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Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...er. Donation of a piece of the liver's right lobe from one adult to another is a relatively new procedure...d a study into the post liver transplant scenario- from both the donor’s angle and the recipient’s angle. She found that all the donors continued to live a...

Skinny people need to exercise too

...he study, says that heart disease does not develop from a single factor. “Fitness and fatness are both imp...ean people who are on the move. Nearly 620 people from different races were studied and they were put through various tests. Their aerobic fitness, their w...

Ticks may cause more diseases

...aused by Bartonella henselae, was passed to humans from cat bites or scratches, as the name would suggest....hree sites in Santa Clara County and extracted DNA from their bodies, hoping to match specific genes to those of Bartonella bacteria. Of the 151 ticks they ...

Depression may cause delayed wound healing

...o affect the immune system, which may keep a wound from healing on time, they note. Another possibility, according to them, is that depressed people may not take care of themselves as well as non-depressed people. Poor appetite and an irregular sleep schedule, which often accompany depression, may also i...

IMA wants members not to do sex determination tests during pregnancy

...dical Association has asked its members to refrain from conducting sex-determination tests and aiding fema...icide organised by the IMA, Tambaram, with support from the IMA headquarters and the UNICEF here. Dr. P. K. Kesavan, IMA State president, said the organis...

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...legalized use and import of generic medicines free from patents. The pharmaceutical companies, which inclu...O rules. "The fight to change the WTO rules is far from over," said Forsyth. "Brazil could become the next country which has to fight for its right to care ...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

... the case of persistent fluid. Official guidelines from the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery list presence of the condition for more than three months as a reason to recommend ear tube surgery. Tubes' effect on hearing debated Perrin wrote in his editorial that the issue of surg...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

...According to WHO, around 150 million people suffer from asthma worldwide and nearly 2 lakh people die due to the disease every year. Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease, often linked with allergies, that is characterized by sudden recurring attacks of labored breathing, chest constriction, and coughin...

Chinese paracetamol may be slapped with dumping duty

...ded provisional anti-dumping duties on paracetamol from China and Taiwan. This followed an investigation a...ies and Drugs. These investigations were conducted from April 1999 to September 2000. Though the drug had been imported for quite some time the Directorate...

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

...ded that plans to raise the number of beds to 8000 from the present capacity are already underway and will be completed by 2002. Reddy said Apollo Hospitals had also firmed up plans to enter health insurance and had initiated talks with some insurance companies to function as a third party administrator. ...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...ngly been developing new ways to minimize the pain from those finger pricks with a growing arsenal of gluc... allows a diabetic to test sugar using less blood, from places other than the fingertip. Other testing systems are still in the pipeline, including a patch ...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...mune Deficiency Virus (HIV) Epidemic did not arise from an oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950s ...scientific evidence to back them up. The studies, from researchers in the US, UK, France and Germany, should help free the polio vaccine manufactured by th...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

.... Sukumar's team examined samples of ductal fluid from women with breast cancer and women without the disease to detect signs of a process called methylation. The presence of markers for this process suggests that a woman has breast cancer or precancerous breast cells, according to her.Ductal lavage is ...

Hemopurifier may revolutionise AIDS treatment

...eatment. A blood purifier, which separates the HIV from circulating blood, has been developed and if found...iltration system removes lead and other impurities from drinking water. In the Hemopurifier case, Tullis removed HIV from several 10-milliliter samples of c...

Thakur warns doctors

...y warned doctors that their names could be removed from the register of the Medical Council of India (MCI)...zero to six. The over-all sex ratio has increased from 927 women per 1000 men in the 1990 to 933 women per 1000 men now. But, the ratio for the index six g...

Women suffer from sexual dysfunction too

Millions of postmenopausal women suffer from sexual dysfunctions- painful intercourse, sexual dissatisfaction and a multitude of physiological and psychological problems. However if the patients and their doctors communicated better, most of these problems can be treated properly. Almost all w...

Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!

...d evenly by 23, the number of chromosomes received from each parent. Because there is no way to know whic...r instance, there's also a risk of cancer if cells from the white patches have lost one gene from any of a number of specific pairs. The risk increases with...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...t least 500 million get infected every year. Apart from AIDS/HIV and Tuberculosis, malaria is the most deadly infectious disease in the world. Some health facilities use bed nets, treated with insecticide, to curtail the disease but Johns Hopkins is among the few institutions trying to develop a successf...

Be happy: live long

...son healthy and prolongs life. These findings stem from a 15-year study of aging and Alzheimer's disease i...rauma can increase a person's chances of suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life. It also has shown that folic acid may help fight the ...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

...ternational team of researchers took blood samples from 24 men aged 16 to 28 who had not been exposed to DDT in their work. In these men the high DDE levels correlated to low levels of testosterone, low semen volume and low sperm count. However some health experts argue that the benefits of using DDT ou...

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