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Indian, Chinese Students In France To Receive Grant From Thales

French electronics, defence and aerospace major Thales has signed a pact with the foreign ministry here to fund higher education in France for highly// qualified postgraduates from India and China in 2006-07. The students will receive a grant of at least $12,700 per annum depe...

INS ASHVINI Bags Trophy For Best Armed Forces Hospital

...heir families, including coast guard personnel and defence civilian. It is the only hospital in Armed Forces that boasts of heritage structures and has facilities for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, generally not available in civil hospitals. Source:PTI News...

FAO Prepares Seychelles to Tackle Bird Flu Outbreak

...rces. This done as they would be the first line of defence to control a local outbreak. The FAO’s country correspondent, Antoine Marie Moustache handed he equipment to the staffs. Seychelles is gearing up in all the aspects of preparation for any possible outbreak. A joint venture by 14 countries East Afri...

'Aids' Nurses Trailed Again In Tripoli Court

...ver been summoned to the witness stand - Bulgarian defence says. Nurses felt guilty for the trail of infecting children’s with HIV virus after that the high court judge revoked their death sentences with a retrail. ...

Hepatitis C Infected People Angry over Insurance Issue

...eople with hepatitis C to claim compensation. In defence of the bill the Department of Health insists that the proposed bill brings Ireland in par with the other jurisdictions that are also operating compensation schemes. However the Labour Party has called for its withdrawal. Labour health spokesperso...

Saddam to Miss Court Session for Health Reasons

...on July 8 in protest over the assassination of his defence lawyer Khamis al-Obaidi. Al-Obaidi was the third lawyer on the defence team to be killed since the Dujail trial started on October 19, 2005. The defence team announced a...

HIV/AIDS on Rise in Jammu and Kashmir

...e disease. Though the AIDS awareness programme for defence personnel does not come under the ambit of JKSAPCS, it has been conducting programmes for army, air force and the police. Official figures have, however, recorded only 37 deaths out of the 95 full-blown reported cases in the state. But the actual f...

Yoga to De-stress Indian Army Soldiers

...ated in this direction," the standing committee on defence said in its "Review of medical services and education in the defence sector" tabled in both houses of parliament Wednesday. It recommended that the strength of the Arm...

Exam stress may affect immune systems

...le taking their exams may also affect their immune defence system, more so if they have an allergy// , scientists say. Mats Lekander and other scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm examined how a major medical exam affects stress hormone levels, the immune system and lung function among students...

Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion

...rug, therefore being guilty of manslaughter. But defence barrister Philip Boulten said that the patient could have had the miscarriage because her placenta - an ephemeral organ present only during gestation - was abnormal, or because she had a thyroid disease. Medical experts told the court both these cond...

The fate of an accused in a murder case to be decided

...lph Erickson was asked to acquit Rodriguez, by the defence lawyer Robert Hoy. According to him, prosecutors did not prove Sjodin was alive when she was abducted from the Grand Forks parking lot. The judge denied the motion. The state in which Sjodin's car was found, with the driver's door locked, a shoppin...

Cancer Drug Helps An Anti-Cancer Virus To Act More Exhaustively

...nd macrophages, which are the body's first line of defence against infections. The virus and drug cannot be...the immune cells that are the body's first line of defence against the virus, perhaps by using this drug.' Source-Eurekalert VI...

Malarial Parasite Hides In Placenta

...ed several times can become partly immune as their defence system gradually starts to recognise the parasite's proteins. When the placenta is formed, however, a new environment is introduced with a different set of receptors. This means that a new growth niche is made available to a subpopulation of the para...

The Fruit Fly to Aid in Cancer Research

...n cancer cells. He explains: "Long ago a cellular defence system evolved in our single-celled ancestors to protect them from viruses. This system, called RNAi, is still present today in humans, plants and animals. Recently, we have learnt how to harness this anti-viral system, so that we can use it to silen...

Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS

...s doctors. Though the AIDS awareness programme for defence personnel does not come under the ambit of the JKSAPCS, it has been conducting programmes for army, air force and police officers, jawans and their families. Official figures have, however, recorded only 37 deaths out of the 95 full-blown reported ...

Two Americans Share 2006 Nobel Medicine Prize

...egulating gene expression. It also participates in defence against viral infections and keeps so-called "jumping genes" under control, it noted. RNA interference is also used in basic science to study how genes function and may perhaps in future offer therapies for cardiovascular diseases and cancer, accor...

A winning shot is here to battle ‘tennis elbow

...n of ‘platelets’(acomponent of blood involved with defence and repair of cells) and re-injecting the platelet concentrate into the affected tendon in the painful elbow. Results of the study has shown that 15 of the patients who received a one time injection of this rich lab treated concentrate of blood pla...

Border Security Force Troopers Turn To Yoga

...ong way in relieving tension." "We have asked the defence ministry to make it (yoga) formal at least for personnel deployed in the far-flung northeast region," he said. Source-IANS...

Lawyer justifies client with Aids and no morals

... sprucing up to face the formidably over confident defence counsel with appropriate experts with sound credentials . MT...

Human Strain Of Bird Flu Virus, Just A Matter Of Time?

...rst by stocking up on medicines. The main line of defence seems to be a vaccine. But if a virus does materialise, getting a vaccine ready will take several months. The vaccine available at present is not produced in large enough quantities, in fact only 9% of the world's population can be vaccinated with a ...

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