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Uttar Pradesh Encephalitis toll continues to rise - Over 600 dead

...e the killer virus had taken a virulent form. IANS news sources said the disease had affected 22 districts in the state, five districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh - mostly along the India-Nepal border - were the worst hit. Medindia on Japanese encephalitis: Japanese encephalitis is a viral disease spre...

When A Prince Chose To Help Indian Couple

...bia Khatoon's joy knew no bounds when they got the news that Abu Dhabi's crown prince had come forward to pay for the surgery to separate their conjoined twins.// 'It is a miracle a crown prince sitting thousands of miles away has offered to help us,' Khatoon, the mother of twins Farah and Sarah, cannot...

European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’

... Development Goals on infant mortality," he told a news conference, referring to United Nations targets to...e future" but denied it was a gimmick, telling the news conference in London it was based on "very sound finance." He recalled his own childhood in post-war...

New Vaccination For Smokers To Quit Smoking

...moking leaving the smoker // with no kick, reports news portal Annanova. The anti-nicotine injection, CYT002 - NicQb, patented by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Cytos, works by building antibodies in the blood that stop nicotine from getting to the brain, it said. The vaccine has so far proved to be successf...

Global Outbreak Of Bird Flu Warning By Chinese Scientist

...ght present a more dangerous threat, Prensa Latina news agency reported. Bird Flu or avian influenza has infected more than 100 people in Asia and killed about half of them since 2004, three health agencies, including the World Health Organisation, said last month. "But we can't pin down a specific ti...

Scientists Awarded Appropriately For Contribution Towards Medical Research

...c Right? With this in mind, we present the latest news about the international recognition of scientists who have been pioneers in the field of genetics, reproduction and development. Two scientists who first identified stem cells and two others who did pioneering work in DNA research have won prestigiou...

Scientists Have Found A Way To Make Junk Food Healthier

...e on burgers and other junk food, here's some good news - British scientists have found a way to make it healthier//. Professor Jeff Pearson of Newcastle University's Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences and other researchers examined the properties of a brown-coloured seaweed called Lessonia and...

Device For Improving Bone Mass In Osteoporosis

...oporosis from loss of bone mass, there may be good news for them. Experiments on a new device shows that it can help improve bone mass in women who suffer from the disease//. Weight-bearing exercise is one of the principal recommendations for preventing and treating the loss of bone density that can lead...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

... mortality in pandemic situations. According to a news posted on Sept 28, 2005, government scientists at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced results from initial clinical trials of a vaccine being developed to protect humans against infection with H5N1 avian inf...

Mysterious viral outbreak in Toronto, influenza ruled out

...ty ... are improving as well. So there's some good news today," Dr. McKeown commented. However, the number of persons that are ill from this unknown disease rose to 77 on Sunday, four more than the previous day. Patients at the Scarborough Hospital, Rouge Valley Centenary and Toronto East General have be...

People seek reassurance in facemasks following threats of bird flu epidemic

...d trigger new, widespread outbreaks. In a latest news release in Taiwan, the Center for Disease Control said that if visitors from Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam show symptoms of bird flu, such as fever, coughing, or a sore throat, the visitors should immediately begin wearing surgical masks ...

First PET-CT guided radiotherapy in India was performed by Apollo Hospitals

...hnology, Director, Vijay Anand Reddy reported in a news conference. PET is a Positron Emission Tomography and CT scan is a Computerized Tomography, by combining these two techniques, which are used as a standard imaging techniques, used to identification and localization of cancer. The highly sensitive PE...

First Bird flu case reported in Turkey

... the Aegean Sea in Western Turkey//. Following the news of bird flu all farm animals and birds are being slaughtered in order to prevent the spread of the disease and possible transmission to humans. Though, wildlife and health experts maintain that indiscriminate culling of wild migratory bird population...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

...parents' beds. It is indeed a coincidence that the news has been released just during SIDS awareness month (October). The research further points out that babies who sleep in an adult bed face a 40 % more risk of suffocation than their counterparts who sleep in standard cribs. The condition is also foun...

Breast cancer women has shown an increase in survival rates

...ms at Cancer Research UK said, "This is tremendous news for breast cancer patients who have been recently ...at Breakthrough Breast Cancer said, "This is great news for anyone whose life has been affected by a breast cancer diagnosis as early detection, better awar...

New laser technology heals acne scars

There’s good news for adults with acne and resultant facial scarring. A new study in the current issue of Dermatologic Surgery, the medical journal of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery//, reports that patients treated with less invasive - or non-ablative -...

Incorrect lifestyle may be the cause of male infertility

...educe sperm count, impair sperm movement. The good news is that if you quit, the health of your sperm will start to improve within two months. Researchers at Queen’s University, Belfast, have discovered that THC – the active ingredient in cannabis – impedes sperm motility and impairs its ability to penetr...

Vical Biotech and NIH jointly develops HIV vaccine

...es and compares different HIV/AIDS vaccines. The news sent shares of Vical up $1.16, or 21.60 percent, to $6.54 in morning trade on Nasdaq, after touching high of $6.98. The stock was among the biggest percentage gainers on Nasdaq. Source: Reuters....

Cannabinoids - Antidepressant And Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment

This news article discusses both the treatments of giving Cannabinoids for depression and inflammatory bowel disease. Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Cannabinoids is a chemical compound found in Cannabis//. Cannabinoids are an exciting new area for medical re...

Non-Communicable Diseases Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate in India

...nion Minister for Health and Family Welfare//. The news report was released following the inauguration of a three-day health camp in a village near Vriddachalam. Chidambaram MP, E Ponnusamy, MLAs Dr R Govindasamy, Durai K Saravanan also attended the function. As many as 60 government doctors, 30 special...

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