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Turkish scientists develop drugs against Hepatitis C, AIDS
Source : Anadolu Agency
Pennsylvania : 30 Jun 2011
Turkish scientists working in the United States have developed drugs against Hepatitis C and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Dr. Ercem Atillasoy and Dr. Dalya Guris, Turkish doctors working at Merck Search Laboratory in Pennsylvania, said the medicine they developed against Hepatitis C achieved full treatment of resistant patients.
They said medicine against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) could prolong lifetime of patients up to 20-25 years by turning AIDS into a chronical disease.
Working long hours? Watch out for your heart
Source | Reuters
Tuesday | 05 Apr 2011
People who regularly work long hours may be significantly increasing their risk of developing heart disease, the world's biggest killer, British scientists said on Monday.Researchers said a long-term study showed that working more than 11 hours a day increased the risk of heart disease by 67 percent, compared with working a standard 7 to 8 hours a day.
Baby illness can be scanned in mother's blood: study
Source | Reuters
Thursday | 09 Dec 2010
Parents may soon be able to find out if their unborn child is prone to any inherited diseases, researchers said on Thursday, after developing a non-invasive technique to draw the entire gene map of the human foetus.
By analysing a sample of the mother's blood, which contains DNA from the foetus, scientists in Hong Kong and the United States were able to identify all the DNA strands that belong to the child and piece them together.
Scientists trick cells into switching identities
Source | Associated Press
NEW YORK | 30 Nov 2010
Suppose you could repair tissue damaged by a heart attack by magically turning other cells into heart muscle, so the organ could pump effectively again.
Scientists aren’t quite ready to do that. But they are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialized cell directly into another kind, a feat of biological alchemy that doctors may one day perform inside a patient’s body.
Study: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, cocaine
Source : Maria Cheng | AP
LONDON | 02 Nov 010
Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study.
British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole.
Human heart has a mind of its own, scientists say
Source : Siraj Wahab | Arab News
AL-HASA | 29 Sep 2010
If you don’t think that the human heart has the capacity to think, think again. At least that is what leading cardiologists who are gathered in Al-Hasa for an international conference on cardiac sciences are saying.
“There is a brain within our hearts,” said Dr. Abdullah A. Abdulgader, director of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Al-Hasa. “This might come as a pleasant surprise to many, but here is a fact proven by the world’s widely recognized heart specialists.”
Expert calls for new fatwa on brain dead
Source : Siraj Wahab | Arab News
AL-HASA | 29 Sep 2010
A leading Saudi medical expert, known in the global scientific community for his pioneering research in cardiology, has called on the Kingdom’s Islamic scholars to revise their ruling on terminating the life of a person who is “clinically dead” or “brain dead.”
“As long as a patient's heart is beating there is no reason for us to take him or her off the ventilator,” said Dr. Abdullah A. Abdulgader, director of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Al-Hasa.
