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Stigma, Lack of Education, Prevent the Spread of HIV in Afghanistan

... programs and to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS, a wider program is needed. Stigma is the "most difficult" challenge in fighting HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan, according the Times. Health providers in the country say that HIV-positive people will face ostracism and possibly death if their communities learn th...

Powerful Anti-breast-cancer Pill on the Anvil

... by 2010. By then, it is likely to be approved for wider breast cancer indications, and other cancer types such as head and neck and renal. Further trials are underway. Tykerb seeks to specifically target cancer-causing proteins and more effective than other new generation drugs of the genre like Hercept...

Trial Run of Copper to Combat MRSA

...rface contact. Scientists are also considering wider medical applications, including using copper as a possible defense against bird flu. Experiments by the Southampton team have already shown that the metal can kill the human flu virus. Although probably best known for its use as an electrical con...

Gene Study Offers Hope of Potent Anti-cancer Drugs

...arger number of mutated driver genes produced by a wider range of forces than we expected. It's important because the more cancer genes we find, the more targets we'll have in terms of potential new drugs." The study, published in the journal Nature, compared the genetic sequence of the DNA derived from ...

Scientists Identify 120 New Cancer Genes

...arger number of mutated driver genes produced by a wider range of forces than we expected. It's important because the more cancer genes we find, the more targets we'll have in terms of potential new drugs," Stratton was quoted as saying. The researchers in the study compared the genetic sequence of the DN...

Pilates-new Age Gimmick or More?

...ircles with your legs for the first few months and wider circles once you are stronger and can keep your back and pelvis in the correct alignment. Once your body is no longer scrunched up, your insides function more effectively. The breathing technique helps you breathe fully and wakes up your mind and b...

Time to Overhaul Australia's Medicines Safety Surveillance System

...ety and effectiveness have been proven amongst the wider //population, experts have said in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. Recent experience with Vioxx and some other prescription medicines, which were withdrawn on safety grounds after marketing, has shown that reliance on pre-marketing trials ...

Outpatient Treatment Kills Benign Bone Tumors Nonsurgically With Heat

...ace to a surgeon. Therefore surgeons must remove a wider area around the tumor, and still may not succeed in getting the entire tumor. For example, if a typical lesion is under 1 cm a surgeon may need to remove up to 5 cm of surrounding bone. This can sometimes result in bone grafting in order to prevent f...

Mothers Gives ‘thumbs Up’ for Traffic Light Labelig

...the traffic light labeling and would like to see a wider adoption of it by other food companies. <B...

Deadly Bug to Be Tracked Down

...f other infected persons have grouped to ask for a wider search into the matter as C. difficile has killed about 2,000 people over the last several years in hospitals and institutions across the province. The bacteria is said to cause diarrhea and is more dangerous in elders, younger children and weak ...

A New Two-gene Test to Discern Similar Gastrointestinal Cancers

...sarcoma (LMS) with near perfect accuracy will have wider application in more individualized diagnosis and treatment of other types of cancer, study co-authors from M. D. Anderson and the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle conclude. GIST was once thought to be a type of leiomyosarcoma because both o...

Cancer Research May Help Biofuels

...is going to test out how its technology works in a wider variety of crops in a diverse range of ecosystems. The company, which licenses technology from the Hutchinson Center but also has devised its own technologies, does not integrate foreign genes into a plant, which creates so-called transgenic plants...

Hair Raising Problems With Hair Dyes

... be required. Now researchers are pressing for a wider debate about the safety of hair dyes. A recent insight in Japan has revealed the extent of allergic reactions amongst teenage girls; nearly 13% of them and 6/% of women in their twenties are suffering severe allergic reactions to hair dyes. "Cult...

Mixed HIV Coreceptor Use Associated With Lower CD4 Count

...R4-tropic virus because of its ability to infect a wider range of target cells than either type of single-tropic virus. However, the analyses of the TORO studies and ACTG A5211 did not find an association between dual-tropic virus and higher viral load, as would be expected if this hypothesis is correct....

Vitamins C and E Lowers Kidney Cancer Risk

...et are olive oil and vegetables, and may reflect a wider effect of these foods. “Vitamin E may represent an indirect indicator of a diet rich in vegetables, which are usually consumed with olive oil in this population, and have been related to a reduced risk of RCC,” wrote Bosetti. “Thus, it is possib...

Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict

...rt of the whole thing is the fear, dislike and the wider social insecurities it generates among the minds of people. The problem is acute in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Assam & Kashmir, Maharastra and Gujarat. Source-PVR/Hb Dr. Shroff...

'Hen Factories' To Synthesize Cancer Drugs

...d to enable the production of a larger volume of a wider array of drugs, particularly those much-in-demand cancer drugs, at costs that are agreeable to all concerned. RA...

New Generation - Medicinal Products

.... a few minutes at 25°C). And above all, a much wider variety of polymers is available, thus multiplying the chances that an active substance will find its appropriate biodegradable excipient. These promising results have given rise to the filing of two patents. An unquestioned advance in the daily r...

YouTube’s Latest Use-Offering Medical Advic

... every month. Doctors said they aimed to educate a wider audience. The videos are also available at the practice's own website and can also be downloaded onto an MP3 player. Dr Richard Walters who pioneered the project says, ‘There are a lot of things that we do in a GP practice that have to be convey...

Highlights from World Transplant Congress

...tial exists for further transplant therapies for a wider range of diseases, benefiting ever more patients and their families," said Prof. Kathryn J. Wood, President of The Transplantation Society, in her address to the inaugural World Transplant Congress. "The Transplantation Society in 2006 is thriving, a...

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