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Government Announces Steps To Promote Ayurvedic Medicine

...ster remarked, 'Just as universities abroad have a modern diagnostic module and a treatment module based on ... given an orientation towards ayurveda, along with modern medicine'.The Minister also emphasised the need for regulatory bodies to ensure standardisation of m...

US Citizens Told To Stockpile For Bird Flu Outbreak

...ople died and 12 others were infected in the first modern outbreak of bird flu that attacked humans in Hong Kong in 1997. Since then, however, the city of 6.8 million has built up sophisticated safeguards against the virus and avoided further human cases despite a spate of regional outbreaks. Scientists...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

... prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's dream of building a modern India. Inaugurating an industrial park set up here by Singapore-based Flextronics, Manmohan Singh termed it as a tribute to the memory of Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in this town on May 21, 1991, when he was campaigning during the general ele...

The Tech Savvy Patient Knocks on the Doors of Telemedicine and Virtual Clinics

...el syndrome seems more common nowadays because our modern and hectic Western lifestyles are playing some part in the illnesses we get." According to the Dr.Hamilton, though a website cannot take the place of a Doctor’s personal consultation, the website sure did give them a wealth of information to be abl...

The Coffee- Sperm Damage Link Factor

... have been conducted to show the adverse effect of modern life on the quality and quantity of sperm. Research into this by the US govt. has shown that modern men have only one third (60 million/ml) the quantity of sperm as a hampster (160 million/ml). The sp...

Kerala to Venture into Medical Tourism

...rapid mushrooming of Ayurveda centres and resorts, modern medical practitioners are given a serious run for their money. According to German tourist, Hans Nowak, “People come to India because of Ayurveda as it’s expensive in Germany. Moreover, Ayurveda is done by doctors who are from India. Ayurveda and he...

Canada proudly showcases state-of-the-art Public Hospital in Ottawa

...renewed hope to psychiatric patients with the most modern research facilities teamed up here to help those in need of a breakthrough in mental health.Research at the hospital is aimed at unearthing genetic reasons that are linked with onset of mental illness and also the study of all related medical condit...

Isotopes For Cancer Treatment In India

...vanced project for installation and operation of a modern cyclotron - which can be used to treat cancer - is...nternational for development and installation of a modern cyclotron based proton therapy facility for cancer treatment in India. High intense beam of 30 MeV ...

Large Community Spirometry Screening Proves Successful

...a rather busy community setting.” The study used modern spirometers and software to perform large scale, community, spirometry screenings for COPD. Subjects were recruited at a national pharmacy chain for a free lung test, and a total of 2,964 subjects sought free spirometry. Of these subjects, 2,920 agre...

Burnout Explains Link Between Job Strain and Depression

...ities to addressing work load and other aspects of modern working life that contribute to burnout and depression. ACOEM, an international society of more than 5,000 occupational physicians and other health care professionals, provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces,...

45% of Indians Affected by Chikungunya Fever

...ng at the door and portraits of Delhi as a world’s modern city, the epidemic of these diseases tells another story. So far the Union government appears to be almost paralyzed to curb this menace. Union Health Minister, Mr. Ramadoss is faced with a situation that needs some long lasting solutions, without wh...

Evolution of Plant Life Cycle

... helped land plants prosper, forming the basis for modern land-based ecosystems and fundamentally altering the course of evolution of life on earth, said Qiu. The first step was the colonization of land by descendents of aquatic plants known as charophyte algae. That event opened up a vast new world where t...

FDA Gives Approval for Skin Cancer Drug, Zolinza

...his approval is another example of the benefits of modern research that's focused on providing prescribers with safe and effective therapies for all types of cancer, including those that affect relatively few patients." Two clinical trials that were conducted with 107 CTCL patients gave evidence of Zolinza...

The 'Chip' in Your Brain!

...h like a digital computer system. Although many modern researchers refrain from the very idea of attributing a likeness to the computer in the way the human brain functions Prof. O'Reilly begs to differ now. He too formerly adhered to the conventional perception that drawing similarities between the uniq...

Special Section of JCS Addresses Vascular Anomalies

... needed for larger, more complex vascular lesions, modern surgical techniques and skin grafts provide good results. If these procedures are done in childhood, any resulting scars are more easily managed by plastic surgery later on. In some situations, certain drug therapies may play a role. Several articl...

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Publishes Research by Iraqi Surgeons

...y of Health. An important educational focus was on modern surgical techniques of treating burns, explosive injuries, and other combat- and terrorism-related injuries. The March/April 2006 issue of The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery publishes a series of research papers by Iraqi craniofacial surgeons whose...

Call To Increase Family Physicians

...ll need in the future. The study also considered modern trends that significantly affect the number of physicians available to care for patients, including the fact that the number of internal medicine physicians practicing as generalists is decreasing. There also is a trend toward an increasing proportio...

Probing Into the Reasons for Alarming Increase in Breast Cancer

...e cases happens to be of the breast. The present modern day living is being blamed for this alarming increase in cancer. The present record for breast cancer is 36,939 cases in the United Kingdom, which shows that the incidence of cancer is up since 1971 by almost 81%. Breast Cancer seems to have alm...

Anti-allergy vaccine based on 'hygiene hypothesis'

...ater that are come across rarely these days due to modern cleanliness. In this manner, the immune system is deceived and made to forget the allergens and look for bigger threats. A study was conducted on 10 people with hay fever. It was found that there was a 100-fold reduction in the patient’s sensitivit...

Link between Fish and Mammal Immune Systems Revealed by Killer B cells

...t 400 million years ago, the earliest ancestors of modern fish split off of the evolutionary pathway that became the earliest ancestors of modern mammals. In modern mammals, the B cell is a highly adapted part of the immune system chiefly respon...

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