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International community warns India on HIV situation

...ld treat the situation as a national emergency and nothing short of that shall work. He added that all over the world the main cause of the HIV disaster were the denial, complacency and failure of the political leadership of the countries. Just celebrating AIDS Day will not suffice .It is the eradication of ...

The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

... in causing cancer, research is still underway and nothing conclusive has been established so far. It is hoped that inspite of all people being interested in their life, common sense prevails and people learn to distinguish between fact and fiction. The bottom line as they say is alls well that ends well...

“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs

...ssengers, who fly long haul flights, that there is nothing to fear. The death of a woman on board an airliner, while she was flying a long distance flight, has sparked off this sudden debate that long flights can be fatal to many people. Dr. Scurr says this fear is unfounded and that people are just over r...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...onsidered. It is intended for profiteering and has nothing to do with health. The hospital will cater for a super rich transnational population who will come to Indian for treatment instead of Europe." Source : BMJ, Vol.17 No. 3, Gavin Yamey...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

... It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery is the only other option left. "Botulinum toxin is a weakening agent, that, when injected, results in a chemical disconnection of the nerve, which is called chemodenervation," says Dr. Mitchell F. Brin, associate professor ...

Humour inherited

Your sense of humour has nothing to do with your genes, and everything to do with your upbringing say UK biologists. Most personality traits such as being introverted or extroverted are believed to be at least partly genetically determined - so researchers presumed the same applied ...

Misleading anti-malarial drug

... evidence in non-immune travellers meant there was nothing to support the manufacturer’s promotional claim about Malarone’s effectiveness and that the claim should be withdrawn as a result. A spokesperson for GlaxoSmithKline said the company supported the 97 per cent efficacy rate indicated by the three effi...

Why running noses are a good thing

...be lots of anthrax-killing antibiotics -- which do nothing for colds and flu -- just to make sure they don't miss a case of anthrax in its early, treatable stage. But none of the five cases of inhaled anthrax so far have started with nasal congestion or runny nose. Those symptoms, of course, are common in fl...

Re-blockage of heart arteries prevented by vitamins

...ry blockage. The researchers suggest that there is nothing to stop doctors putting their heart patients on this vitamin research, for it seems to be an effective and inexpensive way of keeping the blood flowing through the coronary arteries....

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

...ird each were given extra fibre, extra calcium, or nothing at all.// Three years later, the patients were given a second colonoscopy to see if any new polyps had appeared. In the group given no supplements, 36 out of 178 had new polyps, while 58 out of 198 in the fibre group had new growths. However, in th...

Warm yourself to sleep

...rs to that wide-awake feeling. But it appears that nothing beats the dilation of blood vessels in the hands and feet as a sure way to induce drooping eyelids. Dr Kurt Krauchi and his team at the Sleep Laboratory at Basel monitored the body temperature and functions of a group of young, healthy men as they ...

Unsatisfactory Grade On Women's Health Issues

... federal government have done either too little or nothing at all to expand women's access to health insurance and medical services. Neither the nation nor the states have met the challenge of helping women secure better access to key healthcare services and increasing the availability of needed healthcar...

Chew to improve memory

...ird "sham" group was asked to pretend to chew with nothing in their mouths. Prior to undergoing the 25-minute test, the two chewing groups spent three minutes working their real or imaginary gum around their mouths. The tests comprised questions relating to short-term memory, such as recalling words and pict...

Drinking wine as part of a healthy living

...ose who drank wine - rather than beer, spirits, or nothing at all - were healthier, had a better diet, smoked less and exercised more. So wine drinking seems to go hand in hand with healthy choices. Many other studies have shown that alcohol - whatever the type - has benefits for heart and circulation, by ...

Self control makes stress response easy

...at the game. The rest were told that they could do nothing about the noise. The blood pressure and resistance to blood flow rose less in the group that believed they had control. In reality, the frequency of noise bursts was the same for both groups - but the illusion of control seemed to be important. The...

Less exercise doesn't help prevent osteoporosis

...ty. Aerobic fitness and doing light exercise did nothing to increase bone density and so avoid osteoporosis. But those with high muscle strength tended to have higher bone density. So, too, did those who were slightly overweight, with a concentration of fat around the abdomen. Having this kind of fat is ge...

Better Prostate Cancer Test

... says it’s an unpleasant experience, but says it’s nothing compared to the pain of watching his father die from prostate cancer. "For me, that was an enormous incentive to go through the experience," he says. All of Miles' biopsies were negative. And they’re negative for as many as 75 percent of men who hav...

AIDS vaccine falls short but shows some promise

... 40 million more. Until now, researchers have had nothing in the lab to use as an example of how to fight the virus that causes AIDS. If Researchers are able to isolate the mechanism that protected people from HIV, they might finally have a guide. The FDA will have the final decision on whether the vaccine...

False beliefs could cost cancer patients their lives

...m went for surgery and the surgeon said 'there was nothing we could do -- it spread."' People may then associate surgery itself with the spread, say researchers. If non-small-cell-lung cancer, the most common type, is found and treated before it spreads, patients have a 50 percent chance of survival. But on...

Green Onions Blamed in Outbreak

...ere not the source of the outbreak, that there was nothing they could have done to prevent the outbreak and that it was an isolated incident. Hundreds of people fell ill with Hepatitis A after eating at Chi-Chi's Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, restaurant. "There is currently no industry-accepted means of t...

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