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Smallpox Alert in Northeast

... the districts and sub-divisions, especially those along the bordering areas," Tripura's Health Director Jagannath Muhuri said. A large number of patients from Bangladesh have been taking medical treatment in various hospitals in Tripura. "We are taking extra precautionary measures in areas where we fo...

Arsenic Poison can Make Longer Life of Leukemia Patients

... in the group of 261 patients who received arsenic along with customary medicines, the survival rate was 86 percent after three years compared to 77 percent for those who had only the standard treatment. The arsenic-based medicine is made by Cephalon, Inc and marketed as Trisenox. Acute promyelocytic leu...

Unhealthy Lungs Linked to Hostility?

...s examined whether the tendency to be hostile went along with having decreased lung function in otherwise healthy young adults. The results indicated that the more hostile ones personalitycharacterized by aggression or anger, for examplethe lower levels ones of lung function even after controlling for age,...

Fortis to Inject Rs.300 Mn into Escorts Hospital

...tre (EHIRC) last week to join the Apollo Hospitals along with nearly 50 doctors and paramedics from EHIRC. ...he post held by Yatin Mehta before he left Escorts along with Trehan....

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

... large sewage to pollute the lake. Encroachment along the banks of the lake and in shallow waters adds to the problem, adds Yusaf. Thousands of tonnes of sewage spew into the lake, feeding weeds and affecting the lake and its aquatic life. The lake's size has nearly halved during the last few decades...

Low Levels of Testosterone may Increase the Risk of Death in Older Men

...en with low testosterone was a larger waist girth along with a cluster of cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors related to this type of fat accumulation. Men with low testosterone are three times more likely to have the metabolic syndrome than men with higher testosterone levels; metabolic syndrome is ...

GAB2-A New Alzheimers Gene Identified

...mers therapeutic drugs. We hope that this study, along with the genome-wide genetics studies to come, will contribute to the clarification of Alzheimers risk factors and disease mechanisms, the discovery of promising new disease-slowing and prevention therapies, and the identification of patients and at-...

Drinking Oolong Tea can Help Fight Obesity

...le against the bulge. Researchers in the country along with identifying five new genes related to obesity during a five-year study have also found that polyphenols in tea, especially Oolong tea, can help you lose weight. Guo Xirong, director of the Nanjing Institute for Pediatrics affiliated to Nanjing...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...gurate the event by taking the medicine every year along with his cabinet colleagues, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and his ministers stay away from the event to avoid any controversy. However, the government departments continued to make arrangements to facilitate smooth conduct of the event, drawing criticis...

NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and Strokes

...Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., along with a standardized, painless, non-invasive ultrasound examination of the carotid artery, which carries blood from the heart to the brain. A standard carotid ultrasound measures plaque and blood flow within the artery. When an ultrasound is used wi...

A Novel Target for Type-2 Diabetes Atk2

...treating type 2 diabetes The target is a protein, along with its molecular partner, that regulates fat metabolism. Over the last 10 years, we have begun to understand the importance of fat metabolism in diabetes, notes lead author Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diab...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

... because the plane carrying the donor lung crashed along with the doctors slated to perform the operations. We are relieved that we were able to do this transplant and give this man another chance for life, Dr. Jeffrey Punch, director of the division of transplantation at the University of Michigan, said...

Fluctuations in Ocean Salinity Could Forewarn of Climate Change

...ntic), the energy is transferred through the ocean along a deep pressure wave. The surge of salt generates a pressure gradient in the ocean that sends energy to the north without water actually being transported, said Prof. Zahn. Currently there is no large-scale salt monitoring system in place in the ...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...nervous system that causes uncontrollable shaking, along with impaired speech and movement. In approximately one third of cases it also results in dementia. Estimates of its prevalence vary between 0.1 and 0.3 percent of the population, meaning that approximately one in 500 people contract the disease....

Developing Antimetastasis Therapy- An Early Stage of Tumor Control.

...searcher Jacqueline Shields provide an explanation along with data to support it. Tumors produce excess fluid that continually percolates from the tumor towards nearby lymphatic vessels. The EPFL research shows how tumor cells use a clever chemical strategy to exploit this slow, one-way flow in order to...

Healthier Options at the Buffalo Food Fest

...ll have mango sorbet and smoked chicken sandwiches along with the hot fudge sundaes and bleu cheese burgers, a low-fat cookie there with the cheesecake. "It'll be interesting to see," said Ania Gurnari, whose family-owned bakery, E.M. Chrusciki, has offered its sugar-coated "angel wings" and other pastri...

TB Super-strain Found in Myanmar Migrants

... Some live as refugees in Thailand in camps strung along the border, but many more are migrants who either cross back and forth or who take jobs in Thailand. Without addresses or telephones, providing follow-up treatment is difficult. Treating a normal TB case takes up to nine months, but Romero said tha...

Where Children Lead the Sanitation Drive

...ases and not open-air defecation," she said. "I, along with members of the self help group made countless door-to-door visits to sensitise the villagers. At one point we even took to snatching their lotas (water pots) to force them to use latrines," she added. The women found an unlikely supporter in B...

A Handful of Pistachios a Day Helps to Keep Your Heart Healthy

...unsaturated fat, which can lower blood cholesterol along with heart disease. Of all snack nuts, pistachios offer the highest level of phytosterols, and are a powerful source of fiber, both of which reduce the absorption of cholesterol from the diet. Pistachios make a wise snack choice as they are contain d...

Chinese Delegation Meets Health Minister Regarding Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Supply

...Wang Lifeng, President and CEO of the organization along with four officials met the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare , Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss today in New Delhi. The CNBG is Government owned, the largest vaccine manufacturer and supplier in China. Among other things, the delegation discussed t...

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