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Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...scribe the onset of high fever, nausea and intense joint pain. There is no real treatment, apart from rest and rehydration, and in severe cases it can be fatal. "There is no medicine to cure dengue fever, so the only treatment is to have a lot of electrolytes," says Noranita Badrun, a Kuala Lumpur reside...

Wearing Shorts, Sleeveless Clothes Could Make You Prone to Skin Cancer

... chances of skin cancer," cautioned Jyotsna Govil, joint secretary of the Indian Cancer Society. She said escaping rising temperatures and going to comparatively cooler cities was not really a way out. "We Delhiites go out of the capital and bask in the sun in cooler cities. But spending time boating, ...

Boffins Find Link Between Common Sleep Disorder and Hypertension

...ccur when people are awake or asleep. The 4-year joint study was led by boffins at Emory University who conducted the research along with colleagues at deCODE Genetics, Inc., an Icelandic genomics company, and Icelandic physicians at Landspitali in Reykjavik. The research team recruited 900 Icelanders fo...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

...lence for heart diseases, cancer, orthopaedics and joint diseases, emergency, renal diseases, neurosciences, eye, minimally invasive surgery, trauma and cosmetic surgery are coming up in the integrated facility. The Apollo Group plans to apply for a special economic zone (SEZ) status to the health city. ...

Kerala Government Sanctions Funds for Chikungunya-affected Districts

...ng illness, marked by high fever, headache, severe joint pain, rashes and nausea. The disease broke out after the southwest monsoon hit Kerala coast early this month. The disease has spread near rubber plantations where farmers use plastic cups and coconut shells to collect rubber milk and leave it ope...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...ayo Clinic study provides strong evidence that the joint effects of common DNA variations in several genes ...genes that encode that pathway, and analyzed their joint effects. Dr. Maraganore compares the change in method to the difference between gazing at faint st...

Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs

...enza pandemic, fight polio and malaria and for the joint production of vaccines. Three leading OIC states (Indonesia, Egypt and Turkey) have been badly affected by bird flu. World health Organization data shows that there have been 190 deaths globally from the H5N1 bird flu virus since late 2003. Indone...

Twenty-two Chikungunya Cases Confirmed in Maharashtra

..." said Iyengar. Health department officials said joint health director and chief of the chikungunya contr...B. P. Gaikwad is camping in Kolhapur while another joint health director D. S. Dakhure is monitoring the situation in the Latur circle. "Since the mosquito...

Human Induced Nitrogen Deposition Increasing Carbon Sequestration in Forests

...growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a joint study by scientists from 10 universities in the US, Canada and Europe, has revealed. Researchers say the findings paint a more complex view of the carbon cycle in forests. Earlier it was known that logging or other stand-replacement events, whethe...

Denosumab Reduces Bone Erosion

... on erosion score (a measure of damage to joints), joint space narrowing (a measure of reduced space between bones in each joint) and derived the van der Heijde modified Total Sharp Score (TSS) Professor Desiree van der Heijde of Leiden University Medical Center and lead author of the study commented, Th...

Long-term Oral Steroid Therapy Decreases Lymphoma Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ribed and intra-articular (administered within the joint or joint cavity) steroids protect the individual from the development of malignant (actively cancerous) lymph...

New Drug for Rheumatoid Arthritis Looks Promising.

...rove physical function and health status, and slow joint damage progression. Sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, begin to experience progressive joint damage early in the disease. The disease differs from what is popularly known as arthritis, typicall...

UK Scientists to Undertake Seven Year Study of Peanut Allergy

...ther early exposure can prevent// the allergy. A joint team of scientists from the King's College London and doctors at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital, are taking up a seven-year study and hope to rope in 480 children in the seven-year study. The babies being studied are between four and 11 months and ...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...an five, like forgetfulness, nausea, headache, and joint pain, fatigue. The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to record discrepancies in brain volume. It revealed a statistically significant correlation between lower brain volume and poor performance on the learning test. Simon Wessley...

Canadians Despair for Family Doctors

... cardiac treatment, diagnostic tests such as MRIs, joint replacements and cataract surgeries. But columnist Evelyn Myrie says in Hamilton wait time has gone up to 23 weeks from 20 weeks last year. This wait time has major consequence for the health of patients. "We also learned about a local man who di...

Green Tea Compound may Be a Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

... immune system that contribute to inflammation and joint damage in people with rheumatoid arthritis. The ...promising step in the search for therapies for the joint destruction experienced by people who have rheumatoid arthritis," says Salah-uddin Ahmed, Ph.D., lea...

Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

...eatment of arthritic diseases. Osteoarthritis is a joint disease that mostly affects cartilage, the slippery tissue that covers the ends of bones in a joint. While healthy cartilage allows bones to glide over each other and helps absorb shock of movement, in osteoarthritis, the top layer of cartilage break...

Health Insurance Company Expands Product Range

...er. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company is a joint venture between ICICI Bank and Prudential plc. It was one of the first players to commence operations when the insurance industry was opened to the private sector in 2000. For the 11 months ended February 28, 2007, the company garnered Rs 3,744 crore...

Hospitals Make Positive Strides to Reduce Wait Times for Patients

...s, - cardiac care, cancer care, sight restoration, joint replacement and diagnostic imaging. Now, benchmarks have been given for all these categories. The Alliance also addressed the impediments for improvement in the priority areas. Grades were accorded for each area, such as - A for cardiac care and sigh...

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

... also showed another nanotechnology achievement in joint work with Jon Lomasney at Northwestern demonstrating the use of nanostructures and proteins to achieve recovery of heart function after an infarction. "This research provides an early glimpse into the new and exciting places where nanotechnology c...

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