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Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

...a heralds the menace of mosquitoes. The month long heavy rains have sent floodwaters rushing through large areas in both the countries . It has also left puddles of standing water all over the place, leading health officials to warn against the dangers of disease-carrying mosquitoes. "When we have more ...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...e effect of these genes is especially strong among heavy smokers, suggesting that the inflammatory response... or tissue damage. Our findings help explain how heavy smoking, for example, combines with a genetic predisposition to create a besieged environment within...

Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk

... in patients with lung cancer and especially among heavy smokers. The genes strong effect on heavy smokers suggested that the inflammatory response is important in modulating the damage caused by tob...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

A Finnish study of heavy drinkers has shown that a craving-curbing drug has...ever they felt the desire to imbibe reported fewer heavy drinking days each month than drinkers who took a look-alike placebo pill. However, there were red...

Common Environmental Chemicals Hamper Ovary Development in Foetus

... low-level exposure to a cocktail of chemicals and heavy metals in an animal that has a long pregnancy like humans, researchers compared the ovaries from the foetuses of sheep in control group with treatment group. The control group was grazing fields fertilised with inorganic fertiliser, while the treat...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...ever they felt the desire to imbibe reported fewer heavy drinking days each month than drinkers who took a...ill, but both groups reported marked reductions in heavy drinking days. Those findings come from a study of 403 heavy drinkers in Finland, who took either a...

Backpacks and Backaches

...U-M Spine Program says that, .... wearing a heavy, heavy backpack, when your muscles and your bones arent r...ourth and fifth grades complain of backache due to heavy bags. Wearing it Right Sure, teenage is a time for a great many cool things in life-but it is ...

Study Links Breast Cancer to Western Diet in Chinese Women

A "western" diet heavy on red meat, starches and sweets is linked to a ri... incidence of breast cancer and a move from a diet heavy on vegetables, soy-based products and freshwater fish to a diet labelled "western" that includes a g...

Alcohol Does Not Destroy Brain Cells

...director Professor Perry Bartlett, the notion that heavy drinking destroys large sections of brain cell function similar to a napalm bomb strike, is erroneous. The research, presented to a conference of the world's top neuroscientists, claims that there is no evidence that drinking alcohol directly leads...

Smoking Speeds Up Muscle Loss

...ng disease. They were studied in two equal groups: heavy smokers, who had smoked at least a pack of 20 cigarettes a day for at least 20 years: and non-smokers. To measure the synthesis of muscle protein they were given an intravenous infusion of blood with a tagged amino acid (one of the building blocks...

Study Links Breast Cancer to Western Diet in Chinese Women

A "western" diet heavy on red meat, starches and sweets is linked to a ri... incidence of breast cancer and a move from a diet heavy on vegetables, soy-based products and freshwater fish to a diet labelled "western" that includes a g...

Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers

...line once the animals became the lab equivalent of heavy drinkers. They found the drug curbed their drinking. Even when stopped, the rats resumed drinking but did not binge. The study is outlined in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The drug varenicline is said to work by la...

Now, a Tattoo That can Be Easily Removed

...capsulated beads filled with dyes that do not have heavy metals and other toxins, making it easy it easy to get it removed. "Microencapsulation is a real science and a real art," Live Science quoted said researcher Edith Mathiowitz, as saying....

Southeast Missouri State Provides High-tech Protection Against Staph Infections

...al protection that will not leach any chemicals or heavy metals into the environment and will not rub off onto a player's skin. SportCoatings is the first and only to bring this unique antimicrobial to the athletic industry....

Indian Researcher Duo Finds Automated Tailgating can Save Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

... allows cars to drive much closer to each other in heavy moving traffic, could save fuel and cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to two researchers at the University of Jadavpur, Kolkata . To test their theory, Debojyoti Mitra and Asis Mazumdar from the university's Mechanical Engineering Department ...

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

... 2 million cases of Hepatitis B, attributed to the heavy flow of immigrants from vulnerable countries. Some of the ethnic communities in the United States do not avail the facilities of the healthcare system. Therefore, many sufferers go undiagnosed and fuel the spread of the disease. Experts have also cau...

Haneefs Visa Revoked by Australia

...hern India, continues . He is destined to pay a heavy price for a small act of indiscretion, it looks like. He had allowed his SIM card to be used by his cousins, the key players in the failed Glasgow bombing. Intercepted when he was about to board a flight to India, two days after the Glasgow inciden...

Highway Robbers-Stealing Your Hearts Health

...ers found that the closer the participant lived to heavy traffic, the higher the CAC and that compared with...igher for those within 100 meters to 200 meters of heavy traffic. Though other studies have linked elevated levels of air pollution to an increased risk o...

US FDA may Be Asked to Monitor Toxic Levels of Cigarettes

...d to tobacco, are burned. _Cadmium and lead, two heavy metals that are toxic. Their levels generally depend on the environmental conditions where the tobacco is grown. But Ashley, an expert in the constituents of tobacco and tobacco smoke, cautions that cigarettes are a very complex product and have t...

500 Pound Man Rescued After 12 Hour Ordeal From Wisconsin River

... to carry him over the rocky ground. But he was so heavy that they could move the makeshift stretcher only several feet downstream per hoist. Finally, rescuers created a floating platform by lashing three canoes together and placing four boards across them. That remedy worked much better, but it was st...

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