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Reduced Weight Gain Is Seen In People Who Switch To A Vegetarian Diet

...an of five years. They studied the diet pattern of non vegetarians and those of the vegetarians. // Professor Tim Key said that reduced weight gain was seen in people who switch to a meat-free diet. He is currently working at the Britain's Cancer Research UK charity and the University of Oxford. Scie...

Daughter Turns Saviour: Ailing Mother Provided Wonder Drug Herceptin, To Fight Cancer

... to Mrs. Morgan because of safety concerns and the non availability of a license for the drug’s use during initial stages of breast cancer. Mrs Morgan has four children and was diagnosed with breast cancer last May. Mr Morgan said 'It is just a postcode lottery at the moment. There are loads of other ...

Adequate Foot Care, the Only Way to Prevent Amputation of Lower Limbs in Diabetics

...limb amputations is pronounced, 15 times more than non diabetics, the study has reported. Wolverhampton-based researchers have reported that foot care amongst diabetics is rather inadequate, that leads to lower limb loss. Diabetes UK has enabled valuable statistics that show, up to 70% of people do not...

Vital Facts of Short Term Diets - Catch The Vitamin Behind An Ample Waist!

...ich could have a bearing on the fat levels amongst non dieters. Source :Eureka Alert...

Courting HIV through Marriage or Partnership

... the case on the grounds for taking action against non disclosure The woman`s attorney said, “This is not a hooker and trick in some back alley -- or a sordid affair in a cheap hotel. This was a formal marriage. How can the state protect a wife’s contractual and property status in dealing with her husb...

Child-Care In Canada A Costly Affair

... daycare centres, child care outside the home by a non relative and care by a relative inside or outside the home. And a small rise in child care in their own home with non-relative, such as a nanny, and in other forms of care such as nursery schools or preschools. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conse...

Hormone - A Shot in the Arm for Weight Loss

...at they were injecting. The participants were all non smokers, did not follow any diet program or weight loss drugs, maintained stable weight 3 months prior to taking the test, and did not portray any abnormal eating patterns. The experiment was conducted in a research lab after fasting the night before...

Contraceptive Use on the Decline among the Poor

..., said that there is an increase from 7% to 11% of non users of contraception at the same time they do not want to get pregnant. Both the women under poverty line and better off women were not using contraception. The number of white women not using contraception increased to 9 % from 7 %. In case of H...

Blacks and East Asians Prone To Side Effects of Cardiovascular Drugs

... a consequence of clot-busting therapy, than their non black counterparts. The effect was also true for patients of an East Asian origin. More specifically, ACE inhibitor therapy was associated with a three fold increased risk of cough when compared to white patients. At this juncture, clearly more s...

Non Smoking Women Less Prone To Lung Cancer

...as found that death rates due to lung cancer among non smoking women wee less.// On the other hand men wh...evolving around the death due to lung cancer among non smoking women. One such case is that of Dana Reeve, a non-smoker and widow of Superman star Christop...

Medicos In Punjab, Haryana Contemplating 'Drastic Steps'

.... 'But I must assure that the protests will remain non violent,' he added. Singh said that the OPDs and parallel OPDs would remain suspended. But the medicos would not disrupt the critical services, including emergency services, which were being handled by faculties of respective departments. 'We will ...

Kalam Dedicates New Cancer Drug Developed By Biocon

...luding colo-rectal, pancreatic, metastatic breast, non small cell lung and brain cancers. 'BIOMab EGFR is indicated for use in combination with radiation therapy or chemotherapy in patients with positive expression of EGFR in squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck cancer,' the company said. Kalam als...

Cancer Drug to Treat Scleroderma Lung Disease

...study. The mortality rate is high because of the non availability of any effective treatment. Past research and case reports had suggested that cyclophosphamide (brand name Cytoxan) might be an effective drug for scleroderma lung disease. Tashkin and his colleagues tested this idea on some 158 patien...

Added Stress To Pregnant Mothers From Pre-Scan Warnings

...uses were affected by lethal anomalies and 11 were non lethal. Surgery was possible in a further 12, but five of these carried a significant risk of death. One displayed a number of anomalous markers, but the prognosis was uncertain. "The question about how much information should be given to women bef...

Too Much of Anything is Bad

...d pyridoxine which is otherwise not available in a non vegetarian diet. Other medical professionals who attended the conference were Dr G S Sainani, cardiodiabetologist, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, Dr Pradip Talwalkar, consulting diabetologist, S L Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, Dr Y P Munjal, director, centre fo...

Euthanasia : ‘Merciful’ Terminatin

... either too young or is mentally challenged, it is non voluntary euthanasia. Involuntary euthanasia, on the other hand, is carried out on an unwilling individual. Assisted Suicide, which is also a form of mercy killing, takes place when a person, who intends to eliminate himself, is abetted by a third p...

Neurology behind Drinking in Teenagers

... the brain, toward the back of the skull, than did non drinking teenagers. The good news according to Dr Tapert is the fact that the brain is remarkably plastic and future studies may show that the teenage brain, while more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol, is also more resilient. <br...

Diabetic Women Show Increased Risks of Hip Fracture

... hip fracture and fall, despite higher weight than non diabetic control individuals.’ The research is based on data from 109,983 women aged 34 to 59 years in 1980 who were followed through 2002. These women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study, were asked about their history and treatment of di...

Alcohol Drinkers Prone to Physical Injuries

...ohol and this risk remained at 2.5 times that of a non drinker for the next 24 hours. Quantity and specific drinks such as beer or spirits did not increase injury risk but mixing drinks increased injury risk five-fold. Binge drinkers were more at risk of being injured than regular drinkers. And ...

Skin Cells Make Use of Geographic Co-Ordinates to Reach Their Destination

...s an important role in directing the embryonic and non differentiated cells. ‘There is a logic to the body that we didn't understand before,’ said John Rinn, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Howard Chang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology. ‘Our skin is actively maintaining itsel...

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