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Another ray of hope for Arthritis Sufferers

...ounding tissues and affects millions of people all over the world. Anti-arthritic drugs can cause side effects and surgery can be expensive, however there is hope from a natural product liquid glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates. Some excellent results with an approach based on a combination of the two s...

AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

While concern over the AIDS crisis ravaging sub-Saharan Africa domina... Organisation (PHO) in India. With a population of over 1 billion people, India already accounts for almost 20% of all infections worldwide--currently the l...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...atologists learn more about the frequency of ENSOs over the long term....

Abortion Pill approved by FDA

...ne (known as RU-486 in Europe) has been around for over a decade and used by European women as an alternative to surgical abortion in early pregnancy. It has now been approved by FDA for sale in the USA. It will be avilable as Mifeprex. Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Inc said,"Mifepristone...

Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched

...psule could offer SangStat a significant advantage over a 'me too' generic cyclosporine capsule in Europe" said Jean-Jacques Bienaimi, President and CEO. "This is a very positive development for SangStat. Compared to our current capsule product, we believe it has a stronger patent position and improved pr...

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

Prostate cancer can effect men over the age of 40 years and is the second commonest ca... has been created about this condition and now men over the age of 40 years can be screened regularly to detect the cancer. One of the most promising "tumo...

Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking

... smoking started, and total number of packs smoked over the years....

International community warns India on HIV situation

...sk groups in the country have a prevalence rate of over 50%. Dr. Skolnik of the World Bank says that India...othing short of that shall work. He added that all over the world the main cause of the HIV disaster were the denial, complacency and failure of the politic...

Vitamins-The answer to Heart Disease?

...the superior benefits of these vitamin supplements over a healthy diet, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fish. In the opinion of the American Heart Association, “Vitamin supplements should not be encouraged until they are proven beneficial.” Food sources of folic acid are citrus fruits,...

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

...-minute meeting with Health Secretary Alan Milburn over funding for the Foundation for Integrated Medicine...of alternative medicine has increased tremendously over the past few years that doctors advice Holistic Medicine which is an umbrella of all forms of medici...

When Celebrities Die

...s a final, private burden that pushed some of them over the edge. Now, medical research from Great Britain reveals a surprising side effect of our "celebrity connection." The researchers say women are more prone to this than men and that this contagion factor in suicides is now clearly establishe...

Now you can identify Sperm and Egg donors

...hese details will be with held. Currently, people over 18 and children over 16 years of age can find out if they were born from donated sperms or ova. And this new ruling will ...

Contraceptives via Internet

... effects and in most cases these are not available over the counter but surprisingly these are now available through the Internet. However it takes up to two weeks for the delivery of these contraceptives after placing an order through the Internet. Investigators from the University of Washington in Sea...

“Brain fingerprinting”- The new lie detectr

...and U.S. intelligence units. But not everyone is over awed by this new forensic tool. Some seasoned scie...ice restraint and say the efficacy of this tool is over hyped and exaggerated. Some of them dismiss this, as down right “hog wash”- some of them are more ci...

Cut down TV and video games and you have less aggressive children.

...mpossible to handle at times? Then read on. World over there is increasing concern over the way the children of today are growing up. Even the West is getting desperate and looking for hel...

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

...t based on the vaccine. Nearly one in ten people over the age of 65 suffers the dementia by Alzheimer’s disease, and the risk rises fourfold for those over 80. Several genes have been linked to the condition – particularly one that codes for a protein know...

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

...ll be introduced to help the state of Gujarat tide over this calamity and the union home minister, Lal Kri...re rupees and upwards. Meanwhile people from all over the country are still pooling money, clothes, footwear, bedding, provisions and medicines to the vic...

Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene

...es. More than 700 doctors were furiously working over five days to correct whatever they could, most of them went without food for two days. With absolute collapse of infrastructure, the doctors have a tough task on hand doing whatever they can, given the limited facilities, which are hardly, bare minim...

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...sy. Now it is being withdrawn from televisions all over the United States. Levis Strauss officially announced that the advertisement in question might not be used again. This followed complaints from many who felt that they did not enjoy the advertisement poking fun at organ donation. The ad shows an unc...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...aceutical giants has just begun. After waging wars over many drug formulations the pharma majors are now locking horns over AIDS treatment. The ball was set in motion by the dramatic announcement of Indian firm Cipla that a ...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

... engrossed in it that they start worrying at times over trivial problems based on the assumption that it c...ng atherosclerosis.However there is no need to cry over the latest findings, as this will enable us to be aware of the complications of chronic infections, ...

Children suffer the most when parents divorce

... in University Park conducted the exhaustive study over a seventeen-year period and studied over 2000 married individuals and nearly 700 children. They also studied 85 divorces that occurred during...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

... engrossed in it that they start worrying at times over trivial problems based on the assumption that it c...ng atherosclerosis.However there is no need to cry over the latest findings, as this will enable us to be aware of the complications of chronic infections, ...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...ession, the study says that doctors are threatened over phone, hounded relentlessly and at times even attacked by infuriated relatives.After cab drivers, clerks at shopping malls, and police officers, doctors are exposed to the ugly world of workplace crime. At least one physician is killed every year the...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...e healthcaresector, which is expected to only grow over time. The emergence of moderncorporate and investorowned hospitals in the country is steadily luring moreand more NRI doctors back to home turf. And unlike other sectors, where compensations at par with international levelshave been the main draw, do...

IMA wants members not to do sex determination tests during pregnancy

...ate president, said the organisation was concerned over the issue and was committed to rooting out female foeticide. The IMA and non-governmental organisations should work in cooperation with each other and a continuous monitoring and reporting mechanism should be evolved. Dr. Ketan Desai, IMA national pr...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

...rmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, involved over 3,200 asthma patients and parents of asthma suffer...ecember 2000. World Health Organisation says that over the past two decades, the number of asthma sufferers has been steadily increasing. Doctors around t...

Chinese paracetamol may be slapped with dumping duty

...orate added. Though the domestic market had grown over the past, the importer had slashed the prices of the imported drug thereby forcing the domestic market to sell below its non-injurious price, which the domestic market could not recover. Hence the anti dumping duties, the Directorate added....

Breast cancer treatment to be determined by gene test

...agnosed with breast cancer, may opt for mastectomy over breast-conserving lumpectomy if they test positive for a breast cancer gene mutation, researchers said California on Monday. About 5% to 10% of all breast cancers are caused by an inherited genetic susceptibility. The majority of these cancers are l...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...iladelphia, Pennsylvania, from lingering questions over its proposed role in creating the HIV scourge. The research into the origin of 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 alle...

Be happy: live long

...and anger can have a cumulative effect on the body over time. Over decades and decades, people that turn these negative emotions on and off several times daily are hurting themselves and are more likely to fall victim to heart disease and stroke." These findings were published in the journal of Personali...

“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs

...ys this fear is unfounded and that people are just over reacting.He says that clot formation can also occur if a person spends long hours in front of the computer. Basically when a person spends hours without any activity, in a seated position, there is a lot of stasis of blood (pooling of blood) in his ...

Tattoos may significantly increase risk of hepatitis C infection

... all a healthy body without a tattoo is preferable over a very attractive tattooed body with hepatitis ....

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...ing marketed in India without any hindrance. More over there are no label warnings about the side effects of the drug. He said the situation has reached alarming proportions with the advent of ‘Crocin 1000’ which is been promoted as a pain reliever for chronic conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumati...

Spouses and other partners lower blood pressure says new research

...unclear but Dr. Gump said that it is possible that over time, temporary flare-ups in blood pressure may ta...monitored the blood pressure of 120 healthy adults over 6 days and found that the participants' blood pressure was consistently lower when they were with th...

Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...intended to help smokers kick the habit by getting over their nicotine fixation. The new kid on the block... drinks, which scientists claim could be useful in over coming the addiction. Researchers at Duke University have tested and patented this nicotine drink a...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

South Africa has scored a landmark legal victory over pharmaceutical giants wanting to stop South Africa from importing 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 Min...

Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes

...eye damage, kidney failure, non healing ulcers all over the body and can also cause complications of the nervous system. Diabetes is caused by the deficiency of hormone insulin, secreted by the pancreas and that is essential for converting sugar, starches and other foods into energy for cells. Lacking i...

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...te and lack of resources. Unanimousity established over the fact that main culprit has been the astronomic price of cutting-edge antiretroviral medications. Dr. Chris Ouma of the AIDS treatment organization Action Aid Kenya "Our people have families, homes, feelings, aspirations and jobs. But unfortunate...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...other medications." It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery is the only other option left. "Botulinum toxin is a weakening agent, that, when injected, results in a chemical disconnection of the nerve, which is called chemodenervation," says Dr. Mitchell F. Bri...

Noise tampers hearing

...les. Noise-induced hearing loss happens gradually over time, generally associated with the elderly. But mild hearing loss as a child or young adult may set the stage for significant premature hearing loss. When both ears are affected, even a slight noise-induced hearing loss can result in difficulty hea...

ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions

...king cessation drug Zyban, which is being taken by over 5 million people world wide, is held responsilble for a raise in the suspected adverse reactions due to drug intake in UK. Pharmacovigilance statistics of MCA has shown a raise of about 37% more adverse reactions so called "yellow cards" during the...

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...er fertility treatment of 27%. Those with a BMI of over 35 miscarried in 34% of the cases. This equates approximately to 50% increased risk among the lower weight group, and a doubled risk among the most obese patients. Professor Norman speculated that as the body's ability to deal with insulin properly...

Malaria strikes Munger tribals

... of Bihar were facing the worst forms of nightmare over the past 3 weeks , now the reason isn't the politi...bral malaria in this eastern Indian state of Bihar over the past 3 weeks,said the state's health minister Mr.Shakuni Choudhary. Mr. Choudry said that all t...

Cats to protect children from asthma

...ance and the other branch, mediated by "Th2" cells over reacts causing runny nose, sneezing and wheezing of allergic reactions. Supporters of cleanliness hypothesis reasoned that exposure to cats might be protecting from asthma by strengthening the Th1 system. To prove this Thomas Platts-Mills and his co...

Blocked viens block eye sight

...y. He further stated that the probe has advantages over the other surgical needles as this probe does not damage the vulnerable vein. He now plans to test how good the plasma-powered bullets are at cutting tissue during microsurgery. As lasers tend to damage the surrounding tissues by creating bubbles in ...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

... local and international researchers have gathered over the past decade, said Zafar Adeel, the U.N. university's academic program officer on environment and sustainable development. The world bank has given huge funds in support with this, to preserve rain water to filtering off pond water....

H2O - a cure for low blood pressure

...es after the water was ingested, increased rapidly over the next 15 minutes, and then began to decrease after about 60 minutes. Drinking more water at 60 minutes caused the blood pressure effect to be sustained for another hour. "There is something about the water itself that causes the increase in bloo...

Big and Bright

... Researchers at Columbia University have examined over 2500 children at age seven to study the relationship between birth weight and intelligence.They found that on average,// IQ at age seven is directly related to birth weight, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education and socio-economic s...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...devices issued by the Food and Drug Administration over a ten year period from 1990 to 2000.// Over this time, there has been an increase of 49 per cent in patients fitted with a pacemaker or defibrillator. Fifty two warnings were issued covering nearly half a million pacemakers and nearly 120,000 defibri...

Early detection of prostate cancer

... Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men over 55, but there is no single test that is sufficiently accurate to justify a program of screening all men in this age group. Current guidelines, set by the NH&MRC, advise that only men with symptoms (such as problems with urinating, or blood in the u...

Focus on DNA transcription

... said.She further added that many cancers involve over or improper expression of genes and some are regulated at the level of transcription.Knowing now that there are two binding sites on the enzyme instead of one will enable scientists to interpret data they collect much more accurately....

Male infertility in relation to cancer

... with men in couples with fertility problems being over 1.5 times more// likely to develop testicular canc...ysed the sperm quality of semen samples taken from over 32,000 men in England between 1960 and 1989. Sperm count, motility, and shape were assessed. Cancer ...

Say "no" to x-rays

...nts - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given radiography, the other was not. Researchers found that after three months, patients who had initially received the radiography did not receive any clinical benefit. Indeed they reported// having more pain for longer, r...

Vaccination reminder for anyone over 65..

Experts in the US recommend that everyone over 65 should get a pneumococcus vaccination.As you ge...tors at the Mayo Clinic in the US also urge people over 65 to have a pneumococcal vaccination.// The jab protects you from pneumonia, meningitis, and vari...

A boost to quit smoking

...xas have studied 33 people as they gave up smoking over a four month period to see how these risk factors declined. Nine weeks into the study, the subjects had reduced their smoking by an average of 50%. This was accompanied by a 17% reduction in carbon monoxide. Even more dramatic improvements were seen ...

Reversing heart failure

...hich is used to support the failing heart - taking over some of its workload. It's used a bridge to transplant - buying patients some time while they wait for that scarce donor organ. Researchers at Dallas, USA, have now shown that the LVAD does more than just keep the patient going - it actually improves...

Need for Colon cancer screening

...due to the routine screening.// They investigated over 3,000 apparently healthy male volunteers aged betw...cancer in time. The problem was worse for people over 60, as they are more likely to develop a cancer in the upper colon where it could more easily be mis...

Emotional trigger to smoke

...d mood states every 20 minutes during waking hours over two 24 hour periods. The results showed striking gender differences.// Both men and women were more likely to smoke when they were angry. But the effect was stronger in men, who said cigarettes had a powerful calming effect and they did whenever th...

Uncontrolled blood pressure

...of Medicine, Houston, Texas, doctors have surveyed over 16,000 adults over 25 and found that 27 per cent had hypertension.// Of this group, only 23 per cent were taking medi...