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Important substance in curry conciliate Inflamed Colon

...fective in wound healing. Dr. Ken Sugimoto, of the department of internal medicine at the Hamamatsu University //School of Medicine, Japan, showed that curcumin can improve experimental colitis. The researchers induced severe colitis, or colon inflammation, in mice using a chemical and immediately gave the mice...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...zian, chairman of the University of Pennsylvania's department of genetics and author of an accompanying review of transposons, said the study shows L1 elements "could have substantial effect on the evolution of the genome and how it's changing." Although they have been linked to some diseases, "they're not a h...

Response to chemotherapy could be measured by Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time

Researchers from the department of urology in a hospital in Switzerland who investigated whether chemotherapeutic response to hormone-refractory prostate cancer could be measured via changes in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) found that prostate cancer doubling time may be an auxi...

Germs to blame for bad breath

...inberg, chairman of the oral biology and pathology department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook's dental school suggested that environmental differences could also be the reason for the different types of bacteria in the mouth. Paster suggested that halitosis can be reduced by brushing the tong...

Second SARS suspect fuels worry in India

...contact with other sections of the airport. Health department officials say they are confident of preventing the entry of the virus. They also confirmed that hospitals are ready to treat patient even if new cases are reported. India, relatively relaxed so far about the spread of SARS however in recent days has ...

Scientists review SARS

...wing the spread of the outbreak, Dr.Chan said. Her department conducted the study withresearchers from Imperial College in London. But Dr.Chan also said the recommended public healthmeasures need to be kept in place at least anotheryear in any area where transmission seemed to havestopped to be sure that the vi...

Teens Misusing Nicotine-Replacement Products

...o-author Dr. Karen Johnson, vice chairwoman of the department of preventive medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, became interested in the products during a visit to a store in Memphis. Although federal officials wanted to keep the products out of reach of minors, "it was out on the counte...

Father of CPR dies at 79

...sity of Pittsburgh Medical Center's anesthesiology department in 1979 and went on to establish the International Resuscitation Research Center, which he ran until 1994. It later became the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research. Safar's work with CPR was just one aspect of his goal of creating a system of car...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...ors, Linda Partridge, a professorial fellow in the department of biology at University College London. Partridge says it's impossible to know from this study if cutting back on calories could extend life in humans. However, she adds, "lifestyle interventions started as late as middle or old age may be benefici...

New food guide for people fighting excess weight

The US department of Agriculture has recently unveiled a new guide to healthy eating that suggests different //food charts for people with different needs. Based on the idea that same diet pattern does not work on everybody, the new diet plan is based on age, sex an...

Asthma may increase the risk for bacterial infection of the lungs

...the emergency room, or the inpatient or outpatient department of the medical center. 18% of the persons with asthma had once suffered from invasive pneumococcal disease, and 8% of the control population had suffered at least once from it. For persons with high-risk asthma, the annual incidence of invasive pneu...

New diseases require holistic outlook to treatment

...gram for the entire world. The scientists of the department who had conducted the study had said that the emerging diseases have the common characteristics of rapidly mutating itself and being able to move across the globe with rapidity. People, transport and global animal trade are the reasons of spread of t...

Obesity And Expanding Waistlines the next Epidemic in USA

...llion in 1987 to $36.5 billion. Chairman of the department of health policy and management at Emory University in Atlanta, Dr Kenneth Thorpe, who conducted the study along with others said,” We need to have the same type of societal attention on this issue that we gave to smoking 20 years ago,” Thorpe said. ...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

...of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine department of radiology; Ursula F. Bailer, M.D., Shannon E. H...om the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine department of medicine; Lisa Weissfeld, Ph.D., from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Heal...

The growing availability of Fake drugs in the market

...source of the spurious drugs, but to no avail. The department is yet to ascertain the location of the manufacturing unit. However it has been suspected that the spurious drugs were manufactured in Bihar or Uttar Pradesh. A resident of Cottonpet named Satish Sharma was arrested after he was found to have suppl...

Jharkhand reports 13,000 Malaria cases

...he disease. A drive launched by the state health department to ascertain the number of malaria cases detected ...ing 100,000 blood samples. According to a health department official, the blood samples were collected between June 30 and July 7. "The drive to test the bloo...

Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

...y, Statistics SA, reports Xinhua. The health department said that between 6.29 million and 6.57 million pe...s Day said. "Last year's figure prompted the department to speculate that the pandemic might be slowing, but the latest data suggest this is not happening,"...

Sepsis Death Reported With Mifepristone – FDA Issues Warnin

...plans to send a letter to physicians and emergency department directors to inform them of the updated warning and five known deaths -- four of which were sepsis-related -- among users of Mifeprex....

Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

...r of clinical education in audiology and associate department head. "This loss is often self-induced and may be related to young people's exposure to amplified sound and use of personal listening systems, such as cell phones and portable music devices, that students seem to be always using. The damage can be te...

Scientists Identify Cancer Pathway

... disease better. Jun-Lin Guan, a professor in the department of molecular medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, used a cultured cell line to study cancer, reports the university's website. They used these cells to create a model system for cancer cells, which means its basic pa...

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