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Non Smoking Women Less Prone To Lung Cancer

...mericans. Lung cancer is by far the biggest cancer killer in the world, and it will kill 162,460 people this year in the United States alone. This report is contradicting the result that women outnumber men among lung cancer. It appears that there are far more women (16.2 million) than men (6.4 million) ...

Tumor Resistant Mice Point To Novel Cancer Treatments

...tion of WBCs (neutrophils, macrophages and natural killer cells) from the special mice was then injected into mice with tumors. As expected, these injected cells were found to destroy the tumor, even the most aggressive forms. More importantly the healthy tissue was unaffected and normal mice with tumors ...

More Than 200,000 Miners In Rajasthan Suffer From Silicosis

...s were over the age of 40. Silicosis is the silent killer of over 100,000 lives in Rajasthan. Though the existence of this occupational disease is common knowledge, the government of Rajasthan continues to flout the rights of the miners by failing to ensure that they are protected from the cause of silic...

Sore Throat? Help Is At Hand

... suggestions: * First get an over-the-counter pain killer like acetaminophen, ibuprofen or naproxen. * Make sure your fluid intake is substantial. * Suck on lozenges or hard candy. * Gargle with salt water as many times a day as possible. Add one teaspoon of salt per cup. * If possible use a humidifier. I...

12-year-old girl Accused for Murder of Three Family Members

...aks.com is believed to have been sent from accused killer Steinke which has made reference to "doing morbid stuff to others! ...which i'm going to do this weekend," days before the Richardson family was killed. The murders have rocked the city of Medicine Hat, although the city had witnessed another tripl...

Diabetes, The Silent Killer of New Zealand

...had it. Diabetes also referred to, as the silent killer may lie dormant for several years before it can be detected. Most people, once diagnosed with the disease, fail to take it seriously or rather tend to ignore the impact of the diabetes epidemic that has just started to gather momentum. This deceptive...

Beware Of A Silent Killer Called Haemophilia

...nown blood disorder, is turning out to be a silent killer with over 50,000 people affected. People suffering from haemophilia lack certain proteins in their blood because of which their blood doesn’t clot and their wounds don’t heal. Ditipriya Ghosh, an official with the Haemophilia Federation of India (HF...

A sigh of relief for Hep C sufferers

...and the fact that they were ignored. It's a silent killer that creeps up and gets you. He helped spearhead the Haemophilia Foundation's campaign on behalf of 172 people infected with hepatitis C from contaminated blood products. The deal would also have a statement of regret and apology from Prime Minis...

Hemophilia Can Be Reduced Through Awareness And Proper Treatment

...nown blood disorder, is turning out to be a silent killer with over 50,000 people affected. // World Hemophilia Day is observed every April 17 to promote a global effort to secure appropriate care and treatment for a disease that is the oldest known inherited bleeding disorder caused by a defect in the g...

New Research Offers Hope In Kidney FailureTreatment

...optosis and injury. In a oxygen starved state, two killer proteins termed Bid and Bax get activated and establish a partnership to induce cell death. This system is highly active in the kidney. A $1 million grant has been sanctioned by the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases to th...

Heart Related Problems-The Largest Killers In Andhra Pradesh

...ve that cardiovascular diseases remain the biggest killer in villages too. The team met in meet in New Delhi on 11th April to discuss progress of a major new health initiative in rural Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh Rural Health Initiative – APRHI aims at highlighting the enormous problem of cardiovasc...

Mortality Rates Due To Heart Diseases Is High In Rural Areas Too

...aled that heart-related problems// are the largest killer in rural areas too. The study by five leading ins...ve that cardiovascular diseases remain the biggest killer in villages too. The Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC), the CARE Foundation in India, the ...

A Unique Train To Spread Awareness About AIDS

...ed Ribbon Express" will create awareness about the killer disease in over 40,000 villages, according to a youth affairs ministry official. "With around 5.1 million HIV positive people in India (estimated to have the second largest population of AIDS patients in the world after South Africa), continuous aw...

Sodium Hyaluronate Shows Promise In Treatment Of Shoulder Pain

...as physical therapy, steroid injections, oral pain killer medications, all in vain. The patients were subjected to X-ray examination of the shoulder to establish the diagnosis of osteoarthritis and to rule out fractures. The patients during the entire duration of the study were asked to record their pain le...

Heart Disease Can Be Avoided By Tackling The Cholesterol Early

... slash one's risk of heart disease, the number-one killer in the US and many other Western countries. LDL is strongly associated with heart disease. Doctors already know that reducing it with exercise or drugs can reduce a person's risk of heart attack. But it has been harder to find out whether heart hea...

Delhi Witnessed 34 Meningitis Deaths In Three Months

... senior government official of Delhi said that the killer disease meningococcal meningitis has so far claime...ntry. In 2005, over 50 people had succumbed to the killer brain fever. Officials said steps were being taken to make the public aware about the disease thro...

Smoking Related Illness Could Become A Major Cause Of Death By 2020

...moking is said to become the world's third biggest killer by 2020. // Called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the ailment entails two specific health problems: chronic-obstructive bronchitis and emphysema of the lungs. Unlike simple bronchitis, the breathing passages narrow due to swelling...

Death Due To Measles Plummet By About 50% Following WHO Campaign

...encephalitis, blindness and brain damage. But this killer disease among the children can be prevented by just two doses of an inexpensive, safe, and available measles vaccine....

Ovarian Cancer Research Faces Funds Crunch

Ovarian cancer otherwise referred to as the silent killer is one of the leading causes of death among the female population. The famous comedian Lynda Gibson died of ovarian cancer two years ago. // Previous year ovarian cancer was the main cause of death of 800 Australian women. But the sad state is that...

HIV-Positive Woman To Be Congress Candidate In Assam

...d in 1996 but he had already infected her with the killer virus.And two years later in 1998, her daughter Kostorika too died of the disease.But Goswami's ordeal was not limited to losing her loved ones. "Soon after my husband died, my parents-in-law chased me out of their home and I went back to my parents...

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