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Minister Of State For Industry Urges Corporate Sectors To Help India's Disabled Population

...sabled people. It is only then can the physically challenged be helped to be brought into the mainstream, said ...ation remains a major challenge for the physically challenged people. While 93 percent of people of the category are below secondary level in rural India, 82 pe...

Hispanic Farmworkers Need More Information on Skin Disease

...periority." Arcury said these beliefs need to be challenged in any programs designed to reduce occupational skin disease. "First, the notion that it affects only those who are susceptible needs to be dispelled," he said. "Second, the delayed effects of some risk factors, such as sunlight exposure, need to be ...

Distressed Couple Assists Parents Of Mentally Challenged Kids

...ave not lessened the pain of losing their mentally challenged daughter Ammi but have spurred Ashok Trivedi and h...r death, the couple decided to help other mentally challenged children by sharing their hardships and experiences with their parents. Trivedi and his wife have ...

Genetics Might BE The Basis For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

...n put together four teams of different experts and challenged them to develop ways to integrate and analyse a wide range of medical data so as to identify those things that could improve the diagnosis, treatment, or understanding of CFS. Dr. Suzanne Vernon added that with this finding they are closest for bein...

Moderate Drinking Does Not Guard Against Heart Disease

...enefits associated with moderate drinking has been challenged by a recently published study which highlights that light drinking may not offer protection// against cardiovascular disease. Previous studies have established that regular consumption of up to two drinks per day can help reduce the risk of develop...

Rituximad Can Treat Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Study

...long with donor stem cells. This thinking has been challenged by research, by Dana-Farber's Jerome Ritz, MD, and others, that indicates that immune system B cells, as well as T cells, play a critical role in GVHD. (T cells are so named because they mature in the thymus gland, while B cells are derived from bone...

Stage Set For Final Hearing On India’s Biggest Ever Medical Compensation Clai

...d peeling of the skin's top layer. Saha has also challenged the West Bengal government in the Supreme Court for "shielding doctors accused of medical negligence". The case came up in Supreme Court on a writ petition challenging West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's statement in July last year...

An appeal by an epilepsy doctor in UK against his hospital

... public and are proportionate." The doctor has challenged the decision and appealed against it...

Vaccine to protect birds against avian flu, engineered

...nasally and subcutaneously. The chickens were then challenged with a dose of whole H5N1 virus 10,000 times greater than the dose given to the mice. It was found that all of the chickens that were immunized subcutaneously survived exposure to H5N1 and developed strong HA-specific antibody responses and showe...

Tobacco plant based Vaccine against Plague

...inst the required strain of the bacterium and when challenged with a dosage of Yersinia pestis bacterium the guinea pig antibodies were found to counteract these bacterium and produce an effective immunity killing these bacterium....

Sleep Inertia Resembles Intoxication

...rd to have a lazy prefrontal cortex. The math test challenged short-term memory, counting skills, and speedy thinking. The prefrontal cortex handles all these activities. The good news is that sleep inertia does not last for more than 3 minutes. But further studies have to be done to prove the delayed effect ...

‘Never Say Die’ Spirit of Visually Challenged - Makes Him a Role Modl

...kes his own living but also helps other physically challenged people both in spirit and kind//. Srinivas Jena ...family but also helps hundreds of other physically challenged people both in spirit and kind. "When I lost my sight at the age of five, I was shattered and did ...

Alcohol lovers: It has no role in Heart disease

...s from Auckland University conducted the study and challenged the French paradox that makes believe alcohol has its role in the health and longevity of French population. They termed it a figment of “confused research”. According to them, “One typical problem with the studies is that they classified those subj...

Passive smoking may be harmless

... critics who called it biased and inaccurate. They challenged the findings, stating the research was partially underwritten by the tobacco industry. They said the study is neither reliable nor independent. This study forms a direct contradiction to reports by World Health Organization, that found a link between...

Blood pressure control with ACE inhibitor or diuretic?

...blished in The New England Journal of Medicine has challenged the American ALLHAT trial that showed diuretics were superior to ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors and calcium channel blockers in controlling blood pressure. The Australian study included 6,083 people who were mostly white. Blood pressu...

Treadmill test displays hidden heart disease

...ured. In other words, the heart's functioning when challenged is assessed. They found that those who had abnormal results on the test were about twice as likely to die of heart disease compared to those with normal results. Many of these people had high cholesterol, but no other signs of heart disease. The re...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...gs -- which the Nature papers now question -- have challenged the traditional view that with the possible exception of those from the brain, adult stem cells are limited to the tissues from which they arise. Many opponents of the creation of stem cells through the removal of an inner cell mass from a 5-to-7-day...

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...mental organizations (NGOs). The 39 companies had challenged a South African government order that legalized us...hich include some of the biggest in the world, had challenged the order on the ground that it violates their intellectual property rights (IPR) under the World Tr...

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