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Most Women Unaware of Nutrient Needed for Babies’ Development During Pregnanc

...egetables as a source of folic acid and 97 percent named dairy products as sources of calcium. However, more than two-thirds of women (68 percent) say their doctor has never told them anything about DHA, and more than seven out of ten (72 percent) have absolutely no idea how to get DHA into their diet. T...

Cutting the risk of diabetes with a pill

...management, thus offsetting diabetes. The pill, named as rosiglitazone, marketed under the brand name Avandia by the British company GlaxoSmithKline, has just emerged out of a successful three-year trial, and is claimed to be able to assist the high-risk category of people from developing diabetes. N...

A young scientist recognized for biomechanics innovations

A Virginia Tech researcher Stefan Duma has been named as one of the world's best young technology developers for his biomechanics innovations.// Technology Review nominated Duma, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and founding director of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest Center for Injury B...

Ghana Looks To Herbal Remedies For HIV

...rs in Ghana claim to have developed a product code named DNT One.// This product boosts the immune system in much the same way as Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) and helps the immune system in HIV patients. Ghana Aids Commission (GAC), Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Opportunities Industrialization Centr...

Deadly Lung Disease Sends Patients on ‘Quest for Breath

...cludes an annual event to raise money for the fund named for their father, the Martin Edward Galvin Fund for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research at the University of Michigan Health System. “Because this disease has no cure, it’s very important, especially when the government is funding less researc...

British Tourist In Hong Kong Has Mad Cow Disease

... mad cow disease. The 23-year-old man has not been named and was admitted to a Hog Kong hospital// after he began behaving oddly. Hospital Authority in Hong Kong said the man came to the country on April 4 and was admitted in hospital on April 6. The man is of Chinese origin and underwent intestinal surg...

Drugs Activating PXR May Help In Treating Niemann-Pick type C disease

...ts in 1997 linked most forms of NPC to a gene they named npc1. Through grants from the same foundation, Ory's research group has been studying how npc1 changes affect cholesterol metabolism. For the new study, scientists in Ory's lab were using the mouse model of NPC to test a synthetic compound that ac...

Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine, hits the market

...the worlds first ever vaccine for cervical cancer, named Gardasil, has// made it to the market. A feather in the cap of Professor Frazer, a scientist in Queens land and the brain behind this vaccine, who has relentlessly worked on this working on it since 1990, is all set to administer the inaugural sho...

Top Indian American Doctor Dead

...i, an Indian American physician who was four times named as one of the "top doctors" in the US capital region in Washingtonian magazine polls, is dead.// The physician who specialised in infectious diseases and was president of the medical staff at Southern Maryland Hospital Center, died of complications ...

Cooling Towers may Cause Severe Respiratory Diseases

...t was responsible for the disease was isolated and named as Legionella pneumophila. The results of the latest study published online by Environmental Science & Technology suggests these amoebas infected with bacteria are more prevalent in cooling towers than in natural environments. People can contract...

A Chewing Gum That Helps in Fighting Tooth Decay

.... The gum contains a new strain of lactobacillus named lactobacillus anti-caries, which causes the Streptococcus mutans bacteria to clump together so they cannot adhere on to teeth. Lactobacillus is a microbe that is naturally found in yoghurt and buttermilk. Executive director at BASF, Stefan Marcino...

Delhi Police Quiz Suspects In Girl's Kidnapping

...icer of Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi. "The girl had named one Amaan as the prime accused but she does not have any details of his residence or phone number. Our teams are searching several suspected locations in east and northeast Delhi," Khatri told IANS. The girl told the police that two youths dragged h...

Police Stumble into Trading Corpses Racket

...ndeed in search of bodies hit by lightning. They named a self-styled doctor Rajendra as the main man behind the crime. "Dr. Rajendra offered to pay us Rs.50,000 for the bones of a lightning victim", Brij Pal told the police. Rajendra, who reportedly lives in a village in Sitapur district, about 40 km f...

Madhya Pradesh Hospital to Probe Power Failure Deaths

...r patients succumbed," an official unwilling to be named said. The junior doctors, who reportedly made death certificates in haste, said that the deaths occurred because of the power failure. "There is no emergency light and the management has made no alternative arrangements despite being reminded se...

NOMID Symptoms Helped By Arthritis Drug

...n as well as adults. A new study finds that a drug named anakinra could alleviate// symptoms and bring down the inflammation associated with the disease. The study is published in the August 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was undertaken by the Intramural Research Program of the Nationa...

Online Drugs Could Prove Hazardous To health Warn Doctors in UK

...t would bearing little resemblance to the medicine named on the bottle, the Sunderland team told the Lancet, that even if the patients did get the right drug, there might be a risk of unchecked side effects and dangerous interactions. They warned through the article that the GP’s would have to now be more ...

New Studies On Zebrafish Could Aid in Treating Birth Defects

...nd causes the embryo to fall apart in two days, we named it 'Calamity.'" Six months later, she heard a talk that Gitlin gave at a scientific meeting about the results of exposing zebrafish embryos to a chemical agent that disrupts copper metabolism. She was struck by the similarity between his results and ...

Discovery In "Bubble Boy" Disease Gene Therapy

...n that caused leukemia in some cases. The disease, named as X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID), is set into action by a mutation in a gene called gamma C that obstructs the immune system from forming B and T lymphocytes. B-lymphocytes produce antibodies, and T lymphocytes perform a variet...

Medical Center Recognized for Excellence in Bariatric Surgery

The Mount Sinai Medical Center has been named a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS).// This new designation recognizes the safety, efficiency and overall positive surgical results of the bariatric surgical team at Mount Sinai. The hospit...

Mouth Cancer Develops In Two Different Ways

...rolled manner. In this form of cancer, researchers named cells as "immortal". The second was "mortal" cells, which were found in tumors that have limited life and will recede by themselves. "We found that many of the molecular changes found in 'mortal' and 'immortal' cancers are also found in their resp...

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