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Organic Tomatoes may Be Healthier for Your Heart Than Traditionally Grown Ones

... antioxidants that protect the heart and can fight against blood pressure and strokes, and have been linked to keep some forms of cancer and dementia at bay. The study also noted that quercetin and kaempferol levels were also higher in organic tomatoes. Researchers elaborated that since flavonoids are pr...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...l, comparing samples from 994 children with asthma against those from 1,243 local children who did not have t...sthmatics, it may be possible to develop therapies against it, but this will take time."...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...day asked a Nigerian court to strike out a lawsuit against it by a state government over a failed 1996 drug t...ven billion dollars (5.2 billion euros) in damages against the US drug firm. But the government's case suffered an early setback on June 26 when the court re...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...c multi-year analysis of malpractice claims solely against pediatricians , the answer is neither yes nor no b...spective, comprehensive look at malpractice claims against pediatricians. Surprisingly, we found that from 1985-2005 society hasn't become more litigious, at l...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...o action was taken politically, given the backlash against environmentalism in the era of former US president Ronald Reagan. Things changed in 1988, a summer of record heat and droughts in the United States, when James Hansen of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies at the National Aeronautics and Space A...

Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer

...t make a complete confession, lots of elements are against him. He indicated that he had had a violent row with his wife in the course of which he seized a knife. Autopsy is still under way to determine the exact time of death. The prosecutor added that the police had intervened on several occasions to...

Anti-doping Rules Must Avoid Unsatisfactory Decisions: WADA

...-Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has said that the fight against doping will be severely hampered if this is not take care of. The fight against doping will be severely hampered if the International Cricket Council (ICC) and national governing b...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...for etravirine is that it will open up a new front against resistant virus and raise the genetic barrier to developing resistance....

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...ch could offer significant advantages in the fight against cancer." EpiCept President and Chief Executive Officer Jack Talley commented, "We are pleased to be joined by Tower Cancer Research Foundation in the development of EPC2407 and we believe that their participation will result in our completing the t...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

... the United Nations agency coordinating the fight against the epidemic said Thursday in Nairobi. "The most significant development of the AIDS epidemic is its growing feminisation," lamented UNAIDS chief Peter Piot, who was speaking at the International Women's Summit on HIV/AIDS held in Kenya. "What en...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...in could be readjusted with the use of human drugs against depression -- suggesting the existence of a specific circuit for the condition. According to Deisseroth, the discovery of the single circuit for depression could lead to methods doctors could use to better diagnose and quantify the problem in their...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...calante, author of a book that documents 167 plots against Castro. But it was the CIA's plans to poison Cas...the Ford Administration banned assassination plots against foreign leaders in 1976, Escalante sees the hand of the CIA in more recent attempts by anti-Castro m...

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

...n Carpenter said he did not want to see a backlash against overseas-trained doctors. "There is nothing that...r stressed, "I would not like to see a common slur against our Indian or other overseas-trained doctors because of what's happening in Britain or what's going ...

The Hospital Superbugs

... of weapons in preparation for a counter-offensive against the most deadly of hospital superbugs . It infil...otics become increasingly ineffective in the fight against C.diff and MRSA scientists at CHAI are working on ways of incapacitating the bacteria and leaving th...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

... emits no pollution and is the right fuel to fight against climate change . A car running on hydrogen fuel does not emit any pollutant like carbon dioxide, sulphur or particles. The only emission from the exhaust pipe of a hydrogen-powered car is water. This clean-burn nature of the fuel has attracted a ...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

... score (QRISK) for the UK and test its performance against the established Framingham score and a new a score used in Scotland (ASSIGN), which includes a measure of social deprivation. The research has been conducted using data from a general practice research database called QRESEARCH (which is a joint pa...

Harry Potter Final Book - Prediction and Expectations

...y are certainly going to be a part of the alliance against Voldemort, but I think we can expect that Ginny will be a part of that group as well." While Harry's story is ending with the final book, both Nel and Westman say fictional characters really live forever. "Rowling has said quite clearly that Harr...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...factured by Merck & Co., could be a potent weapon against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and one day p...ly recently, researchers report, men have rebelled against having swabs taken from the inside of their penis.) The value of the drug could also go up if a gr...

Drug Firm on the Threshold of Developing Dengue Vaccine

...m is close to developing the world's first vaccine against dengue fever as Singapore and neighbouring countries battle outbreaks, a news report said Friday. Clinical tests on up to 3,000 people will begin by early next year in Thailand, said Jean Stephenne, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals president. "We've ...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...d blood, he said. Saha is known for his crusade against the medical fraternity in India after his wife's d...Bank funds a substantial portion of India's battle against HIV/AIDS. Upon his return to the US, Saha wrote to Paul Wolfowitz, then president of the World Ba...

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