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Wonder Cow Produces Milk Despite Being a Virgin!

...e market. Kapila has been giving milk for the last nine to ten years. People come to see her. Since the day she was brought to our dairy, luck is smiling on us." Parminder Singh, Kapilas caretaker, says: "This cow is a God sent. Since the time it has come, there is peace at home and we have been profiti...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

...he course of study, the researchers drew data from nine randomised trials and two quasi-randomised trials, involving 398 men with erectile dysfunction who had been given psychotherapy, medication, psychotherapy plus medication or vacuum devices. A further 59 were in non-treatment control groups. We foun...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

...ematica Policy Research released a report that was nine years and $8 million in the making. Scientists followed middle school children enrolled in four separate abstinence programs for about five years, and found no difference in the age of first intercourse between them and their peers. Yet, according ...

Intensive Training of Young Tennis Players Causes Spinal Damage

...n as pars lesions. Three of the 10 pars lesions in nine players were complete fractures. Twenty three pl...pathy), causing moderate permanent degeneration in nine of them. Facet joints help the spine bend backwards. At 70%, the rate of facet joint arthropathy wa...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...led that death rates for children up to the age of nine were elevated by between five and 24 per cent, dep...tes were increased by 14 to 21 per cent in zero to nine year olds and seven to ten percent in zero to 25 year-olds, the study said. Childhood leukemia is...

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

...nt and removing her breast as a part of treatment, nine years ago. The Commission Bench headed by Justice J D Kapoor held the hospital guilty of causing "depression, inferiority complex and permanent disfigurement" to 50-year-old Ayesha Begum who underwent surgery after the doctors wrongly concluded tha...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

..., 1972. These cases are being heard for the last nine years and are a part of what is termed as "continuing mandamus", whereby the Courts, rather than passing final judgments, keeps on passing orders and directions with a view to monitor the functioning of the executive.They have led to fundamental chan...

Experts Identify Vaccine Target for HIV

... patients who had blood samples taken as a part of nine studies in Europe and Australia. They arrived at 486 patients who had had multiple blood tests documenting viral loads after infection and before they started receiving antiretroviral treatment. The three polymorphisms were identified after all the...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...cereals -- which are often highly sweetened -- and nine percent to fast foods. The ads are important for businesses: children have considerable influence in buying the snacks and cereals worth some 500 billion dollars a year. Under the BBB initiative the companies are setting their own collective stan...

US Patient Implanted With HeartMate II, Leaves ICU

...through, this is minor," Moazami said. "He's got nine lives. I think we've used eight of them." Barnes-Jewish doctors are familiar with HeartMate II because the hospital is one of the institutions participating in the clinical trial. A small pump implanted in the body, it is attached to a half-inch ...

42-year-old Cancer Patient Honored by British Queen for Her Fundraising Efforts

...other of three cycled 4,200 miles across the US in nine weeks for her final fundraising challenge in 2006. Her health proved a huge challenge during the journey from San Francisco to New York, with organizers considering abandoning the ride and admitting Jane to hospital just two days before the finish ...

Diana Could Have Been Saved Had She Been Rushed to Hospital

...ded Dr David Wasserman, an American physician with nine years experience in one of the US's biggest urban hospitals: "If they had got her to the operating room sooner, she would have had a far greater chance." Dr Stephen Ramee, a leading cardiologist at the Ochsner Health System centre in New Orleans, al...

Special Backpacks Provide Much Needed Relief for Cancer Patients

...s, will have six cycles of chemotherapy over about nine months. He became ill last October shortly after qualifying as a personal trainer and nutritionist. "It was ironic," he said. "I had never been so fit." Nick discovered a lump on his right ankle, which was hot to the touch and swollen. The leg beca...

Smokers Blow Their Infants Health into Thin Air

...er baby is more likely to be born pre-term (before nine months) and weigh less than other babies.' They are also likely to have asthma, allergies, ear infections and eczema. Paolo Vineis, a professor of environmental epidemiology at Imperial College London, in a report published in the January 28, 2007 ...

Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives

...spread of infection through other ways. Till 2005, nine people who had received blood transfusions or organ transplants had became infected. Since then, the number has gone up to 22. The number of infected intra uterine device (IUD) users has also risen sharply, by over 67 percent, from 1134 to 1900. Th...

Protein That may Prevent Eye Damage in Premature Babies Identified

...esearchers infused IGFBP-3 into one eye of each of nine mice before placing the animals into a high-oxygen chamber for five days. When scientists compared vascular growth within the retinas, they found blood vessels were closer to normal in eyes treated with IGFBP-3. When UF scientists repeated the expe...

Ramadoss to Discuss Chikungunya With Health Ministers of Nine States Tomorrow

...adoss, has called a meeting of health ministers of nine states tomorrow to discuss the measures to be taken to control the mosquito-borne disease, Chikungunya . The Health Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Puducherry, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Delhi are expected to attend t...

Gazas Basic Food Storage Will Last Only for a Few Days

... of food each day and have enough in stock to last nine days, senior Fatah official Saeb Erekat told a news conference in Ramallah. Abbas has placed Erekat in charge of coordinating the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza with Israel via third parties, including the World Food Programme (WFP), the World H...

Excessive Use of Cosmetics Leads to Adverse Effects on the Body

...se over 20 different beauty products per day while nine out of 10 apply make-up which is past its expiry date. Addiction to cosmetics and toiletries means that a cocktail of 4lb 6oz of chemicals a year is seeping into the body through the skin. Some synthetic compounds involved have been associated with...

Chikungunya-hit Villages to Get Funds to Fight Mosquitoes

...een reported so far this year. 'We have asked the nine chikungunya-affected states to set up village surv... been confirmed. Of the 17,000 cases spread across nine states, Kerala alone has reported around 12,000 cases. India had last year reported 1.4 million ca...

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