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Good News For Cataract Patients

...ng eight million are due to cataract, said Agarwal adding that his innovation is not patented. He hoped that doctors across the world would use this technique for safety and speedy recovery of patients. Currently, in the whole of eastern and northeastern India, this surgical technique is available only at ...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

...ontal work can be activated in the older people by adding extra mental process to activate the frontal lobes by systematic memory exercise. Professor Robertson conducted a study with 3000 recruits aged between 65 to 94, the study recruits were given various memory exercises and training for problem solving...

Testing For HIV/AIDS Compulsory For New Military Recruits

...medicine at the Armed Forces Medical College here, adding that "the armed forces would use all its might to eliminate the enemy". India is the second highest HIV-affected country in the world after South Africa. Singh said 96 centres were operational all over the country to carry out testing on nearly 10...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...e therapeutic agents to the cell at the same time, adding versatility and potential to the medical valve of the nanoparticles. RNA molecules come in many variant forms, and the sort that the team mimicked from the phi29 virus – called pRNA – also can be linked to other types of RNA to form longer, hybrid ...

Medical community worried that new curriculum will 'Promote Quackery'

...over 150,000 doctors as members said: "The idea of adding ayurveda, unani and homoeopathy subjects in the already over-crowded medical curriculum is not going to help anybody," He added: "The move would also lead to an increase in quackery," The worry that doctors have is that it will 'dilute' the standard...

Indians are certainly having their greens and eating them too!

...ccording to the leading chefs trying their hand at adding colors to the plate.There is a variety to choose from, the organic greens, the Asian vegetables and herbs of all stripes. It is true that Indians who just want to make a plain salad are faced with bewildering choices. Freshness becomes the most vit...

Too much Salt is bad for health

...ing salt produced "any long-term health benefits", adding exercise and eating healthily was of more importance. ...

Cannabis exerts protective effect against cancer

...resulting from exposure to tobacco smoke," he said adding that the same was true of breast, colon and rectal cancer; all of which have strong causative links to smoking. "While both tobacco and cannabis smoke have similar properties chemically, their pharmacological activities differ greatly," Melamede said...

Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

...y (doses) we will be able to sell,' Gyurcsany said adding that this would allow them to vaccinate their citizens free of charge. Scientists fear that if the virus mutates, it can be easily transmitted form human to human and could trigger a worldwide pandemic. Hungary has said that since the mutated virus...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Relapse Linked To Marital Status

...as what they need or their attitudes," Konski said adding that these findings presented a case for instituting an aggressive therapy the first time around in men whose prostate cancer was likely to relapse....

Testosterone Therapy can improve sexual function in postmenopausal women

...nizing side-effects. The authors do caution that adding testosterone to HT is not a panacea for sexual dysfunction in women and that a comprehensive approach is recommended. “Because of the complex nature of female sexual dysfunction it is often difficult to establish the meaningful steps in treatment,” t...

Eloxatin combination reduces bowel cancer recurrences

...d to control group. International trials show that adding Eloxatin to the standard chemotherapy combination helps reduce the risk of relapse after surgery by 25%. Experts View: Hilary Whitaker, chief executive of Beating Bowel Cancer said, "It's impossible to overstate the importance of this decision ...

Vegetables And Garlic Confer Protection From Skin Cancer

...lead researcher Albena Dinkova-Kostova of the JHU, adding that the research was potentially promising in designing strategies to fight skin cancr....

Acute Shortage Of Neurosurgeons In India: One Surgeon For Every 1 Million!

... set to increase with growing stress of daily life adding to the disease burden. With India emerging as a global leader in the quality health care delivery, it is crucial that steps are taken to encourage doctors to channelise towards the superspeciality and impart specialized training in neurosurgery. If...

Kalam Appeals to Eradicate Hearing Disability

...two years costing less than Rs.1 lakh, Kalam said, adding that defect free hearing and speech for all should be our national mission. President Kalam very few people are aware has been involved in the indigenous development of a cochlear implant to benefit children with profound sensory, neural and hearing...

Diligence Of Chennai Doctors Appreciated: Anbumani

...alone, as many as 67 cases were reported, he said, adding that the number of admissions was on the decline thereafter. With the second spell of heavy rains last week, the number of cases reported each day remained static with 30 to 40 patients a day. Dr Janardanan said from November 1 till ye...

Five People Treated For Anthrax In Indonesia

...ey have been infected with anthrax," said Maryati, adding that they would wait for confirmation from the lab in Maros regency. One of the five has been admitted to a hospital in Makassar city after the lymph glands in his upper neck began to swell and he developed a fever. Meanwhile, medicine has been giv...

Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?

...s administered aspartame to Sprague-Dawley rats by adding it to a standard diet. They began studying the rats at 8 weeks of age and continued until the spontaneous death of each rat. Treatment groups received feed that contained concentrations of aspartame at dosages simulating human daily intakes of 5,000,...

Are You Ill? Have A Hard Laugh!

...nce or tools or any special monologues,' she said, adding they have a good understanding of their individual patients' feelings. The therapists should never laugh at their patients or their illnesses. And they should never hurt their patients' feelings. Instead, they need to help patients relax and relieve...

A Change In Lifestyle Can Help In Weight Reduction

...f lifestyle therapy for at least six months before adding weight-loss medication to the regimen. Source: The New England Jounal of Medicine...

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