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Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

...ts were low as well, including screening tests for various types of cancer. Just half of the CKD patients underwent recommended tests for anemia, while only 15 percent had testing of parathyroid hormone levels. Patients with CKD were actually less likely than non-CKD patients to receive vaccinations for infl...

New Tools To Identify Flu Strains

...and can be taken all around the world to track the various flu strains across the globe. The process for identifying the flu type is similar to genetic fingerprinting used in DNA identification. First, the influenza RNA is converted to DNA, using the same biological processes that the HIV virus uses to conv...

Condom Vending Machines Increasing Sexual Assaults On Women

...have already getting sexually provoked through the various presentations in the media. “ The only way to prevent AIDS is to infuse moral values in the society.” Concluded Ms. K.K Fathima Suhra However, this outcry by the women’s wing does not provide solution to the problem of increasing AIDS victims and un...

Grant of $7 million for Orissa Medical College from Japan

...nd Unani colleges from all India as recognised by various Councils for the courses in India. Details about the college, courses offered, Admission procedure, fee details and more are available. For more information read: http://www.medindia.com/education/ college.asp...

Being together matters, both in marriage and smoking

...blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain) among various groups of women. The relative risk of total stroke was 5.7 times higher in cigarette-smoking women with cigarette-smoking spouses and 4.8 times higher for ischemic stroke, it said. Non-smoking women married to smoking spouses did not have a signific...

Researchers Gather Stem Cells From Discarded Placenta

...all types of specialized cells types that may form various types of cells of the tissue from which it was taken. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/stemcells_about.htm...

Identified Protein To Inhibit Cell Migration

...ference to knock down or reduce CIB1 expression in various cell lines. Cells with less CIB1 had less PAK1 activation and migrated faster. The authors also showed that the more CIB1 these cells had, the less likely they were to move. Source: Newswise Medindia on RNAi: Further information RNAi: RNA in...

DNA Directory Under Construction For Indian Criminals !

...law and order. Infact, when cases were reopened in various countries based on DNA evidence, many persons who were convicted were found to be innocent based on DNA profiling. Every person leaves traces of his DNA at the crime scene. It is the gathering of these traces at a scene of offence that helps investig...

And now it is vaccines for heart disease

...r Spring, Maryland, presented evidence implicating various infectious agents in the development of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, and described developments in vaccines that may reduce heart disease risk factors such as high cholesterol. The organism Chlamydia has been proven to inc...

Gene causes moles to become cancerous

...an tissue samples including precancerous moles and various stages of melanoma. Accorind to Journal, diagnosti... later stages of the disease. Id1 also may cause various mutations to occur in the cancer cells, making the suppressor gene damaged beyond repair. As the can...

A new horizon

...cells from the bone marrow, which can give rise to various tissues like bone, cartilage, fat and muscle.Embry... "totipotent;" meaning they can differentiate into various cell types// Mark Pittenger and colleagues from Osiris Therapeutics report in the journal Science t...

Withering related to impotence

...stomata pores, which close and open in response to various signals."This offers a new opportunity to manipulate a plant's water requirements which could impact significantly on crop productivity," he said."The opening and closing of stomata control evaporation and impact on humidity and ultimately on climate...

Stem cells form blood vessels

...tration of how stem cells can serve as a source of various types of cells, in this case for blood vessels. It...h a way that they were allowed to develop into the various types of cells that are precursors to mature tissue. From this colony, the researchers extracted cel...

Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine

...iques like massage. Many used both supplements and various mind-body techniques. Most said they used the alternative therapies to help them heal or ease their symptoms. But particularly troubling was that 42 % of the patients were taking at least one blood-thinning prescription medication and one dietary s...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...nication, and their gaze processing is impaired at various levels, such as eye contact, gaze following, joint attention and understanding gaze....

Moles become cancerous due to genes

...an tissue samples including precancerous moles and various stages of melanoma. Accorind to Journal, diagnosti... later stages of the disease. Id1 also may cause various mutations to occur in the cancer cells, making the suppressor gene damaged beyond repair. As the can...

Doctor demonstrates `psychic surgery'

... the physically handicapped people and others with various ailments who had gathered in the city for his treatment had to return unhappy as a city court slapped a notice on him and the organisers of the event. Orbito had said that with `negative energy' flowing, he could not perform more than the five or si...

Cut meat to cut blood pressure

British researchers in an attempt to find out how various eating styles were associated with differences in blood pressure, compared the blood pressures of meat eaters, fish eaters, vegetarians, and vegans. Their findings, which were published in Public Health Nutrition, showed how healthy eating habits cou...

Brain scans show why we always have room for dessert

...of either vanilla ice cream or peanut butter. "At various points before, during and after scanning we asked them to give us pleasantness ratings for the smells," Gottfried said. Unconsciously, the volunteers began to associate the images with the smells.Then they fed them either peanut butter or ice cream. ...

Peaceful Slumber said to Restore Memories

...ility to repeat those sequences was then tested at various intervals, including after one and two nights of sleep.The researchers found evidence that memories are consolidated in three stages in a process similar to storing data on a computer's hard drive. The second stage requires sleep, which the Harvard t...

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