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Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...ure how many lives the steroids had claimed but he believed the figure was high. Yet mothers still come to him to request pills for their daughters, believing that thin girls are shameful because they look 'sick'. To be 'sick' is often a euphemism for having HIV/AIDS in Africa. But the message is getting ...

Women More Vulnerable to Multiple Sclerosis, Research Shows

... body is disrupted. Multiple sclerosis is widely believed to be an autoimmune disease, a condition in which the immune system attacks components of the body as if they're foreign. In multiple sclerosis, the body mistakenly directs antibodies and white blood cells against proteins in the myelin sheath, a f...

Eyes Wide Shut-To The Dangers Of Kajal

...d traditionally by ladies to beautify the eyes are believed to contain above 50 percent lead, a known toxin. Lead poisoning can lead to cognitive and behavioral problems in children as well as damage the kidneys, nervous system and reproductive system of those who ingest it, say health authorities. At pa...

Researchers Make Headway in Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy

... called protein kinase C beta (PKC beta), which is believed to contribute to the blood vessel damage that leads to the disease. This is the first time a drug has been shown to protect against the complication in a human clinical trial. According to Dr. Richard Insel, Executive Vice President of Research for...

Hunt for Sea Delicacy Taking a Toll in California

... contributed to the latest deaths. The victims are believed to have drowned or died of heart attacks. Some black out as they rush to the surface for air. Others get tangled in kelp, a kind of seaweed. Some get exhausted in the churning surf or overexert themselves prying the stubborn, snail-like creatures ...

Women Binge- Drinkers Warned Of Possible Link To Breast Cancer

...isk by 150 per cent. Accordingly, alcohol is believed to be the biggest factor behind surging rates of breast cancer in the UK, with 44,000 cases diagnosed each year and 13,000 deaths. In this study, binge-drinking was classified as four or more units of alcohol in a session. UK health guidelines rec...

Ulcer Causing Microbe Linked To Protection From Asthma

...ly to suffer from GERD as non-asthmatics, and it's believed that the stomach acid causes lung injury. It might not seem obvious, but H. pylori infection is actually thought to be protective against developing GERD. Though Blaser agrees that additional research needs to be done to confirm the association and...

Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

...ng their function and leading to death. India is believed to have nearly 30 million carriers of the thalassaemia gene. It is reportedly more prevalent among Sindhis, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Bengalis, Gaurs and Saraswats. Source-IANS/V...

Jefferson Researchers Want to Learn If Heart Defect 'at Heart' of Some Migraines

...re susceptible to migraine. This susceptibility is believed to be due to the passage of material from the right side of the heart to the left side of the heart via the PFO. Blood and material that travels through the PFO is not filtered or oxygenated and in this form may travel to the brain, which can trigger...

To Remember Or Not - Brain Protein CREB Calls The Shots

...ases the production of other proteins in cells, is believed to be involved in memory formation in various organisms. The scientists hope that their findings, reported in the current issue of Science, may help pave the way to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. "Earlier studies have linked the CREB pro...

Travelers’ Hazard- Antihistamines Make Drowsy Driver

...efore setting off. Just under a quarter of drivers believed there was nothing wrong with driving while on hayfever or allergy medication. The report also found that eight in ten drivers would amend their behavior if they discovered a hayfever medicine might affect their driving. Says Dr James Lawrie, a GP...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...droitin reduces joint pain. While glucosamine is believed to stimulate production of cartilage-building proteins, chondroitin may inhibit production of cartilage-destroying enzymes and fight inflammation too. Cartilage is a smooth, connecting tissue that covers the ends of bones in a joint. It enables our ...

Johns Hopkins Begins Aggressive Screening for 'superbugs' in Children

...e Epidemiology of America (SHEA) in Baltimore, are believed among the first to make a case for better screening in efforts to slow spread of the germs in hospitalized children. The study compared the effectiveness of weekly screening to current practices for ordering tests and found the weekly model to be ...

Australian State Health Official Sacked Following Poisoning Outbreak in Nursing Home

...ree men and a woman aged in their 70s and 80s, are believed to have died from salmonella-related gastroenteritis over the Easter period but the minister was not notified until Friday. Salmonella is a type of bacteria that causes food poisoning and is commonly found in meat and animal waste, particularly pou...

Data On Three Million Georgia Residents Lost

...eorgia, U.S has been reported missing. The data is believed to have been lost in transit//. The CD is said to contain social security numbers, birth dates and addresses of people who were enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare, a state health insurance program for children, during the four years preceding June 2...

Acupuncture Points Way to Relief from Many Ailments

...edicine. It seeks to influence the flow of what is believed to be the body's vital life force by inserting needles at certain points. There are more than 360 acupuncture points, which are arranged along meridians or pathways. The meridians are the same on both sides of the body, and the points are associate...

More Mutations Of Gene That Cause Skin Disorders And Asthma Discovered

...European patients with 9 percent of the population believed to carry the defect. It was seen that two of these mutations were prevalent in those tested from Oriental backgrounds. Eczema is known to affect around one in five UK children. Knowing which mutations to look for could allow doctors to identify i...

Use Filtered Blood for Transfusion: Expert

... that were used in each study, and found what they believed to be flawed data in some cases. The chief problem, Blumberg's group discovered, was that some studies included hundreds of patients who never received blood transfusions. These patients would have been irrelevant to a study assessing the risks and/o...

COAG Must Make Combating Severe Allergies A National Priority

... by the death last month of a Melbourne schoolboy, believed to be from exposure to peanuts. 'But children with this life-threatening condition can be kept safe if the people around them know what to do when an anaphylactic reaction occurs.' The Victorian Government recently introduced an anaphylaxis kit...

Patent Problems in US – Over Stem Cell Researc

...is activists, the Public Patent Foundation said it believed patents issued earlier to Thomson’s cells were not in public interest. A Californian consumer group said the patents impeded that state’s three billion US dollar stem cell research programme. Actually Thomson’s isolation of stem cells nine years ...

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