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Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

...ukemia cells and allows the bone marrow to produce non cancerous cells. Chemotherapy can get rid of the leukaemia cells in about three-quarters of people with ALL, putting them into disease remission. This new gene test helps to detect more resistant and serious ALL disease which helps to provide more ...

Passive Cigarette Smoking Increases Isoprostane Formation

...ve smoke exposure. What is passive smoking? A non smoker who breathes other people's smoke is called passive smoking. It is also called as involuntary or secondhand smoking....

India Needs To Pay More Attention To Detecting Cancer

...e, or have had, cancer as compared to only 1.3% of non menopausal women. Organized jointly by National Institute for Working Life, a Swedish NGO, and the Society for Working Life, a Delhi based NGO, the 'WWH-2005' is being held for the first time in South Asia. The earlier meetings were held in Barcelo...

Chlamydia Screening To Be Offered With Emergency Contraception

...rusts to offer Chlamydia screening to under 25s in non genito-urinary clinic settings by April 2006. The University of Manchester study, to be launched on 3 January 2006 and funded by The BUPA Foundation, hopes to screen 2,000 women at pharmacies. Chlamydia screening will be offered to another 1,00...

New Test For Early Detection of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

...orted on blood samples of patients having advanced non small-cell lung cancer. However, researchers found that in patients with early-stage lung cancer, the test was able to detect cancer many years before CT scans. These new findings are expected to be tabled before the National Cancer Institute (NCI) E...

Another healthy aspect of tea: ovarian cancer prevention

...rank two or more cups of tea per day compared with non tea drinkers. Therefore the conclusion was that tea is instrumental in reduction of ovarian cancer in women....

Science backs the importance of vegetables in diet

...at eaters have been found to have a higher BP than non meat eaters. "Our results are consistent with current recommendations that a diet high in vegetable products be part of a healthy way of life for prevention of high blood pressure and related chronic diseases," said Prof Paul Elliott, of Imperial C...

New trend of birth induction is on the rise

... small number say one in 14 cases were induced for non medical reasons such as the mother's diabetes, hig...t their delivery. The number of inducions due to non medical reasons at the public Royal Hospital, Randwick have increased from 3.8 per cent to 5.8 per c...

Roma tomatoes the culprits for salmonella infection

Normally salmonella infectins are caused by non veg items but now roam tomatoes have been found to cause them//. US govt has now revealed that three outbreaks in 2004 were caused by this agent. The three outbreaks took their toll on health of people and caused havoc. The link was establoishe...

Congestion for Use of Clarinex-D 12 Hour cleared – FDA Gives the No

... medicine, Clarinex-D 12 Hour, to alleviate nasal, non nasal symptoms and nasal congestion occurring in adults and children above the age of 12. According to the // researchers, this medicine will be in time for the spring allergy season. It is estimated that about 36 million people in the U.S. are tro...

Nature Cures The Best, Say WIC Clinic Clients

...nos used herbs for common ailments while 31.4 % of non Latinos in WIC clinics, also used herbs during their childhood illnesses. Aloe vera, chamomile, garlic, peppermint, lavender, cranberry, ginger, Echinacea and lemon were the herbs frequently used, with little risk of any major side effect. WIC is an ...

German Nurse Makes A Confession

...d 12 patients using a lethal injection and feigned non remembrance of the remaining cases. But later on Tuesday, went back on the confession and refused to comment on the deaths he had caused.” I confessed to killings which I did not commit," he told the court. Prosecutors at the Bavarian court at Kem...

Hype and Hoopla: Penis Mightier than the sword (read: Enlarged Penis)

...rding to Christopher, psychological counseling and non surgical options should be explored rather than resorting to futile surgical measures. These findings have been reported in the Journal of European Urology. ...

Mental Health Court Established

...s been done with a motive to pick // out sober and non violent defendants, and give them treatment instead of allowing them to languish in the jails. U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) allowed a $250,000 fund to help with administration of Kane County Treatment Alternative Court. Kane Chief Ju...

Should Sale Of Organ Be Legalized?

... In UK every year around 400 people die due to the non availability of a donor but the irony is that about 13 million people have signed up the register. UK Transplant is a part of the National Health Service (NHS) which is responsible for the register. It said that in many cases organs were prevente...

Will Teflon Regain Its Rightful Place In The Kitchen?

...s and other bodies of water. Apart from this its non stick properties reduce the use of greasy groceries in dishes such as cookies and ice cream and fried eggs. ...

Gene Bias: Onomastics of Shared Surnames among Men Reveals Genetic links

...tional cases cropping up - adoption, name changes, non paternities etc, that weakens the link. Turi King, Stéphane Ballereau, and Mark Jobling from the University of Leicester and Kevin Schürer from the University of Essex, undertook this new study by a general analysis of names and selection of ran...

Mammograms Detect Non Progressive Cancer

...searchers said that mammograms were able to detect non progressive breast cancer that would never have needed treatment. Some previous studies// show that 54% of the mammograms detect such breast cancers but others say that the rate is about 1% only. But the present study is based on the direct observati...

Internet Research Fosters Confidence and Positivity in Cancer Patients

...eir internet usage -direct user, indirect user and non user. It was seen that the direct and indirect users were women in the age bracket of 50 and 60, who were educated from colleges and were making an income of $60,000 or more a year. It was also evident, that there was a connection between internet ...

Caffeine metabolism tied to heart attacks

...heart disease if consume coffee.// Patients with non fatal heart attack in Costa Rica between 1994 and 2004 were studied and it was found that those with a gene variant that causes them to slowly metabolize caffeine have about a third greater risk of having a heart attack when they drank two or three c...

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