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Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...y by American scientists has added a new weapon of defense against elective caesarean operations//. The study lead by Dr Qiuying Yang, from the University of Ottawa and published in an international journal of obstetrics and gynecology -BJOG, has linked C-sections to a very strong risk of future pregnancy ...

Food Preparation may Play a Bigger Role in Chronic Disease

..., changing one’s approaches to cooking is the only defense against excessive AGE consumption. There is no routine clinical test to inform individuals of their blood or dietary AGE levels nor established treatment to reduce high AGE blood levels. "The concept that food-related AGE intake is harmful is new to ...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

A staggering 40,000 defense personnel were granted early retirement in the pas...t in suicides - 21 this year alone - prompting the defense ministry to take a series of counter measures including counseling and yoga classes to help soldiers...

Right Treatment Could Cure Chronic Cough

... “Coughing plays an important role in the body’s defense system by clearing the airway of excess secretions and foreign bodies,” note the authors. “However, in some patients cough may be excessive and unnecessary and may lead to a general deterioration in quality of life.” From the patient’s perspective,...

Fruit and Vegetable Diet 'could Prevent Asthma'

... likely to wheeze. Vitamin E is the body's main defense against cell damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive chemicals and they are produced in many different ways such as, normal metabolic processes, ultraviolet radiation from the sun, nuclear radiation and the breakdown in t...

Salivary Analysis for Early Detection of Breast Cancer

...r blood analysis; it would just be a first line of defense for women,' she says. 'For example, if the salivary screening did show a positive result, a mammogram or other imaging test would be necessary to determine in which breast the cancer was located.' Advantages of salivary testing: * Salivary te...

United States Department of Defense Selects Ichor Medical Systems to Develop Biodefense Vaccine

...Research Program, and plays a key role in national defense and in infectious disease research. The Institute's mission is to conduct basic and applied research on biological threats resulting in medical solutions (such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics) to protect the warfighter. USAMRIID is a subordinate ...

Trial Run of Copper to Combat MRSA

...applications, including using copper as a possible defense against bird flu. Experiments by the Southampton team have already shown that the metal can kill the human flu virus. Although probably best known for its use as an electrical conductor or in pipes, the healing power of copper has been known for ...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

...e immune system might also be a boon in the body's defense against bioterrorism or disease pandemics. "The B and T cells of the adaptive immune system take a long time to react," said Schneider. "But you might be able to speed things up if you could snort something up your nose that would make your innate im...

Fired HIV-infected Soldiers to Get Back Their Jobs

...rough all 11 cases presented before the Court; the defense ministry will re-admit the living claimants. "We...mines should be reinstated to active service," the defense ministry said. The armed forces have also reiterated that they will enable medical treatment to HI...

Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers

... a new germ is introduced; it is the first line of defense for the body until the immune system adapts to fight a specific bacteria or virus. "It may have something to do with the fact that children’s immune systems are still developing," Caserta said. "Or maybe they’re compensating for a defect someplace ...

Think Twice Before Loading on Vitamins, Say Experts

...culate that perhaps the vitamins affect the body's defense mechanisms. According to lead author Goran Bjelako... free radicals, which are components of the body’s defense system. John Messmer of Pennsylvania State University's College of Medicine agrees. “People should...

Discovery Leads to Way to Curb Anthrax Effect

... mechanism that makes an end run around the body’s defense system. Byers said almost everything requires iron...nd recently discovered pillar of the host’s innate defense system against infectious diseases, Byers said. On the other side of this tug-of-war over iron is ...

Allergies Not Just for Children Anymore

...smoke (especially for asthma). The first line of defense is prevention. Keeping a child away from second hand smoke (and not smoking as the child ages), controlling air pollution exposure, limiting table food exposure in early infancy (4-6 months of age) and careful use of antibiotics for what may be viral...

Spring is Time for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness

... is catching it early; early detection is the best defense against losing your vision,” said Academy clinical correspondent Lylas G. Mogk, MD, chair of the Academy’s Vision Rehabilitation Committee. “Research continues, and I think we'll see increasingly effective AMD treatments becoming available in the nea...

Research Offers Hope to Control Meningococci

...“The bacteria are almost knocked out by the immune defense system, but then they resurge, this time with alterations in the surface protein. What’s more, we discovered that the bacteria aggregate in the thyroid and can impact hormone production during the infection,” says Ann-Beth Jonsson. The study also s...

A Single Biological Mechanism Behind Several Autoimmune Disorders

... a class of autoimmune disorders in which cellular defense mechanisms mistakenly identify the body's own tissues as foreign and seek to destroy them. Other autoimmune disorders in the same class include rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and lupus. 37,000 new patients per year are diagnosed with Grave...

Tea Tree Oil-containing Beauty Products may Contribute to MRSA Increase

...ough to kill the microbes, actually turns on their defense system, resulting in tougher ones of them or ‘superbugs’. Super bugs refer to microbes such as MRSA, which are immune to high dose antibiotics. They are responsible for many cases of difficult- to- treat infections, now becoming commonplace. In...

Foul Play- Football Hero Convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault

... staff nurses of different hospitals. While the defense argued that Smith did have illicit relations outside his ‘happy’ marriage, and while he did not disclose the fact of his condition, he was not a criminal. Yet the judge was not moved and settled for overwhelming evidence that proved Smith’s guilt ...

HIV Spread May Be Arrested By A New Compound

...-5AN6B is said to refurbish the natural anti viral defense system of the body against HIV virus. All along, the drugs intended for HIV infection targets the virus replication. But this compound appears to work differently and counters the mutating capability of HIV virus. This team plans to go further deep...

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