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World AIDS day marked with Rallies and installation of Condom Vending machines

...d shopping malls. The vending machines will give a pack of condom for a 5 ruppee coin. The move of installing vending machines was initiated by the Health ministry inorder to reduce the stigma of shyness involved in buying condom from shops. This vending machines are installed in a view that the use of co...

Eat 'The' Color and be healthy

... 2,600 people in the UK on four possible front- of pack Schemes. The Multiple Traffic Light scheme has apparently been the topper. // The Multiple Traffic Light Scheme (MTL) shows consumers at a glance if the food has high, medium, or low levels of fat, saturated fat, Sugar and salt. Green - means a ...

Fighting against disease as easy as eating eggs

...e field of immunology, it has now been possible to pack these substances into chicken eggs to fight specific invaders. First, the specific monoclonal antibody that has to be produced is inserted into chicken embryonic stem cells along with the genes that are responsible for the production. These stem cel...

Smoking and heightened risk of TB

...A pack-year is smoking for one year at a cigarette pack a day. Smokers smoking for 30 pack-years may be all those who have smoked a pack a day for 30 years, or two pack a day for fifteen years, or three packs a day for ten years. To hav...

Exercising for long term relief from lower back pain

...ition seems to be a little unclear. In acute low pack pain people have reported the efficiency of exercise therapy as ineffective as any other forms or treatment or no treatment at all. The research report will be published in the May issue of Annals of Internal Medicine....

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

...A pack-year is smoking for one year at a cigarette pack a day. Smokers smoking for 30 pack-years may be all those who have smoked a pack a day for 30 years, or two pack a day for fifteen years, or three packs a day for ten years. The st...

Beehives to curb dental caries

...oplar and conifer trees and bark lesions. The bees pack the propolis on their hind legs and carry it back to their colony where it is combined with beeswax and salivary secretions. Propolis also has antibacterial and antifungal effects that protect the colony against disease. It has been shown to kill Ba...

Handling plantar fasciitis

...the foot. You could also place a cloth-covered ice pack over the sole after activity. Good quality walking or running shoes are also very important. Losing weight will help too. If all else fails, over-the-counter painkillers should be effective....

Apples keep lung disease away

...om COPD. These were smokers consuming at least one pack of cigarettes a day. It may be that antioxidants in fruits and vegetables can counteract the harmful free radicals in cigarette smoke, and so preserve the health of the lungs. So here's another reason to keep up your fruit and vegetable intake. But...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...ou’re not into oregano, other herbs also appear to pack a significant antioxidant punch.Among the more familiar, ranked in order, are dill, garden thyme, rosemary and peppermint. The most active phenol component in some of the herbs with the highest antioxidant activity, particularly oregano, was rosmarin...

Beehives to curb caries

...oplar and conifer trees and bark lesions. The bees pack the propolis on their hind legs and carry it back to their colony where it is combined with beeswax and salivary secretions. Propolis also has antibacterial and antifungal effects that protect the colony against disease. It has been shown to kill Ba...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...ou’re not into oregano, other herbs also appear to pack a significant antioxidant punch.Among the more familiar, ranked in order, are dill, garden thyme, rosemary and peppermint. The most active phenol component in some of the herbs with the highest antioxidant activity, particularly oregano, was rosmarin...

Third artificial heart patient introduced

...ry is continually recharged by an external battery pack a patient wears at his waist. Harrison is one of six patients who have received the AbioCor as part of a clinical trial of the device. In order to be eligible, patients must have severe heart failure with an 80-percent chance of dying within a month,...

Quit Smoking

... drug is about the same as the expense of buying a pack of cigarettes a day. The drug poses possible side effects such as dry mouth, headache and insomnia, but half of users suffer none of them and in most of those who do the effects are short-lived and not serious. It should not be taken by pregnant ...

Risk of Cancer can be reduced to 40% with a High Fiber Diet

...nd bacon .They also showed that people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and drink more than a bottle of wine are 50 times more likely to suffer from throat cancers. Hence people are advised to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day to achieve optimum health and avoid cancer. These studie...

How do babies understand language?

... their babies. They put a tape recorder in a fanny pack that the women wore in around their home, and then they listened to the tape and analyzed speech patterns on a computer.The study started when the babies were 9 months old and stopped when they were 15 months old. The study showed the more a mother s...

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