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Madhya Pradesh may Ban Sale of Vibrating Condom

...cifications as per the law or if it is found to be against our culture. "More distressing is the fact that the condom is manufactured by a central government undertaking," said Vijayvargiya. Media reports claim that the Madhya Pradesh Drugs Control Department has already started an investigation into the s...

Notice Sent to Courts Asking Them to Stop Courting Mosquitoes

...to rain, dengue has raised its head in mid-June as against its usual arrival time in end July. The civic body has already sent over 1,200 notices to people so far for breeding mosquitoes. "Our officials have detected 10,000 mosquito breeding spots and are sending notices to the offenders," municipal health...

Girls Could Be Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer in Britain

...took a step Wednesday toward offering vaccinations against cervical cancer for girls as young as 12, a measu...on (JCVI) recommended the use of vaccines to guard against the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection which causes most cases of cervica...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...y US lawmakers to overturn his earlier prohibition against using federal funds for any research involving human embryo destruction. It is only the third time in six years as president that he has wielded his veto; the first time was last year when he blocked a similar bill on federal support for embryonic ...

SKorean University Seeks to Bar Smokers

... to bar students who smoke and to start a campaign against excessive drinking. Oh Myung, president of Seoul'...s quoted as saying they would take "proper action" against the plan, but were confident it would never come into effect. South Korea has one of the developed...

Go for Russia, Not China, Wine Experts Say

... are those attending the two-yearly event who warn against both in preference to Russia. "The margins in China are not there. It is not ready to buy at the price point where wine producers will make money," said David Skalli, a Paris-based wine consultant with family vineyards in France, California and Ita...

Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment

...rtment of Health and Human Services now recommends against using entecavir as the first option in treating hepatitis B in co-infected patients who are not already using drugs to suppress HIV. More than 4 million people worldwide are believed to be infected with both viruses. The scientists emphasized that ...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

... flu vaccine locally and bolster global protection against a threatened pandemic. WHO's Vietnam chief Hans Troedsson said the UN body was "looking favourably" at a request to grant the IVAC project up to 2.5 million dollars. Avian influenza has so far tended to infect people in close contact with H5N1-posi...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

...ates 50 years of independence this year, the fight against river blindness there also marks its half century....rum anti-parasite medication ever. It is effective against most common intestinal worms (except tapeworms), most mites, and some lice, though it is not effecti...

Tamil Nadu Orders Probe into Operation by Minor

...t to the IMA committee in Chennai demanding action against the family. The IMA, however, does not have any power to take legal action nor does it have the CD as evidence. Tiruchirapally District Collector Ashis Vachhani said he has ordered an inquiry into the incident. "The report will be available later t...

Minister from MP Urges to Ban the Sale of Sex Toys

...cifications as per the law or if it is found to be against our culture." Media reports claim that the Madhya Pradesh Drugs Control Department has already started an investigation into the sale of 'vibrating condoms'. However, the Controller of Food and Drug Administration Chandrahas Dube said Wednesday...

Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke

...e likely to avoid this scenario and win the battle against the heat when armed with a little knowledge. Heat stroke is an injury to internal organs caused by an excessively high body temperature. It can damage the central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and other organs. Sometimes, as in ...

IMA Accuses US Companies for Selling Recycled Prosthesis in India

...l them in India. He said after an outcry in the US against selling recycled prosthesis there, the companies t...untries. "After protests and lawsuits were filed against the companies they stopped selling them in the US," he said. Comparing the recycled prosthesis wit...

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed at Czech Turkey Farm

..." be given Tamiflu, the drug judged most effective against bird flu. "This is purely a preventive move, there is no risk for people," Julinek said. Frantisek Bartos, who runs the farm, said that none of the turkeys currently being raised there had been sold, as they had yet to reach their optimum weight. ...

Australian PM Says No to Same-sex Marriage

...h Australians wanting to get rid of discrimination against same-sex couples," Senator Bob Brown told reporters. Attitudes to homosexuality had changed dramatically over the past 50 years, Brown said, but there was still a long way to go. "We're talking about the 21st century here, not last century: same sex...

California Government to Revoke License of LA Hospital

...ervices has never before threatened such a penalty against King-Harbor and, has not taken such an action against a hospital since 2004. The Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital, operated by the Los Angeles Cou...

'Lights Out' as London Does Its Bit for Climate Change

... as the British capital does its bit for the fight against global warming and turns off its lights. The Houses of Parliament, luxury hotels like the Ritz and key businesses have confirmed they will take part in the "Lights Out" campaign from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm (2000-2100 GMT) Thursday. The initiative, ...

Urate Reduces the Risk of Parkinsons Disease

... strongest evidence to date that urate may protect against Parkinson's disease," said lead author Marc Weisskopf, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology at HSPH. The researchers used the HSPH-based Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a population of male health professionals e...

Food Supplement to Combat Alzheimers Disease

...fatty fish provides a certain degree of protection against Alzheimers and other dementia diseasesan effect often thought attributable to the omega-3 fatty acids it contains. Some studies also suggest that omega-3 can have a therapeutic effect on some psychiatric conditions. Researchers at Karolinska Instit...

Ancient Viral Defense may Explain Susceptibility to HIV: Study

...ppears to have been instrumental in protecting man against a four-million-year-old virus, called Pan troglody...e-engineered the protein to make it more effective against HIV, a modern-day retrovirus, the changes inhibited the protein's ability to stop PtERV1 and vice ve...

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