Navigation Links


Victims at Biology News

New tooth enamel dating technique could help identify disaster victims

Remnants of above-ground nuclear testing provide a way to determine age at time of death The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s is providing forensic scientists with a more precise way to determine a person's age at the time of death. The method could help in the identification of victims of Hurricane Katrina and other large-scale disast...

Spray-on skin relieves emotional trauma for child burn victims

Spray-on skin is helping child burns victims cope with the trauma of scarring, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. The new liquid spray-on skin technology, whi...

Malaria vaccine prompts victims' immune system to eliminate parasite from mosquitoes

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental vaccine that could, theoretically, eliminate malaria from entire geographic regions, by eradicating the malaria parasite from an area's mosquitoes. The vaccine, so far tested only in mice, would prompt the immune system of a person who receives it to eliminate the parasite from the digestive tract of a malaria...
Victims at Biology Products
Victims at Biology Technology
Victims at Medicine News

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

One very deadly form of cancer is pancreatic cancer, though it isn’t very common. Globally it kills lakhs of people every year. And now there is some hope for the unfortunate victims. A new vaccine has been successfully tested on the pancreatic cancer victims and it has increased the survival rates in many. Vaccines are typically thought of as a way of preventing disease. In cancer, howe...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

A widely used blood pressure drug shows strong potential for slowing the metabolic overdrive that makes patients waste away after severe burns and other major injuries. In a study, researchers at Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas, tried propranolol on 13 children with bad burns and left 12 untreated to compare. The drug, one of a class known as beta blockers, checks the stimulati...

Stroke victims have new hope with activated protein C

A new study by researchers from the University of Rochester, New York suggests that the activated protein C (APC), a protein with anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant properties,which until now is being used to treat septic infections, may also help reduce the damage caused by stroke. Researchers who conducted the study on mice found that APC could protect brain cells from the secondary damage as...

New hope for spinal cord injury victims

A special report in the online edition of The Anatomical Record has put together a collection of articles on the subject of spinal cord injury repair in animals. Spinal cord injury affects millions of people and, until now, has left them with little hope of living a normal life. However, recent research has begun to suggest that maybe stem cells - primitive cells that can turn into specific cell...

Snail venom Found To Ease Pain In Cancer Victims

Laboratory research has found evidence that the venom that the snails inject to immobilize their prey might have beneficial effects // on some heart problems, strokes, central nervous system disorders and other ills. The latest study involved the experimental drug ziconotide, a laboratory-made equivalent of a compound in the venom of the small Conus Magus cone snail, which lives in shallow t...

More>>

Victims at Medicine Products
Victims at Medicine Technology
Other TagsKATKATKATKATLaseLaseLaseLaseLase
(Date:11/18/2008)... Chairman, Tony Strange Appointed to CEO position ... , MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-First... GTIV ), a leading provider of comprehensive home...f Directors has finalized a management succession ...l become the Company,s Chief Executive Officer in ...
(Date:11/18/2008)...echanisms, scientists show , , TUESDAY, ...egulated by different molecular mechanisms, accord...es the long-held belief that itching is a less int...This finding could prove important in improving tr...g Chen, of Washington University,s Pain Center, in...
(Date:11/18/2008)...ed genes and understanding how they work has been ...t Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), five diffe...tise to speed up the rate of discovering cancer-re...g animals. , The result of the collaborative e...tic screen that in a preliminary test succeeded in...
(Date:11/18/2008)...f dangerous side effect , , TUESDAY, No...rug Avastin appears to be associated with a greate...atients with a variety of cancers. , This risk ...cts associated with the drug, including clots in t...tion. , It has previously been recognized that ...
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:Gentiva Health Services Confirms Management Succession 2Health News:Gentiva Health Services Confirms Management Succession 3Health News:Gentiva Health Services Confirms Management Succession 4Health News:Itching Not a Less Intense Form of Pain 2Health News:Cold Spring Harbor science teams identify 13 new tumor-suppressor genes in liver cancer 2Health News:Cold Spring Harbor science teams identify 13 new tumor-suppressor genes in liver cancer 3Health News:Cold Spring Harbor science teams identify 13 new tumor-suppressor genes in liver cancer 4Health News:Cancer Drug Ups Risk of Clots in Veins 2Health News:Cancer Drug Ups Risk of Clots in Veins 3
(Date:11/18/2008)...erials engineers have created a new type of membra..., might be used for environmental cleanup, water p...ew technology would last longer than conventional ... attracting water while beading oil, traits that a...d the material to a glass filter commonly used in ...
(Date:11/18/2008)...chaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is intensi...rchers. At its autumn meeting in Bonn the Grants C...to the establishment of 13 additional Research Tra...h Training Groups. These enable doctoral researche... "We are particularly pleased about the first Inte...
(Date:11/17/2008)...− A new study confirms that exercise can rev...neural stem cells in the hippocampus of the mouse ...cise restores a brain chemical which promotes the ...eural stem cells and progenitor cells differentiat...different functions, a process called neurogenesis...
(Date:11/17/2008)...c clues led a team of Boston University biomedical...ics kill bacteria. The findings could help rejuven...ew antibiotic targets within bacterial cells. , ...ent antibiotics work and how those insights can po...cs," said James Collins, Professor of Biomedical...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):New filtering technology has environmental, industrial applications 2New filtering technology has environmental, industrial applications 3National and international doctoral training 2National and international doctoral training 3National and international doctoral training 4National and international doctoral training 5National and international doctoral training 6National and international doctoral training 7Exercise increases brain growth factor and receptors, prevents stem cell drop in middle age 2Exercise increases brain growth factor and receptors, prevents stem cell drop in middle age 3Biomedical engineers' detective work reveals antibiotic mechanism 2Biomedical engineers' detective work reveals antibiotic mechanism 3Spectral announces exclusive distribution agreement in Russia for its EAA 28TM 29 Sepsis Diagnostic Assay 6475 1Spectral announces exclusive distribution agreement in Russia for its EAA 28TM 29 Sepsis Diagnostic Assay 6475 2Red Eye Rescue to Help Keep Air Travel From Ruining Your Image 23671 1Red Eye Rescue to Help Keep Air Travel From Ruining Your Image 23671 2New Research Shows Cadaver Tissue Fails Nearly a Quarter of the Time in Young Athletic ACL Reconstruction Patients 23669 1New Research Shows Cadaver Tissue Fails Nearly a Quarter of the Time in Young Athletic ACL Reconstruction Patients 23669 2New Research Shows Cadaver Tissue Fails Nearly a Quarter of the Time in Young Athletic ACL Reconstruction Patients 23669 3Dr Emil Chynn Featured on FOX News 28WNYW TV 29 Park Avenue Laser Vision Center Recognized for Creative Internet Marketing 23665 1Dr Emil Chynn Featured on FOX News 28WNYW TV 29 Park Avenue Laser Vision Center Recognized for Creative Internet Marketing 23665 2Dr Emil Chynn Featured on FOX News 28WNYW TV 29 Park Avenue Laser Vision Center Recognized for Creative Internet Marketing 23665 3
Other Contentsfeverfeverfeverfeverfeverfeverfeverfeveryellowyellowyellowyellowyellowyellowyellowyellowsystemsystemsystemsystemsystemsystemsystemsystemsystemsystemvestibularvestibularstomatitisstomatitisvesicularvesicularvirologyvirologyvirologyclassificationclassificationclassificationclassificationclassificationclassification