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Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

...the Gates Foundation. PDA's achievements include playing a pivotal role in establishing Thailand's national HIV prevention campaign in 1991, which led to an 87 percent reduction in new infections of the virus that causes AIDS, the Foundation said. "Mechai Viravaidya is widely known as Thailand's 'Condom ...

Natural Compound in Grapes, Tea and Cocoa Helps to Enhance Memory

...ng and memory, and decreased the activity of genes playing a role in inflammation and neurodegeneration. They say that though sedentary mice fed epicatechin showed enhanced memory, blood vessel growth, and gene activity during the study, such benefits were even more evident in mice that also exercised. "...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

...mmon tube well and stopped their own children from playing with her infected son," Parida told IANS. She also became an object of disdain at her own parents' house at Nagaspur. Although Sukanti's father Biswanath Das accepted her disease-free elder son, he refused to give shelter to her and her infected ...

Inactivity in Kids may Lead to Chronic Health Problems in Future

...nt four hours or more a day watching television or playing games on the computer. The researchers noted that only half of the kids walked to school every day. Lead author Professor Kamlesh Khunti of Leicester University, said that parents and the Government needed to wake up to the threat posed by obesit...

Coca Cola To Distribute HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Prevention Playing Cards Among Chinese Migrant Workers

...that it plans to distribute about 100,000 decks of playing cards with information about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria prevention to Chinese migrant workers in July, Xinhua/People's Daily reports. The cards will be distributed among migrant workers employed at construction sites and railway stations i...

Actress Sally Field Vows to Fight Against Osteoporosis

...aced became crystal clear a short time later while playing with her grandchildren. 'I had a five-year old on my back and a seven-year old in a wagon, pulling them up my steep driveway,' Field said. I realized, Im at risk. I may not make it up this steep driveway. Fields osteoporosis is now being treated ...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

...tropolitan area to ensure these variables were not playing a role in the results. To further understand how obesity may impact the severity of asthma, researchers looked at the association of body mass index (BMI) to quantify a patients body size with the following measures of severity: respiratory symptom...

Obese People More Prone to Severe Persistent Asthma

...ent status, and ensure that these factors were not playing a role in the results. Even after taking these variables into account, the association between obesity and asthma severity still held," he added. Like many previous studies, this research also shows the link between asthma and obesity is more promi...

Australian Devises Online Game Based on Virginia Tech Shootout

...ry how Lambourn himself would evolve and how those playing his Virginia Tech game would. It is also a moment for the multi-million dollar video game industry to pause and think....

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

...sixth-grader in Wenatchee, Wash. One day, after playing Frisbee during gym class across the street from an apple orchard, she passed out at her desk. Emergency room doctors dismissed Elena's abnormally fast heart rate as a symptom of dehydration, gave her intravenous fluids and sent her home. Three wee...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

... boost sales and also pleaded guilty to charges of playing down Oxycontins addictive and euphoric properties. Purdue pleaded guilty to a felony count of misbranding a drug with intent to defraud and mislead. Under the agreement, it will pay a $600 million settlement, including a criminal fine, restitutio...

Gentle, Real, Well-mannered - Kangana's Mr. Right

...g the film. In 'Gangster' and 'Woh Lamhe' I was playing such traumatized characters that I was constantly breathless and hysterical," Kangana reveals. Kangana can't stop singing in praise of "Metro" director Anurag Basu. He has taught me everything about acting. He can get any emotion out of me. I w...

Slowing the Racing Heart

...d adrenaline-like chemicals on the pacemaker cell, playing an important role in slowing down the heart rate. "The enzyme works through calcium and potassium channels that we know to be key players in the generation and regulation of the pacemaker activity," said Ke. "Although adrenaline and other mecha...

Slowing the Racing Heart

...d adrenaline-like chemicals on the pacemaker cell, playing an important role in slowing down the heart rate. "The enzyme works through calcium and potassium channels that we know to be key players in the generation and regulation of the pacemaker activity," said Ke. "Although adrenaline and other mechani...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Honors U.A.E. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

...te program tailored to the needs of the U.A.E. and playing an advisory role in the design of preventive health care strategies in the Emirates. The gift brings total commitments to the Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World campaign to more than $2.6 billion. Priorities of the campaign, which benefits divis...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

...ake room for emergency cases, they would resort to playing musical beds to accommodate patients. Transitional wards which were unstaffed saved the day during such emergencies. And amid such a scenario if a woman arrives in the late stages of labor, she would be accommodated on a chair, due to shortage of bed...

Art in Hospitals to Enhance Patient Care

...with mental health problems. But the arts are also playing an increasing role in peoples general wellbeing and day-to-day health. Mr. Tyndall said, When you think about wellbeing, take the notion that people arent doing enough exercise in terms of sport the take up among men has generally been higher than...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

...hanged over millions of years suggests they may be playing non-traditional but vital roles in gene expression. The researchers found that depleting one ncRNA dubbed HOTAIR, in the HOXC region on chromosome 12 of a skin cell, significantly increased the expression of HOXD genes on chromosome 2. The finding...

Repeated Brain Stimulation in Old Age can Keep Alzheimer's at Bay

...mulate the brain, such as reading the newspaper or playing chess, reduces the risk of the elderly developing Alzheimer's, a new study shows. As a part of the study researchers Rush University Medical Center followed more that 700 people in Chicago, with an average age of 80, for up to five years. These pa...

Justin Timberlake is Desperate to Duet With Coldplay

.... But Timberlake did manage to get over his ire, playing to a sell-out crowd the next day....

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