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Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...elease growth-promoting substances which, in turn, wake up the stem cells. The stem cells then move to a portion of the bone marrow where they can multiply and be released. Rafii and his team discovered the significance of MMP9 when they examined mice that had been engineered to grow and develop without ...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...dvocates say some of the proposal is worrisome. In wake of a dozen drugs pulled off the market because of dangers in recent years, critics say the FDA already is approving drugs too fast and doesn’t adequately monitor problems that can arise when new ones hit the market. Drug companies have paid milli...

Cloud of smoke over Zyban

... in defence of its non-nicotine oral drug - in the wake of unproven reports in the UK, linking the drug to adverse reactions and deaths. // Touted to be the world’s most successful smoking cessation drug, Zyban received a high decibel launch in India in June 2001. The cause for concern, however, was a ...

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

...le who cannot stay awake much after 8.30pm and who wake up around 5.30am may be suffering from a disorder called "familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome". This means the person's body clock is three to four hours faster than normal. Writing in Nature Medicine, the scientists, led by Dr Louis Ptacek, say...

The alarm clock in you

...nsciously just by anticipating the time we want to wake up. Research conducted by scientists at the Univer...ing "wake up!" - but only when we are expecting to wake up. The researchers measured the levels of two stress hormones - adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and co...

Waking during surgery

...s in the long run. Around half of all patients who wake during surgery experience long-lasting psychological trauma.Thankfully, it is rare to wake up when under anaesthesia. It happens to only 0.2 to 0.7 per cent of patients. Doctors at Boston Un...

Thakur warns doctors

...ing in female foeticide. The warning comes in the wake of the recent nation-wide Census, which has come out with a disturbing picture of male-female gender ratio, particularly in relation to children under the age of six. While there was slight improvement in the sex ratio for the past decade, the ratio...

Brain death – How to cope with it

...ity to breathe and therefore have the potential to wake up in a year or two," he added. It is very difficult for the people involved to actually take this hard decision to stop life support. But by coming to terms with death they can actually avoid a lot of heartache and trauma. It is actually a race ag...

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