Archive for March 2018

Institute: Soldiers need a better diet After Brain Injury

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Institute: Soldiers need a better diet After Brain Injury - In a report published today, the Institute of Medicine recommends that men who suffer from brain injury traumatic (TBI) in the battlefield must receive adequate protein and calories immediately after the injury and for at least 2 weeks to...

Drug Antiparasitics Bonus A effect on mosquitoes

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Drug Antiparasitics Bonus A effect on mosquitoes - A drug already widely used in massive campaigns to help control two parasitic diseases, river blindness and elephantiasis, could also reduce malaria, a new study has found. The compound, called ivermectin, shortens mosquito spans the lives and makes...

The Incredible Shrinking Human Brain

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The Incredible Shrinking Human Brain - The human brain is great, and it is powerful, able to imagine innovative solutions to complex problems. Yet, our brains do not age well: As we grow older, they tend to shrink and become increasingly vulnerable to cognitive impairments such as memory loss and...

Live Chat: type 1 diabetes Targeting

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Live Chat: type 1 diabetes Targeting - See below for the chat box. Join us every Thursday at 15 pm EST for a live conversation with scientists and experts worldwide. Today Topic The curing or prevention of complex diseases is one of the most ambitious health goals Here. Since...

flawed cancer testing at Duke Sparks Lawsuit

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flawed cancer testing at Duke Sparks Lawsuit - A dozen plaintiffs filed a complaint against Duke University and administrators, researchers and doctors there, claiming they engaged in fraudulent behavior and neglect when they registered cancer patients in a clinical trial compromised by incorrect...

Even Mutation Causes Disease and dementia Lou Gehrig

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Even Mutation Causes Disease and dementia Lou Gehrig - Two groups of scientists working independently of each other have discovered a genetic mutation that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) known as the disease of Lou Gehrig. Both teams found that mutations of the same gene can also cause...

UK committed £ 20 million to complete Guinea worm

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UK committed £ 20 million to complete Guinea worm - gone for good. Former US President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, looking like a child in Ghana is being treated for the disease Guinea worm in 07. Today, Ghana is free of the worm. Carter Center ...

FDA Pulls

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FDA Pulls - Avastin for breast cancer The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced it was stripping the drug Avastin for approval for use to treat breast cancer. The move comes four months after an advisory committee of the FDA agreed that Avastin approved for breast cancer in 08, does...

Researcher retracts Cancer Biomarker Paper Cited by Lawsuit

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Researcher retracts Cancer Biomarker Paper Cited by Lawsuit - A paper on a new biomarker cancer who led a company to pursue two major universities for scientific fraud has been retracted by the authors because they could not verify the data. Published in Urology in April 07 by a researcher from...

Global Health Advocates are not impressed with budget plan

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Global Health Advocates are not impressed with budget plan - The budget proposal unveiled yesterday by President Barack Obama receives negative reviews from some advocates of public health. In particular, they say the Global Health Initiative, which aims HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and neglected diseases,...

Advantages and disadvantages of Discussion The increase biosafety in laboratories working with Engineered bird flu virus

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Advantages and disadvantages of Discussion The increase biosafety in laboratories working with Engineered bird flu virus - Four articles published today in the online, open access journal MBIO offer vast prospects biocontainment facilities that researchers should use to work with the bird flu virus...

A drug Shrink All Tumors

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A drug Shrink All Tumors - a single drug can shrink or cure tumors of the breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and of the human prostate that were transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells,...

secret briefing helped Sway Decision H5N1 Flu Papers

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secret briefing helped Sway Decision H5N1 Flu Papers - Reassured. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said the United States appeared to be moving in the right direction on regulating dual use biological research. US Senate A classified briefing from US intelligence...

A sweet way to grow blood vessels

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A sweet way to grow blood vessels - special delivery. A microscope image shows Engineered blood vessels (red) holding cells (green) supplied with the essential nutrients. S Jordan. Millar Imagine a world where if your heart or kidneys have failed, you would...

CDC recommends hepatitis C test for all baby boomers

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CDC recommends hepatitis C test for all baby boomers - At the top of the rock 'n' roll, drugs, sexual liberation, and unkempt hair, baby boomers are also eligible for hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a defining characteristic of their generation. A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and...
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