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Kalam Stressed the Need for Stem Cell Research to Cure Neuro Disorder

...solution to increase neuro activities of mentally challenged people. Addressing the 'differently-abled' stude... striving to improve the abilities of the mentally challenged students. "The types of works done in the institute are useful not only to its students, but also ...

Resistance to Scientific Explanations By Children and Adults

...ntinue into adulthood if the scientific claims are challenged and if the nonscientific alternative is based in common sense and championed by people who are thought to be reliable and trustworthy, the researchers said. This resistance to science has important social implications because a scientifically ignor...

People With Physical Disabilities can Now Play Music With Their Nose!

... may also be adapted for speech, giving physically challenged patients the ability to form full sentences, rathe...grams in Poughkeepsie, NY, as saying. Physically challenged patients are placed in front of the computer, where they see live video of their face through a Web ...

Specific Imbalance Between Two Peptides may Cause Alzheimer's

...searchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have challenged the current theory on the causes and prevention of Alzheimers disease , suggesting that a specific imbalance between two peptides may be responsible for preventing this form of dementia. "We have found that two peptides, AB42 and AB40, must be in b...

A Handful of Pistachios a Day Helps to Keep Your Heart Healthy

...ive benefits. Dr Cooper said that the study also challenged the previously held belief that a low-fat diet is best for heart health. "These results are exciting because the research indicates that adding pistachios to the daily diet can help protect the heart without a dramatic dietary lifestyle change," sa...

Canadian Court Rules Grocery Shops can Sell Cold Medications Containing Pseudoephedrine

...he Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, who challenged the original verdict, hailed the new ruling as a victory for rural store owners and consumers. Removing the remedies from grocery store shelves did little to combat the problem, since the number of meth labs dismantled in Ontario doubled in the mo...

70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death

...overished 70-year-old man and his three physically challenged sons have sought permission from India's president to end their lives// , saying there seemed to be little hope for the family. "With nobody to extend a helping hand, death is probably a wise option," says 70-year-old Hakimuddin, a resident of Kama...

Tobacco Control Laws to Be Regulated in India

... provisions of the tobacco control rules have been challenged in the court and there is a lot of opposition from tobacco growers but we are going to steadfastly advance the tobacco control agenda in India to save the lives of lakhs of poor people in the country. We must envisage the cities of Delhi and Mumba...

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

...hospitals in the state encouraged the economically challenged in the society to pose as relatives in order to procure their kidneys. The middleman emerged as the main king-pin and helped to conveniently carry out this whole exercise on the poor in the urban slums, who were their primary target. As a sequ...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

...tent plea. The Appellate Board’s ruling too can be challenged it in the courts. To add to Novartis’ miseries the technical member of the new appellate court will be none other than Chandrasekaran, former Controller General of the Indian Patent Office, who had rejected its application for Glivec patent. A spo...

Health Secretary Apologizes For Failed Online Recruitment System

...ar what it should have been,” she conceded. When challenged that the system itself was incompetent, Hewitt replied: “I don’t accept that at all. We are still in the process of ensuring that every junior doctor gets an interview and those interviews have already started - but they haven’t finished - for the jo...

Constipation Drug Linked to Heart Attack Pulled Out

...ug out of the market.(It is this Novartis that has challenged the rejection of its patent application for a cancer drug by Indian authorities. The suit has been filed in Madras High Court in southern India and the verdict is eagerly awaited as this is the first test case for India’s patent laws under the WTO re...

The Myth Called Health Insurance

...security and economic stability of a family can be challenged by medical debt. The group had listed its findings after interviewing 45 people in seven states. The people who had been interviewed had accumulated a huge debt despite having health insurance. The finding sought for clearer rules and standards of ...

Expert Panel Sets Limits on Pesticide Residues in Soft Drinks

...interim relief to the Kerala government, which had challenged the Kerala High Court's ruling against the ban imposed on sale of Pepsi and Coca-Cola in the state. However, the Court issued notices to Pepsico India Holdings Ltd and Hindustan Coca-Cola Pvt Ltd and asked them to file replies in four weeks. The K...

Science Stacks Up for Flavonoids for Heart Health

...he role of flavonoids as antioxidants was recently challenged by a review by scientists from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University reported that, while the compounds showed excellent antioxidant activity in the lab, they are rapidly metabolised in the body. "This does not preclude the possibi...

No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

...e problem of efficiently delivering drugs has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems that keep these drugs intact// until reaching their targets. Now scientists in the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have de...

Nearly 2,500 Mentally Ill Women in Delhi are Destitute: Abdul Kalam

...stice and empowerment about the number of mentally challenged persons in the country reveal that there are over 900,000 females with mental illness. Of these "nearly 280,000 fall in the age group 10-29 and nearly 250,000 fall in the age group 30-50. There is a need to carry out research why the people of this...

Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector

...ESI for the first three years, once the physically challenged person became a regular employee and got enrolled under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees State Insurance (ESI). To help with health insurance for senior citizens, Mr.Chidambaram said: 'On December 6, 2006, Rashtrapatiji launched an...

Improving Body Image Key to Treating Eating Disorders

.... During the body image party, patients are also challenged to come up with a positive word about themselves, not related to their appearance. The positive words help patients see themselves as creative, funny or compassionate. In experiential group therapy, patients assist one another to trace their bodies...

Indian Doctors Return Home from Britain, More on the Way

...s were made to immigration rules. The changes were challenged by the Indian medical community in court but a judicial review was disallowed by the high court February 9. Leaders of the Indian medical community say that the figure of 5,000 is approximate and that the actual figure could be more. The returning...

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