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Vitamin D With NSAID Drugs May Prevent Prostate Cancer

...y drugs (such as ibuprofen or naproxen) have their own risks," says Feldman. "So, we have to be careful even with lower doses and we still need to watch them closely if we intend to keep them on these drugs for extended periods of time. But we are aiming to find doses that are less toxic and far more t...

Less Stomach Infections If Hand Sanitizer Gel Is Used

...ong families who used hand sanitizer gels at their own initiative. The alcohol-based gels, widely available in stores, do not require water and rapidly kill most bacteria and viruses on the skin. They are a convenient alternative for busy parents who are unable to get to a sink while caring for sick chi...

Encephalitis Survivors Face The Risk Of Becoming Disabled

... hope that one day he will be able to stand on his own feet." Whether he can actually do that is a question that even doctors cannot answer. "It is a very unfortunate situation and there is little that we can do about it," said Kushwaha. So, how many more Abhisheks and Himalayas will Uttar Pradesh have...

Indian doctors in America help Katrina victims

...hey knew she would be rescued first, even as their own lives remained in danger. Koli is also in the know of women who had been raped in the dark at the New Orleans Super Dome where panicked residents fled to escape the rising waters. Jain, along with the 146 patients and 500 employees and family membe...

New Diet Sensation Insists That Carbs Are Good For Health

...e director of the nutrition and dietetic unit; her own private clinic; and through her book Eat Bread and Get Slim, which became an instant best-seller. The Raz Diet, as it is called in Israel, also became the basis of a hit reality program in which Raz coached 20 obese people, and helped them lose a com...

European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’

...was based on "very sound finance." He recalled his own childhood in post-war Italy, saying vaccination programs there had had a significant impact within just a few years. Lee Jong-Wook, director-general of the World Health Organization, also backed the scheme. "When I first heard about it, frankly I th...

Proper Validation of Generic Drugs Could Save Millions of AIDS Patients

...and these companies can simply sell drugs to their own government, fostering an intimacy between manufacturers and governments. A system of drug monitoring of generic drugs is required, by which a network of clinical laboratory is to be linked to the generic drugs for its testing and validation before ...

Going Down The Social Ladder Increases The Chances Of Male Depression.

...ge of 50 participants were asked to describe their own social class at the time and when they were 25, in a bid to track social mobility over the life course. They also completed a general health questionnaire, which included questions about their mental health. More women than men were clinically depr...

Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP

.... Even though pigs pose a serious threat to their own families, many Dalit families involved in maintaining piggeries defend their business. "After all, it is a major source of livelihood for members of our community," says Suresh Valmiki, the resident of a slum in Bastaoli. "If we do away with our pi...

Treatment Of Brain Aneurysms By A New Non-Surgical Approach

...sm prevented the coil from staying in place on its own and the aneurysm was very likely to return. The introduction of flexible intracranial stents has provided an answer to retaining stents within the aneurysm, thereby preventing recurrence. This provides minimally invasive option for repairing of cer...

US Senate Votes against Testing of Pesticide on Humans

..., it does not prohibit the EPA from conducting its own tests. A joint House Senate committee is expected this summer to determine which version prevails. (Source: Nature Medcine)...

Indians Are More Prone To Lifestyle Diseases

...olis said. "The quality of one's life is in one's own hands. By taking a proactive approach to health care, one can ward off disease and fight the rising cost of medical treatment," the Metropolise study report said. --IANS...

Children Of Smokers Start Smoking Early

..., it is important for them to stop or reduce their own smoking," Hill said. Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between 13 and 21. Twelve-year-olds, whose parents smoked, were more than two times as likely to begin smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between the ages of 13...

Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...ence will be alike for all the Mexican groups. “My own prediction, “says Jimenez” is that we are not going to find huge differences.” INMEGEN will release newly mined genomic data into the public domain as fast a technology allows, but Jimenez is quick to point out that the measure of the project’s succ...

“Provenge”, Dendritic cell vaccine for Prostate Cancr

...nstitute in Boston. Provenge carries the patients own dendritic cells engineered to express a protein found on about 95% of prostate cancer cells. It is one of more than 15 vaccines in trials for a range of cancers, including lymphoma, melanoma, breast, lung and colorectal cancers, but the first to incr...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

It has now been demonstrated that our own experience is important to exhibit feelings of sym...of another person, apparently, on the basis of our own "action inventory". In other words, our own mind and body give us the foundation to understand what ...

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

...ased risk of HIV during pregnancy because of their own or their partner's sexual behaviours, or because of the physiological changes during gestation. Irrespective of the mechanism of heightened risk, // findings that rates of HIV acquisition are significantly higher during pregnancy than in the postpart...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

...n be prevented by putting babies to sleep in their own cribs instead of in their parents' beds. It is indeed a coincidence that the news has been released just during SIDS awareness month (October). The research further points out that babies who sleep in an adult bed face a 40 % more risk of suffocati...

Stem cell cure for peripheral vascular disease: New hope on the horizon

... your heart.// Stem cell therapy enables patients’ own bodies to repair damaged blood vessels and grow ne...any focuses on using stem cells from the patient's own blood in order to treat a variety of disorders, especially cardiovascular diseases. The company has ...

Limb Regeneration In Humans: A Future Possibility

...enerations to heal without scarring and grow their own replacement limbs. A research team at Manchester University, headed by Dr Enrique Amaya//, and partly funded by The Healing Foundation charity, is looking to animals for clues to how the body can regenerate. Prof Amaya will focus on the genetics of...

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