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An Indian Bride with signs of SARS

...an capital, admitted himself to a hospital in Pune four days after he developed symptoms. He was tested positive for SARS after two tests, and doctors were studying whether he could have spread the disease to anyone because of the delay in reporting the symptoms. Within hours on monday, his mother and si...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

... social isolation faced by a family in Pune, whose four members were confirmed// to be suffering from SARS...vernment Hospital did not report to work. In Pune, four patients who had been confirmed by laboratory tests to be suffering from SARS were discharged from a...

Depression drugs help baby

...nxiety disorders either during pregnancy or within four weeks of giving birth. Mothers who are depressed might be less inclined to breast feed their children. Depression also has an effect on biological variables in the mother's milk. The study led investigators to conclude that number of factors could in...

Virus Helps Remove Brain Cancer

...d treated with Delta-24-RGD survived for more than four months, whereas untreated mice lived for less than three weeks. Many experiments have been conducted since this study and they all produced similar results....

Gene Therapy could treat Impotence

...n// important role in erections. After a period of four weeks, researchers stimulated the cavernous nerves in the rats. Those rats that received the gene therapy had a substantially greater ability to achieve erections than those that did not get the treatment. These experiments would help in treating imp...

Abortion may cause mental illness

...hospitalised for psychiatric problems in the first four years after their pregnancy than women who carried their pregnancies to term. The study also indicated that Women who had an abortion were nearly three times more likely to be admitted to hospital// for mental health problems than women who delivered...

Parkinson's disease as a result of Head injuries

...icates that people who suffer a head injury may be four times more likely to develop Parkinson's disease compared to those who have not. They also added that the risk increases on the severity of injury. In general men and women have about a one in 75 chance of developingParkinson's disease. About 4 milli...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ol legislation,” she said. The framework has taken four years Tobacco now kills some five million people each year. This death toll could double to reach 10 million by 2020 if countries do not implement the measures of the FCTC. The smoking rates are are increasing, especially among the young, While smoki...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

...tion Hospital was considered the likely source of four more cases under investigation, they said. The outbreak prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to issue a travel alert for Canada last week, a step short of advising against necessary travel there. The WHO designation is routine for transmi...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ol legislation,” she said. The framework has taken four years Tobacco now kills some five million people each year. This death toll could double to reach 10 million by 2020 if countries do not implement the measures of the FCTC. The smoking rates are are increasing, especially among the young, While smoki...

Try Iron to overcome fatigue

...ither 80 milligrams a day of iron or a placebo for four weeks. The study shows the level of fatigue after one month decreased by 29 percent in the iron group compared to 13 percent in the placebo group.// The difference in depression was not statistically different between the two groups, but a greater de...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ol legislation,” she said. The framework has taken four years Tobacco now kills some five million people each year. This death toll could double to reach 10 million by 2020 if countries do not implement the measures of the FCTC. The smoking rates are are increasing, especially among the young, While smoki...

Protection from Dementia

...d a placebo. Participants were followed for around four years. Results showed no clear-cut effect of the active treatment on the overall risk of dementia, but the risk of developing dementia with recurrent stroke was lowered by about a third in those who took the blood pressure medications. The overall r...

New Cure for Addiction?

... a plan that is expected to cost between three and four million dollars and is aimed at securing the approval of our Food and Drug Administration. Much of the evidence that supports the Vietnamese claims of effectiveness for Heantos is anecdotal; no scientific proof exists. However, since the need is so ...

Longer Lung Cancer Survival

...35 percent had symptoms relieved. Marcie has stage four lung cancer.Her first dose of chemotherapy didn’t work. More chemo and radiation followed, but her cancer didn’t go away. She says, "You want to hear words of encouragement and hope. You know, you just long for something." Those words of hope came w...

Best Drug for SARS

...andard drug used in SARS patients, ribavirin, with four additional antiviral drugs: 6-azauridine, pyrazofurin, mycophenolic acid, and glycyrrhizin. All were tested against two isolates of the SARS virus taken from SARS patients //being treated at Frankfurt University. The study showed glycyrrhizin, which...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...chers is the fact that the dengue virus falls into four distinct subtypes. Initial infection with one subt...he risk, is that if the vaccine does not "hit" all four types of the virus, the vaccine may end up mimicking a second natural infection. For example, the va...

Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Risk Factors

...at least one eye. Patients were followed for about four and a half years to see what role body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and physical activity would have on the progression of the disease. About 100 patients progressed to more advanced disease during the study. Results showed t...

Alternative Therapy in HIV Patients

...ne type of CAM during the course of the study. The four most commonly used methods were relaxation, spiritual healing, self-help and herbal medicine. More than one-fourth of the patients used CAM with the potential for side effects and 3 percent reported using CAM in lieu of conventional HIV therapy. More...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...n of nearly 5,000 medication errors over more than four years.// The study was conducted in a cardiology ward in the hospital, an area where previous studies have shown a high risk for severe adverse drug events. During the study period, the pharmacists intervened in nearly 15,000 cases, about 4,700 of t...

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