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Consuming Grape Fruit Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Study

Grapefruit may help keep heart and gum diseases at bay, but a new study has found that it can be dangerous for women, as it increases the risk of breast cancer by almost a third . Researchers believe that this happens because eating the fruit can give the levels of oestrogen the hormone associat...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...unt spent on medical treatment for tobacco related diseases is believed to be nearly 40, 000 crore rupees per annum. India is the third largest tobacco producer and consumer in the world after China and the US. India exports only one fourth of its total annual tobacco output, which is nearly 545 million kil...

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...t meant as protection against sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. She also made a forceful plea for sex education in schools and denounced those opposing the idea as hypocrites. It is moral hypocrisy and just posturing on the part of those who are opposing it," the minister said. "We have a one billio...

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

...ore April this year, policies covered pre-existing diseases after four claim-free years even if the policy was...ance, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. The list of diseases that are excluded from the purview of the policy has also been extended. Under the current policy, b...

Flavonoids In Orange Juice Make It A Healthy Drink, Despite The Sugar

...ease and stroke as well as diabetes. "Many major diseases are associated with oxidative stress andinflammation in the arterial wall, so the search for foods that areleast likely to cause these conditions must be pursued," said PareshDandona, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center ofWester...

Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...theim adds, "Understanding how emerging infectious diseases evolve in their natural host organism helps us understand the disease's possible trajectory."The team's next steps are figuring out exactly when SIV infected African green monkeys and studying SIVs in other species of monkeys. Researcher contact inf...

New Coffee Brand to Hit the Market by This Year-end

...ybrid, hi-yielding arabica variety is resistant to diseases such as leaf rust and relatively less resistant to the widely prevalent white stem borer. CCRI officials said trials of the new variety were being conducted with some 500 growers across the coffee growing regions. The new variety yields about 30 pe...

Reason Behind Sleepy Feeling During Sickness Found

...ammation in response to infection and some chronic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis and was linked to fatigue. Cancer patients, for example, treated with TNF-alpha sometimes reports severe lethargy while patients with sleep disorder, sleep apnoea sometimes report less daytime sleepi...

World's Biggest Condom to Take Off to Spread Safer Sex Campaign

...umber of people infected by sexually transmittable diseases continues to rise," a GGD spokeswoman said. The balloon will also feature at a balloon festival in Joure, in the north of the Netherlands, as well as other music and theatre festivals in the coming months. Sexually transmittable infections in the...

Obesity, a Risk Factor for Developing Multiple Myeloma

...way obesity could influence the risk of developing diseases like cancer or cardiovascular disease, but the answer might also lie in other relationships between obesity and cancer," Birmann said. The findings of the study were published in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a jou...

Novel Method of Adult Stem Cell Growth may Help to Treat Cornea Disorders

... applied the growth technique for the treatment of diseases of cornea in 70 rabbits for the purpose of regaining the damaged epithelium, and thus restoring transparency to the cornea. The experiments proved the therapeutic efficiency in using corneal stem cells in patients with pathologies of the cornea, su...

Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...contain a lot of blood, which can carry infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis We take great measures to prevent disease transmission. Sarah Jones, a Las Vegas mother of three who ingested the placenta of her youngest seven months ago, argues that if a woman wants to keep something that came out of h...

Blood Transfusions Does Not Increase the Risk of Cancer Transmission

...e the transfusion of blood so as to ensure that no diseases are passed between the donor and recipient. Althou...onation may also result in the transfer of chronic diseases like cancer. Some of the theories suggest that even if a tumour is too small to be detected, it w...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...g provides an essential tool for research on viral diseases and their treatments. The ability to use 454 Sequencing to detect rare viral mutations is a crucial research tool to better understand the early stages of HIV drug resistance, he added. According to Dr. Kozal, the current genotypic resistance techn...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

...cination, bird flu prevention and other infectious diseases plaguing Muslim nations. In a draft declaration obtained by AFP, health officials and experts urged Muslim states to develop and produce its own vaccines to ensure reliable supply and safety. Officials also called on religious leaders to take respons...

Genome Annotation by Mutation

...ercent of DNA in the human genetic blueprint , yet diseases can result not only from mutant genes, but from mu.... That makes it easier to find out what defects or diseases arise due to such mutations, and thus what the DNA does normally. They devised a much more effici...

Breast-feeding Protects Mothers from Rheumatoid Arthritis

...t-feeding not only helps the child against various diseases but benefits the mother as well. Previous studies have shown that it can lower a mother's risk of getting cancer....

Pneumonia Patients Develop Heart Risks

...to be aware of the possible concurrence of the two diseases in an individual patient, said Dr. Musher. Fast Facts Nearly 20 percent of patients admitted with pneumococcal pneumonia at a Texas Veterans Affairs medical center had a heart attack or other major heart problem concurrently at the time of admissi...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

... of testosterone in the womb increases the risk of diseases that compromise fertility, such as reproductive cancers. "As a consequence of a male twin's influence on a female's fertility, mothers who produce opposite sex twins have fewer grandchildren and hence lower evolutionary fitness," the BBC quoted her...

Boffins Develop New Technique to Hunt Illness-causing Mutants in Non-gene DNA

...elopment of the new technique is important because diseases can result not only from mutant genes, but also fr...man genetics at the University of Utah, says human diseases were studied in mice, "we want to know the function of every piece of DNA in the mouse genome." "T...

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