The study provides a basis to develop defensin like drugs for prevention of HIV.

Researchers have discovered how the membrane protein that allows us to sense cold works and how this protein becomes desensitized so that one no longer feels the cold.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A daily baby aspirin is often recommended by doctors to help prevent heart attacks or stroke, but for people over 70 years old the benefits may be offset by bleeding risks, investigators report. "The balance

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with diabetes are almost three times more likely to stick to an exercise plan if their doctors help them create it, new study findings suggest.

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have drawn up a check-list of early warning signs of child obesity, among them too much television and not enough sleep.

DELHI (Reuters Health) - The practice of yoga during pregnancy seems to improve birth weight and reduce prematurity and overall complications, Indian researchers report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's well known that there are racial differences in how well high blood pressure is controlled, but this may be not so much an ethnic issue as one of access to good medical care, a

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For women with psoriasis, high levels of estrogen during pregnancy seem to improve their skin condition, a study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most people with rheumatoid arthritis want as much information on their disease as they can get, though many leave treatment decisions to their doctors, a UK survey suggests.

PRINCETON, New Jersey (Reuters Health) - The United States will never come to grips with its health care problems until it makes the "opportunity to be healthy" as universal as public education, former Oregon Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber told a

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly patients with chronic pain appear to get ongoing pain relief from opioid medication over time. Younger patients, in contrast, are more likely to become tolerant to opiates, resulting in loss of efficacy and the

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many men with a little understood prostate condition called non-bacterial prostatitis have persistent concerns about their health, even after their symptoms improve, a new study shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The antibiotic rifaximin seems to be effective for preventing travelers' diarrhea, not just for treating the problem, according to a new report.

The amended Tobacco Control Bill (2004) will soon be finalised and tabled in Parliament for debate.

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In a recent study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists report that a molecule previously thought to play a purely structural and inert role in cells is actually involved in multidrug resistance in cancer. Using antagonists for this

Using state of the art imaging technology a team from Yale School of Medicine has glimpsed one of the cell's most important 'nano-machines' in action.

Scientists from the universities of Bonn and Düsseldorf , Germany, have shown that specific changes in the genetic 'construction manual' of the androgen receptor may result in premature balding. The affected gene lies on the x chromosome; men inherit the

AN OPENING in one of the walls of the existing sewerage ponds behind the Oshakati Military Base in Oshakati East has led to the sewerage waste in the pond flowing into the oshanas (natural water catchments) close to the informal

WHILE some residents at the two informal settlements of Okasamia and Chief behind the Oshakati Military Base in Oshakati East are complaining about the new sewerage ponds being constructed at the town, others are fishing in these ponds.