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The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

... is still underway and nothing conclusive has been established so far. It is hoped that inspite of all people being interested in their life, common sense prevails and people learn to distinguish between fact and fiction. The bottom line as they say is alls well that ends well...

Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition

...ed mothers who were not malnourished. The findings established that there was more than a doubling in the prevalence rate for coronary heart diseases in the newborn if mothers were malnourished in the first trimester when compared to second and third trimesters. And these findings are independent of birth weight...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...hat donating liver can injure the donor, it is now established without doubt that a living person can donate a part of his liver to a person needing it. And the good news is that the donor would continue to live well and thrive after donating part of his/her liver. Donation of a piece of the liver's right lobe ...

Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes

...ery encouraging. Though diabetes dose not have an established cure as yet, the emphasis is on controling the disease so as to lessen the chances of developing complications of the spreaded disease. Vitamin E appears to be the latest warrior against the disease. Only time can say how successful this warrior is...

Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances

...ganisation, which came into existance in 1963, had established itself as one of the biggest councils with a membership of 7,500 across the country. The members are broadly divided into five panels; durgs and pharmaceuticals, dyes and dyes intermediates; inorganic and organic chemicals, cosmetics and toiletries ...

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...infection rate 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 unfort...

Depression and heart failure

...een depression and coronary artery disease is well established and generally have a worse outcome. They screened 357 patients diagnosed with heart failure for depression. They found depressive symptoms in 35.3%,with 13.9% being classed as// suffering from major depression. Patients who were not depressed had a...

Genetic influence in menopause

...nk between the menopause and genetics has not been established by scientific evidence till now. Researchers in Utrecht and Wageningen in the Netherlands have collected data from 243 non-twin sisters in 118 families already participating in a breast cancer screening project.// They also collected data from twin...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...y entrenched itself in organized retailing, having established 80 outlets in 12 cities and targeting to open another 500. He further said that the famous Apollo Hospital has also ventured in the business through Apollo Pharmacy. Mr. Shah has come up with the idea of uniting all the existing retailers to form a ...

New therapy better at increasing bone density

...en increases their bone density.It is already well established that hormone replacement therapy - oestrogen plus progesterone helps prevent osteoporosis in women past the menopause. According to researchers at Creighton University in the US, a new study covering 400 women, that this blend of hormones increases b...

Wound healing made faster

...t although the complex occurs in nature, a current established opinion that hormones operate independently have prevented it from being recognised.//After testing their artificially assembled complex on skin cells, the researchers were surprised to find that not only did it initiate a normal injury response in t...

The henna allergy

...make the tattoo darker. Henna tattoos are a long established practise in India, where it is called mehendi. Dr Bjorn Hausen, of the Dermatological Centre, in Buxtehude, Germany, said his research showed that henna containing PPD could cause contact dermatitis and made the skin swollen, red and itchy.// He ad...

Dangers of Low Calcium Intake

...// Because nearly 90 percent of adult bone mass is established by the end of this age range, the nation's youth stand in the midst of a calcium crisis. Osteoporosis is a pediatric disease with geriatric consequences. With low calcium intake levels during these important bone growth periods, today's children an...

Predictable genes

...ay eventually prove more reliable than using other established risk factors as a guide.Known risk factors include age, age of first period and menopause, high-fat diet, and high alcohol consumption. He said: "The number and type of genes that account for the remainder of familial breast cancer is not clear. "It...

Why cluster headaches?

.... But using a new scanning technique, doctors have established that cluster headaches are likely to be caused by excessive growth of grey cells in one part of the brain. By using the latest imaging techniques, Professor Goadsby and colleagues found an increase of grey matter in an area of the brain known as th...

WBC linked with periodontitis

A new research has established that a decreased white blood cell function can lead to early-onset periodontal disease, or aggressive periodontitis.The scientists showed that at six weeks of age the// genetically engineered mice had lost 27 percent of their alveolar bone whereas t...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

...of medicine at Oxford, whose pioneer study in 1950 established the smoking and lung cancer link. A comparison is made between Professor Richard's study in 1950 and the 1995 study. The first study was concerned with identifying the main causes of the rise in lung cancer, which showed the prevailing role of tobacc...

Glenmark’s new molecule to go through trial

..., told newspersons that the company’s R&D team has established ‘proof of concept’ in animals for this molecule.// The global diabetes market is estimated to be in the region of Rs. 400 crore. The company is scouting for partners to take the molecule into advanced phases of clinical trials. Mr. Saldahna said th...

Screening device for ovarian cancer

... or a diseased state. Researchers in the US have established proteomic profiles for healthy women and those with ovarian cancer, using blood samples. They then used this knowledge on another group of women - of whom 50 had ovarian cancer (some of them at the very earliest stage that is hard to detect) and 60 d...

Gene variation simulates cholesterol response to oestrogen

...shown no particular benefit from HRT in women with established heart disease - such research focusses on all women, not just the subgroup with the gene variant. The dramatic increases in HRT in this group would be diluted by results from those women who don't respond so well. More research is needed before gen...

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