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Researchers developed world’s smallest toothbrus

...ly be some micrometers in diameter. The brush can clean extremely well the very small particles using elec...h is attached with a small electric motor that can clean the contaminants off the walls for a better brushing effect. The researchers hope to use the brush...

Pollution Free Hydrogen based fuel for Energy

... wind or hydrogen endeavor but whose commitment to clean air. Mark Z. Jacobson is an Associate Professor and he along with his graduate student Whitney Goldsborough Colella (both in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department) and Consulting Professor David M. Golden (Mechanical Engineering Depar...

Listeria Food Poisoning Can Be Dangerous In Pregnant Women And Elderly

... Ensuring that every food business operates from a clean and sanitized premises should be the first basic step in combating the spread of L. monocytogenes in food products. Regular laboratory testing of food samples and the factory environment should also form a key element of the strategy adopted by the f...

Policemen face trouble fighting malaria

...lages where we are posted. We are not even getting clean water," said Raju Barali, who is suffering from malaria himself. "When we are fighting disease, how can we fight Maoists?" "We are sending a medical team to the area to examine their health," a senior district health official said. Leftist extremi...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...d and disaster-response addresses the provision of clean water as a priority. The danger of malaria is more during the monsoon season due to breeding of mosquitoes and when the water starts receeding and some of it remains stagnant. Hence floods may indirectly lead to an increase in vector-borne diseases...

Complications In Kidney Failure Patients Linked To Heparin

...the patient’s blood is passed through a machine to clean it, similar to what the kidneys might do if the body was functioning normally. Heparin must be used to prevent clotting of the blood in the dialysis machine in order to safely perform hemodialysis. At this time, there are no other widely used alterna...

Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...ists for its growing health crisis. The goal is to clean insights into genetic differences, believed to be unique// to its population, which may play a key role in chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes and hypertension. Applied Biosystems (ABI), IBM Health care and Affymetrix with assist the government i...

Dental health neglected by over 60 % of Indians

...er 50% of rural India does not use a toothbrush to clean teeth while over 75% of toothpaste users brush once or less than once a day. These usage and attitudes only stresses the importance of how far we need to go in terms of imparting health education regarding oral hygiene. The goal however, cannot be a...

Sterilization Of Dental Instruments Is Inadequate, Says Study

...are used//. Files are instruments that are used to clean and disinfect the roots during a root canal proced...mple of medical devices that are very difficult to clean and effective cleaning of a re-usable device is essential to ensure the efficacy of the sterilizatio...

Unsafe Injections and Unclean Hand hygiene major cause of hospital infections in India

... The World Health Organization has stated that a clean and sanitized environment is required in the hospitals to prevent nosocomial infections, the World Health Organization has stated ahead of the 'Clean Care is Safer Care' program in Geneva. WHO is focusing a lot of its informative programs on Hand hy...

Flossing everyday keeps tooth decay away

...mpact says that flossing regularly keeps the teeth clean and is the most important factor in the prevention of gum disease// which affects more than 50 percent of the population. "Flossing every 24 hours to break up plaque is imperative for good oral health," said Gordon Isbell, DMD, MAGD, spokesperson fo...

Cabbage And Genes May Protect Against Lung Cancer

...ich eliminate the isothiocyanates in the blood and clean the body. Vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and sprouts are rich in chemicals called isothiocyanates, which strongly protect against lung cancer, but the link between lung cancer and cruciferous vegetables is not still clear. Eating cabbage has...

Pakistani Quake Survivors Face Outbreak Of Diarrhea

...help the survivors with providing hygiene and with clean water. --IANS...

Running Water Restored In Chinese City

...residents and Communist Party members were helping clean the contaminated portion of the Guixi River using screens made of straw and charcoal, Xinhua said. It did not say what kind of chemicals had tainted the river, but said water supplies were safe. ...

HIV transmission to children's must be prevented in Africa

...frican continent to provide drugs, information and clean water which could help HIV positive mothers to give birth to HIV negative childs. Auwalu has started an organization which provides // information about the ways to prevent transmission of the virus from mother to child during child birth. Auwalu co...

Environmental Abuse Causes Health Hazards

...se of natural resources have lead to a shortage of clean and safe drinking water which as lead to an increase in water borne disease spread. Increased discharge of pollution in all forms affecting land, noise, air and water pollution has lead to an increased global warming and emergence of resistant microo...

Health Problems Due To Ecosystem's Degradation

...man beings. The benefits that are thus misused are clean air, fresh water, a relatively stable climate and the wildlife. The speed at which the natural ecosystem has been changing has been particularly fast in the past 50 years, according to the WHO Director-General Dr. Lee Jong-wook. Even though this ha...

A herbal drug addiction releiver

... antioxidant effects. Antioxidants are agents that clean up damaging free radicals in the body and are therefore thought to slow down the aging process of cells. 'Cocaine is highly addictive and can have devastating effects on the health and well being of users,' said Peter Kalivas, Ph.D., Professor and Ch...

Link Established Between Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution

...d with high cholesterol diet and exposed to fresh, clean and filtered air. It was shown that plaque product...given the normal diet. However, among mice given clean air, those on the high-fat diet had greater plaque production and artery wall inflammation than thos...

Gene Can Keep Brain Cells Alive

...uction of a different protein called Hsp70 to help clean up the abnormal proteins. 'Our research shows how a genetic cause of Parkinson’s disease works. We show how the normal function of the gene keeps dopamine cells from dying. If the gene is abnormal, these protective mechanisms cannot be brought into...

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