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Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...-style policies to aggressively tackle poverty and iron out class differences. And it could also make it easier for well educated women to have babies without paying a high price in career or income. But there were others who found Flynns views repugnant, like Waikato University professor of demography ...

New Nano-power Could Make Biopsies Sensitive and Efficient

...agnetic attraction. The idea is to use magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles enclosed in a biocompatible material. These in turn can be coated with antibodies that attach to chemicals found only in cancerous cells. When injected into the body, thousands of the particles fix to cancer cells, turning them in...

Miraculous Recovery for Australian Child Whose Throat was Speared

...g and became impaled on the cast-iron fence. An iron spike plunged fivecentimetres into his throat, narrowly missing his carotid artery, oesophagus, windpipe, all the major nerves in his neck and throat and just stopping short of his brain. Doctors say the fall could have killed him instantly. Instea...

Protein Structure of Pathogens Associated With CF and TB Solved

...es tuberculosis.It's well-known that bacteria need iron to grow and, when they are establishing an infection, they steal iron from the host. To do this, they make complex molecules that bind tightly to the iron. We have dete...

Men Under Knife to Reduce Bulging Waistline in Britian

...mselves. Some have glued back their ears, tried to iron wrinkles from their faces, or cut open their stomachs in a DIY tummy tuck. One man even tried to rebuild his nose using a chicken bone. Dr David Veale, from the Priory Hospital, London, said only the most depressed and desperate were likely to try ...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...leaders there. "We check whether they are taking iron tablets or not, getting all the injections require...e advice of a doctor, I kept a strict record of my iron tablet intake, went for check-ups every three months and ate plenty of green vegetables. "I went t...

Around the World in 86 Days ... on Motorbike With Double-hand Transplant

...er give up." Theo Kelz, a medical wonder with an iron will, was one the victims of mail bomber Franz Fuchs, who terrorised Austria from 1993 until his arrest in 1997 with a wave of xenophobic attacks that killed four people and seriously injured 15. The 53-year-old bomb disposal expert from Carinthia ...

2 Minute Delay in Cutting Cord can Give Babies a 'significant' Health Boost

...the risk of anaemia by half, but also increase low iron levels in the blood by a third. "The results of ...this reduces the incidence of anaemia and improves iron stores in newborns. And, more importantly, these benefits extend beyond the early neonatal period," ...

Major Surgeries and Operations Could Prove Deadly for Anaemic Older Men

...was too early to say whether blood transfusions or iron supplements to perk up the blood cell count would help. Researchers pinned down two reasons for the outcome of their study. Firstly, elderly men's hearts may have an inadequate ability to recompense for the effects of unusually high or low blood co...

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

...s on the cards for pregnant women that promises to iron out life threatening risks to expectant mothers and their babies. Pre-eclampsia, an otherwise lethal pregnancy complication which could kill hundreds of fetuses a year can be averted with a simple saliva test. One in ten pregnancies is fraught wit...

Scientists in Britain Create Artificial Blood

...blood is made up of plastic molecules that have an iron atom at their core, like haemoglobin, that can carry oxygen through the body. The researchers say they were looking for extra funding to develop a final prototype that would be suitable for biological testing, according to BBC News. "We are very ...

Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions

...pecially low serum copper, vitamin B12, vitamin D, iron and calcium. Attention should be given to long-term intake of vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent some of these complications and to avoid severe and rapid weight loss, Juhasz Pocsine said. Patients should be made aware of the symptoms that...

Chinese Take Fertility Drugs to Beat One Child Policy

The iron hand with the Communist government in China is implementing family planning policies is often held up as a striking example of administrative efficiency. Well the element of coercion may be forgiven when they are seeking to contain a population ex...

Too Much of Iron During Pregnancy is Harmful

...ut this does not mean that women should be popping iron pills or any vitamin pills indiscriminately, the s... Tarbiat Modarres University checked the effect of iron supplements on women whose red blood cell level was normal. They gave 370 women a 150mg dose of ferr...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...ture for the unit dropped references to the use of iron after priests pointed out the metal was considered inauspicious because of its association with "the dark force". The latest model also has a chimney that traps much of the particle matter produced by the fire and releases clean emissions. Since th...

Myelin Associated With Early Evolution of Huntington's Disease

...Iron accumulates during normal aging, and abnormal iron metabolism is believed to be involved in many huma...rs. To spot myelin destruction, neuron death and iron accumulation in the brains of HD subjects, Bartzokis used two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machi...

Racy Novels are the Best Calorie Busters!

...need to climb those five floors of stairs, or pump iron at the gym, for all they really need to do is pick up a racy novel like those written by Jilly Cooper. A research, commissioned by book store Borders, suggests that simply reading a racy novel can help check weight. The researchers say when a pers...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...ng identified. Majority is not even aware of Hb or iron resulting in colossal economic and public health c...g with other partners. Awareness and correction of iron deficiency anemia during adolescence will go a long way in improving health of the future parents. ...

Botox Could Curb Excessive Sweating too

...he magic toxin, can apparently be used not just to iron out wrinkles. It can also be used to curb excessive sweating, German doctors have found. Botox contains a tiny amount of the botulinum toxin. The toxin blocks the transmission of acetylcholine from the nerves to the muscle. Acetylcholine is a neu...

Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

... die fast leading to anaemia. After several years, iron gets deposited in various organs, affecting their function and leading to death. India is believed to have nearly 30 million carriers of the thalassaemia gene. It is reportedly more prevalent among Sindhis, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Bengalis, Gaurs and ...

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