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Ruling On Non Disclosure Of HIV Positive Status Is Not Ethical

...etective Constable Matthew Cleaver says the ruling means people should take extra precautions and also warned that people need to be careful before getting sexually involved with someone they don't know. Passing the landmark judgment, the Court ruled that HIV-infected persons were not legally bound to rev...

Terminally Ill Patients Could Be Offered A Better Life

...esource that will help us provide our patients the means to control their pain without depending on the goodwill of others," said Harmala Gupta, president and founder of CanSupport. It supports families in their struggle to cope with the pain of looking after terminally ill people. "There is no legislati...

Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Production Is More Profitable Than Small Molecule Drugs

...Abs launched so fare appear to be profitable. That means mAbs are recouping more in revenues than their estimated $1 billion to $1.8 billion cost of development and marketing. By comparison, the study estimates that only 30% of conventional small molecule drug launches ever recover their costs. Drug is li...

Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

...esource that will help us provide our patients the means to control their pain without depending on the goodwill of others," said Harmala Gupta, president and founder of CanSupport. Among probably less than 100 groups including a dozen government-run institutions across the country providing shelter and p...

Mobile phones may influence normal brain functioning

...nes influence normal brain physiology, probably by means of changes in cortical excitability. However, the authors add that conclusions about possible health consequences are premature, particularly with respect to chronic and/or repeated exposures, and investigations on cell mechanisms are needed to bette...

Incorrect lifestyle may be the cause of male infertility

... oestrogen - the female sex hormone - and more fat means more oestrogens, which can lead to a possible increase in the risk of interference with the proper development of male reproductive organs. Fast food, which is often packed full of ‘hidden soy’, may be another culprit. Scientists believe chemicals i...

Cannabis exerts protective effect against cancer

...mes the amount of tar found in cigarettes and this means that the lung cancer risk must quadruple. But this is not an established fact, says Robert Melamede, chairman of the department of biology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Current knowledge does not suggest that cannabis smoke will...

Fertility Treatment Offered During Summer Has Better Chances For Success

...re likely to conceive during the summer because it means their offspring will be born in the spring, when food is more plentiful, the weather warmer and they have a higher chance of survival. The findings on this study have valuable clinical implications. However, further research is needed in order to i...

Radiation therapy effective against Eye cancer

...t, patients’ median visual acuity was 20/30 (which means they could see from 20 feet away what someone with perfect vision can see from 30 feet away). After treatment, media visual acuity was 20/60. In almost half of patients (47 percent) vision was stable after treatment. Researchers said, the study resu...

A Novel Method Of Detection Of High Nuclear Grade Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma

... the effectiveness of CRP and IAP measurement as a means to detect high nuclear grade RCC preoperatively. Although this study included only a small number of cases, the authors believe that the measurement of these acute-phase reactants alone or in combination with other acute-phase reactants can be re...

Condom Vending Machines To Be Installed Across Indian States

...ley here. The people participated through whatever means they had, be it the cycle bell, call bell, bike horns or clinking of forks, spoons or thalis. The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has worked out proposals for installation of 12,000 new condom vending machines across the country. Director...

Rural India shows apathy towards dental problems: Survey

...rough early detection and primary prevention. This means that people need to get the basics right — brush twice daily and visit a dentist twice a year,” commented Dr Bhagwant Singh, national president of the Indian Dental Association. “Children, right from the age of three should be made aware of basics li...

A New Approach In Treatment Neurogenic Detrusor Overactivity In Children

...ve arisen, including what this injection treatment means for neurourologic patients in the longer term; whether bladder function changes after repeated BTX-A injections, and whether this procedure has a proper place in the treatment algorithm of young patients with neurogenic bladder. In an extension of th...

Carotenoid Absorption Explained In A Better Manner

...the body. Beta-carotene is a potentially important means of lessening vitamin A deficiency (the most serious nutritional deficiency problem worldwide), though its specific vitamin A value can vary. Lutein is believed to protect the human retina's macular region, reducing risk of macular degeneration, the m...

India’s smallest premature baby brings immense joy to Indian parent

...case of saving such babies. A full term pregnancy means the foetus completes nine months and a week. If the baby is delivered before full-term pregnancy, it is called a premature delivery. It often poses serious problems to the survival of the baby because of the associated immaturity of the organs and ab...

Three Sisters Have One Baby and Make History

...ed for her twin sister. The fact that we are twins means such a lot.' <br...

38 million Americans including 14 million children left to combat hunger

... level of hunger so long after the recession ended means that it is a man-made problem. Congress and the White House urgently need to address growing income inequality and the weakening of the safety net in order to get this epidemic under control.' Rates of hunger increased in almost every single categor...

Aprotinin in the treatment of hemorrhagic shock trauma patients

...patients to reach the surgical facility, where the means for bleeding control is available. Aprotinin is known to promote clot formation through its antifibrinolytic activity, by inhibiting the plasmin-induced complement activation and by protecting the platelets adhesive surface receptors. It has been s...

Misdiagnosis of cataplexy

...cteristics of these cases have been presented as a means to discuss the differential diagnosis of cataplexy. According to Lois E. Krahn, the author, these cases represent a diverse set of medical disorders including bradycardia, migraine, delayed sleep phase syndrome, conversion disorder, malingering and...

A Boon For Gastritis Patients In The Form Of Broccoli

...press it and relieve the accompanying gastritis by means as simple as eating more broccoli sprouts is good news for the many people who are infected," said Akinori Yanaka, who is from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and served as lead investigator of the study. In the study, scientists examined the pro...

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