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Seizure of Low Quantity of Heroin is No Ground for Bail: HC

New Delhi, June 11 The mere fact that the quantum of narcotics seized from an accused was low will not entitle him to bail, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Dismissing a batch of bail applications moved by those accused of trading in heroin, //Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed direct...

New Way To Combat Spinal Cord Injury during Aortic Surgery

...n be controlled through reduced ischemia time, the mere act of reintroducing blood and oxygen (reperfusion) also causes cellular damage. Ischemia-reperfusion injury exerts its effects on the spinal cord via release of reactive oxygen species, damage to cellular components such as mitochondria, and init...

One Lakh HIV Patients to get Free Anti-retroviral Drugs by 2007

...opulation was affected with the disease as against mere 0.6 percent in India. (Source: IANS News)...

Heat turns-off pain?

...rge of detecting the pain in the body. It is not a mere superficial comfort or placebo effect, scientists say. Dr Brian King, of UCL Department of Physiology, who guided the research, said "The pain of colic, cystitis and period pain is caused by a temporary reduction in blood flow to or over-distension...

Indian doctor's new stem cells technique for kidney transplant

...tenance is also reduced from around Rs.15,000 to a mere Rs.300. "Though work is going on in Harvard, Stanford and Pittsburgh, we are the first in the world to use human embryonic stem cells to generate new equivalent cells in laboratory," Trivedi, director of the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research...

Majority of Keralites Vote in Favor of HIV Certificate Before Marriage

...ncreasing HIV prevalence in the state. Moreover, a mere 2.5 percent of those having sexually transmitted disease are HIV positive in Kerala, unlike in other states." According to Soman, over the last two decades since the first AIDS case was reported in the country, things have not worsened in Kerala as...

Maimed Conscience and Maimed Beggars (Medical Ethics in India) – Part

...ocent children; demands a sentence that cannot be mere revoking of medical license to practice but should be as severely punitive as possible perhaps even hanging of the accused. The next time we look at a blind or a crawling beggar asking for alms, we will wonder if this was naturally fated or artific...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

...th the best right from the word 'Go' should not be mere wishful-thinking, and in this age of information, the goodness of breast milk must be clearly understood, as a foundation for all round health. The World Breast Feeding Week (August 1-Aug 7, 2006) will endeavor to celebrate the inherent wholesomeness...

Drug Testing to Fight Drug Use… to be Done.. or Not

...the intoxication or damage caused by it. "Does the mere presence of the drug mean it will affect their performance? // Probably not," says Paul Dillon of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. "With cannabis, for instance, detection could mean the impairment is from quite a long time ago (the dr...

Voices of HIV-positive missing at AIDS conference

...ortunity to speak at official events, it was often mere tokenism. The same was true for other groups vulnerable to HIV. "There seems to be little space to really learn from the experience of the positive young girls, women, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and sex workers who are today'...

Body talk: Accept and appreciate the way you are, for a healthier you!

...g with emotion. They don’t take their bodies to be mere objects of desire, but more of a facilitator for action, so the focus is entirely on how the body functions rather than how it looks. Self-esteem, being happy with oneself by accepting the way one is promotes healthy eating, which ensures a healthy b...

Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

...aceutical Industry, Doctors and Pharmacists, is no mere coincidence. “Medicine heals doubts as well as dis...a thought it befitting to restrict the action to a mere probe, while other countries ordered a ban on this drug. Sadly, this drug is still available over th...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

... important ways. Virtually all these mistakes were mere single-nucleotide 'typos.' Some 200 genes were significantly mutated; the mutated genes in breast and colon cancers were almost completely distinct, suggesting very different pathways for the development of each of these cancer types. Says Kinzler,...

Reforms Suggested By TN Doctors’ Foru

... started with the MCI norms, which until then were mere guidelines, being made mandatory in the year 2000. A teaching medical college with 7 units is assigned 3 Post Graduate (PG) seats per unit. A PG course is for3 years and each unit should have a total strength of 45.Each unit; at present has strength...

Cutting the risk of diabetes with a pill

...preventing type 2 diabetes for those under risk. A mere consumption of the pill once or twice daily, enhances the body’s receptive mechanism to insulin in aiding better glucose management, thus offsetting diabetes. The pill, named as rosiglitazone, marketed under the brand name Avandia by the British c...

Why some take to greens, while others don’t

... at the thought of greens or simply clam up at its mere mention! A recent investigation into the reasons// for the delights and aversions to green vegetarian food has shown that such tendencies are gene-centric. All the same, the researchers opine that, this could be the only way, the body balances the...

World Alzheimer’s Day: In Memory of Those With 'Memory Loss

The entire world is a stage, and we are mere actors, echoed The Bard, eons ago. As the curtains go down slowly for those in the grips of this crippling disease, today on// World Alzheimer’s day, the stage is set for deep reckoning; it is time to take the bull by its horns and evolve better str...

HPV Could Hamper Success Rates of In Vitro Fertilization

...e growth of warts, spread by the environment or by mere skin-to-skin contact. Researchers from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center discovered that women who tested positive for HPV had only a 50% chance of conception through the IVF method, as compared to those who did not test positive for HPV. I...

‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ Favored Against ‘Abstinence-Only’ Progams

...ion that was most effective, and it was found that mere abstinence based approaches did not meet with the desired results. //Infact Americans feel that youngsters in schools need to know much more than just avoiding sex , which includes methods to prevent pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. ...

If The World Wide Web is Your Self Proclaimed Physician, Trouble Could be Just a Click Away

...the present age, with information available with a mere tap of the fingers. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the internet is being rummaged for solutions on several matters, even life and death issues pertaining to health. While acknowledging that it is important to be well informed and aware about...

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