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Water - The silent killer!!!

...nd of March. The report says most of those who die are children and much of the suffering is needless. People in the developing world are particularly at risk for water-borne diseases. About 2.2 million people die of diarrhea caused by dr...

Teens turning to Internet for medical queries

...the survey, which included more than 400 students, are being presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine in San Diego, California.Though it is to be welcomed that teens use the Internet to learn more on health, the flip side is that these teens rush to their own diagn...

Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

...e short term and long term side effects of smoking are well known and a recent study says that smoking ha...to be blamed for this, as the developing countries are forced to drop tariff barriers against highly successful international brands. Whatever be the reaso...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

WE are seeing the first signs of a reverse brain drain in...ternational levelshave been the main draw, doctors are actually taking pay cuts to work inIndia. Fortis Healthcare, which is slated to open their first Rs ...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

...l and biotechnology firms various CancerInstitutes are investigating 402 compounds for the treatment of v...ouscancers, up from 215 in 1995. Many of the drugs are alternatives to standardradiation and chemotherapy. For lung cancer, the leading cause ofcancer-rela...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...illion goats and 15.4 million pig population. "We are prepared to increase production as per government ...iondrops and the animals do not gain weight and so are unfit for consumption.Their value in the meat market dips. Hence farmers find it cheaper to slaught...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...ompanies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners for the proposed proj... India, Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E. ``We are closely examining the proposal made by Chiron Corp as part of our industry-academia initiatives and ...

Drug saves heroin addicts

...d and early results were encouraging. The doctors are now studying the uses of “take home” naloxone and argue for its wider distributio....

New antibiotic already developing resistance

...acteria, is already becoming stale as the bacteria are showing signs of resistance. The drug linezolid i... Enterococcus faecium (E. faecium) infections that are resistant to the old standby antibiotic vancomycin. The hope has been that the new drug would help t...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...en outstrips the supply. However, potential donors are strictly screened to make sure that the procedure ...f the liver and bile ducts. Potential liver donors are generally limited to family members, spouses or close friends. While an exact genetic match between ...

Skinny people need to exercise too

... people. But recent study shows that skinny people are also prone to developing heart diseases because fitness and fatness are both important factors in the genesis of various heart ailments. Dr. Peter T. Katzmarzyk of York Un...

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...ll developing countries, a spokeswoman said. NGOs are now preparing to fight the fundamental WTO rules. ...revolution. Several independent groups in Britain are now rising to support what is developing into a legal revolution against drug apartheid. Street powe...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...pment, according to new research. Currently there are two reasons for ear tube surgery -- persistent, se... some controversy and speculation and some doctors are convinced it's a problem," said Paradise. There's been a perception that children with liquid in the...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

...y and increasing levels of pollution, the symptoms are worsening and number of asthmatics needing hospitalization is increasing. The doctors who assisted the survey say that underestimation of the severity of asthma can lead to dangerous and life threatening situations....

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

... Apollo Hospitals announced on Thursday that plans are afoot to consider listing on US bourses in 2003. "... for the post-2002 period. Though further details are not available at the moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans to raise the number of beds to 8000 from the...

Breast cancer treatment to be determined by gene test

... on Monday. About 5% to 10% of all breast cancers are caused by an inherited genetic susceptibility. The majority of these cancers are linked to mutations or alterations in two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. It is estimated that mutation carr...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...rding to many diabetics is the finger stick. There are unfortunate patients who use the stick up to six t...es other than the fingertip. Other testing systems are still in the pipeline, including a patch that changes color as it draws glucose through the skin and...

TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa

...death rate has gone up by 10% in 2 years and there are no signs of the destruction slowing down. Health ...used to treat tuberculosis. The classical symptoms are gradual loss of weight, evening rise of body temperature, and moderate to severe cough. The disease ...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

... vaccination were to blame. Though these findings are not sufficient to convince all skeptics, atleast a vast majority of the scientific community now feel convinced that the oral polio vaccine was not the villain that unleashed HIV on the human race....

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

At times when the breast lumps are too small to be picked up by a mammogram, the patient may be unaware that she is a potential candidate for breast cancer. But to offset this problem, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore headed by Dr. Saraswathi Su...

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