Felicia Simms of Vernon, B.C., had the girls by caesarean section Wednesday. Doctors in Vancouver have completed the caesarean section delivery of conjoined twin girls to a young mother. The 65-minute delivery was carried out by a team of 16 doctors and nurses at B.C. Children’s Hospital, with the babies’ time of birth set at 12:05 p.m. PT.
Australian researchers have found that exposure to measured doses of ultraviolet light, such as sunlight, could reduce asthma. The research team at Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, through funding provided by the Asthma Foundation of WA, studied the effect of ultraviolet light on the development of asthma-like symptoms in mice, such as inflamed airways and lungs.
Preventing cavities could one day involve the dental equivalent of a military surgical strike. A team of researchers supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research report they have created a new smart anti-microbial treatment that can be chemically programmed in the laboratory to seek out and kill a specific cavity-causing species of bacteria, leaving the good bacteria untouched.
A new NIH-funded study shows that a specific gene variant in humans affects both sensitivity to short-term (acute) pain in healthy volunteers and the risk of developing chronic pain after one kind of back surgery. Blocking increased activity of this gene after nerve injury or inflammation in animals prevented development of chronic pain.
A new test could now be able to improve doctors’ ability to recommend the right type of cancer treatment for their patients. According to the researchers, the test, which has been developed by Anil Potti at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy in Durham, North Carolina, is 80% accurate in predicting the right chemotherapy to cure each person’s cancer.
Vegetables – particularly green, leafy ones – will preserve the brain power if you eat three servings a day, new research shows. People who consumed two or more vegetables a day had a 35 to 40 percent decrease in the decline in thinking ability over six years. That’s the equivalent of being five years younger in age. The study results are published in the Oct. 24 issue of the journal Neurology.
In a significant breakthrough in gene therapy, scientists of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) here claimed to have isolated a protein molecule from a parasite that will provide better treatment in some inherited disorders.
Scientists at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy have developed a panel of genomic tests that analyzes the unique molecular traits of a cancerous tumor and determines, which chemotherapy will most aggressively attack that patient’s cancer.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, over 150 community leaders and human service providers will come together to strengthen how vulnerable residents are readied for and helped during a disaster. Katrina?s Lesson: Reach Our Vulnerable Residents NOW is one of the first conferences of its kind in King County to unite private and public agencies in this effort.
A team of scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has identified a human protein that helps varicella-zoster virus, the cause of both chickenpox and shingles, spread from cell to cell within the body.