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Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

Medical officials in Russia have reported to have said that more than two-thirds of births in Russia are marred by complications, and every second newborn discharged from a maternity clinic is suffering health problems. The number of normal births declined from 45.3 percent in 1992 to just 30 percent last year, said Olga Frolova, head of the statistics department of Russia's Academy o...

Multi billion-dollar suit filed against cell phone firm for causing brain tumours

In the United States of America, a lawyer- Peter Angelos, who won millions of dollars as compensation from the tobacco industry in Maryland, has announced that he is dragging Vodafone to court in a billion dollar suit. He is claiming compensation to cell phone users who are said to have developed brain tumours after using the instruments made by Verizon wireless. This case has raised eyeb...

Ulcer causing bug found in stored food

Researchers at the University of Chicago, reported that a bacterium that can cause gastric ulcers and increase the risk of gastric cancer was present in as much as 50% of chicken purchased in a local grocery store. According to them, uncooked food leads to many stomach problems// due to contamination. The bacterium Helicobacter pylori is believed to be transmitted orally by ingesting f...

Colon cancer risk linked to genes causing Hemochromatosis

A recent study at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill that was published in the Jan. 15 Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that two genes - C282Y and H63D, which are linked to the iron overload disorder hemochromatosis may also lead to an increased risk of developing colon cancer. For the research, the genes of more than 1,300 subjects were studied, out// of whi...

Head injury X-rays may actually be causing harm

A BANG on the head may do less harm than the X-rays used to diagnose the degree of damage, a study suggests. In research that is likely to have a significant effect on// how children with minor head injuries are treated, Swedish scientists have shown that even low doses of radiation can impair intellectual development. The doses involved are typical of those used in CT scans, which...

Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

Based on findings of a recent study researchers have linked breathing cancer-causing compounds during pregnancy // to an increased risk of childhood cancer among offspring. They also believe that nearly all childhood cancers can probably be traced back to a mother’s inhalation of noxious substances. The study compared a chemical emissions map with all children age 15 and younger who died...

Cancer Causing Herpes Virus At Last May Have A Cure

Twin studies in the Journal Of Clinical Investigations show that certain form of herpes virus called Kaposi sarcoma– // associated herpes virus (KSHV) that can cause cancer, may be treated with by glycyrrhizic acid (GA) for total recovery. KSHV is a form of herpes virus that can cause cancer by lying suppressed in the infected cells of the affected person. Numerous vaccines are being de...

Arthritis drugs are causing skin problems

Scientists have shown that tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-á-blocking therapy used for treating patients with// rheumatoid arthritis cause skin problems. The study done by the Dutch scientists of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre of The Netherlands had taken into account the number and nature of dermatological conditions arising after being treated with the TNF-á-blocking therapy....

Tetanus causing toxin has therapeutic properties

Tetanus toxin, that causes the disease tetanus, have therapeutic properties that can be effective// against mental disorders like anxiety disorder, depression and anorexia. Researchers of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain have discovered the beneficial effects of the tetanus toxin by isolating a harmless part of the toxin called the carboxy-terminal domain. This part of th...

Reason for diabetes drug causing edema discovered

Researchers had been able to find out why the diabetes drug thiazolidinediones (TZDs) can cause //edema. Scientists from the University of Utah had found that the drug TZDs activates a receptor in kidney called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR). This is situated in the collecting duct of the kidney. The activation of the receptor serves to retain the fluid in the...

Protein causing spread of colon cancer identified

Researchers at the Georgetown University Lombardi cancer center, New Orleans have identified and isolated a protein that they say, is responsible for the spread of colon cancer to the liver. The protein, called Pa 28 alpha, can also cause the spread of other cancers, according to lead investigator Justinian Ngaiza, a clinical fellow in hematology/oncology at Georgetown's Lombardi Cancer C...

Biotech drug causing anemia-EPREX

EPREX, a version of the human recombinant "erythropoietin", a genetically engineered drug, has recently been found to cause a potentially life-threatening anaemia among patients who have been administered with this drug. This drug introduced in the late 1980s and is used to treat patients with kidney disease. //The disease, called Pure Red Cell Aphasia or PRCA usually occurs in vanishingl...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

The receeding flood waters are causing a major health calamity in Mumbai with another 14 deaths were reported from Mumbai taking the toll in this worst affected commercial capital to 142, and 4 were from other parts of Maharashtra. // The Health authorities however are maintaining a brave and defensive stance and claim that the number of serious cases had dropped drastically. Direc...

Flu-Drugs Are Causing Resistance Across The World

Flu-drugs may be increasing the drug resistance across the world. According to a report // published online in the journal The Lancet, worldwide resistance to drugs used to treat influenza has increased by 12% since the mid-nineties. Adamantanes have been used to treat influenza A virus infections for more than 30 years. Previous surveillance studies have iden...

Fluorescent markers to distinguish Trypanosoma brucei strains causing Sleeping Sickness

Multiple-genotype infections are increasingly recognized as important factors in disease evolution, parasite transmission dynamics, and the evolution of drug resistance. However, the distinction of co-infecting site genotypes and the tracking of their dynamics have been // ficult with traditional methods based on various genotyping techniques, leaving most questions unaddressed. Trypan...

Cancer Causing Proteins Trigger Abnormal Biochemical Reactions In Cells

These findings were published by chemists at Harvard University, who say that these proteins and the biochemical reactions that they trigger could hold the key to oncogenesis,// the process of formation of cancer in the body. Cancer arises when an oncoprotien, a protein known to cause cancer, is activated and becomes the trigger for the development of cancer, 'We present the hypothesis th...

Cancer-causing Property Of Teflon Leaves US Regulators Concerned

Regulators in the United States are worried about the cancer causing potential of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, which is widely used in making Teflon or non-stick cookware. // The concern was triggered off after an independent review by a committee for the Environmental Protection Agency said that Teflon had likely cancer causing potential. "The predominant panel view was that the de...

Apple Accused Of Causing Hearing Impairment

A suit has been filed against Apple Computer in a California court. The ubiquitous iPod music player of the organization has been called defective, and capable of damaging the hearing of users. The case has been filed by John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana. // Patterson's lawsuit contends that the iPods sold in the US are capable of pumping out sound of between 115 and 130 decibels, abo...

Inhuman Error: Medicine Becomes Poison, Causing Death

Blame it on human error, fate, bad luck or just apathy- What do you say , to yet another shocking case of human error, where a woman dies after being given a medicine that was not meant for her.// Barbara Maguire, 51, was admitted to Glasgow's Stobhill Hospital in the emergency ward, after a stomach complaint in 2004. NHS, has confirmed that Miss Maguire, by a quirk of fate...

Oral Cancer Cases Causing Concern

The Department of Pathology MLN Medical College in Allahabad recently concluded a study called 'age specific incidence rate and pathological spectrum of oral cancer' and has uncovered some very disturbing figures.// The study tracked annual data from the tumor registry between 1990 to 2000. Out of a total of 40,559 biopsies monitored by the department, 759 biopsies were of the oral cavi...

Spam Mails about Lipstick Causing Cancer to Be Ignored

Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned users not to fall for a chain letter that is spreading across the internet.// This letter claims that lipstick causes cancer. The emails claim that some brands of lipstick contain a dangerously high level of lead which can cause cancer. But Cancer Research UK has confirmed that the email...

Chemicals causing Cancer Found In Soft Drinks In UK

Four soft drinks have been removed with immediate effect from the shops in UK as a chemical that can cause cancer was found in them. The FSA based its recommendations// for the removal on drinks on the WHO levels. The Food Standards Agency traced benzene during a survey of 150 drinks on sale in Britain. Its tests were carried out after a BBC investigation revealed industry data showed...

Virus Causing Kaposi's Sarcoma Discovered

Virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) and certain forms of lymphoma has been discovered, according to a recent report from NIAID.// Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) have identified a critical human cell surface molecule involved in infection by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma and cert...

Gene Mutations Causing Rett Syndrome Occur in Both Sexes

Recent research has revealed that gene mutations that are responsible for about seventy to eighty percent of cases of Rett syndrome (RTT) in females are not always lethal// in males prior to birth. This has refuted previous assumptions, and can occur sporadically in infant males without a family history of the disorder. A study published in the journal Neurology reports four sporadic occu...

Chernobyl Disaster still Causing Cancer

The Chernobyl disaster of two decades ago still holds more than a third of Britain prey to its deadly consequences. Its radioactivity contamination here still continues// to cause cancer in children according to the investigation led by the Independent on Sunday. According to official measurements published in the report at least 34 per cent of Britain will continue to remain radioact...

Beans Devoid Of Flatulence Causing Compounds Would Soon Hit The Market

Researchers from the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas found that Lactobacillus casei (L casei), when fermented along with the beans reduced its flatulence capacity// and increased the nutritional value. Beans are a cheap and key source of nutrition especially in the developing countries. Marisela Granito led the Venezuelan team to analyze the method of creating flatulence-free beans...

Novel Treatment Method Directed At Ulcer-Causing Bacteria Deemed A Success

Stomach ulcers are mainly caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori and can make the normal routine of breakfast lunch and dinner a painful process. //The bacterium is also implicated in gastric cancer and causes infections that last for a long tome and are very difficult to treat. Many approaches have been taken in an attempt to clear such infections, but with limited or unsucc...

Failure to Keep Appointments causing Loss of Money

In the East the health service is losing more than ￡50m because of people failing to keep their appointments. // Despite years of similar complaint by NHS managers the situation is now becoming critical. Douglas Pattisson from Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon said: ‘Some people do not turn up as they feel better while others forget.’ ‘Both cause us a lot o...

Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Urine Of Babies Whose Parents Smoke

Scientists warn that passive smokings from cigarette smoke of parents can affect their infants. The scientists have now detected the cancer-causing chemicals // , which are associated with tobacco smoke in the urine of nearly half the babies whose parents are active smokers. "The take home message is, 'Don't smoke around your kids,'" said Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., professor and Wallin...

Corporate Companies Causing Pollution in the Dock

The researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts listed about 100 top corporate companies that are responsible for air pollution//. This list is officially called the Toxic 100. The corporate companies are listed as an important source of air pollution. This is based on air releases of hundreds of chemicals from industrial facilities across th...

Waiting list in British healthcare causing them to shell out a fortune!

Due to long and endless waiting lists for patients in Britain, they are forced into taking treatment elsewhere and that causes them a fortune //. For example citing an arthritis case of an Ulster man, who had to pay thousands of pounds so that he can be cured fast, could have done free if by NHS. But the waiting list was too long to wait for. He had to spend ￡3,500 on two drugs - Hum...

Cancer-Causing Virus Synthesizes Protein To Help Sustain Itself In Host Cells

A protein that is synthesized by a cancer-causing virus enables it to bypass immune systems and infect the immune cells. This mechanism uses an unusual gene and also ensures that the virus persists in the host. // The study examines the function of a protein called HBZ, which is made by the human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), a retrovirus and a distant cousin to HIV, the cau...

Scientist Identify 3 New Cataract Causing Genes

A joint study by Indian and foreign scientists has claimed to have found three new cataract-causing genes, often carried on for many generations in families in the country. // Scientists at the Centre for Genetic Disorders of Guru Nanak Dev University here in association with researchers from the National Institute of Health, USA and the Institute of Human Genetics in Berlin have disc...

Indian Scientists Identify Cataract Causing Genes

A joint study by the Indian and foreign scientists have claimed that they have identified three new cataract-causing genes, which are often carried // on for many generations in families in India. Scientists from the Center for Genetic Disorders of Guru Nanak Dev University in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute of Health, USA and the Institute of Human Genetics...

Rare Nerve Disease Causing Gene Identified

The Researchers from UK and US working together explained that they have identified the gene that was behind a group of rare, progressive childhood //disorders caused by an abnormal build up of iron in the brain. Explaining about the discovery of the PLA2G6 gene, whose mutated forms trigger several genetic disorders categorized as neuroaxonal dystrophies, they said that this could als...

Cancer Causing Protein May Heal Alzheimers

Researchers have found that a protein known for driving the growth of cancer also plays a surprising role in restoring the ability of neurons to regenerate // , making it an important target for addressing spinal cord damage or neurological diseases like Alzheimers. "The finding suggests that the same process this protein uses for proliferating cancer could also potentially be used to...

"Super Drug" Targets Disease-Causing Gene

Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have developed a "super drug" which could one day combat diverse diseases like diabetes//, heart disease, arthritis and cancer. The drug, Dz13, can be used to treat vision loss caused by aging as well, the researchers claimed. Also diseases like heart attacks and inflammation can be contained, they said in a paper published in...

Stanford Researchers Identify A Gene Causing Downs Syndrome

Research scientists at Stanford’s School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital claim that they might have found a possible cause for mental retardation//in Down syndrome, in a gene that causes neurons in the brain to stop functioning normally, affecting attention, and memory. The researchers in US have explained in journal Neuron, that they have identified a gene that, if...

Cellular System Causing Destruction Of Faulty Proteins In Cystic Fibrosis Identified

Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have managed to isolate a cellular system responsible for degrading proteins in Cystic Fibrosis. Blocking this// system allows some affected proteins to regain their shape and thus may herald in new treatments for the disease. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal disease caused by a defective gene that produces a misshapen form...

Hughes Syndrome Mimics MS Causing Wrong Diagnosis

A former motorcycle racer, John Simper, 60, from Ipswich who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), 26 years ago believes// he could be saved from ending his life in a wheelchair. Mr. Simper is now confident that he has been suffering from a condition known as Hughes Syndrome, which thickens the blood and slows down the brain. It was explained that this condition that had be...