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Ex-teacher Sues Delhi Public School

...er tenure at Doha. The petition prayed the court direct the DPS Society to release Rs 500,000 immediately for meeting her medical expenses pending disposal her plea. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

New Inhaler is Child's Play

... 2005 over a quarter of a million people died as a direct result of asthma. The Watchhaler product was in development for around two years while the company optimised the device, and is protected by several international patents. The inhaler will be officially launched in March at the DGP conference in M...

Statutory Warnings on Cigarette Packs- Make It Bigger and Brighter, Say Researchers

...changed since 1984. Researchers also reported a direct link between willingness to quit and ad size and type. In Canada and Britain, more than 10 percent said the labels had stopped them from reaching for a cigarette at some point in the past six months, and nearly 40 percent said the warnings had prom...

High BP – More Common in Sedentary Teen

...erweight. "This is the first research to show a direct and independent connection between TV watching and higher blood pressure among adolescents," said study leader Nicolas Stettler, M.D., M.S.C.E., a pediatric nutrition specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The team reported on their...

Salk Scientists - Links Between Cancer and Aging

...s an excellent model for aging, and we show here a direct relation between aging, telomere loss, and cancer occurrence,' he says. 'I predict that cancer in older people has precisely the same basis as that seen in Werner Syndrome patients. That is why this was such a satisfying study.' Source-Eurekalert S...

Higher Serum Selenium Linked With Reduced Risks of Prostate Cancer - in Some Men

...nosed every year world wide, and the cancer is the direct cause of over 200,000 deaths. More worryingly, the incidence of the disease is increasing with a rise of 1.7 per cent over 15 years. Yet the research published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition does account for a significant influence...

Severe Form of “Enlarged Prostate” Disease Discoverd

...oms,” or LUTS. These symptoms reflect not only the direct effects of the prostate on urinary flow and urgency, but functional changes in the bladder that result from the increased pressure. The Hopkins team, lead by Robert Getzenberg, Ph.D., also developed a blood test that detects the JM-27 protein in me...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...cal signals, which measure ability to purposefully direct attention, but children with SMD had abnormalities in N1 signals, which occur when a stimulus grabs someone's attention. Both abnormalities suggest deficits in the brain's attention-related activity, but in different phases of that activity. "If fu...

Remote Device to Monitor Patients Daily at Their Homes

...ased hospitalizations. Heart failure has an annual direct cost of more than $26 billion in the U.S. and is the number one reason for hospitalizations. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Different Treatments Needed For Breathing Problems

... of a cofactor in developing chronic asthma than a direct cause, similar to how high cholesterol or diabetes makes people more vulnerable to heart attacks," Dr. Hardy said, pointing to a number of previous studies. "It's probably not the only thing, but it's one of them. In some people it might incite asthm...

Australia Gears Up for Safe Sex Campaign

... spent on such campaigns is surely going to have a direct impact on the drug subsidies too. JYT...

A Protein in Brain Cells Controls Obesity: Research

... a key regulatory role in this system, through its direct influence on the processing of leptin and insulin signals in cells of the brain’s hypothalamus.” Rui, who first discovered SH2B1’s metabolic importance as a graduate student at U-M in the 1990s, worked on the new paper with postdoctoral fellow Dec...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

...wer with the help of the army. During the king's direct 15-month rule, Queen Mother Ratna was regarded as the most powerful woman in Nepal. Prior to that, during King Birendra's reign, Queen Aishwarya was the most powerful woman in the kingdom. She reportedly exerted great influence on the king and her ...

Newer Class of Antidepressants Similar in Effectiveness, Side Effects Differ

...llion. More than 30 percent of these costs are for direct medical expenses, such as doctors’ fees, hospital bills and medications. The new analysis, produced by AHRQ’s Effective Health Care program, was completed by the Agency’s RTI International-University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center...

Role of Appetite Hormone MCH in Insulin Production Revealed

...h the degree of obesity, suggesting that MCH had a direct effect on islets. To build on these previous findings, the researchers focused this study on gaining a deeper understanding of how MCH and its receptors influence growth of beta cells. The investigators first confirmed that MCH and its receptors ar...

The Odds Of Stopping Smoking

...ng. "What we need now are some trials that make direct comparisons between varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy" says Lead Review Author Kate Cahill, who works in the Department of Primary Health Care at Oxford University. Source-Eurekalert SR...

Cortisol Levels Linked to Mental Development of Children

...t the stress experienced by a pregnant woman has a direct bearing on the mental development of their children//. This was disclosed by Vivette Glover of Imperial College, London at a Psychiatrists Conference. According to this study, if the level of cortisol, the stress hormone in a pregnant mother increa...

Single Protein Plays A Major Role In Prion Diseases

... does, indeed, chop up Sup35 complexes - the first direct evidence that this process occurs in a living cell and that Hsp104 is the culprit. "To understand how fragmentation speeds the spread of prions, think of a dandelion," Serio said. "A dandelion head is a cluster of flowers that each carries a seed....

Europeans Developing First-Ever Dengue Fever Vaccine

...haging. The research team was able to identify a direct relationship between cells infected by the Dengue virus and increased production of metalloproteinase. They crosschecked their findings against a series of cell cultures, and were able to confirm that raised levels of metalloproteinase were indeed re...

Transdermal Vaccine Effective in Treating Alzheimer's Disease in Mice

...ells prevalent in the skin, called Langerhans, may direct the body’s reaction to the vaccine toward a response that is beneficial instead of overly aggressive and ultimately harmful, Dr. Tan said. The USF researchers plan to further test whether the transdermal vaccine can curb memory loss in Alzheimer’s ...

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