Official Lapses Lead to NRI’s suicide in Londo
...kers. Sidhu, a former receptionist, had quit her job after marrying Indian-born post office worker Manjit. On that day, she told a railway worker at the station: "I'm taking my children to see the trains." In February this year, Sidhu's mother, Satwant Kaur Sodhi, 56, committed a similar suicide by j...Treatment For ADHD In Kids Inadequate
...at mental health professionals need to do a better job of explaining the risks and benefits of treatment," Todd says. "The vast majority of parents whose children were involved in this study reported that their kids improved with medication, and when used properly these drugs have been shown to be very s...Autopulse Would Reduce the Mortality Rates in Rural Victoria
...a town. Hence the ambulance would do less than one job a week and maintaining an ambulance station would cost about $1 million a year. To help solve the problem AutoPulse was introduced to reduce the number of deaths due to heart attack in the rural areas. It is a mechanical heart compressor and is fo...Study Finds Divorced Women Are More Likely To Suffer from Heart Ailments
...lves if they were in a family environment, whereas job and career prospects are more important to the self-satisfaction of a man. A spokesman for the University of Texas, who carried out the research said, “Our results reveal that women with a marital loss have a higher risk of disease in late-midlife co...Apple Juice May Keep Alzheimer's Away
...n the apple-enhanced diets actually did a superior job on the maze tests than those not on the supplemented diet," remarks Dr. Shea. Earlier studies by Shea's research team had strongly suggested apples must possess a unique mix of antioxidants that improve cognition and memory via inhibition of oxidat...Computational Model Reveals Working of AZT in Body
... mitochondria to cause the toxic side-effects. Our job is to model these proposed toxicity mechanisms to see which ones could actually lead to the mitochondrial defects found in AIDS patients." He added: "It is possible that no single mechanism is responsible for the toxicity, but that instead a combinat...Protein's Role in Triggering Cancer Identified
...guardian of the normal cell. Its failure to do its job properly is associated with many types of cancer. If p53 is being destroyed by another protein in a cancer cell, then it offers an excellent target when designing new anti-cancer drugs. This research suggests MDM2 is just such a target.' Source: E...Malaria Truths Discovered By Einstein Researchers
...or gene integration. But the Bronx Bomber does the job all by itself, using one of its own enzymes. Dr. Jacobs realized that this unique property of his tuberculosis virus could be used for “breaking into” other microbial species—in particular P. falciparum, which has proven notoriously resistant to atte...Survey Shows That Nurses In Scotland Are A Bullied Lot
...d said it was deplorable that an already stressful job was made even more difficult. He said that no individual should expect nurses to put up with bullying in the workplace. Explaining that many bullying victims were afraid to report it for fear of being victimised or being labelled a troublemaker, Ms...Study Finds direct link Between stress And Ovarian Cancer
... stressful life events, such as divorce or loss of job or probably even cancer. Dr Anil Sood MD Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas and colleagues had noticed that ovarian cancer patients who were reporting high levels of stress in their lives also had higher levels of a protein called VE...Telomere Plays an Important Role in Ageing
... same exercise status who happen to be in a manual job or non-manual job, which roughly divides the social classes. He said that psychological stress play an important role and might be an important cause in increasing the levels of oxidative stress in the body and quickens the ageing process....Gene That Causes Atrial Fibrillation Identified
...ure transportation tubes in cell membranes. The job of these tubes -- or channels -- is to selectively allow certain charged particles in and out of the cell, and in this way, pass electrical currents in and out of the cell to regulate each heartbeat. The KCNA5 mutation causes loss of function of an a...Scientists Coax Nerve Fibers to Regrow After Spinal Cord Injury
.... “Once you rewire, then the brain does an amazing job of sorting it all out,” he says. Having established the ability of sialidase to improve spinal nerve regeneration into transplanted peripheral nerves, Schnaar and his research team at Hopkins are testing the same treatment to see whether it will h...Fewer Graduates Choosing General Practice
...gh workload, heavy administrative burden, and poor job satisfaction among Australian GPs are also likely to have a negative influence on new graduates career choices," she added. Our findings have implications for the future sustainability of the current Australian health care model, with the central r...Prime Minister Lauds the Exemplary Work of Mumbai’s Medical Fraternit
...es and paramedics - for the exemplary and splendid job they have done at this hour of national tragedy. ...kar and his team of 300 doctors have been at their job ever since the blasts at 7 p.m. Tuesday. "A majority of the surgeries involved fixing complicated ...Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist
...gender-balanced selection processes for grants and job searches, as was done with the Pioneer award. And he called on academic leaders to speak out when departments aren't diverse. Barres said that critics have dismissed women who complain of discrimination in science as being irrational and emotional,...Aortic Dissection - A Deadly Condition
.... But these results show we're doing a pretty good job in helping patients after they weather the storm of diagnosis and surgery," says Eagle. The new study drew its patients from a group of 885 Type A aortic dissection patients who came or were transferred to IRAD centers. Nearly 30 percent of the Type...Normalcy Returns To AIIMS; Venugopal Attends Office
...ng normally, with the striking doctors back on the job since last night," institute spokesman Shakti Gupta told PTI. Venugopal, who came to his office around noon, however, did not speak to waiting reporters, with his aides saying he has been advised not to interact with the media as the matter was sub-......ents passing out will have to take up a government job within six months," Rane said. Goa's Chief Secretary J P Singh said the medicos would be taken on a contract basis for five years and the government was thinking of allowing them to do private practice also during this period. Source:PTI News...