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Tag: "organic" at medical news

World Bank Head Praises DDT Use Against Malaria

... malaria-causing parasite. It is also a persistent organic pollutant, banned or being phased out by 143 countries under the Stockholm Convention, a global treaty designed to protect human health. The World Health Organization announced support for DDT as a malaria control measure in September (see WHO ba...

How to Keep Away from Dust Allergy?

... Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of organic compounds and PCB mixtures have been used for a variety of industrial applications, including in the manufacture of adhesives and plastics. The United States Congress bans the domestic production of PCBs in 1977, although it is still used in electr...

Simple Breath Test may Detect Lung Cancer

... or cancer cells in the lung release some volatile organic chemicals. These are passed into the air that leav...raphy and mass spectroscopy to "read" the volatile organic compounds coming from diseased lungs. But the machines are expensive to use and require specially tr...

Diet-based Method to Treat Brain Cancer

...ovides normal brain cells with ketones, a class of organic compounds they can metabolize effectively but the tumour cells cannot, the researchers said. Biologists in the US claim to have identified an alternative diet-based method that they say can significantly help decrease the growth of brain tumours. ...

A New Guide to Choosing the Right Vitamin Supplement

...t doesn’t matter whether vitamin C is derived from organic rose hips or synthesized in large batches in a laboratory; your body will use the resulting product similarly. Also, if you’re not sensitive to specific ingredients, such as wheat, rice, or lactose, there’s no need to pay more for allergen-free produ...

Passive Smokers may Face Higher Heart Disease Risk

...ported science portal EurekAlert. Cotinine is an organic compound that indicates levels of nicotine intake. Since nicotine is highly specific to tobacco smoke, blood serum cotinine levels track exposure to tobacco smoke and its toxic components. The researchers examined data from the third National Healt...

Advice To Canada On Right Kind Of Food

...ck. Hence one needs to be cautious while consuming organic and sustainable food. JYT...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...that the presence of highly toxic heavy metals and organic chemicals in groundwater causes cancer and severe damage to the body," said Satinath Sarangi, who runs a clinic treating patients in the gas-affected areas. The government has also resolved to lobby hard to get 20 municipal wards of Bhopal declare...

Benefits of Carbon Monoxide

...hese molecules using the natural interface between organic and inorganic chemistry." The project will examine the physical and electronic characteristics of potentially suitable compounds and identify those, which are absorbed best by the body with the aim of starting clinical studies in three years’ time....

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...d response and sexual attraction,' notes Preti, an organic chemist. 'Actually, pheromones are divided into classes that are defined by characteristics of the responses.' Chemical signals that elicit immediate behaviors are described as releaser pheromones. Examples of releaser pheromones include mating att...

Anti Cancer Drug from Blue Green Algae

..., held so much promise as an anti-cancer drug that organic chemists got busy trying to find ways to make a synthetic form of the compound in large enough quantities for clinical trials. Developing an efficient synthetic route to natural product compounds and their analogs is often an essential step in drug...

Living Near Toxic Waste May Bring On Diabetes

...ithout hazardous sites, contaminated by persistent organic pollutants and containing other types of waste or ...sex and average household income. Major types of organic pollutants are polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a former industrial ingredient of pesticides, pai...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...produced by cigarette smoking or the combustion of organic materials such as wood, coal, cooking oil or diesel fuel. Exposure of a fetus to PAHs has been shown to cause DNA damage in newborns and is also associated with increased levels of childhood leukemia. It has also been shown that a significant portion...

Pregnant Women- Eat Broccoli And Cabbage

... cigarette smoking or the incomplete combustion of organic materials such as wood, coal, cooking oil or diesel fuel and can cause DNA damage in newborns and increase risk of childhood leukemia, the researchers said. Two groups of pregnant mice were exposed to a single high dose of dibenzoyrene, a cancer ca...

Redbridge- A New Gluten-free Beer Launched

...able nationwide in restaurants and stores carrying organic products. The beer contains 4.8% alcohol like the other types of beer, and is available in 12-ounce, six-pack bottles. According to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, one in 133 people in the U S suffer from celiac disea...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

...produced by cigarette smoking or the combustion of organic materials such as wood, coal, cooking oil or diesel fuel. Exposure of a fetus to PAHs has been shown to cause DNA damage in newborns and is also associated with increased levels of childhood leukemia. It has also been shown that a significant portion...

Organic Food Fever Catches Up In Delhi

Delivering organic food at the doorsteps is becoming a sunrise indust...mes to leading a healthier life. Awareness towards organic food is growing. It's certainly a positive sign," said Vandana Shiva, director of Navdanya, a leadin...

Drugs Delivery Revolutionized by Extremely Stable Glass

...on of unusually strong and stable glass made from organic material.// It can be coated with drugs and then c...ody The new technique entails depositing vapors of organic molecules onto a substrate cooled to 50 degrees (Celsius) below the glass transition temperature—the...

Drexel Research in Cytokines Could Treat Sepsis

... three thousand years. It works by adsorbing small organic molecules. However, even advanced activated carbon...e used for the selective adsorption of other large organic molecules and possibly viruses for other bio-related or medical applications. “Maybe one day we will...

Bacterial Protein Shows Promise in Treating Intestinal Parasites

...s thuringiensis, a bacterium sprayed// on crops by organic farmers to reduce insect damage, is highly effecti...teins had been used for decades to kill insects by organic farmers who sprayed their crops with Bt,” said Aroian. “Until now, however, no one has used a purifi...

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