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100,000 Bird Flu Vaccine Doses to Be Destroyed

In the next couple of months, 100,000 doses of the country's first vaccine against bird flu will be destroyed because the laboratory that developed it has found no takers //and the expiry date is fast approaching. It was in July last year that the High Security Anima...

Gels, Wax or Paste: New Styling Products for Men's Hair

...y for men with short hair. "In the past we had a couple of tubes or pots with either gel or wax," says Kai-Uwe Dalichow of the Berlin Hairdressers' Association. "Today, you can have both mixed together giving you shine and hold while remaining soft at the same time." The new products are very useful whe...

U.S. Navy Offers Intralase No-Blade Lasik for Servicemen

...with much resistance by blade Lasik surgeons for a couple of years but has now become the new standard of care." The most recent example of the acceptance of Intralase was introduced this week, when the U.S. military announced it will pay Lasik surgery costs for servicemen who elect to have the surgery. ...

Asia Pacific Region Officials Agree to Curb Aviation Pollution

...circling// airports as they wait to land. Only a couple of days ago Australia had announced that it was introducing traffic control changes at its airports to enhance aviation fuel efficiency. Flights would be appropriately rescheduled so that pilots wont have to hover over the ground for long. At such ti...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...from colon cancer have been going down in the last couple of years probably because the idea that people need to be screened is finally getting out there." When caught early, DuBois notes, malignant growths still contained in the intestine can be removed with surgery, and 50 percent of patients are cured...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

...ple since ancient times could be exterminated in a couple of years from now. This was announced by the World Health Organization. Currently around 25,000 people in nine countries across the world are being infected by this disease as against 3 million people in twenty countries in the early 1980s. Peo...

Now Scientists Create a Sheep That's 15% Human

... and available for transplant. 'We would take a couple of ounces of bone marrow cells from the patient,' said Prof Zanjani, whose work is highlighted in a Channel 4 program tomorrow. 'We would isolate the stem cells from them, inject them into the peritoneum of these animals and then these cells would...

Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care

A rather bad bit of news for working couple in India. A study in the US has found that children in day-care centers for a year or more tended// to become disruptive in class. The effect persisted through the sixth grade. The finding held up regardless of the child’s sex or family income, an...

Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital

Hollywood's hottest couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated $100,000 of their money to help// construct the first modern medical facility in Duk County, Sudan. They made the donation to the Duk Lost Boys Clinic through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, reports www.hollywood.tv....

Siddha Medicine Texts to Be Published in English

...aled at a function in Chennai, the state capital a couple of days ago. The Siddha System of medicine is the oldest in the world, it is claimed, and is based on the principle of unity of man and nature. This system was developed by Sidhars of yore in consonance with the Hindu Saivite philosophy. Sidhars we...

Real Life Jekyll and Hyde

... in separate beds from his wife to protect her.The couple even placed a metal barrier between them. But it was not enough, as Rogers would climb over it to get to her.Mrs. Rogers then moved to a different room to avoid her husband attacking her. Mrs. Rogers says: 'He becomes like this other person. He i...

Delayed Cutting of Umbilical Cord Has Benefits

...ordingly, delay in cutting the umbilical cord by a couple of minutes can have a beneficial effect that lasts for several// months. In developed countries the tendency of doctors is to cut the umbilical cord as soon as possible, in order to supposedly avoid respiratory problems and allow the mother to h...

NRI Doctors Relocate to India

...on. He says, "Initially, I was skeptical, but a couple of trips later, I saw it as a lifetime opportunity. And my mind was made up," he says. He says there was little room for personal growth in the US and that he wanted to do much more than merely treating patients. The sheer number of patients and ...

UK Study Wants Uniformity in Child Heart Drug Doses

...tated shelf life of the formulations varied from a couple of weeks to several months. But with one exception, the time limit was not confirmed by hard data. Lead researcher Dr Hitesh Pandya said that further research was needed to establish an optimum formulation of liquid Captopril for use in childre...

Winter Warmth Breaks All Records

...ng on daily life were already showing up. Within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, it had predicted. Also By 2080, hundreds of millions of people could face starvation. At the same time, tens of millions of others would be flooded out of their homes each year as t...

Genetics may Play Role in Heart Health

...of candidate genes that have been looked at over a couple of decades in terms of predicting onset of heart a...been hard to replicate. There are exceptions. In a couple of diseases, variants associated with the higher risk of heart attack have been identified. Most, th...

Use Daylight-saving Change to Practice Healthy Sleep Habits

... cold, set them beside a window. * End playtime a couple of hours before bedtime. * Turn off the computer two hours before bed, and the TV one hour before bed. * Limit liquids beginning three hours before bedtime so they don’t have to wake up to go to the bathroom. * Start dimming the lights and other s...

US Consulate to Start Hyderabad Operations Next Year

...ne of these locations on the outskirts in the next couple of months and sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government. US President George W. Bush, during his visit to Hyderabad in March 2006, had announced setting up a US consulate here. US officials have since visited the city sever...

Treating Male Infertility With Stem Cells

...sue of The American Journal of Pathology. When a couple experiences infertility, the man is just as likely as the woman to be the cause. Male infertility may arise from failed proliferation and differentiation of the germ cells (precursors of sperm) or from dysfunction of the supporting cells. New researc...

Sania Mirza Admitted for Treatment of Knee Injury

...surgery and would be discharged from hospital in a couple of days. Sania, ranked 46th on WTA tour, sustained a hyperextension injury to her right knee during her match against Italy's Romina Oprandi in the first round match at the Qatar Open Feb 26. She won the match. The 20-year-old was brought to the ...

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