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Scientists Have Found Way to Delay Menopause

...the life of womens eggs possible was the fact that modern day women were much healthier than their counterparts just 15 years back, and thus it was possible to delay menopause without much risk. "We think we have identified a protein which might be used to prolong the life of those eggs. Women are much m...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...has supporters, who say the fish market needs more modern facilities and must change with the times. Despite the worldwide boom in sushi, fish consumption has been gradually declining in Japan, with a recent farm ministry study saying that meat consumption may outpace fish as more people embrace a Western-s...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...ma', or sucking, and says it helps him in a way no modern medicine can. "I got fed up with the painkillers doctors were prescribing for my neck ache, so I decided to use hijama and it's great -- I urge others to try it," he said. Increasingly Iraqis are following this advice and the ancient technique is ...

Research on Fruit Bats

...ago to study the photoreceptors of fruit bats with modern histological methods. To identify the different photoreceptor types, the researchers stained the retinas of various fruit bat species with visual pigment-specific antibodies. As expected, all megabats had high densities of rod photoreceptors, the p...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...hat monthly menstruation throughout adulthood is a modern development and is at odds with what female bodies were designed to do. But if it is more common today to have monthly menstrual cycles throughout adult life, this does not in itself mean that monthly menstruation is unnatural, much less that it is...

More Than a Toothache

...oor children were most at risk. In spite of such modern innovations as the fluoridation of drinking water, tooth decay is still the single most common childhood disease nationwide, five times as common as asthma. Poor children are more than twice as likely to have cavities as their more affluent peers, re...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop “Next Generation” Vaccine Candidats

...to give impetus to the development of the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India. Significant achievements include the growth and application of biotechnology in the broad areas of medical biotechnology and health care, agriculture, animal sciences, environment, and industry. DBT has more than 5...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...marks. "Those are really all at the basis of our modern understanding of cosmology," says Krauss, who said he first began theorizing about the future of the universe to discern how it might end. "People of the future won't be able to know what the universe is doing."That puts astronomers in a unique posit...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

...l solution for the environment: even with the most modern of recycling technologies, a significant amount of material is sent to the landfills. One important element for the environment is the reclamation of soft solder. The alloy is primarily used on the picture tube in monitors. In the past, monitors we...

Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

...latinum-based drugs have become a critical part of modern chemotherapy treatments and are used to treat a wide variety of cancers. Unlike the platinum drugs currently on the market, all of which require intravenous administration, Satraplatin is an orally bioavailable compound and is given as capsules that ...

Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

... been like 550 million years ago. By studying this modern day representative of our evolutionary ancestor, researchers are able to identify fundamental principles of complex processes, such as healing and organ regeneration, on which new treatments are based. "The aim of biomedical science is to understan...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...s urban population.// According to researchers, modern day life with its long work hours, higher stress and lesser time for sleep necessitates the purchase of fast foods and spicy snacks. And this is the root cause of the problem, they say. A study conducted in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedab...

Modern Lifestyle Could Damage Heart

The modern lifestyle, which puts people under constant stress, could severely damage major organs and lead to heart attacks, kidney disease// and dementia, scientists have warned. Stress may lead to unhealthy habits such as smoking, eating a poor diet, drinki...

Study Shows That Indigenous People are Not Genetically Prone to Diabetes

...o this hypothesis, such efficiency combined with a modern affluent and sedentary lifestyle leads to obesity and diabetes among indigenous people." "Although there is certainly a genetic component to diabetes that affects people throughout society, the idea that indigenous people have a 'thrifty gene' is d...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...le achievement in that it makes very clever use of modern techniques for coherent control to detect molecular signals with high sensitivity. Many important practical applications can be foreseen for this technology,” says Harvard professor of physics Mikhail Lukin. Szymon Suckewer, Princeton professor of ...

Eating Polluted Fish can Increase the Risk of Diabetes

... lower amounts in their bodies. DDT is the first modern pesticide developed during World War II. It was used mainly to control mosquito-borne malaria. Although it was banned in the United States in 1972 due to its adverse effect on environment and health, it is still used to control mosquitoes and other d...

Intravenous Delivery of Clot-busting Drug Still Best Intervention for Ischemic Stroke

... those with the expertise and resources to provide modern emergency stroke care. Regional plans for paramedics to bypass institutions that do not have emergency stroke care should be developed, according to the guidelines. The updated guidelines are an extensive revision of those issued in 2003 and 2005....

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

...ns." The two forms are indistinguishable by most modern lab tests, yet our bodies can tell the difference. Where one enantiomer might be the basis for a helpful drug, its mirror image might do nothing for the body, or even damage it. "This was the problem in the 1960s with the drug phthalidomide," MacMi...

Tai Chi may Be Useful to Prevent Shingles in Older Adults

...in a level of immune response similar to that of a modern biological intervention, the varicella vaccine, and that Tai Chi boosted the positive effects of the vaccine," says Andrew Monjan, Ph.D., chief of the NIA's Neurobiology of Aging Branch. The randomized, controlled clinical trial included 112 healt...

'Alarming Rise in Caesarean Births a Cause of Concern'

...atural births, he called upon hospitals to provide modern methods of pain relief and to counsel expecting mothers against Caesarean Section unless until it was so required by the facts of the case. He stressed that it was an obligation on the part of the doctors concerned to provide all necessary informa...

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