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No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report

... up to the delivery, she can actually cut down the number of pre natal visits from 8 - 11 times to 3 - 6 tim...s, time and energy it is a good idea to lessen the number of visits....

Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...cement are not always user friendly. But with the number of smokers increasing day by day and the number of diseases caused due to smoking also increasing, these nicotine replacement options, however fanci...

Just spice it up!!!!! Anti bacterial effects of spices unraveled in the West

...s as well. Antimicrobial effects of cinnamon and a number of other spices, including garlic, sage, oregano and clove, in liquids as well as solid foods well are being studied now. So the message is clear- just spice it up, for a healthy diet....

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...orting cheap AIDS drugs. The country with largest number of AIDS patients in the world now wants to secure affordable drugs from around the world to tackle its AIDS epidemic. The Health Ministry of South Africa, published 70 pages of draft legislation that would allow it to shop around for the cheapest dr...

Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002

...ed manufacturing entities being supported by large number of service providers....

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

An increase in the number of advertisements by the drug companies has prompted the doctors to urge the government to ban prescription drug ads from television, news papers and magazines. American Medical Association's New Jersey delegate Dr. Angelo agro said that such ads can...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

The herbal product ginseng root has a number of psychological benefits, including fighting stress-related physical and mental fatigue and boosting mood performance. But researchers have found no psychological benefit from the use of ginseng. Bradley Cardinal, PhD, associate professor and co-di...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

... can have side effects like dry mouth. For a small number of patients, these options to not work. That's why we've started using Botox to treat people who don't respond to other medications." It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery is the only other option left. ...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...who treated 26 adolescents, found that the average number of tablets taken by each patient was 28 each week, with 16 using pain medication daily. They stopped all the analgesic medications and found that the headache symptoms decreased after 2 months.Inspite of the fact the exact roll of these analgesics wa...

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

... result of their hard work they have come out with number of ways to identify and stop the progression when the disease is young. And now the Dutch investigators found that postmenopausal women with high levels of a protein called albumin in their urine were nearly 4.5 times as likely to have died from card...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...ce imaging (MRI), a stroke assessment test and the number of hours between the onset of the stroke and the M...in about the probability of recovery, and to put a number on that probability," said Dr. Steven Warach, a neurologist at the NINDS. Dr. Warach and collegues ...

India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war

...t is likely to escalate in coming days. The large number of AIDS cases has lured many companies to develop anti-AIDS drugs and market it in India and abroad by adapting innovative approaches to pricing. The anti-AIDS drug market, currently dominated by Mumbai-based Cipla, witnessed the entry of four more ...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...maller and techniques improved. Arthroscopy has a number of benefits compared with conventional surgery in treating damaged ankles, including eliminating the need for large incisions. "To do anything in a joint requires that you are able to get in there, see what you're doing and manipulate tissue. The cle...

Brisk Walking lowers memory loss in women

.... Thereby, physical activity was measured by the number of blocks walked per week and also by the number of calories burnt in walking and other activities....

Watch your weight when pregnant

...ge BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indicates a range of body fat fr...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...edicine at Harvard Medical School said that as the number is small , it is hard to conclude anything definitive from the study. Surprisingly, however, people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables do not necessarily have high lycopene levels. A few fruits, such as watermelon, have very low amounts of lycope...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...ay go wrong sometimes.There has been a rise in the number of safety warnings concerning devices that regulate the heart rhythm. Many depend on either a pacemaker or an implantable defibrillator to keep their heart beating rhythimically. However sophisticated and accurate devices they may be, sometimes they...

Action of nerve cells

...ensen said.The strength of a signal depends on the number of neurotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So the strength of memory depends on how well the UNC-13 protein helps to gather up the neurotransmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jo...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...s found that grain fortification alone reduced the number of heart attacks and the other heart attack events to about 8% in women and 13 % in men. Tice also noticed that "the evidence for the beneficial effects of vitamin therapy to lower homocysteine is much stronger than that for other dietary supplement...

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

... They found that while both approaches reduced the number of cases of malaria, sponging the cattle saved the cost to around one fifth. The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spraying.It wa...

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