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Skin cancer linked to usage of Drug Azathioprine in organ transplants

...umulation of drug in the DNA interaction of the UV light with the skin increases the risk of skin cancer. The possibility of skin cancer occurrence also depends upon the dosage of the drug and duration of the drug taken. The risk of skin cancer in organ transplants is more due to long duration and increase...

Memory-Aid To Help HIV Patients

...ase Management Assistance System (DMAS), flashes a light and verbally tells the patient the exact dosage and medication to take at the correct time. DMAS is rechargeable and weighs about as much as a cell phone. Its computer programming keeps track of the patient’s compliance, allowing the doctor to downlo...

Smoking Hazardous To The Enzymes System In Lungs

...blood pressure. And the lack of MAOA may even shed light on why smokers seem to run a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease. What is more, the smokers retained the tracer chemical in their bodies for much longer than the non-smokers. This suggests that maybe they respond differently to other substances enter...

Smoking Increases The Risk Of Heart Disease By Three Times

...iabetes. Although a significant proportion of the light smokers increased their daily consumption, this ha...ce the findings, the data nevertheless showed that light smoking endangered health. Compared with those who had never smoked, those who smoked between 1 and ...

Sunlight good for the mood as well as health: so Bask in it!

...onin levels naturally increase. And as the morning light emerges, melatonin levels decrease, according to W...onin levels increase when we are exposed to bright light -- a major reason why moods tend to be more elevated during the summer. It is known that bright-lig...

Smoking a Cigar increases risk of dying by heart diseases and lung cancer

...oblems faced by heavier smokers. It was found that light smokers during the course of life increased their daily consumption of cigarettes up to 9 cigars a day and many had also given up their habit of smoking. The research study was conducted by reviewing statistics and data from 43,000 men and women ag...

Sunlight Good For The Mood As Well As Health: So Bask In It!

...onin levels naturally increase. And as the morning light emerges, melatonin levels decrease, according to W...onin levels increase when we are exposed to bright light -- a major reason why moods tend to be more elevated during the summer. It is known that bright-lig...

Optical Imaging Added To Ultrasound To Improve Imaging Of Breast Cancer

...nd with optical tomography, which employs diffused light in the near infrared (NIR) spectrum, the researchers were able to calculate the concentration of oxygen-carrying blood cells--or hemoglobin--and microvessels present in each lesion. A high density of microvessels in a tumor is known to be highly corr...

HIV treatment interruption may enhance the risk of brain injury

... axonal integrity. Increased concentrations of the light chain of the neurofilament protein (NFL) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can serve as a sensitive indicator of CNS injury. In the study, published in the second volume of AIDS Research and Therapy, 2005, the researchers measured NFL levels in HIV-...

Common, cheaper drugs could be used to treat hypertension

... a normal blood pressure. The new studies throws light on the fact that these cheap, yet effective medicines could be prescribed as an alternative form of treatment in such individuals. Additional studies however would be required to confirm the observed desirable effect of the two drugs in all ethnici...

Gold Nanoparticles: Agents For Noninvasive Cancer Therapy

...e and technological improvement in the delivery of light occurs. It is an attractive alternative to surgery...sier, and the ability of these particles to absorb light helps kill those cancer cells. In conclusion, Gold nanoparticles are a novel class of photothermal a...

Indians are certainly having their greens and eating them too!

...ing a signature that is subtle but also keeping it light enough for a person to go for a second helping according to salad lovers. In fact, salads, both Thai and Western, seem to be in vogue. The trend is to make salads that are mild on the tongue and intensely satisfying according to the leading chefs...

Tennis elbow not new among cricketers, say experts

Tennis elbow has been enjoying the spot light following ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's and several other players complaining about the condition. However, the condition is not uncommon in the sports arena//. Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis as it is called in medical parlance, is an af...

Unsafe Injections and Unclean Hand hygiene major cause of hospital infections in India

... infection is a crucial problem, especially in the light of emergence of life-threatening infections such as severe respiratory syndrome (SARS), and the risk of a new influenza pandemic. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Booster dose not required for Hepatitis B Vaccination

... Experts View: Professor Zanetti concludes: “In light of our findings, the use of routine booster doses of hepatitis B vaccine does not seem necessary to maintain long-term protection in immuno-competent individuals vaccinated as infants and teenagers." Ding-Shinn Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiw...

UV- Light Tanning As A Type Of Substance-Related Disorder

...nderstand the complex motivations involved with UV light (UVL) tanning behavior. For the study, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston asked 145 area beachgoers a series of questions derived from questionnaires originally used to identify alcohol or drug abuse. The study is pub...

Seeing Is Believing Does Not Hold Good For Color Perception

...agile. For the experiment, the researchers allowed light to shine directly into the eye to determine what w...h subject was asked to tune the color of a disk of light to produce a pure yellow light that was neither reddish yellow nor greenish yellow. Everyone selecte...

Morphine Withdrawal Complicates Hepatitis C Infection in Drug Abusers

...for HCV growth in the liver. The study also throws light on explaining why so many HCV-infected patients fail to respond to IFN-alpha treatment. These results suggest that opioid abusers experiencing periods of drug abuse, followed by periods of withdrawal (due to lack of supplies) may lead to immunocomp...

Acute Shortage Of Neurosurgeons In India: One Surgeon For Every 1 Million!

...iatric neurosurgery in India. The demand came to light during a four-day continuing medical education programme for paediatric neurosurgeons organized by the International Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery CME Course. Over 100 neurosurgeons are attending the programme with six specialists from Britain...

Indian Psychiatrist in UK Accused of plagiarism

...All In The Mind". The alleged plagiarism came to light when Thomas Blass, professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, happened to read Persaud's article. The piece, entitled "Why The Media Refuses To Obey", was about the social psychologist Stanley Milgram, famous for his 1963 "obedience" ex...

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