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Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

...le were tested for the study, making it one of the largest genome-wide association efforts conducted to date. "This is a phenomenal accomplishment, in terms of both the breadth and depth of the research. By pulling together and sharing their data, these three groups were able to achieve far more than any o...

Artificial Tanning Causes Concern

...s preventable," according to Gomes. Fabutan, the largest chain of sun tanning salon in Canada, has decided that it will shut down the branch that will allow any kids less than 16 using the facility. Sunburns developed under the age of 18 can give rise to the risks of cancer at a later stage in life. So t...

Bio-Rad Gets Life Science Industry Awards – 200

...gazine and The Science Advisory Board, the world’s largest online panel of scientific consumers. BioInformatics, LLC ensured that the responses received accurately reflected the demographics of the overall market in terms of geographic region and segmentation. The results were analyzed not only by the freque...

Telephone Treatment Works for Rural Stroke Patients

...Center in Lexington, KY. The study, which is the largest of its kind, evaluated the outcomes of 121 stroke patients who were treated with the drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) at a rural community hospital by a stroke neurologist who was on the telephone guiding the treatment. tPA is the only approve...

World’s First ‘green’ Skyscraper to Be Built in Duai

...ojects that include the Jumeirah Palm, the world's largest man-made island and super skyscrapers like the Emirates Towers. Source-IANS/B...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...per cent). "Food related problems constitute the largest chunk of reasons leading to acidity. Junk food and irregular food eating habits are the two main reasons for acidity," says Anup Singh, head of the Health Care Welfare society, which carried out the research."In most parts of India, people love to ea...

NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital

.... The People for Better Treatment (PBT), India's largest patients' body fighting for medical rights spearheaded by Ohio-based NRI Kunal Saha, has sent a memorandum to both the office of the West Bengal Health Minister Surya Kanta Mishra and the WBHRC Chairperson Shyamal Sen condemning the action of the hos...

Man Sentenced to Prison for Concealing HIV Status While Donating Blood

.... Plasma is a yellow colored liquid. Plasma is the largest single component of blood, making up about 55% of total blood volume. Blood plasma contains many vital proteins including fibrinogen, globulins and human serum albumin. Pro-Tem Lake County Criminal Court Judge Robert Lewis on Friday ordered Ivy to ...

Sewage Swamps River in Scotland

...t fortnight it was reported that Galway, the third largest city in Ireland was reeling under a major water crisis, with scores taking ill because of water contamination. Now the news comes from another part of the United Kingdom, Scotland, that raw sewage has been pouring into the river Forth, posing a ser...

China Agrees to Share Bird Flu Samples

...dwide since late 2003, and China, with the world's largest poultry population, millions of backyard birds, and a strained medical system, is seen as key in the fight against bird flu. Source-Generef.com/L...

Deficiency in Vitamin D Increases the Risk of Cancer

...tion for Cancer Research is the world’s oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research. Members include more than 24,000 basic, translational and clinical researchers, health care professionals, and cancer survivors and advocates in the United States and in more than 60 o...

Expert Warn- Odds Still Stacked Against Hormone Replacement Therapy

...e study :The Million Women Study, claims to be the largest of its kind with one in four women in the UK of the target age participating. Between 1996 and 2001, the subjects completed a questionnaire about their lifestyle, their social and demographic background and their use of HRT. Three years later the...

Geisinger Launches Extensive Study on Obesity and Related Liver Problem

Relying on one of the largest collections of liver tissue samples ever acquired ...er tissue and blood sample collection is among the largest of its kind in a research setting, Geisinger officials said. "Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease has...

FDA Grants Approval to First Bird Flu Vaccine

...the Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis, the world's third largest drug-maker. At least 291 people worldwide have been infected with the virus since 2003, and 172 have died, according to the World Health Organization. The new vaccine will not be sold commercially. It is being stockpiled by the government for use...

Kids Watch too Many TV Junk Food Commercials: Study

...per day or 4,400 a year. The study, which is the largest ever carried out on television advertising aimed at kids, had researchers look at and analyse commercials during 1,638 hours of TV programming on networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, the Cartoon Network, Disney, MTV, and Nickelodeon. Vicky Rid...

Indians Add to Rich Diversity of Virginia Tech

...ation says it has more than 500 members and is the largest such foreign students' body in the university. A public land grant university, the institution is located at Blacksburg in Virginia, with a campus spread over 2,600 acres. The main campus has over 100 buildings and even houses an airport. It also h...

South African Farmers Turn to Organic Farming

...uel production in South Africa by 2014. Europe's largest organic fruit and vegetable importer, Dutch company Eosta is also looking to secure its supply lines in South Africa against competition from American importers willing to pay almost double for a carton of oranges. Source-IANS/V...

When 'prevalence' Makes for Disparity in AIDS Care

...children on anti-retroviral treatments (ART) - the largest number of children on ART in the country in any one state. The target is to enrol 2000 children on ART by the end of July," she added. Matters of concern for HIV positive widows and destitute women like "denial of property and other legal rights" w...

Climate Change Threatens Sundarbans and World Heritage Sites

...s. Spread over 10,000 sq km, the Sundarbans, the largest of such forests in the world, lie within the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers in the Bay of Bengal. A complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of mangrove forests intersect the site. Famous for its beauty, it...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...e Serum Institute of India has become the nation's largest vaccine supplier and exporter, with products sold ...38 countries. The company claims to be the world's largest measles vaccine maker. The report also accounted that foreign competitors, who have sometimes tri...

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