spicy Cuisine Originated in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago

...rrespond to modern varieties, or whether they were types that died out after the arrival of Europeans in Mexico. While one of them looks like a Tabasco pepper and another like a cayenne pepper, it is difficult to know how closely related they are to modern varieties without a genetic analysis, says the ...

Food Colour in Sausages, Burgers Could Trigger Cancer

...ts of Red 2G are permitted for use only in certain types of breakfast sausages and burger meat. The EFSA experts said Red 2G was converted in the body into a substance called aniline. Following tests on rats and mice, the researchers concluded that aniline should be considered as a carcinogen or cancer-c...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

... cancer cells to kill themselves, in two different types of mice. Boffins created the more lethal mutant and named it BikDD. Untreated control mice in both experiments all died within 40 days, while mice treated with the mutant gene delivered via a less-targeted viral promoter driven expression system em...

Amorous African Fish Exchange Electric Pulses While Mating

...in discharge patterns were associated with certain types of behavior. Males produced more "rasp" and "medium burst" patterns when they were near females and during courtship, suggesting that the signals "advertise" the males' quality as mates. Females were found to create a "creak" pattern only during s...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...ystems available today, however, can recommend the types of medications or tests that might be best-suited to a patient's condition. Which brings up the second theory: No matter how sophisticated the system, it can't dictate a course of action to a physician, Stafford said. And in many cases, he added, p...

Cane Sugar,corn Syrup Have Similar Effects on Hunger

...ed by the number of calories consumed earlier, the types of sugars consumed in those calories seem to make ...rages sweetened with sucrose or with two different types of high-fructose corn syrup were compared to an aspartame-sweetened diet cola, milk (1 percent fat),...

HIV Prevention Programs on a Massive Scale Turn Out Economical

...Health Services Research, researchers examined six types of ongoing prevention interventions: voluntary counseling and testing, programs targeting sex workers, treatment for curable sexually transmitted diseases, information, education and communication initiatives, risk reduction programs for injection dr...

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