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New Drug for Bronchial Asthma

...onchial asthma where an attack can be brought by a number of noxious and non-noxious stimuli. This has also been proven to induce symptomatic relief.How does that apply to the Indian context? Well, first we can try by ridding ourselves of pollution and other noxious stimulants....

Is Diabetes the Leading Cause of Kidney Failure in India

... not have collective data, however diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the United States, accounting for more than 40 percent of the new cases of end-stage renal disease (ESRD)each year. People with ESRD require regular dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. Almost 25% of patients ...

AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...fections worldwide--currently the largest absolute number of HIV infections of any single country. And speakers at two press conferences here cautioned that a pervasive culture of denial about the Indian epidemic, among both government officials and healthcare professionals, threatens to allow the crisis to...

Poor health care in Russia maybe causing Decline in its Population

...ternity clinic is suffering health problems. The number of normal births declined from 45.3 percent in 1992 to just 30 percent last year, said Olga Frolova, head of the statistics department of Russia's Academy of Medical Science. She thinks that the decline is due to the spread of heavy drinking and drug...

Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking

...sk of colon cancer death also rose with increasing number of cigarettes smoked daily, younger age when smoking started, and total number of packs smoked over the years....

International community warns India on HIV situation

... According to U.N. agencies, India has the highest number of HIV infected individuals in the world after South Africa. Added to this is the shocking fact that some high-risk groups in the country have a prevalence rate of over 50%. Dr. Skolnik of the World Bank says that India should treat the situation as ...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...nfarction] after a major game. As compared to the number of death 5 days before and after the event, the number of deaths among men on the day of the event was documented as being higher by 50% more than the norm...

When Celebrities Die

...ction." In the week after Princess Di's death, the number of people in England and Wales who intentionally harmed themselves increased by almost 45%. And during the month after her funeral, suicides rose by nearly 20%. The authors believe Diana's death added to existing feelings of sadness and distress in t...

Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

... a significant dose-response relationship with the number of cigarettes and pipes smoked. However, cigar smoking did not significantly increase the risk of developing skin cancer. The authors opine that squamous cell carcinoma is caused directly by smoking, which acts as a carcinogen and stimulates change...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

...ransmitted diseases making a come back in terms of number of cases reported and with ever increasing abortions sparking a major international debate, abstinence has caught the fancy of teens the world over. But some are cynical about the whole exercise and they say this is an attempt at playing to the gal...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...hospitals across the country report an increase in number of cases coming into their emergency rooms with acute respiratory failure during these festivals where unfortunately the victims themselves give history of lighting fireworks and inhaling a lot of smoke in the process. The death rate is appalling d...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...ris interactive study report says that an alarming number of cancer patients say that they never knew or that they were never told about the possibility of enrolling in a clinical trial for cancer treatment. Among the 16% who knew about the trials but declined to participate, 30% believed that the therapy u...

Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

...ublic places, there seems to be no decrease in the number of smokers or the number of cigarettes sold!!!! The report adds that the process of globalisation is to be blamed for this, a...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...histication,which is now possible with the growing number of state-of-art hospitals in thecountry,'' says MD, Apollo Hospitals, Dr Yogi Mehrotra. Dr Rupinder Singh, who gave up 12 years in the US to work as head of emergencycare at Fortis and Dr Nirmal Joshi, who put 15 years in the US behind him towork as ...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

The number of drugs being developed for the treatment of cancer has nearlydoubled during the past six years, according to a new survey of pharmaceuticalcompanies.Currently, 170 pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms various CancerInstitutes are investigating 40...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

...anisation says that over the past two decades, the number of asthma sufferers has been steadily increasing. ...evels of pollution, the symptoms are worsening and number of asthmatics needing hospitalization is increasing. The doctors who assisted the survey say that u...

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

...he moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans to raise the number of beds to 8000 from the present capacity are already underway and will be completed by 2002. Reddy said Apollo Hospitals had also firmed up plans to enter health insurance and had initiated talks with some insurance companies to function as a third ...

Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!

...cured and the occurrence of cancer prevented. The number of chromosomes in the cells that make up the patch... If it's the normal 46, cancer is unlikely. If the number is doubled, cancer is more likely. And it becomes very likely if the number of chromosomes cannot be...

Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

... distinction of being the country with the maximum number of HIV positive people in the world. The HIV scourge is sure to have a devastating effect on the economy, and research has shown that providing workers with drugs is cheaper than paying for absenteeism, loss of productivity, hospitalization, funeral...

George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief

...to the World Health Organization (WHO). The sheer number of those infected and dying is almost beyond comprehension," President Bush said at a Rose Garden appearance. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as several US officials including Secretary of State Colin Po...

No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report

... up to the delivery, she can actually cut down the number of pre natal visits from 8 - 11 times to 3 - 6 tim...s, time and energy it is a good idea to lessen the number of visits....

Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...cement are not always user friendly. But with the number of smokers increasing day by day and the number of diseases caused due to smoking also increasing, these nicotine replacement options, however fanci...

Just spice it up!!!!! Anti bacterial effects of spices unraveled in the West

...s as well. Antimicrobial effects of cinnamon and a number of other spices, including garlic, sage, oregano and clove, in liquids as well as solid foods well are being studied now. So the message is clear- just spice it up, for a healthy diet....

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...orting cheap AIDS drugs. The country with largest number of AIDS patients in the world now wants to secure affordable drugs from around the world to tackle its AIDS epidemic. The Health Ministry of South Africa, published 70 pages of draft legislation that would allow it to shop around for the cheapest dr...

Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002

...ed manufacturing entities being supported by large number of service providers....

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

An increase in the number of advertisements by the drug companies has prompted the doctors to urge the government to ban prescription drug ads from television, news papers and magazines. American Medical Association's New Jersey delegate Dr. Angelo agro said that such ads can...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

The herbal product ginseng root has a number of psychological benefits, including fighting stress-related physical and mental fatigue and boosting mood performance. But researchers have found no psychological benefit from the use of ginseng. Bradley Cardinal, PhD, associate professor and co-di...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

... can have side effects like dry mouth. For a small number of patients, these options to not work. That's why we've started using Botox to treat people who don't respond to other medications." It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery is the only other option left. ...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...who treated 26 adolescents, found that the average number of tablets taken by each patient was 28 each week, with 16 using pain medication daily. They stopped all the analgesic medications and found that the headache symptoms decreased after 2 months.Inspite of the fact the exact roll of these analgesics wa...

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

... result of their hard work they have come out with number of ways to identify and stop the progression when the disease is young. And now the Dutch investigators found that postmenopausal women with high levels of a protein called albumin in their urine were nearly 4.5 times as likely to have died from card...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...ce imaging (MRI), a stroke assessment test and the number of hours between the onset of the stroke and the M...in about the probability of recovery, and to put a number on that probability," said Dr. Steven Warach, a neurologist at the NINDS. Dr. Warach and collegues ...

India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war

...t is likely to escalate in coming days. The large number of AIDS cases has lured many companies to develop anti-AIDS drugs and market it in India and abroad by adapting innovative approaches to pricing. The anti-AIDS drug market, currently dominated by Mumbai-based Cipla, witnessed the entry of four more ...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...maller and techniques improved. Arthroscopy has a number of benefits compared with conventional surgery in treating damaged ankles, including eliminating the need for large incisions. "To do anything in a joint requires that you are able to get in there, see what you're doing and manipulate tissue. The cle...

Brisk Walking lowers memory loss in women

.... Thereby, physical activity was measured by the number of blocks walked per week and also by the number of calories burnt in walking and other activities....

Watch your weight when pregnant

...ge BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indicates a range of body fat fr...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...edicine at Harvard Medical School said that as the number is small , it is hard to conclude anything definitive from the study. Surprisingly, however, people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables do not necessarily have high lycopene levels. A few fruits, such as watermelon, have very low amounts of lycope...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...ay go wrong sometimes.There has been a rise in the number of safety warnings concerning devices that regulate the heart rhythm. Many depend on either a pacemaker or an implantable defibrillator to keep their heart beating rhythimically. However sophisticated and accurate devices they may be, sometimes they...

Action of nerve cells

...ensen said.The strength of a signal depends on the number of neurotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So the strength of memory depends on how well the UNC-13 protein helps to gather up the neurotransmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jo...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...s found that grain fortification alone reduced the number of heart attacks and the other heart attack events to about 8% in women and 13 % in men. Tice also noticed that "the evidence for the beneficial effects of vitamin therapy to lower homocysteine is much stronger than that for other dietary supplement...

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

... They found that while both approaches reduced the number of cases of malaria, sponging the cattle saved the cost to around one fifth. The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spraying.It wa...

Dental exam reveals stroke risk

...theroma in the neck and their histories revealed a number of risk factors, like obesity, smoking and high cholesterol. Dental examination are an easy way of detecting the problem.These patients are at a higher risk of stroke....

Role of zinc in development

...w that zinc deficiency leads to a reduction in the number of white blood cells and that a lack of vitamin A weakens the cell's immune response.// The researchers found that the reactions of children's immune systems to shortages of vitamin A, iron and zinc could be countered by dietary supplements. Zinc d...

Eating disorders are hereditary

...nt among the relatives of the first group. And the number multiplies eleven times when it was about anorexia.// These disorders of the eating habits present themselves generally in adolescents who usually self restrict themselves, who are perfectionists, and have been outstanding for their intellectual de...

Relieve hot flashes

... flashes, the team reports, on average cutting the number of hot flashes by one per day. Vitamin E, at a d... flashes, the team reports, on average cutting the number of hot flashes by one per day. Based on their review of the subject, the authors recommend trying ...

Acupuncture for conception

...omes to conception. A woman is born with a certain number of eggs, hundreds are lost with each menstrual cycle and those that are left after 35 years are more fragile, making fertilization and normal conception more difficult.// Because the body rejects embryos that aren't developing properly, the rate of...

Bald head bad health

...became moderate. Bald men seem to have a greater number of androgen receptors in their scalps , and androgens may contribute to both atheroscelrosis - build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries - and thrombosis, a susceptibility to blood clots.Researchers also say that heart disease and baldness may be in...

Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin

...patient compliance should percolate to the maximum number of doctors and patients. The company believes that the Ciprofloxacin agreement has strengthened the spirit of cooperation that was started a few years ago between Cipla and Ranbaxy. Together, both the company brands account for over 30 per cent of t...

Human gene number increases

A new estimate puts the paltry number of human genes more than 30 per cent higher. At around 30,000, the gene number estimated from the human genome sequence seemed scanty compared with the mustard weeds' (25,000) and...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

.... // Smoking causes or predisposes a person to a number of diseases such as heart disease, asthma, ulcers, and cancer. According to a WHO study, cigarettes on an average kills one of every two consumers; and by the year 2030, tobacco is likely to account for more deaths than TB and HIV put together. The ...

Recouping blood flow after a stroke

... brain tissue was examined later, it showed that a number of new blood vessels - called collateral vessels had grown. These were longer and wider than blood vessels located away from the damaged area. They took over the blood supply function of the blocked vessel that had caused the stroke. This research m...

Voice may be improved by surgery

...xpect UPPP to affect the voice. Researchers at a number of centres in the US looked at the voice characteristics of patients undergoing surgery. They found that vowels were unaltered, as were most consonants save for 'm' and 'n' which became less 'nasal'. The subjects themselves felt their voice was uncha...

Probiotics can help

...day. The team found there was no difference in the number of days spent with diarrhoeal or respiratory symptoms. But the children given the probiotic had less severe disease – that is, they had fewer absent days, fewer complications of colds such as middle ear infections, and required less antibiotic treat...

Menopause considerations

...ished in Human Reproduction this week.// "A great number of women are leaving their first baby until 35 or 40," said Professor MacLennan. Hormonal changes that lower fertility begin at least four years before menopause, so women who are still menstruating may still have problems getting pregnant. The stud...

New therapy better at increasing bone density

...er, the use of vitamin D significantly reduced the number of falls that elderly women suffered over three years by about 30 percent and also tended to reduce the chance of fractures. Combination therapy may offer benefits that aren't achieved with single-medication therapy. It may be best for women who st...

The cocaine danger

...ck itself.New Scientist reports this week that the number of people admitted to US hospitals with cocaine related emergencies has jumped from around 80,000 in 1990 to nearly double that two years ago.// Working on rabbit hearts, a University of Michigan team have found that taking in cocaine causes a react...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...and 18 healthy comparison subjects (controls). The number of dopamine transporters (DAT) marks the presence of nerve cells that are part of a brain circuit that transmits signals using the chemical dopamine, which plays a role in movement control and feelings of pleasure. The researchers administered a batt...

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

...its own. While this is early research, there are a number of diseases which could potentially benefit from a treatment which can safely create new blood vessels to supply specific areas with oxygen....

Long travel increase pulmonary embolism

According to researchers from France, the number of miles you fly affects your risk of pulmonary embolism. There's increasing concern that long haul travel could increase the risk of blood clotting in the veins of the legs (deep vein thrombosis, or DVT). If the clot breaks off, it may travel to the...

Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

...nication problems. The implications of such a high number of ambulance delays to patients who need urgent me... a problem, this had to be balanced against a high number of communication difficulties compared with landlines....

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...e result may yeild more effective treatments for a number of digestive diseases and could even help reduce vomiting and other gastrointestinal side effects of cancer chemotherapy....