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Tag: "cold" at medical news

Culling followed by checking: Government to audit the documents, to ascertain no skeletons in the closet!

...irmed the checks in his statement‘‘We are checking cold storages and disinfecting refrigerators, besides destroying the old stocks of chicken.’’ The poultry farmers have addressed a letter to the chief minister Narendra Modi to show them a way for an alternative employment for six months. Senior gover...

Bird Flu Fears Recede As Migratory Birds Leave

...rds come to India each autumn to escape the bitter cold in places like Russian Siberia in that season. Given the sheer numbers of birds that come here from various destinations to ward off the extreme colds, Kashmir remains an area of potential concern so far as the avian flu is concerned, said Muhammad ...

Soft Drinks May Be Banned In Rajasthan Schools

...government would delve into the harmful effects of cold drinks. Most educationists and parents in the st... older generation. "It's good to impose a ban on cold drinks as it would not only ward off health hazards but also restrict extravagance among students," ...

Facts about Common Cold and Flu

...ness or no symptoms at all. The flu and the common cold are both respiratory illnesses but they are caused by different viruses. The flu is worse than the common cold, and symptoms such as fever, body aches, extreme tiredness, and dry cough are more common and intense. Colds are usually milder than the ...

Biota Initiates Drug Testing War against Common Cold

...cal trials of BTA798 anti-viral therapy for common cold have been initiated by Biota. The compound has alr...urrently accounts for nearly 50% and 75% of common cold suffered by adults and children respectively. If successful results are obtained, the drug would s...

Bird Flu Test Results Negative: India

... hospitals here every day even with signs of minor cold or cough. Today (Thursday) the number has decreased to 150," said Doke. Authorities also said they had ended the massive exercise of exterminating hundreds of thousands of birds in a 10-km radius of Navapur to contain the outbreak of the global dis...

Far East Provides A Path To Contain Bird Flu

...flu from December to March in Vietnam which is the cold season when we know flu viruses circulate. Also it was the Tet holiday [Chinese New Year] last month when millions of people return to their families, and chicken is eaten and we feared an outbreak," Dr Troedsson was quoted as telling the Independent...

High Incidence of Whooping cough

...ussis which begins with symptoms similar to common cold or flu. But these symptoms are followed by even grave symptoms of incessant cough and breathing difficulty....

The trident of unhealthy teen choices is early Lunch, Soft Drink Machine Income and Parents who relent

...the phenomenon. The number of wending machines by cold drink companies was also a major cause. Income from soft drink incentives also appears to play a role in the nutrition environment, the study found. When there were more vending machines, there tended to be less participation in the hot lunch program...

Drugs are taken ignoring the drug labels

... a combination of drugs for pain relief, cough and cold symptoms which may lead to wrong combination of drugs which could lead to misuse of medications. Cough syrups are just taken without reading the drug contents or side effects of the drug which could lead to severe side effects and complications an...

Vaccine to protect birds against avian flu, engineered

...nd his colleagues genetically engineering a common cold virus (adenovirus) to express the avian influenza protein (hemagglutinin) (HA) on its surface. This virus then attaches to all the cells that are infected. Bird flu (H5N1) has affected a large number of birds in different areas like Cambodia, China, ...

Cough Syrups No More Effective Than Sugar Water

...found to purchase over-the -counter medication for cold worth $2.9 billion. About $270 million is spent on cough syrup alone. In addition another $400 million is spent on prescription of medicines for cold, based on study conducted in 2003. A cough syrup formulation that contains a combination of dextro...

Wine Drinkers Good Health, Attributed To Their Lifestyle

...eer drinkers they fell for prepared dishes, sugar, cold cuts, chips, pork, butter or margarine, sausages, lamb, and soft drinks. The finings o the study was reported in the British Medical Journal. The researchers found that lifestyle played a very important role in the determination of death rates amo...

Wine Drinkers Eat Healthy Food

...edical Journal, said beer lovers were attracted to cold cuts, chips, pork, butter, margarine, sausages, lamb and soft drinks. However, a spokesman for the British Beer and Pub Association said it was not the case that all beer drinkers were interested in junk food. Edited IANS...

Government To Clamp Down On Crystal Meth

Allergy and cold medicines will no longer be available to Canadians...rine and ephedrine. Retailers and the producers of cold medicines have however faulted the ban, as biker gangs are reported to be controlling the commercial...

Mummy Is Always Right: Nurses Research Prove It Over Again

It has now been found that consumption of hot or cold beverages before recording the body temperature ca...uations in temperature measurement. // Consuming a cold beverage or hot beverage was found to hamper the restoration of body temperature to baseline levels ...

Delhi Faces Flu Threat Due To Change In Weather

...re spreading across Delhi with the reversal of the cold wave conditions. While Delhi recorded a minimum of 0.2 degrees Celsius (7 degrees below normal) on 8 January, just over a week later the temperature reached 11.6 degrees //(five degree above normal) on 17 January 2006. Doctors have called upon people...

Exclusive Health Care Packages To Be Launched By Ayurveda Hospital

..." Fibromyalgia is a syndrome mostly prevalent in cold countries and causes fatigue, sleeplessness and nervous breakdowns. The syndrome is a widespread musculoskeletal pain for which the cause is still unknown. Raji Pradeep, who will oversee the new treatment, said: "In our general ayurvedic packages,...

New warning signs for child meningitis

Symptoms of sepsis, such as cold hands, severe leg pain and very pale skin can all ... new earlier symptoms of the infection - leg pain, cold hands and feet, and an abnormally pale, mottled skin colour - which together, or separately with oth...

Parental Knowledge Of RSV Infections Is Vital

... the baby, to stay away from people suffering from cold and fever, to avoid carrying the baby to crowded shopping malls, to immunize the baby against influenza and to keep the baby away from smoke to prevent RSV infection and other viral respiratory infections....

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