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The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

... make people sit up and take notice in health care apart from AIDS or HIV should be cancer!!!!!!!!!! The mere mention of the word is enough to bolster people to sit up and listen. But should we really accept all that is heard and said about the disease? Or should we use our gray cells and analyse the pros ...

What happens when Asthmatics consume Aspirin?

... of symptoms- rhinitis, sinusitis, and asthma. But apart from being one of the most prescribed drugs in the world, aspirin is also extensively used in the prophylaxis of ischemic heart diseases and strokes. When a situation arises that an asthmatic is in dire need of being administered aspirin, the researc...

Patient’s perception of health status helps in better recover

...fore surgery may improve symptomatic outcome.” So apart from going to a good doctor it is also important that we have the burning desire to get well and feel confident about our recovery because the patients perception does help in speedy recovery!!...

Contraceptives via Internet

...raceptives are known to have a lot of side effects apart from having a lot of beneficial effects. Enthusiastic customers who bypass the tried and tested route of going through a doctor by ordering these through the Internet ignore all these side effects. However the investigators are worried about the damp...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

... everyone likes them at least from a distance. But apart from the phenomenal cost that goes into fireworks we fail to realize that fireworks are death sentences for the severely asthmatic people and the worst affected are children who literally choke to death during these ironically happy occasions. Almo...

HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

Many HIV infected patients, apart from suffering the social neglect and being unwanted even by near and dear ones have this major handicap - they just can’t travel like the other people - wherever they want and whenever they want. Some people just avoid having HIV infected co passeng...

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

...agues who conducted the study opine that cinnamon, apart from filling the air with its spicy aroma can also double up as an anti bacterial agent. Adding a dash of cinnamon to apple juice proved this and the spice actually retarded the growth of common food pathogens. For their study, the investigators add...

Resurface your skin

...targetted cells absorb laser light they are broken apart and absorbed by the body. This promotes production of new collagen - the protein that gives skin its youthful elasticity. The treatment takes just 15 minutes and you might expect a visible improvement after three to five treatments spaced out over ...

Fossil teeth and human development

...wth and development pattern that sets human beings apart from their primate ancestors, according to an article in the issue of Nature.// Based on the analysis of the fossil teeth, researchers from University College, London and Penn State University determined that the relatively long 15 to 25 year develo...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...erful and a low thumping "could mechanically shake apart a clot." But that approach would be dangerous because it would be difficult to control. The FDA approved diagnostic frequency is "faster but gentler. It creates micro-vibrations that work on the surface of the clot to open up more surface that the tP...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...ente a sunken nose and hugely bulging eyes, sliced apart all the bones of her face but didn't re-join them ... reconstruction involves multiple surgeries to cut apart most of the face bones, move them up, down or forward, and then hold them in the new spot with graft...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

...d (MED) is also being used in Bangalore and Delhi apart from Ahmedabad where it was recently introduced....

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

...// many activities that would get our hands dirty, apart from heavy house work and gardening, and this is probably the reason why many of us do not bother to wash our hands even before a meal. Recent research has however, proved that frequent hand washing is the most simple and low cost way of cutting rate...

Oxygen helps heal wounds

A recent study has has shown that oxygen, apart from breathing life into lungs, also helps heal wounds. Prior studies have shown that oxygen plays an important role in helping the body heal, after injury. In fact, studies have shown treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber can help wound healing. ...

Untreated Scoliosis patients found to lead productive and active lives

...ar to experience only little physical// impairment apart from back pain and cosmetic concerns. The study involved 444 patients diagnosed with scoliosis between 1932 and 1948, whose follow-ups started from 1992. Researchers compared 117 of those patients who were not treated for their condition to people w...

Treatment for cholesterol-related illnesses likely with the discovery of receptor in mice

...ld benefit people with high cholesterol worldwide, apart from those patients suffering from CTX. They further added that CTX and other cholesterol-related illnesses could be treated or possibly even prevented with existing drugs like rifampicin and St. John's Wort, which do activate the PXR receptor in hum...

Likely reason which makes analgesics work against Alzheimer's

...even prevent them from forming. This new research, apart from providing evidence for the protective effect of anti-inflammatory pain-killers has also brought to light the benefits of using FDDNP technology for investigating new vaccines and drugs against Alzheimer's disease....

Stress may Worsen Acne

...ake way for behavioral interventions for patients, apart from the medication currently available. Researchers explain that psychological stress can slow wound healing by up to 40 percent, which could account for the relationship between examination stress and worsening of acne. Because the participants had...

Rat Genetic Code Mapped

...If we have two things we can't really tell how far apart we are. Now that we have a third species we can see whether the changes are rat changes, mouse changes or human changes, say specialists. Rats have significant differences from mice and from people notably in olfaction and immune system genes. Thus...

New guidelines for dealing with post traumatic stress disorder

...man made is always tough. NICE had emphasized that apart from providing food, clothing shelter to these traumatized people it is also important to give them psychological care to help them rebuild their lives. The guidelines suggested by NICE says that every disaster is different in terms of what it dest...

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