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You Can Be Emotional And Logical

The emotional areas of the brain spring into action when one if faced with a tricky decision, according to a new study//. Ming Hsu of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and his colleagues compared brain activity of study participants in two betting games. As they played, the scientist...

Mirror Neurons Connected To Autism

...ical move. It responds to the intention behind the action rather than the action itself. Brain scans help in tracking their activity in human beings. It is still unclear whether u...

Wonder drug Dasatinib gives hopes to leukemia patients

...resistant to the drug. The mechanism of the drug action is that it attacks and prevents several proteins (...e resistant to Gleevec, but Dasatinib prevents the action of SRC. The toxicity level of Dasatinib is not more than Gleevec and it has to be brought in to th...

Action Plan Against Drug Deaths Launched

...ter Glasgow alone accounting for 120 deaths. The action plan has been launched by Hugh Henry, the Deputy Justice Minister in Glasgow. The training is provided by the Scottish Drugs Forum, while the Executive will provide the required funds. A report has been commissioned by the Minister into the drug prob...

Canadian Street Prostitutes Requests Protection

...one against them as they fear threatened of police action them....

HPA Says Hepatitis C Infection Is On The Rise

...pend ￡156 million on untreated hepatitis C. An action plan has been launched by Sir Liam Donaldson in 2004 for dealing with this problem, which calls for an annual report to be compiled by the HPA. Excessive consumption of alcohol has to be stopped by those who have been diagnosed to have the diseas...

Cancer Cells Trigger Supporting Cells to Turn Cancerous

.... Eventually these fibroblasts lost the protective action of the tumor suppressor, p53. This meant that the cells continued to merrily divide thereby evolving as cancer cells. "This occurred in 100 percent of the animals studied. It's a strong selective pressure," said Dr. Terry Van Dyke, professor of genet...

UK Committee Warns on Food Shortages Due to Flu Epidemic

...not inevitable and with co-ordinated international action it can still be prevented. The government must 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 bett...

Indian Ayurveda in troubled waters abroad.

...ic medicines by the Canadian government. // The action has been taken because the samples which were tested contained heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic much beyond the permissible limits. The reason was that most of the medicines did not have labels declaring the presence of those heavy metals....

Chicken pox Spreads Across Firozabad

... no cure for the disease but he has started taking action to check the spread of the infection. "Our team of doctors have already visited the affected villages and distributed medicines. The main problem is that there is no cure for chicken pox. We can only control its further communication and can treat...

Health Officials Inquire Into OraQuick HIV Tests

...are tested. The FDA is expected to take corrective action after the results of the inquiry are revealed. The OraSure Technologies of Bethlehem, the manufacturer of the test is cooperating with the investigation. ( The kit can also conduct blood tests, and the high false positives are reported to be only ...

Take a dose of brandy to stay healthy

...We found one Australian brandy and its antioxidant action was quite low. "It wasn't as good and this tells [us] something about how the brandy might have been made. It had no copper signal," he said. But Dr Troup warned Christmas revellers to maintain the golden rule of moderation, and said a shot of bra...

Health Canada Gave Access To Unapproved Drugs To AIDS/HIV Patients.

...ugs which have been studied individually but there action together is not been reviewed. These drugs are unapproved for the usage in AIDS patient and hence their access is declined by the government. The usage of this new unapproved AIDS drug started nine months earlier and a patient died. So the clinicia...

Bad professional behavior dates back to medical school

...e a much stronger predictor of future disciplinary action than more traditional measures such as test scores...nistic behavior and ethical issues. Disciplinary action by a state medical board is rare. Of the 725,000 practicing physicians in the USA, only 0.3% is disc...

Benzotiophene derivatives exhibit antitumor activity

...ot has to be done to find out the mechanism of its action and the pathway in which it inhibits the tumor cells in invitro cell culture system. Source: Eurekalert...

Both Kidneys Robbed From A Poor Rickshaw Driver In Bihar

...ry into the case. The police belatedly swung into action trying to arrest the doctor, R P Gupta, and his three assistants involved in removing the kidneys. The doctor along with his assistants has been absconding ever since the case came to light early this week. A court in Hajipur town of Vaishali distri...

Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled

...s decision at a meeting on Thursday. The board's action came after a federal grand jury had accused Totada R Shanthaveerappa, a practitioner in Stockbridge, earlier this week, of using weed killer and insecticide to treat patients. The jury had returned an 87-count indictment accusing him of falsely billi...

Wrong Diagnosis Leads To Death

...rtments. The girl’s mother has threatened of legal action against the doctors responsible for her death, with the object of preventing such deaths in future. ...

PA-824 drug effective against Tuberculosis

...nd Infectious Diseases have found the mechanism of action of the new drug PA-824 which is found to be highly effective in controlling tuberculosis, which is// caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Researchers have found that the drug PA-824 is very effective in very short doses of anti-tubercu...

Vitamin D Reduces Chances of Colon, Breast And Ovarian Cancers by 50%

.... The researchers are calling for concerted public action to see that adequate amounts of Vitamin D are consumed by the population. "We recommend no more than 15 minutes of exposure daily over 40 percent of the body, other than the face, which should be protected from the sun," Garland said. The details of ...

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