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Chavez Threatens to Nationalize Private Hospitals in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalise private hospitals if the...t at private hospitals. The Venezuelan president has taken a series of measures to improve the public health service, such as building new clinics and se...

Translating Structure into Function

...he enzyme actually does in the body. This puzzle has hindered drug discovery, since many of the most su... so-called substrate for the enzyme, a search that has never succeeded simply from knowing an enzymes configuration. The key to the teams success was a com...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

Indian American film director Mira Nair has joined India's top directors in a project to show short films on the impact of the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) before the screening of Bollywood blockbusters. Nair said she got the idea of this collaboration of filmmakers to raise aw...

Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice

...mbryo or more embryos at the same time. Research has shown that pregnancies with single embryos suffer less complications and the baby is likely to have a higher birthweight and have fewer developmental problems than twins or triplets. On the other hand, multiple embryo implants, despite this risk, o...

Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study

... Tuesday in the United States. Previous research has shown that eating chocolate can lower blood pressu...consuming small amounts of dark chocolate -- which has lower levels of sugar and fat, said the study appearing in the July 4 issue of the Journal of the Am...

Embryo Protection Law in Germany

...f preserving life , Germanys embryo protection law has had the unintended consequence of increasing the n...%). Foetal reductions are performed when a woman has a multiple pregnancy and doctors consider it necessary to reduce the number of foetuses she is carry...

Japan's Kobayashi Might Drop Out of Hot Dog Eating Championship

...out of Wednesday's Hot Dog Eating contest that he has won six years in a row. "I don't know yet," the ...aid Kobayashi would compete "under huge burden. He has arthritis in the jaw," after his dental surgery. "I am going to rest today," said the Japanese cha...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...ish the effectiveness of medical interventions, as has been shown in previous research. Or it may simply be that persistent treatment failure encourages women to seek out CATs because they are more willing to try anything to get pregnant. The next step for the researchers is to study the same group ove...

Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic

...eptional cases." Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali has no decided to ban every doctor and member of the medical profession, in public or private establishments, from carrying out a clitoridectomy, a ministry spokesman told AFP on Thursday. Any circumcision "will be viewed as a violation of the law and ...

Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients

...r survival. This is not the first time that rash has been associated with a survival advantage with EGFR inhibitors - a class of drugs which includes erlotinib, cetuximab, panitumumab and others designed to block overproduction of the epidermal growth factor receptor - but it is the most detailed analy...

Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth

In a medical first, a Canadian mother has frozen some of her eggs so her seven-year-old daug...gs to them." Tan said the egg-freezing procedure has been used for cancer patients at risk of menopause when they undergo chemotherapy. "So we freeze t...

China Fears Show Food Export Quality Key: WHO Official

...rs. Reports of problems with other Chinese goods has put the spotlight on the quality of China's exports generally. Omi said food exporting countries must adopt self-regulation by introducing tough laws and efficient law enforcement agencies. "There is a need to establish tough laws. Along with it ...

Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...e much debated agents of mad cow disease and vCJD, has been identified. It appears that the normal prion...ions to cause disease. The normal function of PrPc has been unclear. Using cells grown in the lab, the team looked at the effect of high and low levels o...

Swans Checked in France for Deadly Bird Flu Virus

...U norms, a one kilometre (0.6 mile) exclusion zone has been established around the Assenoncourt lake, as well as a wider 15 kilometre 'observation' zone....

Luciano Pavarotti Believes He is 'nearing His End'

Italian lyric tenor Luciano Pavarotti has predicted that he is nearing the end of his life. ... diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and he has not been seen in the public arena since then. His daughter Giuliana said that her father knows tha...

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

The killing of stray dogs in Kerala, has prompted the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty... local anaesthesia, the surgery is performed. This has no side effect on the dogs which are released as soon as it recovers, said Jaison George, the person...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

...id Tuesday, rattling a national heath service that has long relied on foreign doctors to fill its underst... the statement. Britains National Health Service has long relied on skilled foreign doctors to meet staffing shortfalls, and foreigners have long been dr...

Pete Doherty Gets a Rehab or Jail Ultimatum

Singer Pete Doherty has been given an ultimatum; that he will face jail if he doesn't undergo rehab to deal with his drug abuse. The Babyshambles frontman pleaded guilty to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine as well as two driving offen...

Sporty Spice Fears That She Might Never Get Pregnant

...actised during her days as a member of Spice Girls has done permanent damage to her health. The singer said that during the prime of her career in the band, she did a lot of harm to her image as she was underweight, when lot of young girls looked up to her. I was underweight and my image was unhealthy...

Just One Cigarette can Cause Nicotine Addiction

...uses are permanent and remain years after a smoker has quit, which is why an ex-smoker who relapses after many years of abstinence cannot keep the craving away by smoking one cigarette per month....

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