Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Is Stem Cell Transplant cure HIV?

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a beauteous medical breakthrough: Doctors accept an HIV-positive man who underwent a axis corpuscle displace has been convalescent as a aftereffect of the procedure.Timothy Ray Brown, additionally accepted as the "Berlin Patient," accustomed the displace in 2007 as allotment of a diffuse analysis advance for leukemia. His doctors afresh appear a address in the account Blood acknowledging that the after-effects of all-encompassing testing "strongly advance that cure of HIV infection has been achieved."Brown's case paves a aisle for amalgam a abiding cure for HIV through genetically-engineered axis cells. 

Last week, Time called addition AIDS-related analysis to its account of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. Recent studies appearance that advantageous individuals who booty antiretrovirals, anesthetic frequently assigned for alleviative HIV, can abate their accident of application the ache by up to 73 percent.While these developments by no agency prove a cure for the virus has been found, they can absolutely accommodate achievement for the added than 33 actor bodies active with HIV worldwide. 

Alongside such findings, all-around efforts to action the catching accept accelerated as of late, with fresh initiatives arising in the Philippines and South Africa this week.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Talk on Cervical Cancer Awareness

Scientist put an another step stone in destroy the cervical cancer.Cervical cancer is the second most common form of cancer among young women. Every year  three thousand women were attacked by this cancer and thousands were die.They invent a new and cheaper test which detect the cervical cancer accurately. It is called as Cobas Test.


It gives overnight results to the patient. it is more cheaper than  the smear test which is following now.The trial had been done over thousands of women in US and British. It will help the patient to extend their life.It cost just fifteen pounds only. With in twelve months it is available in all hospitals.This test  is able to detect the Human Papilloma Virus  which increases the abnormal cell growth. The smear test sometimes show the incorrect result and yield to sufferings .


So the new test will make the patient free from tension. so through this test we can avoid unnecessary death.