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FDA Warns of Deadly Results of Skin-numbing Creams

...main on the skin for a long time, more of the drug passes into the blood stream. Anesthetic drugs may also enter the blood stream if the skin is irritated or has a rash, or if the skin temperature goes up and exercise, covering the skin with a wrap, or the use of a heating pad can all increase the skin tem...

Mercury can Kill

...orbed through the skin, is dangerous as some of it passes through the skin into the bloodstream, leading to tremors, nausea and blurred vision. Given its risks, the West has stopped the use of mercury in thermometers, but they continue to be commonly used in India. There is also no awareness about the dan...

Expect More Outbreaks in Europe, Bird Flu Expert Warns

...fairs says there is no need of concern as bird flu passes very rarely to human except in cases of extreme close contact such as handling of bird feces. The WHO also allays fears of humans being affected from infected fowl unless there is contact with raw infected blood, consumption of raw or undercooked...

Pill-Sized Robot Tests Tumours In Body

...o a computer//. After being swallowed, the robot passes through the body naturally, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. The miniature video camera fitted with the device can capture around 40,000 images of the intestines. The extraordinary invention by Alex Zivanovic of Imperial College, London, ...

Call For Bird Flu Antiviral Drugs To Be Shared

...d a worldwide human epidemic yet because it rarely passes between people. If it does acquire this ability, it would take 6-8 months to develop a vaccine effective against the new virus. Public health officials therefore need to consider how they would protect people during the first few months of a pandemic...

New Generation - Medicinal Products

...mventing the digestive tract, the active substance passes directly into the bloodstream. Thus it is also pos...ny need to allow for its partial destruction as it passes through the digestive tract. In view of these advantages, why can the technique not be extended to...

Beyond Bifocals: Wavefront Technology Benefits Patients With Presbyopia

...ced performance to progressive lenses. “As light passes through a spectacle lens it is changed and this ca... lenses correct the lens itself so that when light passes through on the way to the eye, less distortion occurs. The result is sharper vision and more generou...

Tips to Prevent and Treat Winter Laryngitis

...kyan notes that viral laryngitis is contagious and passes the same way as common colds and flu bugs. He suggests ways to avoid getting laryngitis in the first place, ways to treat it and not to aggravate it further, and offers suggestions for caring for your voice even when it’s healthy. 7 things to know ...

Xylitol To Be Produced By Genetically Engineered E. Coli

...l mint flavor, fights cavity-causing bacteria, and passes through the human gut without disturbing insulin. Presently Xylitol is manufactured commercially from birch-wood fibers that are subjected to the combined action of acids, high pressure and temperature, chemical catalysts. The process involves a se...

Natural Remedies Ineffective to Ease Menopausal Symptoms:study

For most women, menopause passes by uneventfully .But for about 10% to 20 % of women menopausal period can be quite appalling.They suffer symptoms such as night sweats, hot// flashes (sensation of heat which comes on all of a sudden), and many more. Hormonal Replacement Therapy (...

Painkillers may Reduce the Risk Enlarged Prostate

...e urine is stored) and the urethra (the tube urine passes through). As men age, the prostate gland slowly grows or enlarges. As the prostate gets bigger, it may press on the urethra and cause the flow of urine to be slower and less forceful. Source-IANS...

Indian American Scientist at Work on Multi-targeted Drug

...r, which is more prevalent in India. "If my drug passes the first stage of toxicity trial, it will be easier to gather financial support for further development," he said. Source-IANS...

Fear Factor in Toronto: health officials fight Hepatitis A outbreak

...d worn out. However, the disease is transient, and passes off in few weeks, depending on severity of condition. Officials notified that the infection spreads by contamination of food and water with the stools of an infected person. So the high alert is on to ensure that precautions are taken to avoid contam...

Lose Weight To Reduce Risk Of Diabetes – Says A New Researc

...t general advice on eating a healthy diet and free passes to a yoga class, few did, Weiss says. Glucose tolerance and insulin levels improved at about the same levels in both the dieters and exercisers. They also lost weight. Those in the control group didn't lose weight or have changes to their glucose t...

Understanding Sleeping Sickness

...insect , called the glossinid tse-tse fly//, which passes on the parasite called the trypanosome, to human beings through the bite. There has been a come-back of this disease over the past two decades in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) has tried to collect the data of the number of p...

Parents Support Junk Food Ad Ban

...ment in autumn. A spokesman revealed that if Ofcom passes the regulations, they would come into effect early next year. "We are going through all the consultation responses and we are looking at additional data and evidence to help us form our decision," he said. However Julian Hunt of the Food and Drink ...

New drug assists patients' suffering premature ejaculation

...men are faced with such problems, but if this drug passes subsequent tests, then it will be the first of its kind to combat such sexual problems. The team, led by Professor Jon Pryor, of the University of Minnesota, inferred that the drug proved beneficial for men suffering moderate-to-severe prematur...

People Exposed To Lead Likely To Die From Brain Cancer

...spected for years that lead is a carcinogen, which passes through the blood-brain barrier, making the brain especially sensitive to the toxic effects of lead. Van Wijngaarden is continuing his research with a pilot study to measure the actual bone-lead levels in people who have been diagnosed with brain tum...

What does High-fiber Foods Really do?

..., in most of us at least three times a day as food passes by. These cells are a biological boundary that separates the inside world, if you will, from this nasty outside world. On the cellular scale, roughage, such as grains and fibers that can't be completely digested, are a mechanical challenge for these ...

Risk of Death Greater With Low Literacy Levels

...stions right, or until they required more than six passes through this consent process." Only 28 percent ... a second pass and 20 percent needed three or more passes before they fully understood the consent form. Two percent of subjects did not understand the form c...

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