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Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs

...e journal Nature, Clapham and his team showed that even though the transgenic mice ate 15-54 percent more food than normal mice, their fat-tissue mass was 44-57 percent less.The mice experienced no side effects from the increased UCP3. They had 70 percent lower cholesterol levels than normal mice and seem...

Pancreatitis: Minimially Invasive Procedure Offers Long-Term Pain Relief

...cluding alcoholism, the disease creates severe and even crippling upper-abdominal and back pain. In many cases, Kalloo says, pain may be caused by elevated pressures in the pancreatic duct. For these patients, endoscopic therapy that includes endoscopic pancreatic sphincterotomy (EPS), in which surgeons c...

New CPR Guidelines issued by Heart Association

...ulties. And when bystanders look for a pulse, it's even less effective. Almost 99 percent of them can't do it in the first 10-15 seconds....

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...orcing by ENSO. The climate-disease story might be even more complicated and needs further research. In the case of Bangladesh, "another mediating factor in the ENSO-cholera relation might be the melting of the snowpack in the Himalayas and its effect on monsoons, precipitation and river discharge. Floods...

PCR emerging as a promising technique for Diagnosing Urinary Tuberculosis

...ernational Urology Congress in India. Presence of even one bacteria can be detected by the PCR technique, he said, elaborating on the advances in genitourinary tuberculosis. However, in spite of newer methods of investigations like ultrasound and CT scan, intravenous urogram continues to be the key in...

Controversial deal on public access of the human genome map

...idual characteristics like the color of the eye or even skin. It will also help say whether a cell will function normally or not, enabling one to screen babies in the womb for diseases, and device specific advancements against many hereditary diseases and remedies for crippling ailments. While it is cust...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...just the tip of the iceberg. Many such stories and even more gross stories are being pushed under the carpets! But who is to bell thecat?...

Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation

...of Indian school of medicine and forms the crux of even the rituals and patterns of worship in Hinduism. ...vely researched and studied and to the surprise of even the critics the findings were significant. However experts add that they advice meditation only as a...

Want a Healthy brew? Have some Tea!

...mes stronger than vitamin E. All this might tempt even the staunch tea haters to join the tea club. And with the mushrooming tea cafes and coffee pubs a lot of interest is now shifting to non-alcoholic beverages and suddenly people are more health conscious than ever before. But unless and until it is pr...

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

...orse, with the person becoming more susceptible to even very common infections. So for those real health freaks who are worried about their health status, should be the new threat. Fight stress and be more immune from all infections!...

“Brain fingerprinting”- The new lie detectr

...etector available as on date and is said to detect even smooth criminals who pass the polygraph test (the conventional lie detector test) with ease. The new method employs brain waves, which are useful in detecting whether the person subjected to the test, remembers finer details of the crime. Even if the...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...igmarole of India – Pakistan cricket matches where even cricket stadia aren’t exempted from fireworks. Last but not the least, private functions like marriages, birthdays and other occasions call for a climax with fire works!!!! Almost everyone likes them at least from a distance. But apart from the phen...

HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

...om 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 passengers. Others are just indifferent. Leaving the ethical issu...

Man against HIV – new vaccine ready for human trials

...n body. So they say this vaccine will be effective even in old cases of HIV. All eyes are now on the results of human testing of this vaccine to see how effective this could be. The ability of the virus to mutate and survive has made it smart and strong to survive all the initiatives man has taken to el...

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

...red to recover it might well take several weeks or even months before they become normal again. Even if they do it is unlikely that anyone of them would ever forget the quake of black Friday....

Gay capital reeling with rising HIV infection

...ho are also intra venous drug users, the rates are even higher. And what is the cause for this sudden spurt? Hold your breath! The successful control of spread of HIV infection in the area has made the high risk gay men lower their guard and the virus has struck back with a vengeance. Aggressive preventi...

How do babies understand language?

...ts.Anyone who listens to foreign language finds it even difficult to say where a word begins or ends, but ...arn more and develop more strategies to understand even widely separated words. All this goes to show that they have a very flexible mind. Didn’t someone sa...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...sential life saving medicines. However critics say even now many in the poorer countries will be unable to afford the new drug cocktail as offered by Cipla. Another argument is that counseling and close monitoring of medication is equally important, at least in the developing world, where treatment for m...

Stem cell research- now Nobel Laureates join the debate

...issue too important to be left only to scientists, even Nobel laureates." As of now the arguments continue but the matter is sure to reach higher temperatures very soon. Keep watching this space for more juicy stories on the latest developments....

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

...als with infections like sinusitis, bronchitis, or even urinary tract infections are three times more likely to have a progression of atherosclerosis, the disease that leads to blocked arteries, than are people who are infection-free. The findings are reported in the current issue of the Journal of the Am...

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