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Alcohol rehab and effective treatment for alcoholism

Alcoholism rehab and its successful medication Alcohol rehab and effective treatment for alcoholism Alcoholism: Alcoholism is a disease which has a tremendous effect on person’s health, family life and social networks. This disease can lead to many frustrations in the patient’s life as well as family life. Alcohol Rehab: Alcohol Rehab is a program which [...]

They Won’t Tell: Looking for Confidential Blood Testing

There are many reasons for a person to want to keep their blood tests confidential. As government and even potential employers and landlords become more invasive of privacy, even the results of a blood test can mean the difference between getting a job or not, or getting a place to live or not. Some people [...]

96% fewer AIDS virus

Fighting Aids with it`s own weapon – that’s the idea of Leor Weinberger biochemist at the University of San Diego. Weinberger has a virus that made the HIV/AIDS more difficult to reproduce. This treatment is especially good for people who have no access to conventional medicine. In sub-Saharan Africa, treatment with the virus reduces the [...]

Hope for people suffering from AIDS

home hiv test Center for Combating AIDS in the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem discovered a great hope for people suffering from AIDS with a desire to have healthy children in the future. Their laboratory specialized in fertility has developed a new method in order to “cleanse” the sperm of men who are infected. Married couples who are interested, already started the treatment [...]

New TB booster shows promise

ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2010) - A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa. The study has been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. “The world urgently needs new, better vaccines against [...]

Promising therapy for relapsing multiple sclerosis

ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2010) - An international team of researchers has found that adding a humanized monoclonal antibody called daclizumab to standard treatment reduces the number of new or enlarged brain lesions in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. This new study was published online Feb. 16, 2010, and in the March edition of the Lancet Neurology. [...]

Fetal surgery continues to advance

ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2010) ? Repairing birth defects in the womb. Inserting a tiny laser into the mother's uterus to seal off an abnormal blood flow and save fetal twins. Advancing the science that may allow doctors to deliver cells or DNA to treat sickle cell anemia and other genetic diseases before birth. Try STD Testing

These are examples of the still-emerging field of fetal surgery. "Fetal surgery is a unique field in maternal-fetal medicine," said pediatric surgeon N. Scott Adzick, M.D., medical director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Detecting birth defects prenatally has allowed physicians to provide better perinatal care," said Adzick, "but many of these babies were already too sick for us to treat them successfully after they were born. This dilemma led to the development of fetal surgery."

The ‘secret weapon’ of retroviruses that cause cancer

ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2010) ? Oncogenic retroviruses are a particular family of viruses that can cause some types of cancer. Thierry Heidmann and his colleagues in the CNRS-Institut Gustave Roussy-Universit? Paris Sud 11 “R?trovirus endog?nes et ?l?ments r?tro?des des eucaryotes sup?rieurs” Laboratory have studied these viruses. They have identified a “virulence factor” that inhibits the [...]

Of swine, birds and humans: Pandemic H1N1 flu

ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) ? Current research suggests that pandemic H1N1 influenza of swine origin has distinct means of transmission from the seasonal flu, yet does not result in the pathogenic severity of avian flu viruses. Pandemic H1N1 influenza of swine origin is a novel influenza strain that causes a generally mild respiratory illness, but [...]

First FDA-approved stem cell trial in pediatric cerebral palsy

ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) ? Medical College of Georgia researchers are conducting the first FDA-approved clinical trial to determine whether an infusion of stem cells from umbilical cord blood can improve the quality of life for children with cerebral palsy. The study will include 40 children age 2-12 whose parents have stored cord blood at [...]