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Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

...esty Italy said it had decided in April to involve itself in issues relating to abortion "to the extent that they are directly linked to its actions for the right to health and against violence against women." As a result it will call for an end to the penalisation of women who have abortions and the righ...

Child Seeks Compensation for Medical Negligence

...eb 21, the foot from just below the ankle detached itself from the rest of the body and it had to be amputated on March 5. The tailor, who earns Rs.2,000 a month, has already spent more than Rs.40,000 on his son's treatment, the report said....

Rejection in Lung Transplants Due to Elevated Pepsin Level

...lloimmunity, the attack the body mounts to protect itself against foreign cells. We think gastric aspiration [the taking of stomach fluids into the lung] may contribute to an overall injury to the transplanted lung, said Chris Ward, Ph.D., lead author of the study. This pattern of injury may be similar to...

FDAs Failure Urges It to Reassess Its Policies

..." he said. "The longer the FDA waits to reorganize itself in addressing the issue of the day, the more difficult it will be for the agency to catch up to the problems of the future. The FDA's moves come as Congress and the Bush administration are debating how to improve the safety of both imported and dome...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...pecific remedy than most vitamins.” Though aging itself is not a disease, Brenner anticipates applications in conditions associated with aging including neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic syndrome, and elevating good cholesterol. There are also indications that NR could be a treatment for one type of C...

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

...form routine bacteriological tests on the raw milk itself to determine the presence or absence of all pathogens and thereby ensure that it is free of infectious organisms. Only products with the code date of May 13, 2007 are involved. The product comes in a 64-ounce (One Half-Gallon), plastic package mark...

Scientists Discover Rare ‘gene-for-gene’ Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Hot

...duces a special phenoloxidase inhibitor to protect itself against this particular defence. They identified the inhibitor as a small molecule called 1,3-dihydroxy-2-(isopropyl)-5-(2-phenylethenyl)benzene, known as ST for short. This molecule is also an antibiotic and Photorhabdus produces it to kill off ...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...ual cycles throughout adult life, this does not in itself mean that monthly menstruation is unnatural, much ...ruation is better, she adds. Menstrual suppression itself is unnatural; a drug chronically overrides the physiological changes associated with the menstrual c...

Useful Parasites

... host a boost in its fertility, in order to spread itself in nature. This new study reveals the Symbiotic ...utionary change. The fact that Wolbachia can alter itself so quickly might also help explain why the germs have such a diversity of effects on their hosts,” W...

CELL THERAPEUTICS PAYS Heavily to Resolve Dispute FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL MARKETING OF CANCER DRUG

...er types of cancers. "Cell Therapeutics enriched itself at taxpayer expense by aggressively marketing this drug to doctors for use in treating certain types of cancers, even though the company knew that the drug had no proven medical benefit in the treatment of those cancers and had not been approved by t...

A New Pill to Burn Away Unwanted Fat

...ad been underplayed. "Contraction of the muscle itself is important. Exercise itself is the most highly potent stimulus of muscle growth. We must also look closer at nutrition as well."...

Dangerous Side Effects of Tea Exposed

...utoimmune disease - when the immune system attacks itself by mistake. Some earlier studies have also shown that substances in tea and other foods could help fight cancer. But in the new study, Rutgers University researchers announced that drinking tea could cause chromosome damage and fetal leukemia, re...

Botox at Your Own Risk?

...g a free hand to the cosmetic industry to regulate itself in place of a statutory regulation. There is a huge demand in Britain for cosmetic treatments. Nearly 700,000 procedures took place in Britain in 2005 costing about ￡360m. Botox injections are easily available at 20,000 high street clinics. Majorit...

Bed Nets - A Formidable Weapon Against Malaria In Africa

...sing bed nets. Says Kuile: "We know that malaria itself is detrimental to many women who are pregnant and results in severe maternal anemia and reduced birth weight in children."But we simply didn't have the definitive answers because a lot of the clinical trials themselves were not large enough to be abl...

U.S Officials Worried Over Failure In Preventing Food Contamination

...on't have a mechanism in that regard. The industry itself has a stake in the ability to stop the loss of confidence is these products." There are also fears of national security being compromised, in the wake of incidents like the recent deliberate contamination of pet food, from China. Senate members ...

Nanotechnology Could Treat Spinal Cord Injuries, Diabetes, and Parkinson's Disease

...otechnology and biology to enable the body to heal itself and has achieved amazing early results. Dr. Samuel is the director of the Institute// of BioNanotechnology in Medicine at Northwestern University. He suggests that nanotechnology can be used to mobilize the body’s own healing abilities to repair or r...

Jefferson Researchers Want to Learn If Heart Defect 'at Heart' of Some Migraines

... need to be able to prove that closure of a PFO by itself will actually diminish migraines," said Dr. Silberstein, Professor of Neurology, Jefferson. In this study, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group will undergo a minimally-invasive procedure to close their PFO. An int...

Autoimmune Diseases can Be Prevented by Green Tea

...ease, Sjogren's syndrome causes the body to attack itself and produce extra antibodies that mistakenly target the salivary and lacrimal glands," Hsu said. There is no cure or prevention for Sjogren's syndrome. Source-IANS/L...

Two More Pet Food Products Recalled in US

...mpt to determine whether or not it is the melamine itself that is the culprit, or whether it's some other contaminant associated with the melamine. Anyway the association between melamine in the kidneys of cats that died and melamine in the food they consumed is undeniable, it says. At this time in the on...

Rainwater to Receive a Fillip in India

...harvesting in all over-exploited areas. The CGWA itself regularly conducts mass awareness and training programmes throughout the country on rainwater harvesting. GPL/V...

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