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Ramadoss Declares India Yaws Free

...He added that India had moved closer to completely eliminating yaws by 2008. "Yaws elimination is a step towards eradication", he said. The Yaws Eradication Programme (YEP) started in 1996-97 in Koraput district of Orissa. In that year, Ramadoss said that 3,571 reported cases were documented, while there were ...

Palatal Implant Procedure Proven Effective in Eliminating Snoring

...edure provides improvement in QOL, is effective in eliminating snoring in 62.1 percent of patients, and demonstrates a decrease in the level of daytime sleepiness. The overall effectiveness of the palatal implant procedure is comparable to permanent surgical alteration of the soft palate without the associated m...

Transplant Cures Rats’ Type 2 Diabetes without Need for Immune Suppression Drug

...dered them "invisible" to the rats' immune system, eliminating the need for antirejection drugs. In the new study, they transplanted the pig primordia into a strain of rat with a disorder that closely resembles human type 2 diabetes. The result was the same: the transplants cured the rats’ diabetes without any...

Pre-Clinical Study Suggests How Steroid Can Reverse Post-Traumatic Stress

...osed to other mechanisms affecting recall, such as eliminating the memory entirely,” said Dr. Greene. “This provides a proof of principle, and is an essential step in advancing this therapeutic approach.” A UT Southwestern study is now under way in collaboration with the Dallas VA Medical Center with veterans ...

Hughes Syndrome Mimics MS Causing Wrong Diagnosis

...at he went through with his doctors the process of eliminating other condition and was finally diagnosed with MS. He said, “The tests for MS are a matter of eliminating other conditions and I had nothing else. Then a few months ago my daughter drew my attention to an a...

Indo-American Doctor Fired By Cleveland Clinic

...ll continue to strongly encourage innovation while eliminating and managing conflicts." A comprehensive exposé in the Cleveland Plain Dealer outlines the events that led to Yadav's dismissal, which centred around his failure to disclose a one percent royalty fee that he has continued to receive from Cordis/Joh...

Turn the volume down to save your ears!!

...aring by facilitating much lower stage volumes and eliminating feedback." "The musician has the volume control and has to resist the temptation to keep on turning it up." Thus, the earplugs have to be used judiciously. The Royal National Institute for Deaf (RNID), which is running a three-year campaign to rais...

Trans Fats Increase Coronary Heart Disease

...certainly seems that there would be no downside to eliminating them from our diet completely." He also added that trans fats should be identified in the label if not removed completely....

Biological Basis Behind a Couch Potato

...ats were young and both groups weighed the same -- eliminating the obesity itself as the cause of the decreased movement. After the baseline data gathering, the researchers moved to the experimental part of the study. Lean rats have elevated expression of orexin receptors. "We knew from previous studies that...

Bisphosphonates to Treat Multiple Myeloma

...hich inhibits bone resorption and aids the body in eliminating excess calcium. These drugs reduce other bony complications related to MM as well. Unfortunately, along with the positive effects of bisphosphonates comes the possibility of adverse reactions, including kidney function impairment and damage to the ...

Blinding-Disease Surgery Is Done Safely in Villages, by Nonphysicians

...re is reason to be optimistic that the WHO goal of eliminating trachoma by 2020 can be achieved. “I think we’re on target and maybe even ahead of schedule,” he said. “Infection is being reduced with antibiotics, and lids are being operated on, saving vision more immediately. Also, trachoma is disappearing as a...

Indian to Conduct Workshop at Global AIDS Meet

...ager to welcome the delegates to build support for eliminating disparities in access to HIV treatment throughout the world," said Mark Wainberg, a conference co-chair and director of the McGill University AIDS Center. The biennial conference, to be attended by about 20,000 delegates including physicians, resea...

iGATE Completes Phase I Testing Of Meningitis Vaccine

... (PATH), an American NGO based in Seattle aimed at eliminating epidemic meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa. Vaccine development partners include the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER - a centre of the United States Food and Drug Administration for conjugation technology, and Serum Institute of In...

Experiments In Outer Space To Determine single Cell Survival

...ter, needed by the cell to stay alive. Further, by eliminating stresses ordinarily caused by drying, the nanostructure forms without fine-line cracks. These improvements help maintain the functionality of the cell and the accessibility of its surface. By comparison, the more common practice of merely 'trapping...

Research Documents Children’s Exposure to Pesticide

...re took few protective measures beyond avoiding or eliminating the smell,” wrote the authors. “They did not realize that pesticides and residues often have no detectable odor.” Nearly one-third of the women thought of pesticides as contagious or exposure as an infection. Some mothers allowed their children in ...

Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist

...nce fairer for all genders and races. One focus is eliminating bias from grant applications, especially for the most lucrative grants where the stakes are highest. Last year, Barres convinced the National Institutes of Health to change how it chooses talented young scientists to receive its Director's Pioneer ...

Community Awareness Is Imperative For Eradication Of Rabies

...tory diagnosis are the aspects to be addressed for eliminating rabies, Azad said at the inaugural session of the two-day 8th National Conference of Association for Prevention and Control of Rabies in India. Rabies, which is invariably fatal, has been endemic in India since time immemorial and though the exact f...

Discovery of Elevated Amyloid Peptide levels could lead to Alzheimer’s Preventio

... that the onset of (AD) dementia may be delayed by eliminating plaque causing beta-amyloid peptides in the brain....ve treatments to delay the onset of AD dementia by eliminating amyloid plaque-causing peptides in the brain.’ People with AD exhibit elevated levels of beta-amyl...

Cheaper Vaccines From Tomatoes To Fight HIV, Hepatitis B

...ally the vaccine could be given orally as tablets, eliminating the need for injections. Rose Hammond, of the US Department of Agriculture Research Service, which is also collaborating with the research said, 'You wouldn't have to refrigerate the vaccine and wouldn't need to inject it with needles, which pose ...

No More Dietary Restriction for Heartburn Patients - Study Says

... shown to cause a loosening of the sphincter, then eliminating that food from your diet would allow the sphincter...'t necessarily seem to be the case, because simply eliminating a certain food doesn't fix the main problem of the esophageal sphincter relaxing too readily. Gers...

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