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Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

... learning theory. According to this theory, people acquire new skills or behavioral scripts primarily through the observation of models. People perform the behavior in response to expected and valued rewards; these can be rewards that they have earned before or observed being given to others ("vicarious rein...

FDA Re-Emphasizes Warnings to Consumers on Risks of Pet Turtles

...ve they are Salmonella-free. Although anyone can acquire a salmonellosis infection, the risk is highest in infants, young children, the elderly, and others with lowered natural resistance to disease. Pregnancy, cancer, chemotherapy, organ transplant, diabetes, and liver problems pose particular risks. Gast...

Breastfeeding Could Cut HIV Risk to Babies

...to breast milk were almost 11 times more likely to acquire infection. It is thought that this higher risk is due to the larger, more complex proteins found in solid foods that may lead to greater damage to the lining of the stomach, allowing the virus to pass through the gut wall. Hoosen Coovadia of th...

West African Meningitis Outbreak Sparks Warning from UN Aid Agencies

...rvivors can suffer brain damage or hearing loss or acquire a learning disability. Source-Bio-Bio Tecnology SRM...

Apollo Tyres All Set to Enter the Healthcare Sector

... the healthcare education business and proposes to acquire 70 acres of land for graduate and doctoral courses as well as for nursing and a management program for medical administration. "We are working out the finer details of this project. The institute is likely to come up in Baroda (Gujarat) or Indore (...

Zinc Supplements Enhance Immunity in Children

...r studies. They said it is possible that infants acquire sufficient amounts of zinc in utero and through breast feeding to sustain them during the first year of life. The failure to find an effect in infants could also be a result of the lower doses of zinc given to infants compared to the higher doses giv...

Gene Study Offers Hope of Potent Anti-cancer Drugs

... ultimately the technique will allow scientists to acquire a complete catalogue of all the mutations involved in each class of cancer. "The human genome is a vast place and this, our first systematic exploration in cancer, has thrown up many surprises," said Professor Stratton. "We have found a much larger...

Scientists Identify 120 New Cancer Genes

... ultimately the technique will allow scientists to acquire a complete catalogue of all the mutations involved in each class of cancer, according to Stratton. "We have found a much larger number of mutated driver genes produced by a wider range of forces than we expected. It's important because the more canc...

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

Drug addiction–are you born that way, do you acquire it somehow or is it thrust upon you? The question, which has baffled neuroscientists for so long// , may have some sort of an answer now-at least for rat junkies. Scientists working for the Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, UK, condu...

Uric Acid Levels Tied to Impaired Thinking in the Elderly

...s that despite being an antioxidant, uric acid can acquire pro-oxidant properties that damage the vascular endothelium in certain conditions and might even play a key role in the development of accelerated atherosclerosis.” Source-YALE UniversityBR>SRM...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...nsplant are willing to travel great distances to acquire the organ, in order to add a few more years to their fading lives. Therefore patients who are in dire need of a transplant, travel to developing countries such as India - where the kidney trade has prospered, thanks to the perilous combination of...

Ranbaxy in Fray to Buy Merck's Generic Drugs Unit

...nbaxy Laboratories has entered the market again to acquire the generic drugs business of German// pharmaceuticals major Merck in a deal estimated at over $5 billion. ‘We are in talks with private equity funds to finance the deal,’ Ranbaxy's chief executive Malvinder Singh said on the margins of the annual ...

Call For Bird Flu Antiviral Drugs To Be Shared

...ecause it rarely passes between people. If it does acquire this ability, it would take 6-8 months to develop a vaccine effective against the new virus. Public health officials therefore need to consider how they would protect people during the first few months of a pandemic. Measures might include the use of...

Are We Prepared for Flu Pandemic?

...duce the vaccine, we have to go through the WHO to acquire the necessary stocks. Again assuming that we get the supply, we have to plan for the contingency that it will not be enough. The question now arises: who should get it ahead of everybody else? This is an important social and political decision that...

AIIMS Creates Record by Completing 100 Four-arm Robotic Surgeries

...our-arm robot - Da Vinci S. "We were the first to acquire Da Vinci S robot in July last year and today we completed the 100th operations through the state-of the art machine. It's a record in Asia," said Ashok K. Hemal, a senior professor at the department. "On Friday, we conducted two difficult prostate ...

Link Between Family Size and Stomach Cancer Found

...speculates that younger children in large families acquire the bacterium from their older siblings at a time when their immune systems are still developing. Since the bacterium has already adapted itself to a genetically related person, namely the older sibling, it has a 'head start' in the younger child, wh...

Yes, Chicken Soup Can Help

...ntact with others who may be sick. You “catch,” or acquire the cold by having hand-to-hand contact with someo...r mouth, nose or eyes after such exposure, you can acquire a cold. The lesson: wash your hands often and thoroughly, especially if you have been around someone...

Latest Research on Visual Skills is an Eye Opener

...identity. This case demonstrated that a person can acquire visual function even after being deprived of sight for an extended period during childhood.The evidence gathered from this case study presents a scientific alternative to the widely noted "critical period" that the brain undergoes during childhood. T...

Findings on Dangerous Parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii Published

...ential weapon for bioterrorists. People usually acquire toxoplasmosis by eating commercial meat or drinking water that's contaminated with Toxoplasma gondii, White said. They can also pick it up by handling soil or anything that has come in contact with cat feces. "It's a complex cell just likes ours in...

Pet Owners Less Healthy: Study Unveils

...a and Ojanlatva say their data show people tend to acquire pets when they get older and become more set in their ways. They note that pets may offer health benefits their study did not measure. SRI...

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