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Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours

Boffins have developed a new gene therapy by using 'suicide genes' derived from mesenchymal stem cell...ted treatment will increase the efficacy, as would using this strategy in combination with other treatments," Altaner said. Researchers suggested that mese...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...categories: cell-based, where vaccines are created using cells from the patients own immune system that hav...cel-T (Provenge) and GVAX, as well as three trials using an engineered pox-virus vector. While this review article focuses on prostate cancer vaccines, the r...

Smokeless Tobacco Promotion

...whether or not the public should be informed that using oral, smokeless tobacco (Swedish snus) is less haz...ional tobacco companies are already marketing snus using slogans that mention smoking, such as: When you cant smoke, snus....

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...y participants remained in the trial and continued using the drug. I wish theyd done an analysis to see if the people who suffered those side effects were the same people who drank less. Perhaps some of the reduction in drinking may have been because they didnt feel so good, rather than because the drug ...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

...s. Habits like washing your hands before and after using the bathroom, proper skin care, and not shaving areas that don't need it can reduce your exposure to infection. When washing your hands, be sure to use soap and rub vigorously to get a lather before rinsing off. When shaving, go with the grain of you...

Organic Tomatoes may Be Healthier for Your Heart Than Traditionally Grown Ones

...rnia University used data from a long-term project using standardised farming techniques for the ten-year study. The study found that organic tomatoes have almost double the amount of flavonoids than compared to the tomatoes grown conventionally. Flavonoids are antioxidants that protect the heart and c...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

...sured the cognitive abilities of the participants, using two different methods. The result was that intelligent people prefer to wait for a higher return, rather than going for the money now. This is the first time that this relationship between intelligence and patience in financial matters has been sh...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...c disorder in childhood today. It is controllable, using drugs, but not presently curable. "(ORMDL3) does not seem to be part of the allergic process," said Cookson. "As its expression is increased in asthmatics, it may be possible to develop therapies against it, but this will take time."...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...ge number of diabetics are risking their health by using over the counter nutritional supplements and herba...tell their alternative practitioners that they are using Western medicines but the vast majority will not discuss their alternative therapies with a doctor o...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

... subventricular zone are all the same. They did so using a method they developed to follow the fate of early neonatal and adult neural stem cells in 15 different regions of the subventricular zone. These cells typically produce young neurons that migrate to the olfactory bulb, where they mature into severa...

Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

...m found that can effectively eliminate fat without using surgery," he said. "A safe, effective, non-surgical means to eliminate undesirable body fat would be of great benefit to our patients."...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...ection of rat brains treated with flourescent dye, using high-speed high-resolution cameras to record activity in brain neurons in real time. According to Deisseroth, rat brains show similar depression symptoms to human ones and react to anti-depression medicines in the same way. The testing showed tha...

New Spinal Cord Stimulation System Launched

...ion of implanted leads, within seconds and without using fluoroscopy or x-ray. The information from EGL Scan can be used to increase programming accuracy, which can lead to improvements in patient outcomes and treatment office operating efficiencies. "EGL Scan technology is a valuable innovation designed...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...scribe the initial efforts to get rid of Castro by using a go-between to convince two top mobsters, Salvatore Giancana and Santos Trafficant, the head of the Mafia's Cuban casino operations, to assassinate Castro. Giancana suggested poisoning him. Six potent pills were provided in 1961 to Juan Orta, iden...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...alth inspectors were concerned that the clinic was using vitamin bags intended for single usage on multiple patients. Health officials are still unsure how the disease was transferred. Director of Public Health for South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Health Service Professor Mark Ferson said it could ha...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...hey mixed the bran-enriched wheat flour with water using a standing mixer like the one cooks may use at hom...e with bran-enriched flour that had been precooked using extrusion processing, and those that had bran-enriched flour that wasn't precooked. The team then ...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...y participants remained in the trial and continued using the drug. I wish theyd done an analysis to see if the people who suffered those side effects were the same people who drank less. Perhaps some of the reduction in drinking may have been because they didnt feel so good, rather than because the drug ...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...g on an entire hand articulated in similar fashion using the wrist, and has been approached to craft toes using the same principle. 'Our new approach to prosthetic technology will have a significant impact, not...

The Hospital Superbugs

...uction of the biofuel butanol by C. acetobutylicum using metabolic engineering. Official figures show that 5000 people die from a healthcare-associated infection every year in the UK and tackling the super bugs costs the NHS 1bn a year. 1 in 12 of us will pick up an infection during a stay in hospital. ...

A New Therapy to Protect Cancer Patients Against Infertility

...ion and menses within 12 months. We believe that using GnRH antagonists in this way could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy over a long period, said Dr. Stern. Other studies have tried to analyse whether similar treatments work, but the medications used have been long-acting and therefore cause shu...

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