Telomere Plays an Important Role in Ageing
...dex, same smoking status, same exercise status who happen to be in a manual job or non-manual job, which roughly divides the social classes. He said that psychological stress play an important role and might be an important cause in increasing the levels of oxidative stress in the body and quickens the agei......n dies of leptospirosis in the city. It should not happen in a modern city. If it happens they cannot say Mumbai is a modern city. It is no better than a village." Municipal officials had claimed there was nothing to worry on Friday. Additional municipal commissioner Vijaysinh Patankar had said, "This is ...Regulation of Infertility Clinics Needed
...d been furnished to the couple stating what was to happen to the frozen embryos in the future, if the wife became pregnant from the IVF treatment or if the couple separated or were divorced. Following the judgement ruling in favour of the husband, constitutional issues will now be examined by the High Cou...Include folic acid in bread to reduce neural tube defects in new borns
...tics has shown that nearly half of all pregnancies happen by accident and are hence unplanned. Women do not get to know of their pregnancy till after a few weeks, by which time, any deficiency in the mother could begin to cause irreparable damage to the fetus. Folic acid in bread could actually save the day...The National Governors Association Releases Guidelines For Outbreak Of Bird Flu
...st, and hope for the best. And the planning has to happen now." She and Minnesota GOP Governor Tim Pawlenty are leading the NGA's effort to get states ready on the looming threat. It was explained that the government and the medical community have been getting ready for the deadly H5N1 strain of the avian...Inculcating Positive Thoughts Could Eliminate Depressive Mood
...s will help control and overcome them. "It won't happen overnight," he says. "But those who are willing to follow simple rules for happiness will find that happiness can be achieved." (Source: IANS)...Phone Calls Lend Vital Support to Moms of Mentally Ill Children
...larly in small towns and rural areas. These issues happen regardless of economic level. In Scharer's study, psychiatric nurses call the mothers every two weeks over a six-month period and provide guidance, information and emotional support. The goal is to increase the mothers' coping and problem-solving s...BreastScreen Australia Is Being Sued Towards Medical Negligence
...er women, Ms Yellop said, "They don't want this to happen to someone else and they want women to be aware that they can question doctors." Ms Harley, who is a mother of three, was diagnosed in 2003 with two tumours in her left breast in spite of having had regular mammograms since 1998. Stating that she i...Practise Of Male Circumcision In Africa May Reduce HIV Risks
...ling looked at the probable scenario of what would happen if, over the next 10 years, all men in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised. Their calculation showed that within a decade some two million new HIV infections and 300,000 deaths could be prevented, and that in the ten years after that a further 3.7 mi...Genetic Mutation in Mice Suggests Extinct Mammoth Had Light and Dark Fur
...daptation does not always occur gradually, but may happen in these relatively large jumps.” Hoekstra and her colleagues—Rachel Hirschmann of UCSD’s Division of Biological Sciences and Richard Bundey and Paul Insel of UCSD’s Department of Pharmacology—discovered the single nucleotide mutation in the melano...EC Warns Tan Lovers Against Skin Cancer
... of ultraviolet radiation, so basically what could happen is that you could have a product that is basically barbecuing you because there is no upper limit which controls that". The committee found that in Britain, the people most at risk were the ones with freckles, moles, a family history of melanoma an...AIIMS Strike Enters Second day, Support Continues To Pour In
...ll continue to be a doctor of repute. Nothing will happen to the minister either. He may become a bigger minister and bigger politician. But what will happen to the institute. Already a kind of exodus of doctors to private practice or abroad has started happ...Experts Say A Decade Needed To Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
...cal Centre, said that if bird flu pandemic were to happen it would not be enough to vaccinate a section of the population. "If a pandemic were to happen tomorrow, we would not have a vaccine; at least not a vaccine with which we could vaccinate the Euro...WHO Warns That Bird Flu Virus Could Mutate Anytime
...ng months, the WHO also warned that the same could happen towards the end of this year or early next year. "If this pattern continues, an upsurge in cases could be anticipated starting in late 2006 or early 2007," the WHO said. "Moreover, the widespread distribution of the H5N1 virus in poultry and the cont...Dead Body on Hospital Bed for Four Days
...mething they told me was a one-off and would never happen again has become hospital policy.’ Her husband had died from heart problems in March 2002. However when funeral directors came to collect the body following the weekend they found that it had not been placed in a refrigerator. The undertaker who de...Ontario Addresses Shortage of Transplant Organs
...tor of Organ and Tissue Donation said, "This can't happen for every patient, in fact we probably estimate th... of our donors. I hope, in the future to make this happen for every family. We will then have achieved our objective.” Until now doctors have only retrieved...More Accidents on England’s Road - Statistics Revea
...n England's roads. But in reality many accidents// happen to occur on the busy roads of England. Government targets for England look to reduce by 40% overall the number of serious injuries and deaths on the nation's roads by 2010, (compared with a starting point - baseline - of the 1994-8 average figures)...Smell Decoding System In Brain –Research Find
... researchers suspect that this integration doesn't happen in the olfactory bulb. Instead, the bulb likely passes the data to more advanced brain structures where it is assembled and recognized as a specific scent. Understanding how the olfactory system works in mice may also provide broader insights into ...Two year old to receive a kidney from each parent
...r, and even though doctors can't tell us what will happen to Stephen, we're still really lucky both to be perfect donors. Doctors are now monitoring his kidney and they'll tell us when the first transplant is likely to go ahead." ......ght we take away from this is that when bad things happen down the road, months, maybe even years later, that we cannot, as we have in the past, just attribute it to the natural course of illness,” says Dr. Steffen E. Meiler, anesthesiologist and vice chair for research in the Medical College of Georgia Dep...