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AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...ing," "What South Africa has gone through 10 years back India is going through now."...

Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

...ma cell lines was blocked, the cancer cells revert back to normal-appearing cells. This could point the way to new therapies for one of the most aggressive childhood cancers, as well as other cancers associated with increases in the HMG-I/Y gene according to the Johns Hopkin's research team....

Pancreatitis: Minimially Invasive Procedure Offers Long-Term Pain Relief

...ates severe and even crippling upper-abdominal and back pain. In many cases, Kalloo says, pain may be caused by elevated pressures in the pancreatic duct. For these patients, endoscopic therapy that includes endoscopic pancreatic sphincterotomy (EPS), in which surgeons cut the sphincter muscle at the end ...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

.... With sexually transmitted diseases making a come back in terms of number of cases reported and with ever increasing abortions sparking a major international debate, abstinence has caught the fancy of teens the world over. But some are cynical about the whole exercise and they say this is an attempt at...

Clinton's new problem - Is the outgoing American president suffering from skin cancer?

...resident had a biopsy done on a skin lesion on his back to rule out skin cancer. Also it was reported that his cholesterol is on the increase and the president is actually not in the best of shape that he would like to be - as he leaves the white house. The medical report was released on Friday after ...

Gay capital reeling with rising HIV infection

...gay men lower their guard and the virus has struck back with a vengeance. Aggressive prevention programmes...in incidence a few years ago. But now the ghost is back and it is vigorously claiming fresh victims at an alarming pace. Health workers say the lackluster...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

...ors recycled the blood lost from the infant’s body back to his circulation. Also the infant was given drugs to stimulate the production of red blood cells. Recycling ones own blood is permissible amongst the Witnesses. The surgery is the first of its kind in an infant but with the successful result obtain...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...one at the patient's bedside, "getting the nurses' back to the patient's side" and making doctors more efficient.Oracle will provide the technology that will allow Health South to improve record-keeping and patient care, officials of the two companies said in a briefing on Monday. Ultimately, they said, t...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...ountry is steadily luring moreand more NRI doctors back to home turf. And unlike other sectors, where comp...ector at Max, agree. ``I have been wanting to come back to India for the last two years, but didn'tfind a decent hospital that I would be comfortable workin...

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...ade Organization (WTO). The move by the firms to back off is "a victory for millions of poor people in South Africa and around the world," said an Oxfam spokesman. Oxfam, a major Britain-based NGO, has been in the forefront of moves to oppose the drug companies. "The fight to provide all poor people wit...

TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa

Tuberculosis is back with a vengeance. The killer disease of the past is now killing millions in Africa as it has found a new partner in its destructive mission. Full-blown cases of AIDS coupled with TB is killing on an average three million people a year in Africa alone...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...esting the contrary have no scientific evidence to back them up. The studies, from researchers in the US, UK, France and Germany, should help free the polio vaccine manufactured by the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from lingering questions over its proposed role in creating the HIV scou...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...uddenly stopped, could provide a way to bring them back to life without organ damage. Dr. Lance B. Becker, Director of the Emergency Resuscitation Center at the University of Chicago said that thousands of people die every day due to sudden cardiac arrest, which is a different condition unlike a heart at...

Better prostate cancer detection

...that it saves certain patients from having to come back for a second biopsy - when the first is clear but cancer is still suspected....

Say "no" to x-rays

...have found that giving x-rays to people with lower back pain can appear to worsen the outcome. The study ...roups of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given radiography, the other was not. Researchers found that...

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

... purpose of such distribution was to obtain a feed back from medical profession as to the efficacy of the distributed drugs. The Supreme Court observed that the object of distribution of samples of the drugs to the doctors is to make them aware that such drugs are available in the market in relation to ...

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

... surgery are compensatory sweating on the abdomen, back or thighs, but this sweating is often not nearly as severe as was experienced on the hands....

New Modality in Migraine Management

...'s no altered consciousness. Patients can go right back to work," Krusz added.He also said that he had taught the doctors in his hospital how to use it and he is confident in implementing the same modality to the comfort level of use. May this be a good find to wind up the miseries for those migraine suf...

Silicon eye implants

...the device, who had already done this work an year back over three people who had lost their vision due// to a hereditory condition called retinitis pigmentosa,said that implanting three more people will give them a large data. He would be doing the implant of these micro chips in one woman and two men s...

Hazards of sunlight

... the retina, the light sensitive tissue lining the back of the eye. It is the leading cause of blindness world-wide. Researchers found people who were exposed to high levels of sunlight, or solar radiation, were up to four times more likely to develop cataracts.The researchers, led by Dr Cecile Delcourt,...

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