Study suggests antibiotic may prevent dreaded brain fever

Two researchers from National Brain Research Center (NBRC) suggest that a common antibiotic called minocycline may prevent children from death due to Japanese encephalitis (JE), or commonly known as brain fever. Japanese Encephalitis virus is the causative agent for JE. Although there is no consol...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

When Mr. Andrew Speaker and his wife returned to United States from Europe they were immediately quarantined by the health officials . Speaker and his family have been fighting back ever since, disputing the accounts of government health officials who contended he had been warned not to fly bec...

Liver Transplants to the Rescue of Dreaded MSUD disease

Metabolic symptoms of 11 patients with the dreaded genetic condition known as Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) have been relieved after liver transplants//. This is the result of a study conducted by researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Clinic for Special Children. All pat...

Loose weight without that dreaded sweat

This comes as a Christmas gift for a large number of obese people who wish to loose weight and stay healthy. But the condition is minimum sweat to the body.// The answer comes in the form of Harvey Simon, Harvard Medical School associate professor of medicine and founding member of the Harvard C...

New test for safer biomedical research results

...s. The test also includes detection of commonly used standard cell lines. Contamination with the fast-growing cancer cell line HeLa, for example, is a dreaded source of false results. Pawlita and Schmitt found contaminations in a high percentage of cell samples. Twenty-two percent of tested cultures were...

Penile Prosthesis Surgery Infection Rates Reduced With The No-Touch Technique By Dr. J. Francois Eid of Advanced Urological Care

... gloves) between the prosthesis and the skin will most effectively reduce infection rates. Post-operative infection remains one of the most dreaded potential complications of penile prosthesis surgery . An infected penile prosthesis must be completely removed and replaced, unlike other infections...

Safety of Swine Flu Vaccine to Face Tough Scrutiny

...thDay News) -- A high-level U.S. government decision in 1976 to vaccinate 43 million people against swine flu backfired -- badly. Not only did the dreaded outbreak never materialize (illness never spread beyond 240 soldiers stationed at Fort Dix, N.J.) but some 500 Americans who did get vaccinated came d...

No More Drama With TOMA LECHE

...own sister in the 90s on his list of conquests. Like clock-work, every 10 years, this slick Valentino wanna-be reveals his affairs during Elizabeth's dreaded "time of the month." Already troubled by rampant mood swings, stomach bloating and piercing headaches, Elizabeth can't help but feel despondent and e...

AARP Launches Money-Saving Prescription Drug Resource

... Online tool helps people avoid dreaded "doughnut hole" WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By the ... AARP is launching a new online resource to help older Americans avoid this dreaded coverage gap. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070209/NYF...

Lilly Chairman & CEO Lechleiter Says Innovation Is Vital-But-Missing Plank in Health Reform Debate

...itions, such as polio Effective treatments for a growing number of cancers, and Medications that have lessened the toll of a number of dreaded diseases, such that they are now considered chronic, manageable conditions. He then observed, "The economic payback from these ga...

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Say 'Goodbye' to Back Fat Rolls

...Newswire/ -- Even as many of us yearn to wear the sheer, body-hugging fashions available today, we are stopped by our rear reflection and the sight of dreaded back fat rolls and lumps. A study published in the October issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery(R), the official medical journal of the America...

Apollo develops needle-free topical vaccine

...d Australia are considering getting their flu shots, so progress being made by Apollo in developing needle-less vaccines may soon spell the end of the dreaded jab," said Mr Priest. Mr Priest said the current market for vaccines is worth over US$9 billion annually and - with more than half a billion immunis...

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Polio

...? ... VaccinePlace.com offers detailed information regarding Polio , including symptoms, vaccinations, and shots. ... Polio was one of the most dreaded childhood ... Polio is a contagious, historically devastating disease that was virtually ... At the height of the polio epidemic in 1952, ...

Hiccup

...ust wait for the next hiccup . ... wikiHow article about How to Cure Hiccups . ... So how can you cure a hiccup ? ... Try not to anticipate the dreaded next hiccup - you might just bring it on. ... Definition: A hiccup or hiccough (normally pronounced HICK-up,) is a spasmodic contraction of ...

Endophthalmitis

... Endophthalmitis is an inflammation of the internal coats of the eye. It is a dreaded complication of all intraocular surgeries, particularly cataract surgery, with possible loss of vision and the eye itself. Infectious etiology ...

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End in sight for the dreaded dentist drill

A new technology that spots tooth decay almost as soon as it's begun promises to reduce the need for drilling and filling, writes Patrick Walter in SCI's Chemistry & Industry (C&I) magazine. Drilling is one of the top dental phobias and puts thousands of people off visiting their dentist eve...

Team finds breast cancer gene linked to disease spread

...irector of Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. From the beginning, the scientists were looking for a way to understand the dreaded process of metastasis, the term describing what happens when cancer spreads to distant vital organs, such as the lungs, liver, brain and even the bone...

Researchers find chink in the armor of viral 'tummy bug'

...r Glycomics in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Melbourne have moved a step closer to identifying a broad spectrum treatment for the dreaded 'viral tummy bug' or rotavirus. These highly-infectious viruses are the leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children, responsible for thous...

Iron-moving malfunction may underlie neurodegenerative diseases, aging

...ldup is formation of a brownish waste material, lipofuscin, known as the "aging pigment." In skin cells, lipofuscin is the culprit responsible for the dreaded liver spots that appear with increasing age, but in nerve, muscle and other cells, its accumulation has more serious consequences. "How lipofuscin ...

Cortisol and fatty liver: Researchers find cause of severe metabolic disorders

...reserve. Under certain conditions the delicate balance of the lipid metabolism gets out of control and fat is accumulated in the liver, leading to the dreaded fatty liver. This increases the risk of many metabolic diseases, such as the metabolic syndrome known as "deadly quartet". This combination of fatty l...

Researchers analyze how new anti-MRSA abtibiotics function

... which were substantially less effective and often were toxic to the human host. By the 1980s and 1990s, MRSA had become a serious clinical problem, dreaded by clinicians in health care facilities, prisons and nursing homes. Of late, a new variant of community onset of antibiotic-resistant staph infections...

Scientists determine drug target for the most potent botulinum neurotoxin

...xin responsible for the deadly food poisoning disease botulism and for the beneficial effects of smoothing out facial wrinkles can also be used as a dreaded biological weapon. When ingested or inhaled, less than a billionth of an ounce can cause muscle paralysis and eventual death. Although experimental va...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 26, 2008

...tation, SRRC is continuing a 66-year heritage of discovery. SRRCs landmarks range from development of wrinkle-resistant cotton fabrics to battling the dreaded Formosan subterranean termite in the Second Battle of New Orleans. The event begins mid-afternoon on April 7 during the ACS 235th national meeting, fo...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 19, 2008

...tation, SRRC is continuing a 66-year heritage of discovery. SRRCs landmarks range from development of wrinkle-resistant cotton fabrics to battling the dreaded Formosan subterranean termite in the Second Battle of New Orleans. The event begins mid-afternoon on April 7 during the ACS 235th national meeting, fo...

Solving an avian scourge could also provide benefits to human health

...omes from work done by several research groups that have demonstrated that the poultry disease is also similar to other harmful E. coli, including the dreaded E. coli (O157:H7), which is responsible for human illness and death, typically from eating contaminated meat. Antibiotics have long been the first...

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Beware the Dreaded Off-Site Technology Meeting

CHICAGO Caesar's oracle told him to beware the Ides of March. While many of us worry more about the Ides of April, here in the Midwest technology scene, a far more common fear is the creepy-crawly feeling we get when we get that breathless invitation to the dreaded off-site technology meeting. ...

Palonosetron Warrants Adequate Caloric Intake in Oncology Patients Receiving High Emetogenic Chemotherapy

...nt Director at Helsinn. About Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting is among the most dreaded side effects following therapy in patients with cancer. Despite prophylaxis, on the day of chemotherapy, up to 30-45 percent of patients experience na...

FDA Approves ALOXI(R) (Palonosetron HCl) Capsules for Prevention of Acute Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting

...t of chemotherapy. About Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) Research has shown that patients with cancer consider CINV among the most dreaded side effects following therapy. Despite prophylactic antiemetics, on the day of chemotherapy, about 30-45 percent of patients experience nausea or vom...

NovaRx Initiates Pivotal Phase III Clinical Trial in Lung Cancer Patients

...g cancer deaths are staggering. I am confident that this Phase III trial will establish Lucanix(R) as a viable treatment option for patients with this dreaded disease," said Dr. Habib Fakhrai, president and co-founder of NovaRx. In Phase II testing, 50 percent of patients entering the trial with stable dis...

Principle of Recursive Genome Function Supersedes Dogmas; By Andras Pellionisz, Online Ahead of Print; (Scientific Visionary Vindicated)

... with rapidly melting price tag. Application of brute force to turn out more data instead of revising axioms created its own problems, however. A dreaded DNA data deluge looms large. Without a combination of algorithmic reduction as well as building the proper computing architecture, the brute force app...

PATH, World Health Organization, and Partners Introduce Meningitis Vaccine in Burkina Faso

...Our cooperation with PATH and WHO, on the Meningitis Vaccine Project is another step in an established project that holds the promise to eliminate the dreaded meningitis epidemics in Africa." The venture will be carried out in three phases, culminating in June 2009. The first phase will focus on preparing a...

Entrepreneurial Spirit Infectious in Milwaukee

... smiling about what they were doing and what they planned to do. Back in college, a couple roommates of mine hatched a plan to rid Lake Erie of the dreaded zebra mussel, a tiny creature whose sheer powers of multiplication were quickly making it the scourge of the entire Great Lakes region. Having bot...

Its Your Midwest Technology Wake, Stupid

...hances for your next great job, so listen up, please. In earlier columns, weve talked about egregious interviewing mistakes, phone screens and the dreaded salary-history test. Today we take on a really common problem that job seekers face. Here's what happens: a job candidate will focus his or her re...

Unwrapping Political Perks for the Holidays

...eeds a few stocking stuffers: More influenza vaccine for the long winter yet to come, and enough time to complete his agenda for fighting AIDS and the dreaded CPS (American couch potato syndrome) before he leaves the Bush administration for a private career. Doyles Cabinet secretaries: For Marc Marotta,...

Curious customer service: When a help desk does it right

...ers. Last week I ran into the second characteristic while trying to pay the bills for my consulting firm. Midway through the run of checks, I got the dreaded paper jam. Knowing that in addition to all the silicon chips inside, most printers carry at least one chip on their shoulder, I tried to act casual an...