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Ambiguous Efficacy Of Opioid Drugs In Chronic Inflammatory Joint Pain Relief

...tue of their hard-wired relationship to the body's own pain control receptors. Such receptors, known as u-opioids, appear to be highly sensitized to endomorphins, selectively drawing the natural analgesic to their target spots throughout the peripheral tissue of joints. Recently a study, published in th...

Home Based Rapid HIV Test Kit to be approved by US – OraQuick Test Ki

...ut the risk of suicide if people find out on their own without enough support and People need to be encouraged to see their doctor after to get a confirmatory test and also to get advice on how to proceed and what care they need throughout their illness." Source: BBC News...

Pink Shawl Project is a unique initiative

...eanwhile, American Indian women have started their own campaign against the deadly cancer. They have embarked on a Pink Shawl Project to to promote breast cancer awareness among their ilk. This initiative is needed since the National Cancer Institute says that between 1998 and 2002 55 cases of breast can...

Female Twins Have More To Share Than Just The Similarity: Risk Of Early Menopause

...ent through menopause at the age of 14 to have her own baby. It is believed that premature menopause in identical twins might be to do with the embryo splitting process. Monozygotic twins are derived form a single zygote that divides into two separate entities within the first 2 weeks of development. ...

“Cheeseburger Bill” Goes In Favor Of Fast Food Restaurans

...ot the place of the law to protect them from their own excess." The bill's opponents included California Democrat Bob Filner, who said the fast-food industry marketed fatty food to children and should take responsibility. Source: BBC News....

Bird Flu Survivor Recounts her ‘hell

...angkok and suffered in quite agony and awaited her own death 'By that time I was so weak I could not get up,' she said. 'I felt like my heart was going to stop beating. I felt so exhausted I did not have the energy to speak or pay attention to anything. I felt as if I had been running for days or years...

Indian Government Sets Up Task Force For Avian flu

... reagent from CDC Atlanta, we have also formed our own testing kit,’ said Dr Shiv Lal, the director of the NICD....

Another Victim Of Legionnaires' Disease

...presents no risk of Legionnaires Disease. In its own habitat it is not known to be harmful to humans. It is only when it is found in man made situations that the bacteria can multiply in large quantities and become dangerous (only if the bacteria is breathed into the lungs). If inhaled, the bacteria ...

A New Initiative To Fight Childhood Obesity

... help America's youth get involved to create their own healthy lifestyles.' Following the announcement, President Clinton participated in a town hall meeting with young people from around America. The program, hosted by Linda Ellerbee, will be aired on 13 November 2005 as part of a Nick News Special: ...

India Has No Case Of Avian Flu Says Health Minister

...dded. The government has been able to appoint its own task force after the WHO raised an alarm in case the avian flu starts transmitting from humans to humans. So far it has been spreading from birds to humans. The 10,000 birds that died in West Bengal have been sent to a high security lab in Bhopal ...

DNA Identity Mix-Up In Bone Marrow Donors, And Miscarriages Of Justice Involved

...rrow transplants involved destroying the patient's own bone marrow. In such cases their blood will contai... a bone marrow recipient will contain mostly their own DNA, but can become contaminated with the donor's DNA over time. So it is important to check both bl...

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

...own that each stem-cell line is unique and has its own set of characteristics, "so we need access to more and better quality stem-cell lines," Lanza said. "Until that happens, this field is going to hobble along rather than sprint to the goal post," he added. CyThera, Baetge's company, is currently usi...

Stomach Beats Can Tell the Truth About Lying

...s such as hormones, "But the gut has a mind of its own - literally. It has its own well-developed nervous system that acts independently of almost everything except your unconscious b...

Effect Of Cooling And Exercise To Be Analyzed In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

...n individuals who produce antibodies against their own cells or tissues. In multiple sclerosis, the antibodies are directed towards the fatty sheaths around nerve cells. // Fatigue is the most common symptom of the disease. It can be to a certain extent by aerobic exercise. One of the limitations in thi...

Macrophage Inhibitory Factor Causes Multiple Sclerosis Progression

... disease which is caused by non-recognizing of its own body cells by the immune system leading to an immu...onse of activating immune cells against the body’s own cells. In Multiple Sclerosis the immune cells produces an immune response against the myelin sheath ...

Kalam Appeals to Eradicate Hearing Disability

...tensified to include remote areas. Recounting his own experience at a hospital in Coimbatore he had realized that technological intervention was possible for restoring hearing to the deaf and the dumb. I saw four-year-old deaf and dumb children. After one of month of implanting and training they spoke ...

John Hopkins CGHH program provides Global Health education

... of care that patients receive directly from their own health care providers.” Online course on AIDS: Barlett and Gallant are working hard to upgrade their online courses and website with information and treatment with a vision to reach millions of patients and physicians worldwide. The idea of this...

Indian Psychiatrist in UK Accused of plagiarism

... an American academic and published it off as his own in an article for a medical journal//. Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry appeared in February edition was written by Raj Persaud and went unnoticed outside the mental health community. The articulate Persaud is one of the youngest doctors to be...

Medical Breakthrough - Kidney Transplant Recipient Survives Without Drugs

...s bone marrow cells have completely taken over his own immune system. Being the first person in Asia to undergo such medical treatments, Koh does not need to take anti-rejection medicine for the rest of his life. Doctors at the National University Hospital said Koh was one of the few transplant patien...

FDA Warns Against Birth-Control Patch

...g the FDA's death and injury reports, creating its own charts that document a higher rate of blood clots and deaths in association with the patch than with the pill. Hormone levels in women on the pill are highest one or two hours after taking it. Twelve hours later, estrogen levels are quite low, meani...

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