BGSU biologist trying to crack microscopic code
Dr. Ray Larsen is trying to learn a second language. The Bowling Green State University biologist wants to crack the communication code of proteins, especially the ones whose "talking" aids and abets disease. "Proteins interact; they 'talk' to each other," the associate professor says. "It's how they know what to do, and it's how most of the things that need to happen for living organisms...Trying to control pain can be a double-edged sword, say scientists
Scientists have shown for the first time why a feeling of control helps us reduce pain. The research, carried out at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, London, has implications for how patients with persistent pain can cope with what is often a debilitating condition. Using fMRI scanners, which allow scientists to examine how the brain operates, the research, led by Dr Katj...Ranbaxy trying to make inroads in herbal drugs market
Ranbaxy Laboratories Chairman, Tajendra Khanna, in a recent seminar organised by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University on 'Managing Corporate Reputation', spoke about the comapny's plan of foraying into the herbal drugs market. He said that their products would create stiff competition for the key player in the market - Dabur, which has 60 per cent market share. The company plans to market a...Infertile Couples Should 'Keep Trying' Naturally
Couples having difficulty conceiving should continue trying for a baby the natural way, say fertility experts. // Pieternel Steures and colleagues at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam studied couples with unexplained fertility problems and found that a common fertility technique was no more effective than 'watch and wait' for some couples, reported the online edition of BBC New...India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology
Citing ongoing research in India, Brazil, China and South Africa, scientists say nanotechnology - science on the scale of atoms and molecules// - could give developing nations new ways to diagnose and treat disease. Nanotechnology is the ability to see, measure, manipulate and manufacture things on a scale of 1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter; a sheet of paper...Research Shows How Women Deal With the Stress When Trying for a Baby!
The women from the Fertell research groups described how they had quickly fallen into a vicious circle of worrying about not becoming pregnant making them feel stressed which they felt would adversely affect their chances of conceiving. They also reported becoming anxious that sex was more of a chore than a pleasure. As the months passed and the couples did not fall pregnant the wo...Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care
The World Health Organisation has been regularly urging the developing world to look for new initiatives and programmes targeting mental health care in their public health services. But many nations in the African continent are hard pressed for funds to rise to the challenge before them. Like elsewhere in the third world, visitors to Zambia could observe in the capital city of Lu...Costs of Eradicating Poliomyelitis Now Are Much Lower Than Trying to Control It Later
LONDON, April 12, 2007--The costs of eradicatingpoliomyelitis from the remaining infected countries, while high inthe short term, are much lower than the long term costs of tryingto control infections without eradication. And a recently developedmonovalent vaccine is almost three times more effective againsttype 1 poliomyelitis than an existing trivalent vaccine. These are...