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World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

... Awareness regarding the environmental crisis began way back in the twentieth century. In 1972, The United Nations General Assembly decreed that the world observe World Environment Day (WED) on June 5, each year. Accordingly, every year a different city plays host to WED and organizes an internation...

Stress Protein Inactivation Cuts Alzheimer's Peptide in Mice

... similar rapid change in amyloid beta levels, they began searching for molecules released in the mouse brain by stress. The investigators identified corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) that is linked to increased levels of brain cell communication, which that in turn has already been associated to incr...

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

...s, Healthy Babies Coalition, "Since the government began its mandatory food fortification program in 1998, and public/private partnerships have been urging women to take a multivitamin with folic acid, we've seen a 27 percent decline in the number of neural tube birth defects in this country. The importanc...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

...uty (NB)' cosmetics and skincare empire, which she began building in the early 1970s, has helped improve th...ng. As the NB facial franchise and product sales began to slow in Taiwan in the early 1990s amid regional economic troubles and as more health-conscious wo...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...ving placebo and which pramlintide. Participants began with a four-day inpatient stay. All subjects recei...bo during the first two days. The treatment period began on day three. The subjects received pramlintide or placebo via subcutaneous injection 15 minutes pri...

Talcum Powder Curbs Lung Tumor Risk

...s than one day after treatment with talc, patients began producing 10-fold higher levels of endostatin, a hormone released by healthy lung cells. Endostatin prevents new blood vessels from forming, slows cell growth and movement, and even induces nearby tumor cells to commit suicide. All of these make it h...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...sex at Hong Kong clubs, said going north for drugs began with the rave culture that came in from the West. "That's when party drugs began to get popular among the youths here. They follow it because they believe it's a new fashion, they d...

Experts Stresses the Need for National Vaccination Policy

...s a Vaccine Action Programme (VAP) with India that began in 1984. India's vaccination modules go by a pl...more than 90 percent. India's vaccination story began in 1948 when the BCG vaccine was offered for immunity from tuberculosis (TB). Sixty years on, the go...

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

...e brain tumor, it said. Pre-operation procedures began last month when doctors inserted wire coils into brains' blood vessels to create independent circulation for each child. The girls share the same circulatory system, so that any medication administered to one affects the other. Doctors feared that as...

Whooping Cough Spreads from a Massachusetts Hospital

...ditor in the Cape Cod Hospital oncology department began showing symptoms of pertussis in May and went to h... June 6, a staff member in the oncology department began showing symptoms of pertussis. The concern is mainly that infants will be exposed to the disease....

Mozambique Set to Liberalise Abortion Law

...abortion drugs supplied by the nurse, but she soon began vomiting and violently shaking. "As her situatio...home. But soon after I had taken those things, I began to feel very, very sick." With her husband in prison, Mateus had to call her parents who rushed her ...

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

...drug will protect dopamine neurons, so that if you began taking it early enough, you won't get Parkinson's disease, even if you were at risk," said lead researcher James Surmeier, professor of physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago. "It would be like taking a baby aspirin every day to protect y...

Surgeons Shocked By Green-Blooded Man

...ot a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding greenish-black blood . Describing the case in the Lancet, lead doctor Dr. Alana Flexman from St Pauls Hospital in Vancouver, wrote how his team was startled to discover green blood flowing in the veins of a man prepped for surgery. The 4...

Four Malaysians in Hospital for Bird Flu Checks

...metre (half a mile) radius from where the outbreak began in Sungai Buloh. Samples from nearly 6,700 fowl outside the outbreak zone showed no presence of the virus, it said in a statement....

US Court Asked to Decide Whether Childhood Vaccines can Cause Autism

..."The profound downward change in Michelle's health began seven days following the MMR," the Legal Times newspaper quoted Michelle's mother, Theresa Cedillo, as saying. Vaccine experts point out that parents often link vaccines with their children's symptoms because getting a shot can be upsetting. They...

Diabetes Reduces Life Expectancy, Increases Heart Disease Risk

...cted three follow-up periods of 12 years each that began in 1956 to 1958, 1969 to 1973, and 1985 to 1989. Participants were followed during each of the three periods until they developed cardiovascular disease or died, and their diabetes status was measured again at the beginning of each interval. Women ...

Life After Death: Organ Donation

...ving kidneys. So much so that, patients themselves began to arrive at the government's portals to seek authorization . In the place of the 300 transplants that were done earlier, only 70-80 are currently considered. Although precautions to check discrepancies are taken, care has been taken not to hassle th...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...he slight incisions on his patient's back and then began to pump out the air. In the ensuing vacuum , the thick dark blood slowly oozed out of the cuts and into the clear containers. "The Assyrians, the Chinese and the ancient Egyptians all used to practice cupping to draw out the corrupt blood," said Ha...

US Court Allows Teva to Deliver Disputed Drug: Novartis

...ainst Teva in the New Jersey court. "Teva, which began selling a generic version of Lotrel in the US in May 2007, risks potentially significant damages if Novartis prevails in patent litigation," it added. Lotrel, which is sold only in the US, combines in a single capsule two active ingredients that indi...

Altered Protein Structure was Found in Autism Patients

...ween nerve and muscle for the past 30 years. They began studying the neuroligins because of the similarity in structure and amino acid sequence with acetylcholinesterase....

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