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The Dangers of Make-up

...will be to the face or hands, and sometimes on the arms and legs." A campaign group has now demanded that manufacturers of cosmetics should label more information regarding their product-ingredients and their side effects. Julia Mitchell, spokeswoman for www.chemicalsafeskincare.co.uk said, "Media rep...

Mature Muscle Fibers Can Revert to Become Cancerous

...form of cancer that occurs primarily in the trunk, arms and legs of older children or teenagers. The disease starts when one of two genes, called PAX3 and PAX7, fuses with another gene called FKHR, or “Forkhead.” Scientists, however, had not known which type of tissue turned into tumor cells: mature m...

Cancer Affects Mature Muscle Fibers

...form of cancer that occurs primarily in the trunk, arms and legs of older children or teenagers.The disease starts when one of two genes, called PAX3 and PAX7, fuses with another gene called FKHR, or "Forkhead."Scientists, however, had not known which type of tissue turned into tumor cells: mature muscle ...

Computer Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation Devices Way of the Future

...dvanced neuro-rehabilitation device offers robotic arms to move patients’ legs. Another device is an upper extremity robotic joystick, which helps patients to regain function of their arms. There is also a visual restoration device available for patients who have suffered visual loss due to stroke. Fisher...

Indian Doctor in Britain Jailed for Molesting Patients

...dle. She said: "He came towards me, put both his arms around me and kissed my lips and tried to stick his tongue down my throat". She pushed him away. Deodhar has already been suspended by the General Medical Council's interim orders panel until June, 2007. The doctor was also placed on the Sex Offend...

Junior Doctors Protest Against Reservation Bill

...al Nehru Medical College wore black bands on their arms in protest and forced the closure of all OPD services at the busy SRN Hospital this morning. Furious over the police crack down on Tuesday in New Delhi on medicos and other students who protested against the government move, members of the JDA came...

French Ship docks in Alang, Gujarat

...India to be scrapped. Environmentalists are up in arms against this move, due to the fear of toxic waste that will pollute the environment during the scrapping exercise. The ship contains 1,200 tonnes of cancer-causing toxic waste which the workers at Alang cannot handle effectively. Greenpeace and other...

Study Compares First-Line Drug Therapies For Treating HIV

...T cell count increase was greater in the two study arms containing lopinavir/ritonavir as compared to the efavirenz regimen. At week 96, the CD4+ T cells increased from baseline to 285 cells in the lopinavir/ritonavir group, 268 cells in the nucleoside-sparing group and 241 cells for the efavirenz regimen...

Engineer Paralyzed by Undercooked Lamb

...initial symptoms like muscle weakness in the face, arms and legs is followed by tingling or numbness that ... 10th birthday, he found that he couldn't move his arms or legs. A few days later White couldn't breathe and ended up needing a tracheotomy to keep him aliv...

Drivers in Casts, a Threat to Others

About half of Australians with arms in plaster casts are willing to drive in spite of believing that it increases their risk of crashing, according to recent research.// While there is still no law against driving with a plaster cast neither in Australia nor in New Zealand, the driv...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

...olar noon with 10-20% of their body exposed, i.e., arms and back in women and back or chest in men. Those with darker skin require 2-4 times as much time or body exposed for the same vitamin D production. This may help explain why black Americans have higher cancer incidence and mortality rates than white...

A Balancing Act: Hormones and the Skin

...and more hair growth than usual may be seen on the arms and legs and even the chest and groin area. Hirsutism can be treated with topical treatments as well as many modes of hair removal including waxing, shaving and laser treatments. If a woman has hirsutism, acne and irregular periods, polycystic ovar...

Sensors placed at home capable of signaling onset of early signs of dementia in elderly

...ng clinical changes that are difficult to get your arms around in the typically designed practice we have nowadays," said ORCATECH's director, Jeffrey Kaye, M.D., OHSU professor of neurology and biomedical engineering. Source : Eureka...

AIIMS Acquires Four-Armed Robot to Assist in Surgeries

...lled movements are transmitted through the robotic arms to perform the surgical procedure accurately." "We have also availed five years of free service and maintenance from the company," Gupta told reporters ahead of a two-day conference from Monday. Speaking of the advantages of new machine, Ashok K....

Tata Memorial Centre Wins Global Award For Fighting Cancer

...al and Cancer Research Institute merged as the two arms of the Tata Memorial Centre in 1966 as a classic example of private philanthropy augmented by government support. The Centre has functioned as an organization of the Department of Atomic Energy since 1962. Accepting the honour, Ketayun A Dinshaw, D...

Indian Origin Woman is the New Head of British Medical Association

...th of truth/ Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection/ Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert of dead habit..../Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake'." (Source: IANS)...

Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain Gives the Stroke Patients a Reprieve

... actually impair the patient's ability to move the arms and legs. Hence in this technique a magnet is used to reduce the nerve activity on the side of the brain not affected by the stroke. The study results are published in the journal Stroke. It also reports that the benefits from this therapy can be i...

Chronic Facial Pain Tackled By Cortex Stimulation

...t cures not only facial pains but also pain in the arms – researcher said. <br...

Epidural Mistakes Proves To Be Fatal Blunders

...ave been accidentally injected into veins in their arms which results in a heart attack. The main reason behind accidental injection is that staffs confuse bags containing the epidural with other drugs. In case of pregnant women epidurals are given for pain relief during labor. Intravenous drips are also ...

Excessive Text Messaging Causes Repetitive Strain Injury In A Eight Year Old Girl

...ths ago she started complaining about pains in her arms and hands. When she was taken to a local chiropractor, Dr David Cosgrave, she was diagnosed of having this condition. Dr David who is now treating her twice a week explains that text messaging regularly over a long period of time could cause both lon...

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