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Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

... proper houses to Kala Azar affected families, our aim is clear to create a friendly environment to check and control the disease," Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said Tuesday. According to Singh, about 12,960 pucca houses will be built in addition to the Indira Awas Yojna units for...

Combination of Depression and Type-2-diabetes Lethal for Heart Patients

... at higher risk of dying, and future research will aim to investigate the mechanisms for this association." The research was supported by the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute. The researchers followed 933 heart patients for more than four years and correlated the 135 deaths that occurred durin...

Researchers Discover Gene Essencial to Cerebellum Formation

...nd funded by the Fundació La Caixa, the scientists aim to explore the potential of this gene to produce Purkinje neurons in a laboratory setting. The researchers will investigate whether the expression of Ptf1a/p48 can induce the production of Purkinje cells from stem cells and neurospheres, progenitor c...

Nigerian Programme Increases Polio Immunisation

...and building capacity by training personnel. "We aim to completely interrupt the transmission of the wild polio virus by 2007, by sustaining the gains we have made on immunisation in 2006," said Abebe. Abebe pointed out that the federal government allocated $US8.3 million to buy vaccines in the 2007 ...

Working Conditions of Teenage Workers Cause Anxiety

...ost find jobs in retail or service industries. Our aim is to examine the conditions under which they are working, and suggest ways to protect them at work," said lead study author Carol Runyan, Ph.D., director of UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) and professor of health behavior and health e...

Stem Cells in Liposuctioned Fat can Heal Injuries

... injured sports horses to their former glory. "Our aim is to regenerate the tendon structure that does not repair spontaneously," says Galli. Once scar tissue is formed, it hinders the animal’s recovery. "If you intervene, with cell transplants, within one week, you can repair the lesion," Galli notes. ...

An Aspirin a Day Keeps Heart Disease Away

...omen with a very high risk of heart disease should aim to lower their LDL (low density lipoprotein or "bad" cholesterol) to less than 70 mg/dL. Meanwhile cardiologists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and ass...

influenza Vaccination Needed to Stop Flu Bug

...ake in HCWs and to ensure that Victorian hospitals aim to meet, if not exceed, international standards and recommendations. Source-AMA...

Plastics in Common Household Items May Cause Fertility Defects

...oses of BPA on days 9-16 of their pregnancies. The aim was to see what interaction BPA would have with the HOXA10 gene, which is necessary for uterine development. Taylor and co-author Caroline C. Smith of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, found that BPA does,...

Cuba Computerizing Its Health System

...ts, Neurosciences, and Educational Software. The aim is to maintain quality health service free for the Cuban people, increase exchange among experts and boost research-development projects. This was revealed at a trade exhibition "Informatica 2007" currently on in Havana. An important link in wiri...

Kolkata's Birla Hospital to Foray into Bangladesh

...ght other diagnostic centres in Bangladesh with an aim to provide quality and affordable healthcare service. Two diagnostic centres with modern equipment and tele-medicine facilities will come up in 2007." "The 200-bed super speciality hospital will come up in Dhaka. The construction will start shortl...

More Support for Zinc-antiatherogenic Link

...ght. A control group was fed a normal diet. The aim of the researchers, led by Barry Halliwell from the National University of Singapore, was to examine the role of zinc on lipid peroxidation in relation to atherosclerosis. They used isotope dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques to ...

Rich Nations to Sign $1.5 Bn Vaccine Pact in Italy

...or countries, said Italian officials. The ultimate aim of the project is to fight malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

‘Smart House’ Developed to Monitor People With Dementa

...ltered housing scheme in Bristol. "The ultimate aim is to help people remain in their own homes for as long as possible," Orpwood said. Source-IANS...

Support Claims With Science Not Magic, Beverage Owners Warned

...CSPI's litigation unit was set up in 2004 with the aim of curbing deceptive labeling, marketing campaigns or other practices that potentially harm consumers' health. In addition Richard Blumenthal the Attorney General for Connecticut has given a week to the company, which is an amalgamation of Coca-Col...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...er two from the University of Columbia. The main aim of this body is to act at a global level and investigate reports and rumors on kidney trafficking, and also to probe into the human rights issues associated with it. They will also be engaged in identifying ‘hot spots’, besides defining the line be...

Communication in the ICU to Be Strengthened

...a proactive family conference was called, with the aim of deciding whether life-sustaining measures such as mechanical ventilation should be continued or withdrawn. In half of these cases, the family conference proceeded under the customary ICU practice. In the other half, the physicians conducted the co...

Ancient Genes Used to Produce Salt-Tolerant Wheat

... to salt, but we think it too can be improved. Our aim is to eventually produce wheats able, like barley, to grow in highly saline soils,” Dr Munns says. Over six per cent of the world’s arable land is affected by salinity. Salt tolerant crops can provide farmers with income for remediation, as well as...

President’s Address on the ‘Tele-Radiology’ Set Up of Krst

...). I am happy that KREST has been founded with the aim of promoting radiological and imaging education, providing tele-radiological consultation, rendering free services to the poor patients and publishing articles and books in advanced radiology. I am sure tele-radiology will become an important tool...

Exercise Has No Effect on Knee OA: Study

...g the usefulness of knee OA research, our ultimate aim must be to produce evidence that assists clinical decision-making and individualized recommendations regarding safety and effectiveness of interventions, including physical activity." Source-Eurekalert SRI...

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