Our Attitude To Food Costing Us A Fortune
...alutary. Of the food we begin with, barely half is ever eaten. Studies have show that in agriculture, wh...ive landfill use. Thus researchers say if we are ever to eat more than half the food that we make, it is time to collect the information on food waste, re...Orissa To Get New Medical Colleges Soon
It is uncertain if a second medical college will ever come up in the Western Orissa region, but there is no dearth of expression of intentions on the part of the State government. Western Orissa Development Council (WODC), after // its failed negotiation with an Andhra Pradesh based entrepreneur, struc...Researchers Question The Effectiveness Of Homeopathic Remedies
...ine by preventing, alleviating, and curing disease ever more effectively.” In an accompanying editorial of The Lancet comments: “It is the attitudes of patients and providers that engender alternative-therapy seeking behaviors which create a greater threat to conventional care—and patients’ welfare—than ...Hollywood Actress Hunter criticises Hatcher for weight loss.
...Feasting Your Way To Health: Forget all you have ever heard about eating sensibly and exercising. The way to lose excess weight and stay fit is to fast one day and feast the next - the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors did. The remarkable finding, which could revolutionise conventional wisdom about nut...MS Patients Improve With Telephone Therapy
...otherapy to antidepressants, only 10 to 45 percent ever make a first appointment and nearly half will drop out before the end of treatment, background information in the article states. Barriers to receiving psychotherapy include physical impairments, transportation problems, proximity of services and lac...Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking
...about alcohol and tobacco use long before children ever consider using these products themselves, according to background information in the article. Young children’s attitudes have been difficult to assess because of their limited language skills. Researchers had used a role-playing scenario to assess p...Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled
... there is little hope that six-year-old Izhar will ever live a normal life. After 24 days in hospital, he has survived the disease but lost out on life. "His posture remains abnormal while all locomotive abilities are numb. We are doing whatever is humanly possible, the rest is up to god," says staff nu...When A Prince Chose To Help Indian Couple
...her of seven, had been nursing the conjoined twins ever since they were born, with all the love and affection they deserve. 'They were confined to their home as they attracted curious onlookers and taunts,' she said. The twins have not had any education but were taught Urdu at home. Elaborating on the ...Genetic Eye Disorder Can Have Other Implications
...die. Until this study, no human HOXA1 mutation had ever been identified, and it was assumed that complete loss of HOXA1 function would be lethal. But the Children’s investigators, have found living people with two mutated copies of HOXA1 -- from three different parts of the world. Researchers had been st...Popularity Among Peers Increases Susceptibility To Smoking Habit Among School Children
...rade. Students were defined as smokers if they had ever smoked-whether just a puff or a whole cigarette-and they were classified as susceptible to smoking if they refused to rule out any smoking in their future. Popularity was measured by the number of times a young person was named as a friend by other s...Scientists Awarded Appropriately For Contribution Towards Medical Research
...ple could be linked to the person it came from and ever since its introduction, the technique called as D...r insights of a few, usually in ways that could be ever predicted....Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology
...red transistors measuring 130 nanometers. With our ever increasing knowledge of nanoscience and the ability to engineer new products and services, it would not be far before the entire history can be compressed inside our pockets or the life system extended by specially designed molecules that mimic the l...Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Production Is More Profitable Than Small Molecule Drugs
...y 30% of conventional small molecule drug launches ever recover their costs. Drug is likely to be profitable if peak revenues pass the $300 million mark. So far, of the 17 mAbs launched in the US, eight have achieved this benchmark. And of these, four have become blockbusters earning over a billion dolla...Consumers Worried About Trans-Fats The Most
...consumers wanted more nutritional information than ever about the meals they ate away from home, time and convenience are the number-one priority when it came to what to eat, unless they had medical conditions. A similar survey conducted in Canada found 34 percent of the surveyed viewed trans-fat as thei...AIDS control requires co-coordinated move regarding safe sexual practices
...y ' said the minister, expressing concern over the ever increasing incidence rates in the country. The minister highlighted on the lack of proper awareness regarding the spread of the disease. He also necessitated the need for spreading messages on safe sex rather than on moral beliefs of the society. ...Remote Robotic Surgery Using Miniature Robots
...the tiny robots to enable surgeons to work without ever placing their hands in patients' bodies. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_sc/robotic_surgeons) Submitted by: A.U.Jai Ganesh, MSc, MBA.,Researcher (Telemedicine and E-health), Prashanthi Nilayam. ...Kidney failure shows a tendency to run in families
... and Georgia, and is the largest study of its type ever performed; collecting family history information from about 25,883 newly treated dialysis patients. Of these, nearly 22.8 percent had other close family members on dialysis. In addition, kidney failure people with diabetes and high blood pressure wer...Acute Shortage Of Neurosurgeons In India: One Surgeon For Every 1 Million!
...osurgeons would be required in India to manage the ever increasing waiting list of patients. More than 300 children are waiting for neurosurgery at the AIIMS. Every year around 20,000 new cases are added to the long list of people in India requiring neurosurgery but only about 100 are treated in the eig...Extensive Campaigning To Warn Against Children’s Growing Affinity To Fast Food In Britai
...roblem, the entire world is struggling against the ever expanding love of burgers and pizzas among children as opposed to traditional foods.Eating patterns are undergoing a sea change//. And the older experienced generations are worried about this fast food generation growing up. The same fear has promp...