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New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...s become resistant to most of the drugs that could once destroy it. They have already described and expressed two other genes known to confer drug resistance. Now that we have these genes expressed in a convenient yeast system, we can work to understand the molecular basis of anti-malarial drug resistan...

Survey Finds Chinese are More Tolerant About Premarital Sex Now

...icipalities across the country. Premarital sex, once considered taboo, was "not a moral problem" in 2006 according to 64 percent of the respondents. The corresponding figure in 2000 was 56 percent. Women's tolerance of sex before marriage had also increased greatly. In 2006, 60 percent of women resp...

Abbott's Humira(r) (Adalimumab) Gets Approval by EU for Crohn's Disease Treatment

...with Crohn's disease will undergo surgery at least once for complications or disease resistant to treatment. Of those who undergo surgery to remove a portion of the intestines (resection), half will experience a relapse within five years. "After I was diagnosed with Crohn's, the unpredictable symptoms m...

Flush Water Pipes to Reduce Lead Contamination Risk, Schools Told

...ls and daycares were expected to flush their pipes once weekly. Health Minister George Smitherman noted there's a new program to help low-income pregnant women and parents in older neighbourhoods buy water filters. Those rated to an NSF 53 standard, such as some types of Brita filters, can reduce lead, ...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...es are increasingly unlikely to land students jobs once they graduate. More than one million of last year's four million graduates did not find jobs upon graduation, a problem blamed in part on massive redundancies at many state-owned companies amid China's economic transformation. Yet students, parents...

Orissa Woman Gave Birth to Identical Triplets

...delivered identical triplets, a rarity that occurs once in approximately one million births, a doctor said . Rajalakhi Das gave birth to three girls in Kendrapada town, about 100 km from Bhubaneswar. The babies were born without any medical complications two weeks prior to the full term of the pregnan...

Now, a Kettle That Will Give a Cup of Tea in Just Three Seconds

... If 220ml is excessive, users can press the button once more to exterminate the flow. If more is required, they can keep their finger on the button until the machine has produced enough. The Tefal kettle is more than just a super-fast water heater for it also includes a water filter, which is intended t...

Hospitals in Older Cities Close Down, Blacks Worst Affected

...neighborhood said she doesn't know where she'll go once the clinic closes. There are hundreds like her, but nobody seems to heed their desperate pleas for keeping the hospital open....

Right Side of Brain Play a Vital Role in Stroke

...al we often have to keep track of several tasks at once and make sure we perform each one correctly and at the right time....

Give Up Sugar to Keep Yourself Young

...pear. Cooking food this way creates AGEs which, once consumed, bind to the collagen and elastin fibres. AGEs form when any food thats made up of sugar, protein and/or fat is cooked to a high heat," said Dr Brandt. "The higher the temperature and the longer the cooking, the more AGEs form. All food t...

Surgeons Shocked By Green-Blooded Man

...head successfully and his blood returned to normal once he went off the drug. The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan 200 milligrams a day, which caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia. Here, sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red blood ...

Bengal Teenager to Participate in World Oncology Camp

...amp in the US every year. Mainly young people, who once suffered from deadly cancer but later recovered with proper treatment, participate in the camp and narrate their experience. This cancer camp is primarily targeted to enhance the mental strength amongst cancer patients in the world....

Diabetes Reduces Life Expectancy, Increases Heart Disease Risk

...cular disease and a 1.7 times higher risk of dying once cardiovascular disease was present, the authors add. Among those age 50 and older, diabetic men lived an average of 7.5 years less than men without diabetes, and diabetes reduced womens life expectancy by an average of 8.2 years. Life expectancy fr...

Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

...e cardiac function of their 39 volunteers twice -- once at the beginning of the study, after a night of 10 hours' sleep, and again after five nights when they got a mere four hours of shut-eye each night. The electrocardiograms revealed that all of the volunteers had a much faster heart beat and signif...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...ases -- such as polio, measles and cholera -- that once routinely ravaged vast swaths of humanity. Ironically, there has long been a disturbing tendency to romanticize the white plague, as tuberculosis is also known. But in real life, tuberculosis is a messy, agonizing and debilitating ordeal. Once th...

Tritium Risks at New Heights

...radioactive. It becomes embedded in the human cell once it binds with the water. People who live within five kilometer radius of the nuclear plant are at most risk as the concentration of tritium is very high. While Ontario Power Generation says they hold themselves to a strict standard when it comes t...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...makes a number of small cuts, replaces the cup and once again sucks out the air, bleeding the wound for several minutes before sterilizing and bandaging the spot. The back is the most common areas to be cupped, because the "blood stream is slow there and a continuous bleeding is ruled out, furthermore ...

Dieting was an 'awful' Experience for Katherine Heigl

... she loves food so much. "It was awful! I remember once reading an article about Jessica Alba - who is the most beautiful, most in-shape person alive - and how committed she was to her regimen. And I thought, There is no way in hell that will ever be me," Us Weekly quoted her, as telling Glamour magazine ...

Lung Damage Continues Even After Smokers Quit

...eases . The new finding is the first to show that once smokers get lung disease with bronchial inflammation, it will continue even after they quit smoking. This comes from an international team of researchers in respiratory medicine including New Zealand Massey University clinical pharmacology lecturer...

Unexplained Weight Loss may Be Early Predictor of Alzheimer's

...becomes obvious will be decisive to its prevention once agents become available to slow the disease, Dr. Mortimer said....

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