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FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

...cks should not take the drug. These studies give a clear warning to the consumers about the drug. The pharmaceutical companies should give clear indications about the test results in a clearly understandable way by tabulating and by graphs. Ast...

Mercy killing for newborn with incurable disease in Netherlands

...blic. The mercy killing is accepted only after the clear diagnosis and prognosis study of the child. The ne... Vergagen, reported that “The society has agreed a clear and uniform approach to the decisions regarding deliberate life ending procedures in sick newborns."...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...to stabilise population. "I would like to make it clear that our policy does not encourage incentives and disincentives as they have, at best, only a marginal impact and sometimes may even cause resentment and non-acceptance of the programme," Manmohan Singh said. Pointing out that coercion of any kind t...

Red Color Causes The Allergic Reaction To Strawberries

...y or other related to the red color, but it is not clear exactly how. We need to investigate more proteins," Rikard Alm of Lund University said. Alm was quoted in the magazine Chemistry World, the publication of Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry. People who suffer an allergic reaction to red strawberr...

Sepsis Death Reported With Mifepristone – FDA Issues Warnin

...uation and Research, Steven Galson, said it is not clear why the bacteria became fatal in the women. He also said that the four deaths all occurred in women who did not follow FDA-approved instructions for using the drug. According to the directions, women should take both mifepristone and misoprostol oral...

Researchers Identify Key Gene That May Help Brain Treatment

...in and spinal cord. "This one special gene has a clear function," The Straits Times quoted Assistant Professor Liang Fengyi as saying. He is the lead researcher in the group, which has been working on the project for three years. "Since it is an important link with the development of the insulating n...

Weighty problem: Protein is the solution?

...to research Institute of Medicine, it has found no clear evidence that high protein intake increases the risk of renal stones, osteoporosis, cancer or cardiovascular disease, and sets the acceptable range of protein intake as between 10 and 35 percent of calories. On the flip side obesity increases the r...

Cholesterol can be lowered using combination of Soy Proteins and Sterols

...rol or other heart health markers so it is not yet clear how much extra benefit a product containing both ingredients could offer. Currently cereal products make up 46 per cent of the foods carrying heart health claims in the US, Japan, Australia and five major European markets, according to UK consultan...

Yet Another Use For Cocoa Flavonols

...test findings on cocoa flavonols have made it very clear that the research has little to do with chocolate as they feel that people should not get the wrong message that all chocolate products have these benefits. Although Cereal Bars and flavonol –enriched drinks containing plant sterols for lowering cho...

Fasting, Feasting Your Way To Health

..., Mattson was careful to emphasise caution: "Until clear results are obtained in well-controlled studies," he wrote in The Lancet, "specific recommendations concerning meal frequency and health are inappropriate to make." Indo-Asian News Service...

Research Fraud By Doctor – Probe Demanded

...activity of (Dr. Ram B.) Singh, which might either clear him or support a case of scientific fraud," said C.R. Soman. He was referring to the latest issues of the two British medical journals in which they have expressed concern on research papers by Singh, a private practitioner in Moradabad, Uttar Prade...

New molecule to treat brain disorders found

... the cultured brain cells. While it is not clear if the molecule would have the same effect under more complex circumstances found in the body, researchers are hopeful that they can deliver adenosine to the brain, where it could protect cells from damage. One of study's authors, Dr. Moses V. Chao, ...

Bypassing open heart bypass surgery...

...esh Trehan. Most of all, he says, ``apart from the clear indications necessary for a surgery, the personal economics of a patient and his interest has to be kept in mind''. Unlike western nations, in India the cost of angioplasty and surgery are almost the same due to the high cost of the stent, he said. ...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...s hormones. He said his research team found a very clear mechanism by which an increase or decrease in fat cell size, as happens in obese humans, might cause severe hepatic (liver) insulin resistance because less of a hormone-like protein, Acrp30, is secreted by the fat cell. The researchers used a geneti...

Malarial gene ascertained

...er genes also contribute to imperviousness. "It's clear that there are other genes involved as well. We're in the process of trying to identify the other genes so that we have all the knowledge and can start thinking about developing drugs on a rational basis." In the shorter term, the discovery will mea...

Angina to be treted by gene therapy

... by inflating a tiny balloon in the artery to help clear the blockage responsible for the problem. But even when the blockage is cleared, it returns in 40% of cases.// Scientists believe the new technique of putting therapeutic genes into large numbers of cells in the artery wall could prevent such relap...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...g our attention on early gestation. It's making it clear that it really is fetal growth we're talking about here, not just some funny thing linked to birth weight itself. And it's pointing a finger very clearly that in the fetal growth process there's an interaction between the (genes) and the environment,...

Arsenic in drinking water

...and health effects are rarely available, but it is clear that there are many countries in the world where arsenic in drinking-water has been detected at concentration greater than the Guideline Value, 0.01 mg/L or the prevailing national standard. These include Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Chile, Chin...

AIDS Drug Found To Help Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy

...ed, the immune system recovers, and its attempt to clear HBV causes flare-ups of the virus. Researchers say the anti-viral drug lamivudine can reduce the risk of HBV reactivation during and after chemotherapy. This drug was initially used for treating HIV in AIDS patients. A recent study compared the i...

Cholesterol Drug Also Beneficial for Patients With Diabetes

...ular disease in // various groups. It has not been clear whether type 2 diabetics who are at an increased cardiovascular risk would benefit from the drug therapy. Researchers conducted a study to look at the effectiveness of statin therapy among type 2 diabetics.For the study, 2,800 type 2 diabetic patie...

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