Toronto, March 1 (IANS) Integrating real-time web-based infectious disease surveillance with knowledge of worldwide air traffic patterns could help keep lethal infections at bay at mass gatherings.
For instance, during the 1991 International Special Olympic Games in the US, an outbreak of measles was triggered by an athlete from Argentina, where a concurrent measles epidemic was [...]
Karachi, Mar.1 (ANI): The Director-General of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Javed Miandad, has described the selection of former fast bowler Waqar Younis as the national team coach as wrong, and believes that only a person who command respect in both departments of the game - batting and bowling — should be appointed coach.
When asked [...]
London, Mar 1 (ANI): Scientists at Ohio State University say that a lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy may be susceptible to effective treatment through gene therapy.
Research in mice showed that the therapy could reverse a protein deficiency characteristic of the condition and thus correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival.The mice were [...]
Washington, March 1 (IANS) Researchers seeking a more reliable alternative than aspirin for heart attacks may have found it in a red wine molecule called resveratrol.
University of Connecticut (U-C) researchers induced heart attacks in animals and found that resveratrol significantly reduces damage to heart muscle. Scarring and fibrosis were limited and the animals survived an [...]
Washington, Mar 1 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have identified an age-related mechanism - not a decrease of the hormone estrogen - as the primary culprit behind osteoporosis.
The research team, led by Stavros Manolagas, in the UAMS Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases, said that aging and the [...]
London, Mar 1 (ANI): British scientists have identified new genetic links to celiac disease.
According to the researchers, these latest findings could speed the way towards improved diagnostics and treatments for the autoimmune complaint disease, triggered by an intolerance to gluten (a protein found in foods containing wheat, barley and rye) that prevents normal absorption of [...]
Concerns are also growing for a Scots couple who have not been in touch with their family since Saturday’s massive earthquake.
