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Smoking Hazard transferred to children from father

...ws the blood vessels leading to hart diseases, it damages the lung tissues and reduces the oxygen carrying capacity, smoking is responsible for causing atherosclerosis and increases the risk of stroke, causes infertility, increases acid production in stomach leading to stomach ulcers. Starting smoking and a...

Marijuana Compound Offers Hope In Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention

... a light sensitive tissue behind the eye. Diabetes damages tiny blood vessels in the retina, eventually leading to blindness. Diabetic retinopathy that affects more than 16 million Americans is one of the leading causes of blindness in working-age adults. Gregory I. Liou and other researchers of molecular ...

Study Would Pave Way for the Development of New Drugs That Targets TB Proteasome

...e bacteria. Inside the macrophage the immune cells damages and destroys the bacterial proteins. These accumulated proteins have to be removed otherwise it will in turn destroy the cell. But the TB bacteria remove the damaged proteins with the help of a protein-cleaving complex known as a proteasome. It is ...

Gamble for money, but casino workers gamble with their health!

...l see not only poorly motivated workers, but hefty damages claims too. The biggest response by far to our study came from Glasgow, which is another reason why we hope this sector gets its house in order before the government decides where Britain's first super-sized casino is to be based." As a respite mea...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...nd arrhythmias to persons acutely exposed. Benzene damages the bone marrow and can cause a decrease in red blood cells, leading to anemia. It can also cause excessive bleeding and depress the immune system, increasing the chance of infection. Some women who breathed high levels of benzene for many months had...

Rape-Crime against Humanity

...and $5 000 to each of the other victims as well as damages and interest of between $200 and $500 to the families whose houses were robbed. The 12 accused men were part of the 9th battalion of the Congolese armed forces based on Songo Mboyo, 500km north-east of Mbandanka, the capital of Equateur province. ...

Doctor Cleared Of Charges of Killing a baby

...ledgement made by the trust in the civil claim for damages that the level of care had been negligent and unac...s Rowlings had already been successful in claiming damages from the trust, which runs the hospital....

Older Diabetics not taking kidney and heart protective drugs

... their heart and kidneys. //This is when these two damages are most common in diabetes. Although ACE inhibitors and ARBs, have been recommended by national diabetes-treatment guidelines for years hardly anyone uses it. This is when there is strong evidence that they can prevent heart attacks, strokes, kidne...

Merck in the Dock Due To Vioxx

...d Leonel Garza's family $7 million in compensatory damages for mental anguish and personal loss and $25 million in punitive damages, but the latter will be cut to no more than $750,000 because of a cap imposed by Texas law. Merck immediately said it would appeal the decision. It withdrew the $2.5 billion-a-y...

'Bubble Boy' Gene Therapy Causes Cancer?

... this therapy, which inserts genes into the system damages healthy cells and causes cancer. X-SCID is a disease that develops due to the presence of a mutation in the IL2RG gene. This gene is responsible for the presentation of a protein that is vital to the development of several immune cells. In the curr...

Court Rejects Case of Negligence by Disabled Children against the Doctors

...at the purpose of this case was to make claims for damages so that the child could live a comfortable life....

Reports Of A HIV Break Out Scare People Of A Holiday Island

... aged between 20 and 50 years old. The HIV virus damages the immune system, which is the body's defence against disease. There is no cure, but modern drugs can now slow down the effects of the virus....

Indonesian Earthquake – Story of Destruction, Death and Disease

... too being closed off due to the cracks and severe damages on the runway transport in and out of the city is proving to be slow and difficult. The President of Indonesia – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has requested the people of Indonesia to come together in the time of this national crisis and appealed to the...

Helium And MRI Scanning Clearly Detects Smoker Lungs – Research Find

...ntists now detects even small smoking-related lung damages in healthy smokers//. A harmless gas, helium is now used to track deep into the smokers lungs and its movement - researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),a diagnostic technique creates clear and dee...

Medicos Stir On, Hospital Ransacked After Patients Death

...tal, Dr. R.N.Mangual said he was yet to assess the damages caused in the attack. But he had informed the police about the incident, he said. Source:PTI News...

Naughty Boys, Pocket-Unfriendly?

.... It is estimated that a raucous child can inflict damages to the parents, the NHS, social services and schoo...ced by the parents, often evident in repairing the damages to their home, abstaining from work etc, which amounts to almost ￡4,637 a year. The figures ena...

Scientists Claim Human Womb Transplants Possible

...e to conceive naturally to many have suffered from damages caused due to cervical cancer or fibroids. They explained that the procedure would give the approximate 200 women in UK per year who try to have their own biological children using surrogate mothers a chance to give birth naturally themselves. Dr...

How Effective Is Your Sunscreen?

...ent types of sunlight that is responsible for skin damages they are UVA and UVB. It is well understood that UVB is the causative agent for skin cancer and also causes sunburns. But scientists come face to face with the deadly truth that UVA also causes premature aging of the skin and, results in the skin's g...

Japanese Court Rules In Patients Favour Over Hepatitis C Scandal

...a contaminated medical product// , and has awarded damages to nine people who had acquired the disease. The 13 plaintiffs who sued for damages were prescribed fibrinogen as well as other coagulants, between 1981 and 1988, made by the Green Cro...

Scleroderma Cure Still In Oscillation

...hickening the skin and in many times it completely damages the lungs and other related organs. Nearly 80% of affected people have lung damaged more often it includes women only. When comparing the benefits with after effects of a usual drug named cyclophosphamide, or Cytoxan, used to treat cancer and some...

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