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Useful Parasites

...t the Wolbachia in this case is well on the way to having a similar relationship that will eventually develop into a dependency by the host on the Wolbachia for survival," said evolutionary biologist Andrew Weeks at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Wolbachia is depended by the wasp and the worm to ...

Indias First condom Bar Inaugurated by AIDS Patient

...tting the wall that stacks liquor bottles. Besides having souvenirs like cups, T-shirts and caps highlighting the use of condoms and safe sex, the bar even has a counter that offers free condoms. It has been set up by the semi-government Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) i...

Husband Cools His Heels in Jail After Kidnapping Wife from Hospital

...itself. He went to the hospital to talk her out of having the operation. When she refused he reacted in the way he did." But what went against him was the use of brutal force and threats of killing his wife, if she didnt comply with his order. Apparently the lady had arrived for the surgery with a black...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered and Calorie Restriction Could Help

...g drugs that can extend the human lifespan without having to follow a rigorous and difficult diet. The first experiments in calorie-restricted diets go back to the 1930s. Laboratory rats and mice fed a severely calorie-restricted diet, but with normal levels of vitamins and minerals, lived almost twice as...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

...ter she knew that breastfeeding was best and after having a home birth, wanted to do everything as naturally as possible. "I had about six weeks of pain, I had a bleeding nipple on the right and fed on my left the whole time which then became really sore. "It was really unbearable and I was half way to ...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

...piked with contamination purposely to make it look having more protein. How long this kind of tainted food has been coming in from china nobody knows. The understaffed food inspection authority find it difficult to check each and every consignment that comes in. 'Clearly that is a concern if that has been...

High Court Warns Medical Staff Against Misuse of Ambulance

...idents in Delhi. CATS submitted that it would be having 400 ambulances by the end of 2008....

Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

...dults with recurrent sore throats may benefit from having a tonsillectomy in the short term, but the overall longer term benefit is still unclear, and any benefits have to be balanced against the side effects of the operation. A small study of adults from Finland showed that tonsillectomy significantly ...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

...ups to be aware of the disease, with 61% reporting having heard of glaucoma, compared with 72% of Asians, 94...nics were the least likely of all groups to report having their eyes dilated during a regular eye examination. Seventy-six percent of blacks, 80% of Hispanics...

The DNA That Spells Double Risk of Heart Attack

... attack causing strand, suffer an enhanced risk of having a heart attack. Such people are prone to suffer...ed'. The effect of smoking is double the effect of having this gene. If you smoke and are overweight and don't take enough exercise that swamps the effect of ...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

... their careers damaged if they were to acknowledge having problems. The four-page summary of findings, which will be incorporated in a final report to Defense Secretary Robert Gates in June, comes amid renewed attention on troop and veterans care following recent disclosures of shoddy outpatient treatment...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...ek" test. But this was used for women at risk of having babies affected by disorders that usually only aff...to some women in some countries being coerced into having abortions. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists believes sex selection for non-me...

Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk

...inue while this incident is investigated. Products having any other code date are not affected. Retailers are asked to pull-from-sale all unsold Galliker's Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk with the code date of May 13, 2007 and return them for full refund. Consumers with any questions may contact the com...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...drug during their pregnancy are at greater risk of having children with lower IQ. In question is the drug valproate (already at the center of a British court action after claims that it has damaged children). Valproate seems to double the chance that the woman's child will be born with mental retardation...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...would mimic effects of calorie restriction without having to skip lunch -- we would be able to provide some of the benefits of calorie restriction, which are pretty striking in model organisms, said Brenner, also a member of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Many benef...

Once-a-year Drug Reduces Fractures from Osteoporosis

...g treated once a year for osteoporosis, instead of having to remember to take a weekly pill," Black said. "Adherence to these weekly and monthly regimens is often a problem, so an annual treatment means patients are far more likely to actually receive valuable protection against potentially devastating frac...

Cholesterol-lowering Drugs Reduce Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

... enrolled 4,731 people within one to six months of having a stroke or transient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke, and with no history of heart disease. Half of the participants received the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin and half received a placebo. The participants were then followed for an average ...

Abnormal Face Processing in Toddlers With Autism

...refore likely that toddlers with disabilities were having a harder time encoding information regarding facial identity because they were simply looking less at facial features, which are of greatest help in extracting this type of information. We also found it interesting that those toddlers with ASD who ad...

Republican Presidential Candidates Discuss Abortion, Stem Cells as Part of First Debate

... life in order to destroy it, as long as we're not having human cloning, and we limit it to that". Brownback voiced his opposition to the research, saying, "It's not necessary to kill a human life for us to heal people"....

Many Elders in US Not Treated for Glaucoma

...otal of 3,020 MCBS participants were identified as having diagnosed POAG. A major finding of this study is that, on average, 30 percent of Medicare beneficiaries with POAG did not use any glaucoma medication and did not undergo any type of glaucoma-related surgery in a given study year. Among those patien...

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