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Soda Drinks Contain Benzene - A Carcinogen, Reports FDA

... exposure and not a regular one, no health risk is posed by the intake of such sodas. Though benzene intake is not desired, the amount in soda is insignificant in contrast to what one takes from the daily environmental sources, says Dr Tarantino. Presence of benzene in the soft drinks is a sensitive subj...

Use of Nanoparticles in Sunscreen under Scrutiny

...ot showing much interest in scrutinizing the risks posed by nanotechnology in sunscreens and the dozens of cosmetic products. These particles are hundreds of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. A human hair, in comparison, is roughly 80,000 nanometers in diameter. Lisa Archer, a senior camp...

Doctors In New Zealand Warns Against Using Ayurveda Medicines

...al community to a substantial threat to well-being posed by a particular form of herbal remedy, namely, Ayurvedic medicine," doctors said in a report in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal. The eight patients suffered a range of symptoms, including abdominal pain, after taking Ayurvedic powders or tab...

A New Study Shows Social Well Being Plays An Important Part In Childs Health

...insurance, are not sufficient to solve the problem posed by social disadvantages, Greg Duncan, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University, said the study now tells that health insurance and health care alone doesn’t help in keeping kids in good health. He explained that it’s also c...

Japan Bans Import of Poultry from UK

...from person to person. Hence it said that the risk posed due to this strain is very less to he public....

Diclofenac Drug Banned By MP Government Over Vulture Deaths

... the number of vultures. Stressing that diclofenac posed a major danger to the environment in Asia, the conference felt that there should be urgency in banning the drug. The central government has selected a forest sanctuary at Bhopal under its vulture augmentation scheme, which would be executed by the ...

Call For Testing Of Poisoned Town: Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease

...0,000, with ￡25,000 costs for supplying water that posed a threat to public health. Three years after the trial, a settlement ranging from ￡680 to ￡10,000 was provided to nearly 148 victims affected by the incident. An investigation committee would meet regarding the issue in the next couple of months. N...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...he problem was handled was the fact that the risks posed by benzene were looked at as a consequence of life-time exposure to the chemical. The problem was regarded as a short-term one that would be resolved long before any harm to humans might occur. Follow-up tests in 1993 found no contamination but the p...

Another contender for bird flu besides poultry; cats!

...here H5N1 was present where any bird-eating animal posed a "limited risk" to humans. So now besides poultry cats too are to be seen with caution....

Himachal Pradesh: Horse Dung To Be Converted Into Organic Fertilizer

...ufri have finally found a way to solve the problem posed by horse dung scattered on hill treks - and even profit from // it. Kufri, 16 km uphill from here, is visited every day by hordes of tourists, with many of them riding horses. There are about 700 horses in that mountain resort. Health officials,...

Chip of a Woman: A 'Human Dairy', Who Has Scientists’ Eating Out Of Her Hands

...nd even the weather during that day. When she was posed a question in November 2003 to describe every Easter since 1980, the 40-year-old Jewish woman supplied researchers with a list of 24 dates that elaborated on what she was up to on each of the days."April 6, 1980, 9th Grade-Easter vacation ends; April...

US Preparing To Answer Japan's Queries On Beef Exports

... officials are working on answers to the questions posed by Japan over the exports of banned cattle // parts to that country. Johanns said that the information would soon be intimated to the Japanese officials. "We have received the questions from Japan about the report that we submitted a few weeks ago,...

How Lethal Is The H5N1?

...ns are being raised with regard to the real danger posed by the bird flu, as it has claimed only three lives in Turkey while others infected in the country have // survived. Most people are beginning to feel that the danger from the virus has been grossly overrated. The death toll rate of the H5N1 is estim...

Fluoride Varnish prevents Tooth Decay In Milk Teeth

...ense to their family and with the additional risks posed by general anesthesia. We now have an easy, low-cost way to keep teeth healthy." Fluoride is known to prevent tooth decay in permanent teeth, but this is the first time that a positive association with milk teeth has been made. The study made it a po...

Smoking Women May Give Birth To Deformed Babies

...hese defects is rather small, the increase in risk posed by tobacco exposure has the potential to affect thousands of children. Health professionals should increase their efforts to remind women of the dangers of smoking', he said. Edited (ANI)...

Asian Doctors Caught Issuing False Sick Notes

...operation was conducted by newspaper reporters who posed as sick patients, and the doctors may be struck of the medical register altogether. Anand, a general practitioner based in Gosforth in northeast England, is charged with issuing a false sick note to an undercover Sunday Times reporter, who told hi...

FDA to Revise Herpes Test Rules in the US

... tests as long ago as 1980, but had said the tests posed a "potential unreasonable risk of illness or injury" at the time. With the older tests, a false positive could expose a pregnant mother or her baby to unnecessary treatment with antiviral drugs or lead to an unnecessary Caesarean delivery of the chil...

Drug Database Goes On Air

...s available on paper and gathering the information posed a lot of difficulty. It was very time consuming as to obtain the information one has to go through a large volume of book, journals and electronic databases. These have to be searched, accessed, compared, written or run over which took about four ...

UK public misled over downgrading cannabis: Govt

...larming lack of knowledge about the health dangers posed by the drug among the general public. He also admitted that many people had been left confused by the law change. “Whatever happens after this, there will be a renewed commitment to public education about the potential affects of the consumption of c...

Depression affects one in 10 U.S. teens: study

...tist concluded in early 2004 that anti-depressants posed a suicide risk in youth. Another university-sponsored study showed a similar link. The FDA has since required drug manufacturers to disclose the possible risk on labels for anti-depressants. Some experts, including doctors, worried the warning woul...

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