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Choose the apple wisely to keep the doctor away

... effective as Empire. Another revealing fact that came to light was that the skin contained five times ore polyphenol activity than flesh. "When taste and texture do not matter, choosing an apple with a high proportion of polyphenols in the flesh and skin can potentially produce more health benefits," s...

New findings come to light about monkeypox

...e strain of virus that had traveled half the globe came from West Africa. This was one of the less virulent virus strains and had been seen in the western world for the first time. One of the reasons for the virus which primarily infects the animals is seen to affect the humans is the fact that human habi...

Five patients die amid Bihar doctors' strike

...ctor to attend to patients," said Mahesh Mahto who came from Nawada three days ago to admit his daughter in the hospital. Similarly, Mohammad Karim was worried about his wife, who is a patient there: "No doctor, no nurse to give injection to the patients...What more can I say, we are at the mercy of god....

Bihar High Court Intervenes To End Doctors Strike

...s to call off their strike immediately. This order came after hearing a filed petition, that the strike has crippled emergency services since its start on Friday. The death of several critical patients due to lack of health care at the hospital also added to the intervention of the Bihar High Court. The...

Integrin helps healing process in cells

...re about this breakthrough.// The discovery came when scientists analyzed two different proteins on skin cells. The first integrin was called alpha (3) beta (1) and worked as a sort of tug boat that helps cells move along and respond to chemical messages sent out by the wounded tissue. These chemic...

Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer

...hers using slightly different detection techniques came up with almost identical results: SV40 fragments were found in 42 percent of 154 lymphomas sampled in one study, while the other found 43 percent in 68 cases. No virus was detected by either study in nonmalignant lymphoid samples and other cancers u...

SARS outbreaks contained

...2 lives. "Today is a milestone," she said, but it came with the warning that "the world is not SARS free." "There are still close to 200 SARS patients in hospitals," Brundtland said in a statement from WHO headquarters in Geneva. "It is possible that cases have slipped through the net." Although the vi...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...rson spread easier. One of those mutated strains came to dominate the outbreak. The Chinese researchers linked that strain's first appearance to a patient who got sick in February -- and whose doctor a few days later traveled to Hong Kong and spread the virus in the Metropole Hotel, the launching pad fo...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...rson spread easier. One of those mutated strains came to dominate the outbreak. The Chinese researchers linked that strain's first appearance to a patient who got sick in February -- and whose doctor a few days later traveled to Hong Kong and spread the virus in the Metropole Hotel, the launching pad fo...

Seaweed Supplements Could Prevent Breast Cancer

...ting two women with menstrual problems researchers came up with the idea of doing the above study. After the women began taking kelp supplements, which are available in health food stores, they saw a significant decline in painful symptoms and a lengthening of their menstrual cycles. One of the women also...

Experts Recommend Preventive Measures For Avian Flu To Begin From Farms

...Kazakhstan. The initial reports of avian influenza came from the Mongolian Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which conducted preliminary testing of birds that died at Erkhel Lake in the Kovsgol province near the Russian border. A joint WCS-Mongolia team that was working in western Mongolia immediately w...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...n 1919 started a new process and the latex condoms came into vogue. It had the advantage of ageing less quickly and being thinner and odourless. The condoms started selling in millions and became more popular. In 1957- Durex introduced the first lubricated condom was launched in the UK by Durex.(5) 19...

General Anesthesia For Heroin Detoxification Is No Good

... other methods of detoxification. The study, which came in the latest issue of JAMA, also points out the fact that use // of general anesthesia in these circumstances can also lead to adverse life threatening events. Medically supervised heroin withdrawal remains plagued by patient discomfort and high dr...

Genetic Cause For Farsightedness Discovered

...an Amish-Mennonite woman who was blind in one eye, came to the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1998 for treatment. By reconstructing the woman's family tree, the researchers discovered that several living relatives also suffered from nanophthalmos, and four deceased relatives had been part of the classic Johns Ho...

Will you be willing to patch up your vertebrae with cement?

... the treatment of osteoarthritis. Vertebroplasty came to the United States in 1993, when Dr. Mary Jensen and Dr. Jacques Dion, interventional neuroradiologists at the University of Virginia Health System, were confronted with a woman with breast cancer that had spread to her spine. Conventional medicine...

Statins Taken For Reducing Cholesterol Found To Reduce Death Rate Associated With Heart Attack As Well

...ty unnecessary. Along with the change in lifestyle came a change in diet. The combination of a sedentary lifestyle and a rich diet led to an increase in clogged blood vessels, heart attacks, and strokes. Heart disease then became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940...

Can Home Remedy For Stomachache Work?

...the studies, what people were out there doing, and came up with a guide for pediatricians. According to the research findings, historically, 50 years ago, people used home remedies. Then they began relying on prescriptions, and now there is a swing back toward using more natural health products. The art...

Vitamin D With NSAID Drugs May Prevent Prostate Cancer

...profen or naproxen. But the prostate cell growth came down by 70 percent when they combined calcitrol with ibuprofen or naproxen. "Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (such as ibuprofen or naproxen) have their own risks," says Feldman. "So, we have to be careful even with lower doses and we still n...

Risk of colon cancer to be assessed by simple blood test

...otein production proteins on which parent the copy came from. For IGF-2, only the gene copy inherited from the father should be turned on, and that from the mother should be off. In about five percent to 10 percent of people, however, both copies of the gene are turned on -- a problem called loss of impr...

When A Prince Chose To Help Indian Couple

...eally grateful to the prince whose representatives came to our house and took the girls to (New) Delhi and got them admitted in the Apollo hospital.' Khatoon, a mother of seven, had been nursing the conjoined twins ever since they were born, with all the love and affection they deserve. 'They were confi...

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