South Korean scientists say that patients with lung cancer have high levels of a certain protein in their blood, and this could be used as a biomarker for the disease.Je-Yoel Cho from Kyungpook National University and colleagues, conducted a research which concluded that the levels of the beta chain form of haptoglob... |
22 January 2011
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In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a global recommendation that babies should be breast fed exclusively, during their first six months of life, but the debate over the matter just got bigger, as a new research appearing on bmj.com, says otherwise.
Child health experts led by Dr Mary Fewtrell, a cons... |
15 January 2011
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Websites belonging to UK's national security agency, the MI5 (Millitary Intelligence, Section 5) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been found vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. The weaknesses allow attackers to inject rogue IFrames, prompt JavaScript alerts or redirect visitors to other poten... |
22 July 2009
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Recent scientific studies show that the treatment for children infected with AIDS has to start as soon after birth as possible, in order to avoid the 48-week deadline that children infected with HIV face. Usually, doctors wait for symptoms such as the weakening of the immune system before they start therapy. But new ... |
20 November 2008
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With obesity becoming more and more of a problem worldwide, some 1 billion of the entire world population has recently been classified as obese, or at least overweight, by a World Health Organization report. Out of these people, most of them are in the developed world, with the majority in the United States. A study ... |
28 October 2008
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Doctors and geneticists took a huge step forward recently, with the creation of a new anti-tuberculosis (TB) vaccine that proved to be much more effective in clinical trials than the standard BCG medication currently being used. The new drug uses a weak form of a TB strain that appeared 75 years ago. The strain is st... |
20 October 2008
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