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‘Gourmand World Cookbook Award' won by British India

... to her grandmother when she was growing up in her native Assam. 'The kitchen was always very much my grandmother's domain,' recalls Mridula, 'even though we had helpers, she loved to do all the cooking.' Rather than sticking with purely traditional themes, Mridula, according to her website, 'spends muc...

A Futile Search for Cancer Gene

...n lays an important role in cancer patterns as the native population. This proves that environmental changes, such as diet, are more important than genes. Finally studies into twins from the data collected from Norwegian twin database are found to contradict the basic fact that identical twins share all the...

Asian American Community Prone To Hepatitis B infection

...mirrored rates reported in the study participants' native countries and regions, says Dr. Pollack. Once diagnosed, proper evaluation and care and, in many cases, specific antiviral treatment, is the key to avoiding long-term complications of the disease. Hepatitis B infection can be effectively prevented by...

Chess Champion Anand to Champion HIV/AIDS for Avahan

...y and promise to the people," he said. Anand is a native of Tamil Nadu but currently a non-resident Indian will perhaps need to spend more time in India if he really wants to make a difference and work towards reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV. His own state of Tamil Nadu is hit ...

Viswanathan Anand Is To Be Avahan’s HIV-AIDS Ambassador in Indi

...agement by business and industry and NRIs.Anand, a native of Tamil Nadu also plans to engage himself on the ground activities there, which is also one of the states hit hardest by HIV. He said that it is important for all sectors of the society to join hands and work together to contain the disease. He stat...

Bird Flu Swan In Scotland Was A Migratory Bird

...fident that the bird was a migratory one and not a native species. This has calmed fears of a pandemic in the country. Scotland's chief veterinary officers admitted that they were unaware of where exactly the bird came from, but say that the swan died at sea and was washed up on the Scottish coast. It w...

Bharatpur Likely To Get Avian Flu Lab

...s and shallow lakes. Over 370 species of birds, native as well as migratory, are usually visible in the park, especially between October and March. --Edited IANS...

Fetal Neural Grafts Improves Motor and Cognitive Function in Huntington Patients

... they do not affect the disease progression in the native cells carrying the mutant huntingtin gene. In this pilot study the five participants were followed for up to six years after neural graft surgery. The patients were assessed annually with the unified Huntington's disease rating scale, neuropsychol...

Race Was Used To Determine Safety Of Blood

...f the American Medical Association. //The blood of native Africans were considered more risky than that of their Indian and White compatriots, where HIV and hepatitis infections are concerned. The policy is said to have been implemented by the South African National Blood Service. As much as 10% of the H...

NRIs Called Upon To Participate In AIDS Awareness Programs

...een called upon to adopt districts which are their native lands aimed at maintaining primary health centers. The Government gives a very high priority to ensuring that Indians are safe from this disease. A lot of attention has to be paid to the vulnerable groups in the country to achieve this objective....

Blood camp held in Alaska to save leukemic patients

...n idea behind this drive is to ask for help to the native Alaskans to register in this blood drive. The reason is that they are a very small group and the donors make up about less than1% among the 5.5 million donors. The match that is done before bone marrow transplant will be fully matched only if the b...

Massive Production Of Bird Flu Vaccine To Be Initiated In China

...he disease. An initial result of human trials of a native bird flu vaccine is expected to be released within three months. On the whole, the picture in China represents a ray of hope for effective management of bird flu....

Time to wake up as conservationists

...ine if invasive species cause the greatest loss of native species in areas protected from land-use change. Natalie Ban from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a student at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) who is comparing the conservation potential of stakehold...

Pakistan On Alert After Cases Of Fatal Fever

...s news of transportation of the body to Rukhsana's native town Sialkot reached, a man who identified himself as a nazim contacted RGH Sunday night asking the hospital authorities not to send it, a hospital official said. IANS...

Drug-Eluting Stents Ensure Patency Of The Saphenous Vein Grafts

...n either be inserted into a grafted vein or into a native coronary artery during a balloon angioplasty proce...ercutaneous interventional procedure involving the native coronary arteries. The new stents were found to reduce the risk of re-stenosis by as much as 4 times...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

...ed from the root of the plant coleus forskohlii, a native of India that is used as an alternative remedy in other countries, and as an ornamental plant in the US. CML, a malignant cancer of the bone marrow, results from mistakenly exchanging genetic material in chromosomes 9 and 22 during cell division. Th...

Pomegranate Juice Is Helpful In Arresting Osteoarthritis

...deterioration of human cartilage. A bonus with the native Persian fruit is that its antioxidant constituents are rapidly absorbed by the body and are non-toxic. Using tissue samples of human cartilage affected by osteoarthritis, researchers added a water extract of pomegranate fruit to the culture using a ...

Herb Found To Be Effective In Controlling Blood Sugar Levels

...iveness of a herb called salacia oblonga, which is native to regions of India and Sri Lanka. Salacia oblonga binds to intestinal enzymes that break down carbohydrates in the body. These enzymes turn carbohydrates into glucose, the sugar that circulates throughout the body. If the enzyme binds to the herbal ...

Herbal Remedy Risky for Cancer Patients

...flashes and other menopausal symptoms. The herb is native to North America and is extracted from a perennial plant...

Marriage does not have much impact on life satisfaction

...rs studied a group of 12,000 German residents some native Germans others immigrants. They found that getting married, as an event, does increase people's happiness. However the level of life satisfaction tends to settle down to what it was long before marriage. The same is true for other life events like wi...

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