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De-addiction Drug Works For Alcoholics Too

...in UK it was found that de- addiction drug help to combat alcoholism. The US National Institutes of Health analyzed 1,383 people with Naltrexone//. This drug blocks craving for any sort of drug. The study results were reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This drug can be made access...

Bill Clinton On A Kill, To Bell The Bulge Out of Schools

...ure that the teams put their best plans forward to combat the growing obesity in America. The first place where this difference is going to be felt will be the schools. The manufacturers of beverages and foods are deliberating a move that will replace high calorie food and drinks with low fat options. Ven...

Leukemia Gets A New Drug

...ophilic Leukemia (CEL)Our body's white blood cells combat foreign intruders (such as viruses and bacteria). However, in chronic leukemia, the cells in the bone marrow that should develop into white blood cells multiply uncontrollably. These blood cells do not function properly, jeopardizing the production o...

Scottish Hospitals Have 1000 Alcohol-Related Cases Each Week

...tion's health is addressed. We need real action to combat the source of binge-drinking on communities across the country, not more of the same inaction," said Shona Robison, SNP health spokeswoman "At the moment the bulk of executive advertising tends to focus on parents with children approaching puberty. B...

Meth Addiction On The Rise, US Health Authorities Concerned

...tific community devises some effective strategy to combat methamphetamine drug addiction that continues to be a significant challenge....

Bhopal Archbishop’s Concern Over Maternal Mortality Rat

...er Anil Gulati helped accomplish an action plan to combat maternal deaths, Vandana Agarwal of the same organization elaborated on the causes of such deaths and measures to prevent them. "Anemia is one of the important factors contributing to maternal deaths," she told the participants and explained how to...

Nanotechnology Could Revolutionize Cardiac Treatment

...l's Web site, Rutgers researchers propose a way to combat clogged arteries by attacking how bad cholesterol triggers inflammation and causes plaque buildup at specific blood vessel sites. Their approach contrasts with today's statin drug therapy, which aims to reduce the amount of low-density lipids, or LDL...

Adequate preparation in Ottawa for pandemic

.... This was part of Canada’s preparation efforts to combat a potential pandemic. The Minister said, "We wa...rams have been initiated to equip the provinces to combat any public health emergency. 11 million drug doses have been made ready in Quebec alone and there is...

Brazil & Kenya Seek Support For A New Resolution At WHO’s Annual Mee

...ut pressure at the WHO assembly, for more funds to combat neglected diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Kenya and Brazil are planning to introduce a resolution to overhaul the way medical research and development is done. But for one group supporting the resolution, the humanitarian orga...

Asthma Risk Related To Decreased Fruit and Vitamin C consumption

.... Research on preventive strategies is required to combat the disease effectively....

Primary School Children Will Be Weighed And Parents Informed If They Are Obese

In a bid to combat the rising problem of childhood obesity health officials will weigh primary schoolchildren aged four to 10 years and inform their parents// if there is a danger that the kids are obese. The Independent on Sunday reported that ministers have decided...

Amphetamines Being Abused In Northeast: UN Report

...jections. Most of the past users are now trying to combat drug abuse. Manipur and Nagaland saw injection of drugs leading to a surge in HIV in 1980s. In Mizoram also this trend has been seen and is worrying since sexual partners of those affected are also contracting HIV. The UN report says that all eight...

Plans Of Recruiting Pas From America Causes Displeasure In Scotland

...to recruit staff under a controversial new plan to combat the shortage of physicians. With hundreds of junior doctors from overseas who trained and worked in Scotland are facing deportation because of changes in immigration rules, this news regarding the trip and US efforts has angered the opposition poli...

India & Singapore Join hands to Fight Terror & Drug Trafficking

...t vigilance had helped avert terrorist strikes and combat drug trafficking in the city-state....

Asia Arming up to further the AIDS fight

...HIV, almost by 50%. But if the adopted measures to combat AIDS go slack, there is a risk of history being repeated. Patrick Brenny, the country coordinator of UNAIDS said "Thailand in a way has become a captive of its success. We don't have the magic cure yet. Our efforts are not a sprint. They're a marath...

Brachytherapy For Breast Cancer Can Be Risky

...iving partial radiation for the breast in order to combat breast cancer have the risk of developing a seroma. A seroma is retention of fluid in the breast, which can complicate matters since it requires aspiration. The study followed 38 women who had the procedure after undergoing lumpectomy surgery to re...

What Ticks the Mosquito immune system?

...y factors of their antimicrobial defense system to combat the Plasmodium parasite," said George Dimopoulos, Ph.D., senior author of the study and assistant professor with the Bloomberg School's Malaria Research Institute. "The degree of mosquito susceptibility to Plasmodium, and thereby its capacity to tran...

Research on AIDS vaccine a wealth of information

...vaccines that generate T-cell populations that can combat HIV,' explains lead author Norman Letvin, M.D., chief of the Division of Viral Pathogenesis at BIDMC, professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and investigator at the NIAID VRC. 'These latest findings now provide us with an important new way ...

Drug addiction higher in rural Punjab: study

...gal, social, administrative and medical support to combat the menace. He also underscored community participation in the drive against addiction. A paper on the increasing practice of female feticide in the state due to "deep-rooted gender bias" was also presented at the function at function at Guru Nan...

Doctors Suggest Tax on High Calorie Diet to Deter Intake

...erica's soft drinks industry //. This is to mainly combat the nation's obesity epidemic. The issue mainly addresses the sweeteners put in sugary drinks and also the amount of salt added to burgers and processed foods. The move was taken to reduce the number of deaths linked to obesity. Due to this the sale...

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