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Smoking for Weight Control? Slim chance of staying slim, fat chance of going up in smoke!

...lso seeks to dispel the myth that smoking helps in controlling weight. The findings show that teenage girls put on weight in much the same way as their peers who do not smoke. In effect this is just a marketing gimmick by the industry, which deserves to be puffed out. Dr. Louise Pilote, leader of the Genesis...

Hemorrhoid Stapling Has More Long-Term Risks Than Surgical Removal

...— suggested that stapling is equal to excision for controlling further hemorrhoid symptoms. These results helped lead to growing demand for the stapling procedure. For this new review, the investigators analyzed seven randomized clinical trials involving 537 participants and found that patients who had undergo...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

...thoughts about threat, danger or the importance of controlling thoughts. Exposure with response prevention technique is a core aspect of contemporary CBT treatment. Children with compulsive washing, for example, would be required in a graded way to touch objects that they fear lead to contamination, and preve...

Commonplace Sugar Compound Silences Seizures

...rs first began to investigate the role of sugar in controlling seizures after early experiments showed that children on sugar-free diets can rapidly experience seizures when they consume even a small dose of carbohydrates, such as a cookie or a little piece of bread. But ketogenic regimens can be a miserable e...

Jeff Getty, AIDS Activist, Passes Away

...e development of a mixture of drugs, successful in controlling AIDS....

New drug proven to tackle Type 2 Diabetes

A new drug called Rosiglitazone capable of controlling Type 2 diabetes has been given the green signal by...ise that have been proven to pay rich dividends in controlling the late onset type of diabetes, as proven in research studies. Though currently rosiglitazone is be...

Psoriasis Associated With Increased Risk For Heart Attack

...sk of heart attack in patients with psoriasis when controlling for major cardiovascular risk factors. The study, which included a total of 556,995 control patients, and patients with mild (n = 127,139) and severe psoriasis (n = 3,837), compared outcomes among patients with and without a diagnosis of psoriasis. T...

Decrease in AIDS prevalence rate in Kenya

...S as the most effective in the developing world in controlling the spread of AIDS.According to the experts, the huge number of deaths in Kenya due to AIDS-related diseases has also added to the reduction in prevalence of HIV infections. In context of Africa, where over 60% of the 40 million people worldwide with...

New human H5N1 bird flu case in Egypt

...O expert John Jabbour. The government’s failure in controlling the outbreak has been condemned by experts, as it has resulted in 6 deaths between March and May this year. "The first time, the government was caught by surprise a little and did not take all the necessary precautions. But they have been working v...

Surgery Goes Hi-Tech With a ‘Solution’ to Stop Blood Los

...t 50% of the duration of the surgery is devoted to controlling blood loss. The promising solution is a biodegradable liquid consisting of protein fragments which is capable of arresting the bleeding, scientists said, after they tested it on wounded rodents. Rutledge Ellis Behnke, a research scientist at the MI...

Efforts to Check Uncontrolled use of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

...biotics they were more likely to have succeeded in controlling antibiotic resistance. Surprisingly, use of information technology didn't seem to have an impact. "We think that's because so few hospitals have the necessary technology available to support decisions related to prescribing antibiotics such as star...

Healthy Lifestyle can Control Diabetes: Wasim Akram

Jaipur: Healthy lifestyle is the key to controlling diabetes, says former Pakistan cricket captain and all-rounder Wasim Akram.// "Diabetes can be managed by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, dietary control, proper medication and regular monitoring of blood sugar levels," said Akram...

Researchers Uncover Critical Player in Cell Communication

...tive defects of Williams-Beuren syndrome, its role controlling calcium makes much more sense,” says Stephen Desiderio, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of molecular biology and genetics and director of the Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences at Hopkins. And, says Desiderio, others have shown that defects in a cell’s ...

Free Medicines, Health Insurance for Poor Soon: Paswan

...oval," Paswan said. A Supreme Court directive on controlling prices of essential drugs had initially set the ball rolling on making medical and healthcare affordable. The committee appointed by the ministry is studying various ways to achieve this. As part of the promises made in the United Progressive Allia...

Study Unveils West Nile Virus Immune Evasion, Points to Vaccine Development

... Researchers discovered the receptor’s key role in controlling West Nile infection by conducting a study, described in October’s Journal of Virology that compares the genetics of an illness-causing Texas strain of the virus to a harmless African strain. The Texas strain can inflict illness because it blocks th...

New foetal scans are misleading

...do not imply that the foetal brain was consciously controlling these movements. However, the anti-abortion campaigners made use of these photographs to bring down the time limit on terminations from the current 24 weeks. Dr Donald Peebles, a consultant in foetal medicine at University College London, said, "Th...

Rajasthan Government Provides Free Dengue Tests for Patients

...ecision is aimed at helping poor patients and thus controlling the spread of the disease. "The dengue test, which cost Rs.475 in government hospitals and around Rs.700 in private diagnostic centres, would be done free of cost at the state-run hospitals if prescribed by doctors," the minister added. Admitting...

Food addiction similar to Drug addiction!!

...ges in metabolism in brain regions associated with controlling emotions, effectively shutting down these obese subjects’ desire to eat,” said Wang. Hippocampus region of the brain showed significant changes. There was an 18% increase in metabolism during gastric stimulation. The activation of this area is simi...

Two Americans Share 2006 Nobel Medicine Prize

...nners have discovered "a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information", the institute said. RNA interference features in plants, animals and humans and is of great importance for regulating gene expression. It also participates in defence against viral infections and keeps so-called "j...

Doc at a Distance

...erform even simple life-saving procedures, such as controlling bleeding. Surgical robots offer a tantalizing possibility. They would allow military doctors, stationed safely distant from the front line, to perform operations without once putting their hands on patients. Medical vehicles equipped with such remo...

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