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Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

...lation to increase rapidly, he adds. One of the ancient Arabic names of Sanaa translates as The Protected City. As a journalist remarked, 'It looks as though the protection is running out. ' GPL/B...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

Guinea worm, an ancient parasitic disease causing tennis-ball-size ulcers so painful that victims feel as if they are on fire, could in less than two years// become the second illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment and other preventive ...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

...This disease which has been affecting people since ancient times could be exterminated in a couple of years f...taminating the water. This disease was found in ancient Egyptian mummies and was called fiery serpent. According to WHO director of Neglected Tropical Disea...

Hookah Could Be as Harmful as Cigarettes

..., mystique and social camaraderie surrounding this ancient practice, which originated in Persia and India, is another reason for its spread, said Thomas Eissenberg, a professor at the Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Source-IANS...

Siddha Medicine Texts to Be Published in English

A project to translate the ancient Tamil texts of Siddha system of medicine into English is on the verge of completion. // One set of translations from the texts, contained in palm leaf manuscripts, would be published soon, according to Arcot N.Veerasamy, a senior minister in the s...

Trial Run of Copper to Combat MRSA

... the pinkish red metal, which was in use even in ancient civilizations, is now been increasingly considered in modern day //hospital settings. Scientists of the NHS who are trying to root out MRSA and other superbugs, which are taking over many hospitals across U.K, are planning to put the anti- bacteri...

Honey to the Rescue-From Superbugs

.... Mention of honey and its benefits are seen in ancient Indian texts such as the Charaka and Susrutha Samhitis, and the Bible as well. Honey is known for its anti-bacterial properties, among others. The key ingredient that does the trick is hydrogen peroxide, which is derived from an enzyme that the be...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

...teria, fungi, plants, and animals suggests that an ancient organism, which was a precursor to all known organisms on Earth, had developed this feature because there was much more ammonia on the early Earth. The ubiquitous presence of this structure in all of the known ammonium transporters suggests that the ...

Ancient Genes Used to Produce Salt-Tolerant Wheat

Two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety have led to a major advance in breed..., we were lucky to find the durum variety with the ancient genes straight away, otherwise we might have been looking for years.” The team used their knowledg...

Madhya Pradesh Begins Surya Namaskar Amid Muslim Opposition

...nents of it say that though yoga had origin in the ancient Hindu texts, it had now a universal appeal and was followed by millions worldwide for holistic development of body and mind. Yoga literally means union or synthesis. Chouhan announced that yoga had been included as physical education in the educat...

Huge Ayurveda Library Coming Up in Jaipur

...0 books, including old and rare manuscripts on the ancient Indian art of healing, is coming up here. // To be built at the National Ayurveda Institute at a cost of over Rs.20 million, it will be one of the biggest ayurveda libraries in India. It will house national and international books, journals and rese...

Now Vedic Mantras to Cure Diseases

...ent teams would be constituted on the basis of the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda, the Vedas and astrology to diagnose about 100 general and incurable diseases and their treatment. In a two-year period, the scholars would analyse and study the impact of rays of various planets and other celestial bodie...

Micro-world of Prehistoric Bacteria Found in Amber

...a unique insight into the evolution and ecology of ancient micro-organisms. A key discovery was that many microbes appear to have changed very little in the last 200 million years. One amoeba found in the amber, Centropyxis hirsuta, is identical to a species that survives today. Amber is solidified tree ...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

...w light on evolutionary relationships of this very ancient and highly successful marine animal," said Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., executive director of UF's McKnight Brain Institute, who did not participate in the research. "A very important part of this study is the discovery of novel genes not formerly associ...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

... for drug discovery. It integrates nontraditional, ancient medical information with advanced technologies to ... far-fetched to think that the contributions of an ancient text and insights from traditional medicine really may impact modern public health,” explains Brent ...

Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug

... for drug discovery. It integrates nontraditional, ancient medical information with advanced technologies to ... far-fetched to think that the contributions of an ancient text and insights from traditional medicine really may impact modern public health," explains Brent ...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

... for drug discovery. It integrates nontraditional, ancient medical information with advanced technologies to ... far-fetched to think that the contributions of an ancient text and insights from traditional medicine really may impact modern public health,” explains Brent ...

Massive Booking For China's First-Ever 'Five-Star' Hospital

... confinement after giving birth in keeping with an ancient belief that the mother and child are particularly vulnerable to evil spirits during this period. Xiyue Postnatal Hospital, meaning happiness in Chinese, is more like a holiday resort with its well-furnished rooms for mothers and children and a swimm...

Water And Life In Mars ?

...ery flowing water’//. "We have had this story of ancient water on Mars," said Ken Edgett, a scientist with Malin Space Science Systems, during a press conference. "Today, we are talking about liquid water that is present on Mars right now.” The pictures taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, a satellite i...

Tuning to Raga Maybe Beneficial for the Heart

...ardio-respiratory responses." Interestingly, the ancient music form of the raga has been getting a new set of wider interests coming in via cyberspace, with the Wikipedia page devoted to it getting translated into German, French, Cutch, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish, apart from Tamil....

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