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Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

A research backed by the British government says that smoking will turn out to be the biggest killer in the years to come, surpassing the threat of even HIV. The British broadcasting corporation reported on Monday that in the developing world smoking will kill more people than any other disease in the next 20 years. The report released from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex,...

Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice

Scientists at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, have said that an experimental treatment for the deadly Ebola virus has shown promising results in mice. In the study, researchers led by Dr. Manish Gupta took antibodies from the immune systems of mice that had survived infection with the deadly Ebola virus and injected them into other Ebola-free mice...

Drinking Laws 'Fuel Disease' In UK: Expert

The doctor treating ailing football legend George Best has condemned the relaxation of licensing laws in England and Wales, saying it reflected a 'society falling apart'.// The new legislation took effect at 00:01 GMT on Thursday, consigning the traditional 23:00 closing time to history and ushering in what the government hopes will be a more relaxed and civilized socializing. But s...

Almost a death experience

According to French researchers there is no obvious medical explanation for the near death experience reported by some patients during cardiac arrest. The near death experience (NDE) has received quite a lot of attention in recent years.// It involves a feeling of disconnection from the body during a life-threatening medical crisis - typically a cardiac arrest - and often progress down a...

Experimental drug to fight flu

RECENT research has shown that new compounds developed for preventing and treating the flue have shown promise in animal studies, and may require only one dose to be effective.// The compounds, known collectively as multimeric zanamivir, are based on the existing flu drug relenza, or zanamivir, which the U.S. Food and Drug administration approved in 1999 for treating influenza A and B. R...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

Macaroni faster than spaghetti? A greenish banana faster than a freckled one? Yes, say some of the top-tier nutritional experts.They are convinced that carbohydrates should be labeled good or bad, just the way fats are.// The debate involves an idea called the glycemic index. It is a way of rating how quickly carbohydrates are digested and rush into the bloodstream as sugar. Fast, in t...

Experimental SARS Vaccine

Latest research reveals a SARS vaccine may be on the horizon. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health report promising results from a study involving eight African green monkeys. Four of the monkeys were // immunized against the SARS virus using an intranasal vaccine made from a parainfluenza vaccine originally developed for children. The vaccine was reengineered to express a m...

Experimental vaccine for shingles is effective

Researchers have discovered a newer form of chicken pox vaccine to// effectively control the painful condition called shingles. Shingles (also known as herpes zoster) is the condition that gets symptoms of rashes or blisters on the skin, along with sensations of burning pain, tingling, and numbness on the area. There may be fever with chills, headache or upset stomach. The infection i...

Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

At the University of Bath in England an interesting study has been conducted that shows that women feel pain more than // men. This is despite the popular notion that the opposite is true. Why this gender difference no one as yet knows. “Until fairly recently it was controversial to suggest that there were any differences between males and females in the perception and experience of pain...

Experimental Blood Test May Spot Heart Attack Risk, Study Says

Oxidized phospholipids can be tested in blood to indicate the possibility of heart// attack in people under 60 years. A report in the 7th July issue of New England Journal of Medicine indicates that blood levels of Oxidized phospholipids may indicate the amount of fatty build- up patients have in their arteries of heart. This may in future be able to avoid the use of invasive tests...

Serevent, to be examined by experts due to deaths associated with its use

Serevent, a powdered medication inhaled by asthma patients to keep their airways// open, will be a focus of an FDA Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee meeting today as it has been linked to 13 deaths related to asthmatic symptoms in patients who took the drug to avoid asthma attacks. FDA documents released yesterday indicate that about a year ago, the agency asked Glaxo to strengt...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

Do you remember where you were when you heard about the World Trade Center attack? For many it is a memory they will never forget. But why? A new study finds lasting memories are formed with a process that involves the enzyme known as protein kinase C.// Researchers in New Orleans studied female mice and how they remembered their mating partner. They discovered that with only one expos...

Spread Of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Is A Probability, Say Experts

Researcher from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had said in a research finding to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine that the disease called Rocky Mountain spotted fever may spread faster// than people thought possible, to cause an outbreak. The research highlights the importance of the recent outbreak in Arizona, US, as the first confirmed cases that could...

Experts Recommend Preventive Measures For Avian Flu To Begin From Farms

Scientists and experts on wildlife health from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said that prevention of avian flu is only possible by concentrating on better management practices in farms and markets // . WCS is currently working with Mongolian agencies on the ground in Mongolia’s Kovsgol province, collecting samples from wild birds that have recently contracted...

Experts Insist That Neonatal Herpes Be Reported Regularly

Experts are of the opinion that infection of newborns with herpes type 1 and 2 should be routinely reported to the authorities. Currently this is not an established procedure in most cases. In a commentary published in the September issue of the // journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, researchers in herpes infections, from University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD in Seattle,...

A Scientific Explanation For Out Of Body Experience

Out of body experiences, originally thought of as a as paranormal phenomena, may in fact have their roots in how people perceive and experience their own bodies. Despite the high incidence of OBE among the general public, not // much is known about the phenomenon. Around 10% of the population have an out-of-body experience (OBE) at some time, typically involving a sensation of floating...

Experts State Strategies To Increase Good Cholesterol

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have issued guidelines for patients with low levels of good cholesterol or HDL in order to stay healthy with unclogged arteries. The article will be published in The New England Journal of Medicine online. // The researchers report that existing strategies to prevent heart disease have not addressed the best means to raise HDL cholesterol and instead have...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

It has now been demonstrated that our own experience is important to exhibit feelings of sympathy or empathy for others. Psychologists and neuroscientists have been working hard to understand what happens in our brain as soon as // we observe a person in action. The results of the observation show that the actions of the observer to a large extent are governed internally. The research...

Speed up bird flu vaccine, Bush tells experts

The prospects of a bird flu pandemic has created a stir worldwide with US President George Bush getting in on the act and urging vaccine developers to speed up the process of developing a vaccine to combat the same. // Representatives of more than 80 countries and international organizations met in Washington on Thursday to discuss ways to prevent bird flu pandemic. Health officials i...

Tennis elbow not new among cricketers, say experts

Tennis elbow has been enjoying the spot light following ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's and several other players complaining about the condition. However, the condition is not uncommon in the sports arena//. Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis as it is called in medical parlance, is an affliction where the outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender, usually as a result of...

Weight-Loss Medication Evaluated By Nutrition Expert

A 60 mg low-dose version of the prescription weight-loss medication orlistat (marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as Xenical? 120 mg) was found to be safe, effective and tolerable in overweight individuals,// according to new data presented today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of NAASO, The Obesity Society in Vancouver, British Columbia. The study, which compared orlistat 60 mg plus diet to placebo...

Cancer Can Recur Any Time, Experts Caution

Just because you have been declared free of cancer does not mean that you can cool your heels, for cancers are known to hit back even after decades, experts have warned people. // These warnings were issued on the occasion of the Childhood Cancer Awareness Day by eminent doctors who took part in a panel discussion at the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) yesterday. In a...

Avian Influenza: Government to set up expert committee

The Government in its determination to gear up to meet the avian flu threat, has decided to set up an expert committee to keep a close watch on bird flu cases and also to suggest preventive measures.// Animal Husbandry Secretary P M A Hakeem said "Though we have no cases of bird flu in the country, we want to take precautionary measures and the committee to be formed will include repres...

Experts Building Bird Flu Warning System

Experts are mapping routes taken by migrating species of birds and the places of rest they choose during their annual travel, United Nations officials said on Sunday.// The information can warn countries and communities about the arrival of wild birds that could be infected, and the local authorities could issue advice to those in areas at risk. According to Britain's Biodiv...

Experiment Creates Illusion Of Weight Loss

Researchers convinced 17 subjects that they were actually losing weight.// Researchers belonging to the University College London managed to make 17 people believe that they were losing weight when in reality they were not. This was done by fitting them with gadgets which gave the illusion that their hands were moving inward. The scientists were studying the effect the brain has in cre...

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) - View of Experts

Human Growth Hormone is chanted as the new anti-ageing mantra. The current research findings pertaining to Human Growth Hormone (HGH) therapy has found some positive results. // According to Dr. Anthony Karpos, MD We really have something here which may be able to reverse some of the problems associated with ageing. Researchers from Denmark state, Replacement therapy with...

Children should eat well to do well in academics say experts!

In a study done at Cornell University it has been found that students who are well fed do well in academics then those who are not.// The study was done at Cornell's Early Childhood Centre. The results said that inadequate eating reflects in impaired academic development especially in reading. This phenomenon is termed as food insecurity. This is the condition when children d...

Five AIDS Patients To Receive Experimental Anti-retroviral Drugs

A group of five AIDS victims who have been trying to gain special access to the much sought unapproved anti- HIV drugs (TMC 114 and TMC 125) can now rejoice as the Health Canada // has now issued the medication in what can be considered as a rare clinical trial. Dr. Montaner, an AIDS drugs specialist with the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital has been trying...

Chinese Poultry Vaccine Could Be Sub-Standard: Expert

A leading virologist has indicated that China might be using "substandard poultry vaccine", which could be the reason why there were frequent and deadly outbreaks of bird flu //in that country. Dr Robert Webster, of St Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, however said that this problem was not confined to mainland China alone. "It's not just China. We can’t blame China for...

Experts urging artery screening in the UK

A national screening program is in the offing for abdominal aortic aneurysm, a blood vessel condition which kills thousands each year in the UK, a magazine reports. This condition, a swelling // in the main blood vessel from the heart which can kill if it bursts, accounts for 1.36% of deaths in men over 65 in the UK. The National Screening Committee (NSC) has backed routine screening...

US Reportedly Experimenting on Nepali Soldiers

The US Government is reportedly using Nepali soldiers for experiments for finding a vaccine for Hepatitis. The vaccine is expected to protect the US soldiers while serving abroad. Hepatitis E is reported to account for half the hepatitis cases in lesser developed nations. //In 1995, the US Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), the Thai-based branch of Walter Reed A...

Roche offers HIV drug expertise to poor nations

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced transfer technology to generic drug manufacturers in the least developed countries and sub-Saharan Africa// to produce versions of the HIV drug saquinavir. As part of its new Technology Transfer Initiative, Roche has announced further expansion of its current activities within sub-Saharan Africa and the world's Least Developed Countries by prov...

FDA approves Phase 0 trial which tests experimental drugs on humans

Good news for researchers has FDA has approved testing of small quantities of experimental drugs in human beings. Approval of small quantity drug clinical trial will be very helpful for researchers to// understand the path of the drug in the body and its efficacy if the drug is proved effective in small quantities researchers can proceed with a phase I clinical trial. Researchers feel...

Europe Seeks Indian Expertise

Indian expertise is sought by European nations in the field of life sciences and biotechnology. Staf Van Reet, Managing Director of the Belgian// company Viziphar Biosciences, told a seminar that the country has tremendous potential for global sourcing in life sciences. "We are starting with an R&D project in tuberculosis, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Sciences in...

TMC 114 and 125 experimental drugs to be tested on four HIV patients

Four HIV patients who have found resistant to most of the HIV drugs in the city of Vancouver in British Columbia would be given the experimental drugs TMC 114 and TMC 125 as a last hope to save their lives. // Though clinical trials with experimental drugs are undertaken under strict protocols this study is tested on a hope to find a cure and save the lives of these four HIV patients....

Norwegian Cancer Expert Faked Patient Data

A cancer expert at the Norwegian Radium Hospital faked the identity of patients for a trial involving the treatment of oral cancer, it has emerged. "The material was fabricated," said Trine Lind, spokeswoman// for the hospital. "We are shocked. This is the worst thing that could happen in a research institution like ours." She admitted that Dr Jon Sudbo falsified data involving patients...

Expert Patient Program saves Hospital fund

The National Health Services (NHS) hospitals are reforming themselves to come out of the financial crisis they are facing by improving their financial management.// Patricia Hewitt, British Health secretary as welcomed better financial management is required and the hospital should concentrate more on cutting unnecessary fund wastage. The health secretary as said that the standard tar...

Protection against HIV and Herpes is possible with the Experimental Microbicide

Indevus Pharmaceuticals have come out with a new experimental Microbicide PRO 2000. This protects a person against contracting HIV and the herpes simplex virus. The findings of the study were published in the journal // of infectious diseases. Microbicides are products such as gels, films and sponges that are used to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually tr...

Experimental Therapy Effective Against Malignant Melanoma in Horses

Dr. John L. Robertson, a professor in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech and director of the college's Center for Comparative // Oncology (CECO) has been studying the similarities of malignant melanoma in horses and humans and has devised an experimental treatment for it. At a presentation before the American Cancer Society in Roanoke, Va., he...

Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug curbs the disease in mic

Frank LaFerla, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and also the senior author in the research said that the experimental drug// AF267B is effective against both forms of brain lesions found in Alzheimer's disease in mice. This compound (AF267B) curbs both the amyloid protein plaques that collect in Alzheimer's-affected brains, as well as another les...