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Club and Bar Owners may Sell Laughing Gas at Their Own Risk

...can have permanent health implications. The brain gets deficient in oxygen which explains the feeling of high, which could lead to injury to the brain. There are immense risks if the gas is inhaled in combination with alcohol or drugs....

Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment

...ed to two factors — the small amount of virus that gets into the body through health-care workers’ wounds and the barrier to the virus posed by the lower levels of the skin, said review co-author George Rutherford, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco’s Institute for Global Health. Still...

Grossly Overweight Boy Likely to Be Sent into Care

...The boy’s mother, Nicola McKeown, said: “If Connor gets taken into care that is the worst scenario there could be. Hopefully, we will be able to work through it and come up with a good plan and he will just be put on the at-risk register or some other register. That wouldn’t be so bad because, hopefully, ...

Make Dental Care Affordable for the Working Poor

...response of the Health Minister, just as the issue gets tossed back and forth between various ministries....

Diet-based Method to Treat Brain Cancer

...itality of normal brain cells. The KetoCal diet gets around this dilemma by essentially starving the brain tumour cells of the sugary molecules on which they rely for growth and survival. Because of its special composition, the diet deprives the tumour cells of the glucose they need; at the same tim...

The Story Behind the Shape of the Heart

Ever wondered how the heart gets its distinguishing shape? Shape may be formed by cell movement, cell division, or alterations in cell size and shape, all of which react to// influences from the local environment. Initially, the heart is an uncomplicated tube that bulges later on to...

Minorities More Likely to Receive Alcohol Counseling

...ssues. According to Mukamal, a difference in who gets alcohol counseling can lead to false excess report...cal settings and assume that the difference in who gets counseling about alcohol use is coincidental, Borrell said. Source-Newswie SRM...

Rajasthan Gears Up for Bird Flu

...ing preserve of the princes of Bharatpur - usually gets 400 species of water birds. However, this time the numbers were less due to scarcity of water. It is the birds migrating to India from other countries that are especially risky, say experts. The state also has a big poultry industry with over 6.3 m...

Modified Ligament Surgery Improves Outcomes Players, Athletes

...n another and goes into another and then the graft gets tied to itself,” Dr. Altchek explained. In the docking procedure, the graft enters the humerus bone, but never exits. Instead, sutures secure the tendon and exit the bone through much smaller exit punctures. Dr. Altchek first developed the docking...

Be Careful What You Touch, It can Make You Fat

... Saal puts this down to a thrifty phenotype, which gets activated when the unborn fetus is exposed to thes...ing it do something akin to grabbing every bite it gets and utilizing it. When the offspring enters the world of ample food, the genes overplay, resulting...

How Women Attract More Bacteria Then Men

...ions, another devil in an angles in disguised when gets onto a surface, the lotion traps bacteria and makes it, the prime germ transfer agent! Other hot areas for germs are phones, purses and desk draws. "I was really surprised how much food there was in a woman's desk," Dr. Gerba told the press. "If th...

Enzyme Critical for Early Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

...thout DPPI, the inflammatory response never really gets going, and the mice don't develop aneurysms,' says senior author Monica Pagano, M.D. Thompson's group became interested in DPPI several years ago when their own genetic studies revealed it is elevated in tissues from both human and mouse aneurysms....

Genes May Trigger Repeated Premature Birth In Blacks

...t a genetic clock controls the timing of birth and gets turned on too early in some women, Nageotte said. The researchers concluded that genetics are the underlying reason for premature births. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Timeliness, a Critical Factor in Treating TTTS

...se survival if treatment isn't initiated before it gets to be severe." In TTTS, the way in which blood flows through the connecting blood vessels on a shared placenta is unequal. As a result, the donor twin has slowed growth and decreased amniotic fluid, while the recipient has too much amniotic fluid a...

FDA Warns of Deadly Results of Skin-numbing Creams

...gh the skin into the blood stream, and if too much gets into the blood, patients can experience serious side effects. When such products are applied to a large area of skin and remain on the skin for a long time, more of the drug passes into the blood stream. Anesthetic drugs may also enter the blood st...

New Mad-Cow Case Detected in Canada Bull

...disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) gets transmitted to people, who eat infected animals, they are at risk of contracting a rare form of deadly brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). About 150 people worldwide, most of them in Europe have died during an outbreak of the d...

Mercury can Kill

...s into vapour at room temperature and when inhaled gets absorbed into the bloodstream and attacks the nervous system. Even physical contact with the liquid, which is easily absorbed through the skin, is dangerous as some of it passes through the skin into the bloodstream, leading to tremors, nausea and bl...

Snoring Could Be Deadly If Left Untreated

...n expert. The disorder often goes undiagnosed or gets passed off as an irritation, with people being unaware that they are causing more damage to their health by not getting it treated, reported the online edition of health portal News Medical. A recent study found that 34 percent of men are habitual ...

Funds and Hope for Breast Cancer Patients

...herwise shielded by pregnancy is the villain which gets a lot of time to play foul," Kaul told IANS. Although there are various organisations like Cancer Sahyog that spread awareness about cancer, there are very few that provide financial help. "Herceptin, which is also called the magic bullet becau...

Drop Patent Petition, Activists Ask Novartis

...f treatment, Gleevec costs Rs.120,000. If Novartis gets the patent, then generic drugs will not be available in market," Sengupta told reporters. In May 2006, Novartis had filed two cases against the government of India and the Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) challenging the rejection of its paten...

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