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Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

...h a damning indictment of smoking. It says smokers have a three-fold chance of developing skin cancer than people who have not smoked before. The report is based on a study conducted by Dr. Jan N. Bouwes Bavinck from Leiden...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

...ain period of time, according to some analysts who have studied the abstinence of the teen folk in the U.S. According to these analysts, only 7% of men and 20% of women remain virgins till their marriage. The matter is not so important from the ethical viewpoint but a very important topic with regards to...

Contraceptives via Internet

...tives via Internet. Sometimes these contraceptives have major contraindications and side effects and in mo...ors note. These oral contraceptives are known to have a lot of side effects apart from having a lot of beneficial effects. Enthusiastic customers who bypa...

Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition

...é boom of the university of Amsterdam and her team have studied the occurrence of coronary heart diseases in children and correlated the findings to maternal malnutrition in the three trimesters of pregnancy. They opined that maternal malnutrition during the first three months of pregnancy (the first trim...

Starvation in pregnant women can cause heart disease to their children

...starved during the first 13 weeks of pregnancy can have heart diseases later in their adult life, Starvation during mid or late pregnancy don’t have a telling effect. Thus children born to mothers who go hungry during early gestation are at increase...

Antioxidants protect health tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy.

... test organism. Spices with antioxidants property have radio protective effect and protecting organisms like Escherichia role and Bacillus megaterium organisms (taken for study) against of gamma radiation. The study offers hope for the development of better radioactive results and could be used to prote...

Dietary phytonutrients – Secret for the good food to taste ba

Phytonutrients have been associated with cancer prevention and other h...aste bitter, acid or astringent. If phytonutrients have to be consumed then demands of good taste and good health may be wholly incompatible. The bitter ph...

Fight anemia by fortifying crops with iron!!!!!!!!

...ust concluded Indian science congress in New Delhi have called for a collaborative effort with agricultura...ort amidst the scientific community. Certain genes have been identified in plants, which are helpful in accumulating iron in them, and they can be used to f...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...diwali without fireworks. Pongal or karthigai also have their share of fireworks. Then of course the usual... advice restraint and caution especially those who have had a previous episode of respiratory distress. So with festivals round the corner lets play it safe...

Clinton's new problem - Is the outgoing American president suffering from skin cancer?

...throughout his term and his mid east peace efforts have always come unstuck and has embarrassed his loud secretary of state Madeline Albright more than once. But the beleaguered president was also one of the most charismatic leaders in U.S. history and always managed to hang on to his seat by sheer resili...

Cut down TV and video games and you have less aggressive children.

...dren who spend more time on TV and video games may have very little time to interact with others and may have very few social skills. Now that the word is out, it is hoped that the parents take more time off ...

Eating disorder in Diabetic girls lead to eyesight damage.

Diabetic girls were more likely to have an eating disorder when compared with non-diabetic girls. Some reported binge eating and used to take less than their prescribed dose of insulin in order to lose weight. Under dosing of insulin lead to early onset of diabetes related complications an...

HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

...lect and being unwanted even by near and dear ones have this major handicap - they just can’t travel like the other people - wherever they want and whenever they want. Some people just avoid having HIV infected co passengers. Others are just indifferent. Leaving the ethical issues aside, it is very diffic...

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

...s developing a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease have shown that it seems to stop mice with the conditio...sk rises fourfold for those over 80. Several genes have been linked to the condition – particularly one that codes for a protein known as beta-amyloid pepti...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...g difficulties came down by 90%. For patients who have been suffering chronically with no clear-cut cure in sight this study has opened a lot of new options to get on with life. By helping in reducing both symptoms and the treatment aspects this wonder vaccine has come to stay as the, " in thing" for ast...

Man against HIV – new vaccine ready for human trials

....Robert Gallo, one of the fathers of AIDS research have developed this vaccine which promises to be a strong salvo against the human immunodeficiency virus. This project has consumed five years of dedicated work and employs an entirely new approach in tackling the virus. The idea is to block the virus f...

Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

... in clearing the rubble and saving the injured who have been lucky to be saved so far. A miracle baby was ...reas. Monks belonging to a Hindu religious group have started handing out cups of cooked vegetable and rice to a never-ending queue of quake victims. Doct...

Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene

...than 20000 people so far and at least 50000 people have suffered serious injuries of the brain, spinal cor...h absolute collapse of infrastructure, the doctors have a tough task on hand doing whatever they can, given the limited facilities, which are hardly, bare m...

Individuals with sleep related breathing disorders more prone to heart disease

...ns of breathing during sleep. Most individuals may have less severe sleep related breathing problem that m... problems by 1.5 times. Even though studies have not been very confirmatory, medical practioners have advised general public who suspect that, they h...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...g difficulties came down by 90%. For patients who have been suffering chronically with no clear-cut cure in sight this study has opened a lot of new options to get on with life. By helping in reducing both symptoms and the treatment aspects this wonder vaccine has come to stay as the, “ in thing” for ast...

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