Washington, Nov 7: Staying active, acting early and learning the warning signs of lymphedema – an adverse effect of breast cancer treatment caused by damage to the lymph system – can help women fighting the deadly disease avoid developing chronic lymphedema.
That’s what the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has suggested that women can learn more about how to protect themselves from this common and distressing adverse effect of treatment.
Washington, Nov 7: For the first time ever, MIT engineers have attached tiny "backpacks" in cells, allowing them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumours or become building blocks for tissue engineering.
According to Michael Rubner, director of MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering and senior author of a paper on the work, this is the first time anyone has attached such a synthetic patch to a cell.
The polymer patch system consists of three layers, each with a different function, stacked onto a surface. The bottom layer tethers the polymer to the surface, the middle layer contains the payload, and the top layer serves as a "hook" that catches and binds cells.
To steal the show from RJD over Bihari-Maratha conflict, the JD(U) has announced that all its five Lok Sabha MPs would resign protesting the attack of Biharis in Mumbai.
JD(U) parliamentary party leader announced this on Thursday. He said that "there was no option left before his party but asking its LS members to resign as the Maharashtra government was "patronising" those involved in such attacks and the central government was "silent" on the issue."
"The decision was taken as no action was taken against the culprits even after an all-party delegation of Bihar MPs met PM Manmohan Singh a few days back," Singh added.
Authorities have imposed curfew in Srinagar to avoid proposed march by separatist groups to the Jamia Mosque in the old city.
"Curfew is in force throughout the city and no violations of the law would be allowed," a senior police officer said.
Educational institutions, business establishments and banks remained closed in the city after the prohibitory orders were clamped.
The separatist group led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq had earlier called for a march to grand mosque in the old city, but the authorities did not allow them to do so.
They were demanding for boycott of assembly polls scheduled to be held on December.
Beijing - Helicopters have dropped emergency supplies to isolated villages cut off for up to 10 days by landslides that killed at least 43 people and left 46 missing in mountainous areas of south-western China's Yunnan province, the government said Friday.
Three military helicopters began the drops on Thursday in the worst-hit prefecture of Chuxiong, delivering emergency food, water, clothes, tents and bedding, the provincial civil affairs bureau said.
The death toll across the province had risen to 43, with 46 listed as missing and 29 injured, the bureau reported on its website.
Washington, Nov 7: Staying active, acting early and learning the warning signs of lymphedema – an adverse effect of breast cancer treatment caused by damage to the lymph system – can help women fighting the deadly disease avoid developing chronic lymphedema.
