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FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

... World Health Organization (WHO), Listeriosis, the disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes, is one of the most severe food borne infections, with a mortality rate of 30%. It can take weeks after exposure before an infection becomes apparent. The US Food Safety and Inspection Service maintains a zero toleran...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...ed by a blood test. Currently, many die from the disease because it is detected too late. Research would hopefully make it easier for patients to be screened early. At the National Cancer Centre, researchers will be looking at cancer-causing genes. With enough information, they could develop personalised...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...y associated with poorer tropical countries. The disease had killed 25 people and infected thousands in 2005. This year too the country is witnessing some virulent outbreak. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said based on the data in the last few weeks, the situation did not look optimistic. He added that ...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

... stroke mortality by 8 percent, of coronary artery disease mortality by 5 percent, and of all-cause mortality...ering mechanism, the mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke may be reduced by as much as 19 percent in those who ate the highest amounts of cocoa ric...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...ed that in a patient with a history of psychiatric disease there was a 29-fold increase in risk of suicide (OR 29.2, 95% CI 16.4-51.9, P The author Jakob Christensen, M.D., of Aarhus University Hospital, wrote in the The Lancet Neurology, "Individuals with epilepsy have a higher risk of suicide, even if co...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

... smoke, stress, strong emotions or exercise. The disease has surged in prevalence in recent decades, especially in urban areas with poor air quality, and is now the commonest chronic disorder in childhood today. It is controllable, using drugs, but not presently curable. "(ORMDL3) does not seem to be par...

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...iabetes. The editorial says that diabetes, heart disease and cancer affect poor as much they affect the affluent. The editorial suggested that developing countries like India and China should address the issue of diabetes prevention and management with all seriousness and find affordable health products fo...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

...have developed a new technique to diagnose mad cow disease in humans. Researchers at Edinburgh University... they are suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). They insist that the new technique developed by them can detect people having fatal levels...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

...lp prolong the lives of children with brittle bone disease , osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The genetic defect, detected in human foetuses by DNA testing or ultrasound, disrupts collagen production, leading to weak bones and stunted growth. Those with the condition suffer fractures while in the womb, and ra...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...rescues brain cells whose death causes Parkinson's disease , the tragic degenerative disorder of the central ...ne third of cases it also results in dementia. The disease affects at least one percent of people over the age of 65. Dopamine, which helps direct movement, ...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...pressure, stroke, hypertension, degenerative joint disease of the knees and hips, and some forms of cancer, among other conditions. Dietary and lifestyle modifications are the primary methods for treating and preventing obesity but the net effect of dietary counseling for weight loss had not been published...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

...influenza pandemic was the most devastating single disease outbreak in modern history, and examining the virus that caused it may help prepare for, and possibly prevent, future pandemics. When the complete sequence of the 1918 virus was published in 2005, it represented a watershed event for influenza res...

Diabetic Skip Jabs to Stay Slim

... are doing this at the risk of of blindness, heart disease and even death. Diabetes UK says that ups to a third of young women with the disease miss the life- saving injections or drastically reduce the dose so they can stay thin. This is equiv...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

...n Kenya. "What entered history 25 years ago as a disease of the white gay male is now increasingly affecting women all over the world," he told some 1,500 delegates. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of all adults living with the virus are female. Piot cited the example of Kenya, where the ratio reaches ...

Dozens More H5N1 Bird Flu Cases in Germany

... national veterinary laboratory, has suggested the disease could have jumped the border from the Czech side w...and spread to six states, including Bavaria. The disease spread to mammals, infecting three cats and a stone marten, but did not affect humans....

New Asthma Gene Identified

...elation to allergic responses. Asthma, a complex disease caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Asthma occurs in 7-10 percent of children in the United States and one child in seven ...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...ients. Health officials are still unsure how the disease was transferred. Director of Public Health for South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Health Service Professor Mark Ferson said it could have been spread by a drop of infected blood on a tourniquet....

New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Drug-Resistant HIV

...ugs, amongst the most powerful agents to fight the disease to date, are TMC125 (etravirine) and TMC114 (darun... that Kaiser Permanente HIV patients with advanced disease have access to the latest drugs. Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Fo...

Genetic Disease Causes hearing loss

...tients with the genetic disorder von Hippel-Lindau disease may suddenly experience hearing loss because of a ...cally but may be associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL; a genetic disease characterized by the development of blood vessel tumors in the retina of the...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...ty and how it can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other ailments."That's where there's a big push for whole grains and fiber," he said. "There's interest in making healthier foods." Funded by a one-year, 30,000 dollars grant from the Kansas Wheat Commission, Alavi and researchers created flour ...

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