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Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

...s of the Gujarat quake, from below the rubble, are fast giving up hope of finding any more survivors. They are now concentrating in clearing the rubble and saving the injured who have been lucky to be saved so far. A miracle baby was saved after nearly 90 hours under the rubble. The baby was 8 months old ...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...20 to 125 million U.S. dollars.The project will be fast tracked and hopefully completed by 2003. From the moment a patient registers at the hospital, every blood test and MRI will be recorded in a central patient record, and pharmacy visits will be tracked. All charting will be done at the patient's bedsi...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

... HIV started when rumours started flying thick and fast that HIV originated from the Wistar vaccine used in a 1950s anti-polio campaign in Africa. These vaccines were allegedly cultured in chimpanzee kidney cells. These chimp cells, some say, may have been contaminated with the virus that became HIV-1, th...

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...veloped a calss of compounds that produce only the fast signals. Rats, given the new compound show up to 70% increase in bone strength. According to Kousteni it could even strengthen the bones in healthy people....

Old are not weak

... you age, your body cannot make new muscle protein fast enough and thereby lose muscle strength. Meanwhile a new study from the University of California shows that muscle protein is made as quickly as it is broken down in men over 70. In fact there is no difference in muscle protein turnover between older...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

...nopause -- preventing a woman from making new bone fast enough to keep up with the level of bone loss. The most significant dangers linked to DMPA, say other experts, occur when taken by young women whose skeletons are not yet fully formed. Those problems include a high risk of the bone-thinning disord...

Wound healing made faster

... found a way to make wounds heal at least twice as fast as they would normally.In preliminary findings, a team at the Australian University of Technology reports they have been able to raise the effect of a number of key hormones involved in the body's own tissue-repair system by assembling them into a wo...

Importance of Fatty food In Hypercholestrolemia

According to Australian scientists fast food meals may be quick and easy, but no matter how we justify them, we know they are loaded with fat. Now there is new reason to restrict the junk you eat. Your arteries stiffen within hours.// Researcher Paul Nestel, of melbourne's Baker Medical R...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...said hospitals should strive to start treatment as fast as possible....

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...critics say the FDA already is approving drugs too fast and doesn’t adequately monitor problems that can arise when new ones hit the market. Drug companies have paid millions in user fees that help fund FDA’s review of their products since 1993, under a law called the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, o...

New technique for heart enlargement

...es a non-invasive ultrasound procedure to show how fast the heart muscle is moving during contraction and relaxation. Researchers found patients with the most common HCM gene mutation had lower velocities during relaxation and higher contraction levels, particularly in the left ventricle, the heart's main...

Nasal sprays used for other ailments!

...ering a drug, because it gets into the bloodstream fast through mucous membranes in the nasal area. The drug will, in fact, act quicker than the corresponding pill. Nasal sprays are already being used in the treatment of osteoporosis, migraine and diabetes. Many more applications are being developed. Na...

Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

...all in blood glucose levels following an overnight fast or the consumption of only a sweet food or coffee ...t breakfast, some manage to grab a sweet roll or a fast food sandwich and coffee. However, these do not make up an adequate breakfast as they only help supp...

Can one get addicted to fast food?

... January issue has reported that a regular diet of fast foods like hamburgers, fries and foods high in fat...t likely due to the hormonal changes caused by the fast foods, in the body, that could impair the ability to control eating. As people start gaining weight ...

Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

...t and tipping the scales? "You have not broken the fast soon enough to only need a moderate amount of calories," says Gail Frank, a professor of nutrition at California State University at Long Beach and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. "You are starving. How does the normal person res...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...nxiety drugs, partly because they start working as fast as one hour, slowing brain activity. They also are used for treating panic and phobia disorders and insomnia, calming patients before surgery and relaxing muscles.Sternbach officially retired in 1973, but worked most days until recently. He mentored ...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...d fuel. Blood sugar plunges. So much is stored so fast that within two or three hours, levels may be lower than they were before the meal. Suddenly, the body needs more fuel. But because glucagon is still in short supply, the body does not tap into its fat supply for energy. The inevitable result? Hunger...

Rat joins list of cloned animals

..., cattle or even mice. They evolved to reproduce fast and their eggs begin to activate almost as soon as they leave the ovary. This posed a problem for a technology that requires painstakingly removing an egg cell, taking out its nucleus, and replacing it with the nucleus from a skin or other kind of ce...

The Key To Prevention Of Heart Disease In Adults

Overweight and obese children are on the fast track to heart disease, say researchers based on recent findings. However with dietary changes // and more exercise, the risk can be significantly reduced. Researchers used two noninvasive tests to measure atherosclerosis -- the deadly build-up of p...

Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...blood vessels. Flolan, disappears from the body so fast that it must be pumped in 24 hours a day. The catheter used poses a risk of infection, and users must carry a small pump and mix a fresh batch of the drug every day. Another of the new drugs, Remodulin, is a form of prostacyclin infused under the s...

Problems Of a Growing Company

...his could explain the negative health impacts of a fast expansion on the employees....

The Risks Of Fast Food Consumption

A new study shows a clear link between fast food consumption and weight gain and insulin resistance, suggesting that // fast food increases the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers investigated the association be...

Soluble Ingredient Can Make Fatty Fast Foods Healthier

...out a soluble ingredient which when added to fatty fast foods, //slows down the absorption of the fat at a...g deposited in the adipose tissues. In eating oily fast foods, the body tends to deposit fat on non-adipose tissues like liver, heart, pancreas, where they ...

Ebola-like virus is on the way to cause epidemic in Angola

... their attacks, these viral infections spread very fast and some of them are known to cause death in 90% of the people affected by them. The virus may spread by sharing needles, or by personal contacts. The symptoms will appear a few days after contracting the disease. With flu like symptoms the virus ...

Hair cells can generate more stem cells than scalp

...is probably due to the reason that hair grows very fast and can replenish itself also equally fast. Stem cells are nascent cells capable of becoming any cell on maturation. One major hurdle in the stem cell research was the production of the stem cells. Taking these cells from the human embryo had genera...

Breast cancer survivors can now exercise for better health

...showed that women who did physical activities like fast paced walking etc for 3 to 8 MET hours per week had a 20% lower risk of death from breast cancer when compared with women who did less than 3 MET hours of physical activity in a week. The rate of survival from breast cancer related death increases wi...

Test for prenatal chromosomal abnormalities using cervical swab

...gh risk pregnancies. The method of testing is also fast and quick, with results made available within 24 hrs of the test. The research report is published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology....

New protein found that could slow pancreatic cancer

...creatic cancer//. Pancreatic cancer develops very fast and without many symptoms from which it can be identified. The cancer often resists interventions like chemotherapy and may be diagnosed at a time when even surgery may not be able to help the patients. Researchers from Dartmouth Medical School, US,...

London Emergency Services Receive Wide Appreciation

...etropolis in coping with a terrorist attack is how fast and co-ordinated// are the cities emergency medical services. Yesterday London witnessed one of the worst terrorist attacks when it was still celebrating the successful 2012 Olympics hosting bid. In the morning rush hours at 8.51 am a bomb explosio...

Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...nd till centuries ago when a reluctant church held fast to positions that science could empirically refute. "But today," said Anderson, "the shoe is on the other foot. Medical experts now find it difficult to negate the effects of faith on the healing process. Many cases dismissed as hopeless by medical...

Fasting, Feasting Your Way To Health

.... The way to lose excess weight and stay fit is to fast one day and feast// the next - the way our hunter-...tory. He found that when the animals were made to fast for a day and allowed to eat as much as they wanted the next, this warded off diabetes just as well ...

Wound healing affected by Psychological stress

In today’s fast pace world it is very difficult to remain calm. Be it children, adults or aged// people all are affected by stress. Stress has been found to influence behavioural patterns, but in a recent study psychological stress has been found to delay healing of...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...ntioxidant defenses as a preventive step, and as a fast treatment after noise exposure. Antioxidants should work best if given prior to noise exposure, but animal work suggests it might reduce permanent hearing loss substantially if given within four to eight hours afterward, say researchers. Researcher...

Tomato Extract Found To Reduce The Risk Of Thrombosis

...ody start behaving abnormally and divide at a very fast rate. For further information read: http://www.medindia.com/patients /patientinfo/superfoods_about.htm ...

Need for early screening and effective cancer treatment in India

..., a growing mole // or a wound that does not heal fast are symptoms that need to be screened for cancer. Unlike in the US, where the cure rate is 55 percent as two-thirds of the people seek treatment in the first and second stages, in India it is the reverse as most seek treatment only in the second or ...

A Move To Help Commercial Sex Workers Quit Their Business

...ers recommended that they be trained in setting up fast food outlets, video filming and photography, computer skills and housekeeping. It was also recommended that sex workers should be allowed to mould programmes according to their requirements. The TAI advocates who have been working on HIV/AIDS contro...

Do Not Neglect Your Abdominal Pain/ Swelling - Help Your Doctor In Early Cancer Detection

...s be ordered to diagnose the aggressiveness of the fast growing tumor. // Elderly women with ovarian cancer are twice as likely to visit a doctor and report symptoms such as abdominal swelling or pelvic pain. If these symptoms are taken into careful consideration, ovarian cancer could be detected much e...

Hollywood Actress Hunter criticises Hatcher for weight loss.

.... The way to lose excess weight and stay fit is to fast one day and feast the next - the way our hunter-ga... here. He found that when the animals were made to fast for a day and allowed to eat as much as they wanted the next, this warded off diabetes just as well ...

Another Breather For People At Atherosclerotic Risk

The disease of the elite is fast getting everywhere. Atherosclerosis is a big problem and health hazard these days. Finding a solution in this direction is yet another study. The study states that supplementation of B vitamins can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis // (plaque build...

Health and Human Services stockpiles 20 million bird flu Vaccines

...icient and the government should take a strict and fast surveillance to report any first case of bird flu infection. 'We need to be putting more money in a disease surveillance system so when the first case comes here we’re ready to use the vaccine,' he said. Source: United Press International....

World Heart Day To Focus On Ideal Body Weight And Shape To Reduce Risk Of Heart Disease

...ape // and heart disease. With the World Heart Day fast approaching may be it is time, people to reshape themselves. The theme of World Heart Day (September 25th) is “Healthy Weight, Healthy Shape” that will focus on preventive measures and spreading awareness about cardiovascular disease. It will also ...

Broccoli Found to Block Cancer Progression In Both Animal and Human Studies

...ot have the gene, suggesting that its use may stop fast growing lung cancer cells from the outset. However researchers say that it is difficult to draw any direct comparisons between human consumption of these vegetables and the effects seen in the mice studies and they say that more research needs to be...

Taking Music Lesson To Reduce Stress

...thing and circulation, irrespective of style, with fast classical and techno music having the same impact. But the faster the music, the greater was the degree of physiological arousal. Similarly, slower or more meditative music had the opposite effect, with raga music creating the largest fall in heart r...

Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...newly mined genomic data into the public domain as fast a technology allows, but Jimenez is quick to point out that the measure of the project’s success is not the science, but rather the medicines that come out of it. The close economic and political ties between the two nations lend a degree of legitima...

Yoga, ayurveda being documented to stop patent misuse

...traditional knowledge and intellectual property is fast completing the documentation of yoga postures and techniques as well as formulae in ayurveda, siddha and unani - all Indian traditional medicinal systems. The aim is to stop foreign practitioners and individuals, including Indian expatriates, from c...

Children At Risk For Chronic Disease Due To Consumption Of Fried Food

...d. The number of adolescent queuing up in front of fast food joints is proof enough. This has raised sever...lt to resist the temptation to eat outside in this fast growing fast food environment. Eating a nutritious and healthy diet requires the cooperation of all ...

A new anti diabetic drug on the anvil

...e of the most common chronic diseases globally, is fast gaining // epidemic proportions throughout the world, with pathological manifestations including obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular diseases. Since diabetes causes significant morbidity and mortality due to long-term micro and m...

Multiple Sclerosis drug, Tysabri banned due to neurological disorders

...reatment. The FDA in November 2004 granted Tysabri fast track approval, after initial phase 3 results attacks by as much as 66%. Tysabri was expected to be a major blockbuster for its manufacturer Biogen Idec, but the company suspended sales of Tysabri in February, after learning of the two PML cases, one...

Drug Herceptin To Be Recommended To All Breast Cancer Patients

...Clinical Excellence (NICE), the drugs watchdog, to fast track its assessment of the wider use of Herceptin. Herceptin targets a protein called HER2, which appears to be over-abundant in some women's breast cancers. Controversy also is occurring over the usage of Herceptin with some believing that Hercepti...

Incorrect lifestyle may be the cause of male infertility

...d hot tubs, nappies, smoking, overeating, seafood, fast food and driving. Blaming pollution as one of the causes of male infertility, scientists believe that nitrogen oxide and lead in exhaust fumes may be the culprits. Scrotal hyperthermia has been identified as another risk factor for ma...

The Falling Sperm Count In Men

...smoking, pesticides, air-pollution, caffeine, some fast foods, pollution of water to name a few. These con...are underway on this aspect. Fast Foods : The fast foods usually contain Soy and this mimics estrogen or the female hormone and causes imbalances in th...

“Cheeseburger Bill” Goes In Favor Of Fast Food Restaurans

...nate. //The case in which the opponents wanted the fast food companies liable for obesity by taking fast food. The lawmakers voted 306-120 in favor of the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act wh...

MRI can predict risk of cardiac arrhythmia by identification of scar tissue

... imaging can now be used to predict the risk for a fast and dangerous heart rhythm known as ventricular arrhythmia. Patients whose muscle wall thickness contained over 25 percent of scar tissue are nine // times more likely to likely to test positive according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Institute. ...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...and treat oral diseases, he said. Oral cancer is fast emerging as one of the leading cancers n the world thanks to the killer called Tobacco. Smoking and other factors like chronic trauma do play a large part, but tobacco remains the number 1 culprit. Molecular therapies are emerging technologies that h...

A Novel System For Clinical Banking Of Umbilical Cord Blood

...lity. Furthermore, the author set up a fast procedure to process UCB units for storage. A system for NC separation and volume reduction of UCB samples in a dedicated, germ-free, closed circuit was developed, where plasma and red blood cells (RBC) depletion was obtained by sedimentation in the ...

Extensive Campaigning To Warn Against Children’s Growing Affinity To Fast Food In Britai

...der experienced generations are worried about this fast food generation growing up. The same fear has prompted a British heart charity to launch a poster campaign to shock children away from eating cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets and hot dogs. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has hired billboards arou...

Land of Kebabs, also reaps enormous profit in fast food

Following Eid and Ramzan, it is time for fast food owners to rejoice with their newly earned pro...), or Chick 'n' Chicks, a KFC for kids. "I go to fast food restaurants two or three times a week," says Salman Khan, 21. "I like the crunchy chicken at Mc...

Unscrupulous Chinese Medicine traders putting lives at risk

Traditional Chinese medicine is fast gaining popularity across the world. However, thousands of people are risking their health using rogue Chinese herbal medicine stores, experts said yesterday.// It is estimated that 6,000 stores across the Britain offer treatment for conditions ran...

A warning for children consuming hamburgers: Asthma

The drive against fast foods catches on with yet another research study w...earchers were able to correlate the consumption of fast food with the increased risk of asthma and allergy. The study involved 1,321 children between the a...

Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track

... research to resolve ethical issues concerning the fast emerging field which has the potential to cure a number of incurable diseases. Mr Hota praised the work done by Dr Shroff who claimed to have cured many incurable and terminal diseases like paralysis, spinal injuries, genetic and auto-immune disord...