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What happens when Medications go wrong?

...shed up with the President offering an apology and huge sums of money were silently paid as compensation to those unfortunate victims. But then after a week no one bothered to remember the gory incident!!!!!!!! Later an “ X- FILE” was made on it and beamed across the world. This is just the tip of the ic...

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

...y to improve upon this idea. This way they say the huge problem posed by anemia in India can be checked very well. Looks like our scientists are taking the bull by its horns… lets hope they succeed!!...

Water - The silent killer!!!

...O. Improving drinking water supplies requires a huge investment globally, but the funds have not kept pace with the need, according to Terrance Thompson, regional advisor for water, sanitation and health at the WHO in New Delhi. WHO is now advocating low-cost technological solutions, such as chlorin...

South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation

... the midst of a major controversy, as it refused a huge consignment of one million AIDS detecting kits free of cost estimated around seven million U.S. Dollars. Earlier last year the South African president Thabo Mbeki caused a flutter when he openly questioned whether the HIV actually caused AIDS. He ha...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...system andgive back to one's own country is also a huge motivator for Dr Singh, whoaccepted almost a 40 per cent pay cut to do this. Dr Joshi, also driven by the need to give back to the country and to give histwo children a firsthand feel of their roots, says salaries here becomingcloser if not identical...

Healthcare sector is now a multi billion-dollar industry in India

... the private sector. Pointing out that there was a huge shortage of hospital beds, low density of doctors per person, the study stressed on the need to reorient healthcare strategy and strengthen linkages between government and private sector participants....

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...reatment- but losing even a few kilos could make a huge difference, say doctors. They are urging overweight women to change their diets, and take excercise, prior to embarking on fertilty treatments. Obese women have long been known to have problems conceiving naturally, and studies have shown that thei...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

...ustainable development. The world bank has given huge funds in support with this, to preserve rain water to filtering off pond water....

Suicide risk in panic disorder

...n suffer from depression. Moreover depression is a huge risk factor in suicide. However, a new study by doctors at Cleavland State University suggests that other mental health factors are at work when people with panic disorder think of suicide, or attempt it. The overall level of anxiety, a fear of hav...

Genes for Vision discovered

...ic material taken from mouse retinal tissue with a huge genetic database from the mouse and human genome project, the researchers identified approximately 300 photoreceptor genes - five times the number that were previously known. Two hundred and sixty four of these were newly identified genes. Of these, ...

Get, set, go...

...sically active and one of the ways of tackling the huge problem of osteoporosis is to encourage youngsters to increase peak bone mass by taking enough of the right type of exercise with a well-balanced calcium rich diet....

Depression hurts the heart

...n't suffer from the complaint.Brenda says, "It's a huge cardiac risk factor,so it's really crucial to take care of your emotions."...

Air pollution may raise risk of lung cancer

...r stir up a political debate that revolves, around huge power plants that continue to burn coal, and sometimes diesel fuel, to provide low-cost electricity for many suburban areas....

Pig cloning for organs

...tion that has end-stage organ disease don't have a huge problem with animal organs for transplantation," Greenstein said. Researchers produced seven piglets, but three died. One of the four living piglets was born with an ocular defect and small ear flaps. "The deaths appeared to be caused by classic nucl...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

According to a new research, done one a huge men population, which evaluated more than 14,000 sperm samples, found that ozone can adversely affect a man's sperm, reducing their numbers as well as their crucial ability to move or "swim,". "Our most significant finding was that as the ozone leve...

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

...ther chronic disorders. He felt that, obesity is a huge problem and insights into the mechanisms of body weight regulation giving rise to treatments are very important," he said. Ghrelin, a hormone produced by the stomach, is named for the Hindi word for growth. Past studies have shown it rises just befo...

Social anxiety has hope from a new drug

...which can make both work //and social situations a huge problem. Many of those with SAD suffer other mental health problems, like depression, and the condition can be hard to treat. Researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute have been testing a new antidepressant, venlafaxine, on a group of...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

... have been linked to some diseases, "they're not a huge contributor" to causing disease, he told UPI. For example, "we don't think they are a frequent cause of cancer," he said. "The real significance of L1 elements is the evolution of the genome," he said, noting humans have 520,000 of them in our genome...

Allergies: A major health problem

...emy' is spotted the body responds with overkill: a huge army or immunoglobulin (IgE) (plentiful in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts) that release inflammatory chemicals including the one that is known as 'histamine'. These trigger a classic allergic reaction. When the ‘histamine’ comes into co...

Bone marrow stem cells may help repair cardiac tissues

...ght people who were injected with the cells showed huge improvements in cardiac function after a three month period....

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