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LG To Market Air Conditioner Capable of Fighting Bird Flu

...and ginger. The dish is very healthy and has got a powerful odor as well. Koreans believe that the dish confers health benefits and thought that it protected them against SARS as well. LG will start marketing the filters in China and Southeast Asia, "Since the filters are made with only the enzyme extracted f...

Diagnostic Test Launched by Ranbaxy for En Masse Screening of Bird Flu

...Named as RT-PCR test, // this test boasts of being powerful where the results will be available in a day. Certainly a blessing in the event of an outbreak. The tests that are presently available to check for Bird Flu report results only after two to ten days. Group Director, SRL Ranbaxy Ltd Janak Singh Bajwa...

Frog Secretions Could Be Used To Ward Off Mosquitoes

...h had uncovered that their secretions could act as powerful painkillers and hallucinogens. --Edited IANS...

Aluminum in Deodorants Could Increase Breast Cancer Risk

... "Each of these agents on their own may not have a powerful effect but we need to see what happens when a number of them act together - it could be that this would have a significant effect on diseases like breast cancer." The details of the study are published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology. However, L...

Internet Research Fosters Confidence and Positivity in Cancer Patients

...ns with their doctors “They saw the Internet as a powerful tool that enhanced their decision-making ability, they didn’t want to feel powerless or have to rely on the doctor to make all of the decisions,” Bass said. Bass has a message to doctors and health workers, who should encourage patients to seek inf...

Vitamin E Can Lead To Heart Disease And Cancer

...hat under certain circumstances, the even the most powerful antioxidant can lead to increased risk for development of cardiovascular disease, cancer and other disorders. The researchers of the present study analyzed two different forms of vitamin E; one found in plants such as corn, soybeans (gamma tocopher...

Crestor to Prevent Heart Disease

...tack and stroke by giving patients high doses of a powerful cholesterol-lowering drug. The study involved almost 350 heart patients, including ten in Scotland. The two-year study showed that the cholesterol levels in the blood were reduced. It was also detected that the fatty deposits in the patient’s arte...

Heart Attacks Can Be Stopped By The New Cholesterol-Reducing Drug

...t the new study revealed that intensive use of the powerful new cholesterol-reducing drug could also reduce the deposits, known as atheroma. --Edited IANS...

Swaziland And Lesotho Sees Sharp Increase In AIDS/HIV Population

...wis, who is known for unsparing assessments of the powerful and the UN. Lesotho is confronted with a "deluge of orphans", he said. By 2010, 10 to 15 percent of the entire population will consist of orphans. Lewis said last month he visited a primary school with 350 students in Lesotho, 250 of whom are orpha...

Bionic muscles developed by scientists powered by alcohol and hydrogen

...ience, these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body's own. Two types of muscle are be...n and alcohol, while consuming oxygen. The most powerful type, "shorted fuel cell muscles" convert chemical energy into heat, causing a special shape-memory ...

New Generation Teenagers Addiction to Prescription Drugs

...in, a prescription painkiller. Later on for a more powerful dose they turn to heroin as a cheaper option. // Michaud, now 18 years is one of a new generation of American children getting addicted to prescription drugs. Teenagers are increasingly experimenting with legal drugs like OxyContin, (hillbilly heroi...

Tackling of Cannabis Addiction

...that the cannabis which is used at present is very powerful that the drug that was used 10 years ago. Hence he urged the people to understand and weigh the disadvantages over the advantages of the drug before continuous usage....

Azathioprine to Treat Eczema?

...are searching for new ways// to develop useful and powerful drug so it can more safely treat the most common form of eczema. Azathioprine is a drug that was developed 40 years ago to prevent kidney transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Its mechanism of action is by suppressing the immune syste...

Internet Based Tool, BGEM To Help In Study Of Brain Development

...BGEM) //. The credit for world free access to this powerful tool goes to researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. BGEM represents one of the largest gene expression maps, ever developed for a specific organ. The researchers hope that the tool may aid in identification of brain tumor origin at...

Potential Benefits Of New Nanotechnology

...increase efficiency without the need to use a more powerful pump, so saving energy and providing major environmental benefits. The University of Leeds now has one of the largest teams in the world and the only group in the UK working on these ‘nanofluids’. The fluids could open the door to the next genera...

Are We To Be Blamed for The Bird Flu

...s that the industry, not governments, who are more powerful and influential. As they seem to have latched on to a business of making money by getting people sick by selling them bad food and make more money selling them remedies for what has happened to them. GRAIN also claims to have found that Donald Rumsfe...

Pain-killer Drug Can Help Fight Breast Cancer

...nes called androgens into estrogens, Estrogen is a powerful mitogen, which is an agent that causes cells to divide, and too much estrogen can cause cells to divide too quickly. Robert Brueggemeier, professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy and dean of the College of Pharmacy at Ohio State University...

Gene Therapy Helps To Cure 'Incurable' Illness

...acteria and fungi from an early age had to rely on powerful antibiotics and antifungal medicines. After their operations 16 months ago, both patients have gained weight and have been free of the severe infections that have plagued them since childhood.Manual Grez of the Institute for Biomedical Research in Fr...

Pluripotent ESC, To Serve As an Effective Therapy for Many Diseases

...mation of immature cells from men's testicles into powerful stem cells, which can later, differentiate into nerve, heart and bone cells. // Their work was presented at a meeting of stem cell researchers in Valencia, Spain. Gerd Hasenfuss of Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany and colleagues reporte...

High Dose Of Vitamin D3 A Boon for Patients Suffering From Heart Failure

...min D supplement on cytokine levels. Cytokines are powerful pro-inflammatory substances that increase the risk of CHF. The researchers found that those who received vitamin D supplements had their serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D increased by 26.8 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) whereas those in the pl...

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