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Drug Risks Must Be Balanced Against Benefits, Researchers

...those activities." But perhaps the illustrations highlighted in this paper will help people make those decisions more clear-headedly, he said. "When it comes to medication, we have to be methodological and cool-headed in looking at risks, not that they should be ignored, but we need to look at them within a ...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

... mercury (representing about 500 affected workers) highlighted at the Bombay newsconference the various health problems like neurological disorders, tremors, bleeding gums, heart disorders, renal malfunctions and high levels of abortions among women during their work at the thermometer factory. To highlight the...

Mutant Parasites, Unable to Infect Hosts, Highlight Virulence Genes

...rheal illnesses infect their hosts. "This screen highlighted genes not previously seen as virulence factors," says Knoll. From one mutant, Knoll's team pinpointed a gene that acts as a nuclear traffic cop, directing molecular traffic in and out of the parasite's nucleus, where the DNA resides. Mutations in the...

Best Armed Forces Hospital Trophy Goes to Northern Command Hospital

...es Medical Services Surgeon Admiral Yogendra Singh highlighted the modernisation programme of the Medical Services and reassured that they were fully prepared to meet any challenge. The Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju, the three Service Chiefs, Defence Secretary Shri Shekhar Dutt, Secretary Def...

Right Side of Brain Play a Vital Role in Stroke

...d flexibly from one thing to another. This study highlighted the role that the right-hand side of the brain has in keeping track of our own actions and helping us to notice when we have made mistakes, Dr Hodgson added. This type of self-monitoring function may play a crucial role in many day to day situations....

Link Between Eye Infections and Contact Lens Use Exposed

...e study. In their voluntary recall, the company highlighted that there is no proof to advocate that todays voluntary recall is related to a product contamination issue. The researchers also found a statistically fragile association between three other contact lens use factors and infection: reusing solution...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

...t does really exist." Oscar-winning Stephen Frears highlighted the drama of organ trafficking from poor to rich in his 2002 "Dirty Pretty Things," and Pedro Almodovar's Oscar-trophied "All About My Mother", touching on transplants, goes on stage in London's Old Vic in September. But despite several transplant-...

Rural Doctors Had It Enough

...ident Dr Mukesh Haikerwal has said that the survey highlighted the pressing need more funding and support. He says “RURAL doctors have identified better resources for rural hospitals and consistent national assessment for overseas-trained doctors”. He said that they were hopeful of a response from the government...

Ex Pro-football Players Saddled With Depression After Retirement

...s, and very soon replaced with depression. This is highlighted by the new study done at the University of Michigan Health System. The chronic pain of the injuries that the players sustain during the height of their career often come to fore once they retire. This coupled with sleeping problem as seen in many p...

America’s Arthritis Patients Take Sizeable Chunks Of Healthcare Econom

...niversity School of Medicine in Atlanta, the study highlighted the health care consequences of treating the large aging population. In particular, he noted the jump in drug costs facing arthritis sufferers -- $1,635 per person in 2003 versus $899 in 1997. Says Yelin: "Our nation is going to have to confront ...

Key Found to Kill Cystic Fibrosis Superbug

... the May issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, and highlighted in Nature Reviews/Microbiology. B. cenocepacia is a multi-drug resistant microorganism that lives in damp or wet places and causes rot in plants such as onions. While it rarely causes infection in healthy people, it can be fatal for people with cys...

Bio-Rad Gets Life Science Industry Awards – 200

...n active interest in the products and technologies highlighted in each issue. The scientists invited to nominate suppliers in each product category were drawn from the readership of The Scientist magazine and The Science Advisory Board, the world’s largest online panel of scientific consumers. BioInformatics, ...

Training Health Workers and Better Drug Access Vital to Combat TB in Mozambique

...ns, who are more vulnerable to TB. Sampaio also highlighted the need to prevent the development of multi-drug resistant strains of the disease, including extensively drug-resistant TB, which is resistant to the two most potent first-line treatments and some of the available second-line drugs. He expressed hop...

Now Scientists Create a Sheep That's 15% Human

...rom the patient,' said Prof Zanjani, whose work is highlighted in a Channel 4 program tomorrow. 'We would isolate the stem cells from them, inject them into the peritoneum of these animals and then these cells would get distributed throughout the metabolic system into the circulatory system of all the organs ...

Chronic Diseases- Lion’s Share of Canada’s Health-care Coss

...port include increased access to the five services highlighted in Ontario's wait-time strategy and the number of 12-to-19-year-olds smoking daily having gone down from one in 17 in 2005 from one in nine in 2000. <B...

Postnatal Health and Sexual Problems Persist Even After a Year

...issues" says Amanda Williams. "For example, it has highlighted concerns about the long-term health effects resulting from forceps deliveries and the variations in ill health between white and Asian women. Both these areas could benefit from further research. "It's also important to point out that while women w...

WHO On Measures To Combat Spurious Medicines

...ting is reported to be the first of its kind which highlighted the need to control the movement of fake drugs. JYT...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...tem cells against a degenerative disease, but also highlighted the fact that, in the future, the most successful therapies - including those employing stem cells -- will likely invoke the use of multiple strategies in concert. Indeed, the stem cell may be the "glue" that ultimately holds these therapies together...

Targeting SOCS-3 can Control Obesity

...n during leptin deficiency. Finally the research highlighted a key gene called SOCS-3 involved in leptin deficiency. By targeting the gene with therapeutics, scientists may be able to repair leptin deficiency, aiding in weight loss. "Of course these findings are quite far from the development of a weight los...

Oxygen Treatment To Cardiac Patients Questioned

... their counterparts who received room air. He also highlighted the finding from a 2005 study which stated that blood flow through the coronary artery was reduced in patients who were subjected to high flow oxygen. JYT...

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