Lakhs Affected As Chikungunya Sweeps Across The Nation
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...c proportions,” he said. “The public should not let fogging operations being conducted by local governments because it might worsen the dengue problem in your areas,” Eric Tayag, director of National Epidemiology Center, the Department of Health (DOH) told reporters. According to previous reports, ...Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Labels
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... while you weigh the pros and cons of such a move, let us give you the background story of why the most famous ‘don’t’ of almost all weight loss programmes stands challenged. This study which can be found in detail in the New England Journal of Medicine, with the title ‘Study to Prevent Regain’, or ‘ST...Thalassemic patient is now HIV positive due to faulty Diagnostic kit…
...ok into the matter."Shampa’s thalassemic state had let her get to know about the HIV condition so early. However, only 12-15% of the total blood collected in the state is used for transfusion to thalassemic patients. It was only probably because she was thalassemic that she got to know about her condit...Standards of Home Care for Elderly Needs Change
...o many frail and vulnerable older people are being let down by under-pressure staff and over-stretched councils who are not providing the care they need." A Department of Health spokesman said: "There have been many changes for the better but there remain issues of poor quality and reliability that we ...Listening to the Sound of Skin Cancer
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...enjoys storytelling, and writing a blog also would let him provide information to prospective students on what it is like to go to the U-M Medical School. “When I write my blog posts, I tend to write a lot about how medical students think, or are supposed to think, or how their thinking is supposed to ...'Origin Of Sex' Can Be Revealed By Sperm Proteome
...bably explains why we don’t really understand sex, let alone how it evolved. 'Before we catalogued the sperm proteome, we only knew a few specific proteins in the Drosophila sperm. 'Being able to compare the structure and content of the proteomes of sperm from different species should help us underst......pinephrine interacts with a G protein that doesn’t let go of the beta-gamma subunit. “There was a constant question about how drugs sometimes avoid doing unwanted things,” says Dr. Lambert. “This helps us understand how drugs can be specific. The flipside of the coin is some drugs acting on some recept...