An off-patent anti-inflammatory drug that costs around two cents for a daily dose in developing countries has been found by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College to kill both replicating and non-replicating drug resistant tuberculosis in the laboratory -- a feat few currently approved TB...
Tuberculosis that is resistant to first-line and second-line drugs is becoming more prevalent, an international team of experts reported in The Lancet today. They described levels of extensively drug-resistant TB as "alarming". 43.7% of TB (tuberculosis) cases in eight countries were found to be...
Scientists at Tulane University School of Medicine, led by Dr. James Antoon and Dr. Barbara Beckman, have characterized two drugs targeting sphingosine kinase (SK), an enzyme involved in cancer growth and metastasis. New treatments specifically attacking cancer cells, but not normal ones, are...
Biomarkers which could help to predict resistance to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients have been identified by researchers from the University of Hull, UK. The researchers found a family of proteins to be twice as prevalent in clinical samples obtained from breast cancer patients who were...
Genetic mutations in cancer cells can lead to resistance to treatment, thereby potentially resulting in relapse. However, a new article, published in the magazine section of the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, suggests that the converse may also happen. Steven Frank from the University...
summary measures are considered to be resistant statistics
A. the arithmetic mean and standard deviation
B. the interquartile range and range
C. the mode and variance
D. the median and interquarile range
Would it survive rain? How about fog? Dense fog? Could I take it with me in the shower and leave it in my pocket or on a shelf next to me without worrying about the moisture in the air? What's the limit to how water resistant the phone can get?
I'd test it out but I don't want to ruin my new...
An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health. The details of the discovery made by Dr. Magnus Unemo...
Bedbugs (Insects of the Cimicidae family, commonly Cimex lectularius) are annoying, might carry diseases (though this is unclear, so probably nothing importat1, and are apparently becoming more common in the US. Interestingly, there has been very little study done of their genetics. A new...
Cases of tuberculosis in the UK have reached 9,040 in 2009 - the highest number in the UK for nearly 30 years while the number of new drug resistant TB has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, from 206 cases in 2000 to 389 cases in 2009. These data are revealed in the Health Protection Agency's...
This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, visited the Nigerian National TB and Leprosy Training Center (NTBLTC) to tour a multimillion dollar laboratory complex established by the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) of the University of Maryland School of...
Pre-treatment with curcumin, a component of the spice turmeric, makes ovarian cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Ovarian Research found that delivering the curcumin via very small (less than 100nm)...
The first known case of a patient with an extremely drug resistant form of tuberculosis in the US came to light recently when the Associated Press (AP) media agency reported the plight of a 21 year old Peruvian man Oswaldo Juarez, who arrived in the US two years ago to study English and then...
Im young woman in my early 20s. I have frequent UTIs since I was about 17. Last year I had a UTI and was prescribed Bactrim for 1 week from my Dr. I still had symptoms when the week was over and called my Dr back. They said my urine culture was resistant to Bactrim and gave me something...