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Gay capital reeling with rising HIV infection

...were positive in the 1980s. More than 18000 people have died of AIDS in San Francisco....

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...edroom. The man dons the pants and seems elated to have them. This ad film has stirred a hornets nest in a country where nearly a hundred thousand people are on the waiting list awaiting a suitable donor for organ donation. Nearly 20 people die each day because they are unable to find a suitable match. ...

How do babies understand language?

... in just one or two years.Brent and his colleagues have shown that babies do in fact learn from isolated w...y separated words. All this goes to show that they have a very flexible mind. Didn’t someone say “The child is the father of the man”!!!...

Frozen Canadian baby stages miraculous recovery

... of the ordeal. The baby’s heart which appeared to have stopped for a couple of hours just started beating as the doctors were preparing to place the baby in a heart lung machine. Miracles still do occur!!!!...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...ry tract infections are three times more likely to have a progression of atherosclerosis, the disease that...of contracting heart disease. So the next time you have a nagging infection, don’t ignore it consult your doctor. As the golden rule goes, prevention is bet...

Children suffer the most when parents divorce

... in their communities, who are less religious, who have few friends, who don’t own a house and who move their residences often are more prone to divorce than others.Dr. Booth says that ultimately if a marriage cannot be preserved till the children become young adults, then every effort should be made to a...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...ry tract infections are three times more likely to have a progression of atherosclerosis, the disease that...of contracting heart disease. So the next time you have a nagging infection, don’t ignore it consult your doctor. As the golden rule goes, prevention is bet...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...eated arguments for and against it. Recent studies have revealed that cancer victims suffer the most when it comes to drug testing when sometimes very toxic new anti cancer drugs are tested on unsuspecting victims in the name of conducting a study.A new Harris interactive study report says that an alarmin...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...ar the report says adding that health care workers have to walk a tight rope most of the times.The most common form of threat was verbal threat but even life threats were also reported. Even female doctors were not spared. But very few doctors, who were physically assaulted, actually reported the incident...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...ther 10 sites where the hospital can be duplicated have been identified. Its now the era of cyber hospitals!!!...

Water - The silent killer!!!

...ort states. "Yet...40% of world's 6 billion people have no acceptable means of sanitation, and more than 1...requires a huge investment globally, but the funds have not kept pace with the need, according to Terrance Thompson, regional advisor for water, sanitation ...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...5-croremulti-speciality hospital at Mohali i June, have NRI's heading all theirspeciality divisions. ``We have nine doctors on board so far, of which 5 are from the US,'' saysdirector, corporate marketing, Forti...

Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!

...age, the dentists said that all toothache need not have dental origins and that toothache should not be ignored because it may be the early warning for more important problems. Especially in the third world countries, dental care and hygiene has never received its due importance from the masses. So much s...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

... as per government requirements," hesays. "Animals have to be vaccinated at least twice a year as it gives...n only for 6 months. In the case of calves it may have to be vaccinated three times. In a developedcountry like the UK the vaccination programme would be v...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...ities of Shanta Biotechnics during 2000. ``We also have the advantage of possessing recombinant DNA techno...ut the relevant research and development, however, have to be raised. The vaccine had to be fine-tuned to be effective against the HIV variant, prevalent in...

Drug saves heroin addicts

... overdose and it is advisable for these addicts to have naloxone with them for life saving emergencies, according to doctors at the National Addiction center at London. Naloxone, is routinely given by doctors, during emergency resuscitation following narcotic overdose. After giving 124 drug users in Ber...

New antibiotic already developing resistance

... part of everyday life in these settings. Bacteria have an innate ability to mutate, and when they are rep...ses such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and meningitis have learned to outsmart standard treatments. Without new drugs, experts fear some bacterial infections w...

The brain loves a surprise

Scientists in Atlanta, Georgia, have opined after an exhaustive study that the brain lo...rive on never knowing what the day will bring, may have something to do with the brain's "pleasure centers," researchers have found. In the study, Berns an...

Spirituality helps lessen arthritic pain

...al School in Durham, North Carolina and colleagues have published a paper in April issue of the Journal of... rather spiritual experiences that ordinary people have in the context of daily life.” The study, Keefe said, suggests that understanding the daily spirit...

Ticks may cause more diseases

... as many as 30% of human patients infected may not have been bitten or scratched by a cat, and another study linked the infection to tick bites Dr. Bruno Chomel of the University of California at Davis and one of the study's authors and colleagues, collected hard ticks at three sites in Santa Clara Count...

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