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Interoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients

...ialists from Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) are using a new way to treat patients .The procedure, called...zed clinical trial to further study the results of using this procedure. The study participants from PMH will generally be older patients with small, early-s...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

...ecise timing of fruit ripening would be controlled using a substance that increases the activity of proteins responsible for ripening. Moreover, numerous proteins are used in industrial processes, as biological sensors and in other applications. The possibility of controlling these applications strengthen...

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...e brain can alter the mood. Hence the rationale in using drugs containing serotonin in countering depression. Now only those who have abnormally low levels of serotonin may respond to SSRIs. Yet others may have an abnormality in other neurotransmitters that regulate mood, like norepinephrine or dopamine....

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

...tion of sleep and wake patterns of cancer patients using continuous polysomnography (PSG) data, deemed the gold standard in objective physiological measurement of sleep. It involved 114 advanced cancer patients with an average age of 51.1 years. Study patients underwent continuous sleep monitoring, or PSG,...

Effective Treatment for Malaria Control

...th sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine was lower among women using insecticide-treated nets. Three trials compared 2-...a during pregnancy can be substantially reduced by using IPT in pregnant women. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is currently the only single-dose long-acting antim...

Key Signaling Molecules in New Teeth Formation Identified

...al stem cell proliferation in the stem cell niche, using a combination of mouse mutant analyses , organ culture experiments, and gene expression studies, although mammals have a limited capacity to regenerate teeth, mouse incisors contain stem cells and grow continuously throughout life. The researchers ...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...thcare group, for example, Sarah Dean is intent on using every tool at her disposal to protect her five children's health. Some feel that its a good idea, theyre going to have sex some day anyway and its better to prevent than cure. Although men are just as likely to be infected as women, it is not yet k...

One in a Hundred Eleven-year Olds Use Drugs to Enhance Performance in Sport

More than one per cent of eleven year olds admit using performance enhancing drugs to do better in sports...han once per month, at 15 the same proportion were using them at least every week and 24 per cent daily. Use of the drugs was given as a reason for winning...

New Device Developed to Eliminate Superbugs Within Minutes

... collaborators claim to have recreated this effect using a customised device the size of a flower vase that constantly generates the hydroxyl radicals. The device draws in oxygen and exposes it to electric currents to produce a cold plasma rich in ozone. The hydroxyl radicals are generated by constantl...

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

... person. We hope teachers and carers will consider using concepts about groups of people to help autistic children integrate better into society by playing to their strengths," she said. The study is published in the June 19 issue of journal 'Current Biology'...

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

...echnology with 60 percent of its agricultural land using this process, compared with just 6 percent in the US. "As of today only 1.2 million hectares of our agricultural land is cultivated wit drip irrigation system and sprinklers, whereas the potential is 690 lakh hectares," said Nimbalkar. "Such syst...

Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

...possible," and scanned their brains simultaneously using magnetoencephalography. The researchers found that the theta band, which oscillates between four and eight cycles per second, changed its phase pattern with unique sensitivity and specificity in response to the spoken sentences. When boffins degr...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...makers to overturn his earlier prohibition against using federal funds for any research involving human emb...arch. The president, a devout Christian, said that using human embryos for scientific research -- which often involves their destruction -- conflicts with hi...

Insilico Studies on Chlorine Eating Bacteria

...conducted on those bacteria by cornell researchers using computer models. Bacteria called Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, discovered in Ithaca sewage sludge in 1997 by James Gossett, Cornell professor of civil and environmental engineering, and isolated and studied by Stephen Zinder, Cornell professor of mi...

Excessive Use of Cosmetics Leads to Adverse Effects on the Body

..., there is no protection," he said. Caution over using outdated lipstick and mascara have also been issue..."hothouse" for harmful bacteria. "Many women are using over 20 different products a day, bombarding themselves with hundreds of different chemicals. They s...

Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment

...f Health and Human Services now recommends against using entecavir as the first option in treating hepatitis B in co-infected patients who are not already using drugs to suppress HIV. More than 4 million people worldwide are believed to be infected with both vi...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

...made H5N1 bird flu vaccine as early as next month, using 20 to 30 volunteers, said health officials in the ... of a bird flu vaccine in Singapore and Hong Kong, using a strain of the virus found in Indonesia. "There are many candidate vaccines, and some have been app...

FDA Approves INTUNIV (guanfacine) for the Treatment of ADHD

...ing ADHD symptoms evaluated on a once-weekly basis using the ADHD Rating Scale (ADHD-RS-IV), which included both hyperactive/impulsive and inattentive subscales. ADHD-RS-IV is a standardized, validated test for assessing symptoms of ADHD in children and for assessing their response to treatment. This sc...

Novel Method to Inhibit Prostate Cancer

.... Prof. Benita added that he hopes clinical trials using the new method can begin in about two years....

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

... linked to a long argument in the wine world about using corks versus screw caps. Antonio Amorim, chairma...eryone talking about the environment, and everyone using aluminium. Even organic wines are going under screw cap," he moaned. Amorim was astounded to see F...

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