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Dealing heart disease risk in ethnic minorities

...ease, and the highest risk of stroke. Meanwhile, south Asians have the highest risk of heart disease and stroke combined. Also, the ethnic minorities have the highest levels of hypertension in the population. While many were being treated, there were also many instances where target blood pressure was no...

Weighty problem: Protein is the solution?

...iet_about.htm South Beach Diet: What is the south beach diet? Hey! hang on! What follows is not a mystery novella written on the south beach but a write up on a new concept to weight loss, which proclaims to be a way of life. Created b...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

... Collins, chief dietician at St George's Hospital, south London, and spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association. "They are paranoid about disease and see anything that optimises health as being good, but they are fooling themselves. "This idea that supplements are safe to use is unproven - they h...

Scientists use plant hormones to fight cancer

...rdman, a scientist at the Gray Cancer Institute in south England, who was part of the research team, said fragmented molecule is released only within the tumour thereby killing only cancer cells and healthy cells are not harmed in anyway. In laboratory studies if cell cultures Wardman and his colleagu...

Adding Credit To The Health Care Industry In India

... Kanyakumari and Tuticorin districts, about 900 km south of Chennai. The ansyscope, installed in the lab can read a cardiogram graph and provide a patient's health status. Another instrument that displays parameters of the autonomic nervous system made up of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems on ...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...ed that the fever that swept through some areas of south Kolkata is // dengue or brain fever. There have been reports of 4 casualties and blood tests have revealed the presence of dengue in eight other people. The unofficial death toll is seven. All the medical colleges and hospitals have been instructed...

The romantic legacy of an AIDS victim ended up in tragedy

... hanged himself in the Durgapur industrial town of south Bengal's Burdwan district, near Kolkata. Probir and Basanti Sarkar were a happy couple since their love marriage four years ago. Basanti was recently found to be HIV positive and is believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion 12...

China To Distribute Free Condoms To Combat AIDS/HIV

...ducer, Gaobang Latex Products Manufactory based in south China's tourist city Guilin. So far, 42 hotels in Guilin have received the government's free offer. "Before an effective AIDS vaccine comes out, condom is the most effective and economical way to prevent the disease from spreading through sex," sai...

Bird flu alert in Kaziranga Park

... diagnosis of bird flu. The park, located on the south bank of Brahmaputra in central Assam, attracts over a hundred species of migratory birds between November and April every year. They fly from places like as far as Siberia, China and Tibet. The alert against the avian influenza has been sounded all...

British Scientists Doubt Delhi Doctor’s Stem Cell Claim

...o runs a genetic research facility and hospital in south Delhi, now claims to have treated over 100 terminally ill patients with stem cell therapy. Shroff told the newspaper: 'My patients often have no other choice. I am their last chance.' The report quoted some patients who claimed improvement in their ...

Bird Flu: India faces threat from China this winter

...een 117 cases of the virus infecting humans in the south east Asian countries. Of these 60 people have died. Around 140 million domestic birds have either died or have been culled to curb the spread of the avian flu virus. An estimated five to twenty million migratory birds feed and spend time on 90 wetla...

Alcohol: Liver's worst enemy

...ychiatry at St George's Hospital Medical School in south London. 'Drug taking only kills a few hundred in comparison, yet the government spends more on tackling that. Drinking, by comparison, is on the rise and too little is being done to help.' A recent report had said that the UK was one of Europe's wo...

Bird flu makes its presence felt in the Crimean peninsula

...s could be carried by migratory birds as they head south for the winter. ...

International conference on Ayurveda to be held on Kerala

... the world like Russia, Italy, Brazil, Britain and south Korea//. Scientist and research scholars of all leading Indian university and academic institutions will participate in the three-day submit of global ayurveda meet. On the eve of the birth century celebration of Vaidyaratnam Group of institutions...

UK Committee Warns on Food Shortages Due to Flu Epidemic

...ust put its weight behind U.N. agencies working in south East Asia.' He added that as far as planning was concerned, Britain had got a head start over other countries, 'But the Government could still do better, both by issuing fuller guidance to frontline health workers and by protecting other essential se...

Snippy haircuts, snappier AIDS lessons from barbers

...sy commercialised neighbourhood of Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi are spreading awareness about the disease an...he NGO has expanded the project to Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. Source: IANS...

Jharkhand Gives Health industry status

...formed splitting the large state of Bihar. Most of south Bihar with its rich natural resources now forms the state of Jharjand. Tourism already enjoys the status of industry in Jharkhand. (Source: IANS)...

Mental Disorders On The Rise In China

...nt// medical-care symposium in the capital city of south China's Hainan Province. This figure is expected to rise further to 25 percent in 2020 according to Qi Xiaoqiu, Head of the Disease Control and Prevention Department of the Ministry. A total 16 million people suffer from mental disorders in China. ...

How Healthy Are Herbal Products? US Findings.

...l stores that catered to the needs of needs of the south Asian residents. The study revealed that though the three herbal products showed high amounts of lead and mercury the ingredients were not listed on the product labels. But the city law prevents the sale of products which are harmful to the genera...

Farm boy's death raises human bird flu fears in Turkey

...ed between six and 15, admitted to hospital in the south east of Turkey on Saturday after developing high f...outbreak live in the town of Dogubayazit, 40 miles south of Aralik. Since 2003, the strain of bird flu has spread through flocks of birds in Asia and kill...

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