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Ticking Time Bomb of Scotland-diabetes

...f before. And to blame is no one else than today’s modern lifestyle and oneself. Fast food cheaper and more affordable than ever, youths spending too many hours in front of the TV or PC and even driving short distances in favor of walking,all these, have played their part in bringing diabetes to a sta...

Busting the Exam Blues

...ave all along been associated with stress. But the modern mantra of 'make or break' has multiplied the tension several- fold, leading to suicide among youngsters who are conditioned to believe that exams are the reason for man's existence on earth. The teens, who already have trouble coping with their s...

China, France to Jointly Develop Traditional Chinese Medicines

... said that France is ready to use its expertise in modern medicine to make TCM safer, more effective and to bring it into line with modern medical practices. France has had a total of 47 Nobel laureates, 8 of them are in the medical field....

Airborne Infection Less in Naturally Ventilated Rooms

...ws and high ceilings, had greater ventilation than modern naturally ventilated rooms. The authors went on ...sure to untreated TB patients compared with 33% in modern and 11% in pre-1950 naturally ventilated facilities with windows and doors open. The authors concl...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...eness of STM is comparable to the effectiveness of modern contraceptive methods such as oral contraceptives, and is an effective and acceptable method of family planning.” A number of fertility awareness based (FAB) methods of family planning have been advocated over the years, but comparisons between dif...

Kolkata's Birla Hospital to Foray into Bangladesh

...le healthcare service. Two diagnostic centres with modern equipment and tele-medicine facilities will come up in 2007." "The 200-bed super speciality hospital will come up in Dhaka. The construction will start shortly and be completed by the end of 2008. All the eight diagnostic centres would be function...

Chemo Combination Improves Survival in Asbestos-Related Cancer

...om pre-OSHA workplace improvements. I suspect that modern asbestos abatement precautions will avoid most, if not all, future cases. The latency is over 30 years, so we are still diagnosing cases with exposure during World War II and the ’40s and ’50s.” Mesothelioma is difficult to diagnose, Green said, be...

Developing Countries- Still The Least Likely To Use Contraception

... It was already well known that rates of use of modern contraceptives have risen over several decades, bu...gs are important. He asks whether the lower use of modern contraceptives among is the poor due to a lack of desire for contraceptives, or because they do not ...

South India to Have Modern Military Hospitals

...hospitals in (the southern states) with the latest modern medical facilities," Vice Admiral surgeon Vijay K. Singh, director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS), told IANS. Singh said a Rs.3-billion budget has been sanctioned, out of which Rs.1.5 billion has been spent on buying new equipm...

Ancient Genes Used to Produce Salt-Tolerant Wheat

...t 35 years ago and are normally not present in any modern wheat.” “Over six per cent of the world’s arable land is affected by salinity. Salt tolerant crops can provide farmers with income for remediation, as well as helping to stabilise soil from wind and water erosion.” The project began when the CSIR...

Hindujas to Make $1 Bn Foray into India's Healthcare Industry

...y with specialty hospitals in several cities and a modern research centre,// a senior member of the Europe-based family said. ‘We already have a charitable hospital in Mumbai. This will be a commercial venture with hospitals in cities like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune,’ Prakash P. Hin...

New Screening Process Helps Better Diagnose Oral Cancers

... "By combining conventional techniques with more modern techniques, we were able to better diagnose and determine the best options for patients with oral cancer," said J.B. Epstein, lead author of the study and Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "This approach to diagnosing oral cancer ma...

Mighty Conqueror Felled by Stomach Cancer

...acterial infection. The finding derived through modern pathological analysis technology involved a study of data from 135 gastric cancer patients. In addition were autopsy reports, family medical histories, eyewitness accounts and Bonaparte’s memoirs. The original autopsy descriptions indicated that Bon...

South Asians, Don’t Blame Your Genes Anymor

...tion of household chores. 'In the transition to a modern lifestyle, these risk factors have been picked up rapidly by South Asians,' said Prabhakaran Dorairaj, a cardiologist at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. The final word goes to team member K. Srinath Reddy, president of th...

Now Vedic Mantras to Cure Diseases

...icipating in the research. The lab would involve modern scientific gadgets and instruments like high-capacity binoculars, telescope, cameras etc to enable scholars to observe the planetary and other solar activities. Different teams would be constituted on the basis of the ancient Indian science of Ayur...

Study Finds Astaxanthin Is Potent Inhibitor of Oxidation in Cell Membrane Model

...tent antioxidants may be the third big wave in the modern therapy for the secondary prevention of heart attack and stroke. In the heart, these agents probably will work by recalibrating the cellular oxidation balance in order to blunt the cell and tissue inflammatory response to injury and limit damage to t...

And the Winner Is

...conducting a poll to find out which invention// in modern medicine is the greatest of all. The journal, la...the public to have their say in the matter. The modern miracles include anesthesia, antibiotics, chlorpromazine, computers, DNA, Germ theory, imaging, evid...

Stomach – Most Affected During Festive Seaso

...ry day of the year and is an essential part of the modern health economy.' The following reasons topped reasons for calls to NHS Direct : Stomach ache, Dental/jaw pain, Cough, Vomiting, Toothache, Sore throat, Chest pain, Diarrhoea, Earache, fever in small children aged from one to four. PRI...

Leave Us Alone

...ative is palliative care. They were kept alive by modern technology, wired to the latest medical gizmos and pumped with powerful drugs; all this when many would have preferred to spend their last days on palliative care, with their families and at home. According to the Dartmouth researchers, if all hosp...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...sights from traditional medicine really may impact modern public health,” explains Brent Bauer, M.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program. For thousands of years, people around the world have lived intimately with botanical healing agents and evolved effective healing ...

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