prey 1 1

Tag: "prey" at medical news

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

... and hence suggest consumers to be wary of falling prey to aggressive brand advertising. "Millions of people are consuming these foods and the people who make functional foods are trading on people's insecurity and looking for an insurance to give them better health, says Dr. Dr.Geoffrey Savage, a senio...

Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals

...swarms. "The birds can capture lots of high-energy prey in a short time," says Emslie. Ernslie and Patterson analysed over 220 fossilised eggshells, ranging from 100 to 38,000 years old, and compared them with samples from modern nests. By comparing the proportion of certain forms of carbon and nitro...

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

...mful plants that children and the adult alike fall prey to. The poison ivy, for example is the most common of them all. This weedy plant, each year causes more than 350,000 reported cases of human contact dermatitis in Britain. This year, an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air h...

Indian Weather Station Near Glacier to Study Global Warming

...tion (ISRO), several glaciers in India are falling prey to global warming. "If the trend continues, then not many glaciers will be left for mountaineers to climb by the middle of the century. We want mountaineering, not rock climbing," said Rautela, a retired vice-marshal of the Indian Air Force. "The...

Vitamin D Deficiency Still Persists in Babies

...her has found that children and babies are falling prey to vitamin D deficiency Rickets. Despite the fact that generation subsists on cod liver oil, fortified milk, vitamin supplements and sunshine, vitamin D deficiency rickets has persisted in too many children in Canada. Rickets, a soft-bone diseas...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...embers of the Mushahar community of Dalits an easy prey to the disease. The kala azar, medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis, is also known as the poor man's disease because it affects the poorest of the poor. According to sources in the state government, the World Bank, WHO and the Bill Gates Fou...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

...t most of the people living in Kashmir have fallen prey to mental disorders like depression or anxiety. They feel the root cause is the high threat to life and the constant sense of insecurity among the people. People continue to be under tremendous pressure. They have been witnessing encounter killings...

Vitamins may Not Ward Off Pneumonia

...ronic diseases. Pneumonia is also more likely to prey on those whose immune systems have been compromised by AIDS, cancer treatments, organ transplants, or other causes. "In malnourished individuals and in the elderly, there is some evidence to support the role of vitamin supplementation in reducing p...

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

...ontrol tremors and in cosmetic treatments. For the prey of its opportunistic attacks, death is swift. Perhaps the most important tool it has to act out its stealth attacks is its ability to hibernate when times are hard by forming dormant spores. More than 110 of its set of almost 3700 genes are used to...

Social Worker in Jharkhand Spreads AIDS Awareness Through Music

...n Jharkhand and every year nearly 1000 people fall prey to malaria. As per official estimates, there are 1100 AIDS patients in the state....

Research on Fruit Bats

... open treetops, where they are exposed to birds of prey (Fig. 2). Here, a visual early warning helps survival. "Furthermore, flying foxes dont sleep all day; they often change their positions in the tree and interact with their neighbours. Young flying foxes also make training flights during the day. All ...

Abuse of the Disabled in Government Run Homes

...arers refuse to believe them. This makes them easy prey for the predators. Of the 4300 people in the department's care, 15 were physically harmed in assaults, including two seriously and 13 who received "abrasions, bruises or welts". Five carers were investigated for sexual abuse, including "inappropria...

Brain Structured to Make Human Beings Religious, Claims a US Scientist

...ges of striking the first fires, hunting the first prey to building early shelter. Thus though the palm lines are coincidentally formed by eons of evolution and survival, cultures around the world try to find meaning in them through different forms of palm reading, Atran notes. Today, scientific image...

TB Incidence on Rise Among Children in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra

...sive states like Tamil Nadu Maharastra are falling prey to this dreaded disease. According to data available it is the children of these two states along with those of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi are increasingly becoming vulnerable. Uttar Pradesh reported 10,118 TB cases in children last year, followed b...

Asia- Facing a Health Doom After a Wealth Boom

...s. As a result, many prosperous Asians are falling prey to lifestyle diseases of which diabetes is very common. Fast food options have replaced the conventional healthy home cooked food. The Asian metabolism has always been used to fat free and simple diet. Now, with fatty foods, and inactive lifestyles...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

... mostly the Mushahar community since they are easy prey due to their socio-economic compulsions and unhygienic living conditions. The official record estimated that 25,000 people, mostly poor in 31 of the state's 38 districts, are in its grip. The disease is characterised by fever, weight loss, swelling...

Spain Launches Movement Against Skinny Fashion Models

...t 20 percent of young women are at risk of falling prey to the disorders, which are not cured in 20 percent and lead to death in 6 percent of the cases. Source-IANS...

Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict

...n human-leopard conflict. Depletion of the natural prey base, degradation of the habitat, suitability of man modified habitats to leopard, presence of stray dogs and cattle in forest fringe areas etc. are some of them. Crops like sugarcanes and tea estates provide excellent cover for leopards that facilit...

Kalaazar sweeping through Bihar, 93 dead

... to the Musahars, a Dalit community, who fall easy prey to the disease as they are forced by socio-economic compulsions to live in unhygienic conditions. Many of those suffering with kalaazar are in Tirhut division, which comprises Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Sitamarhi, Sheohar and East and West Champaran di...

Mental Disorders Strike First Time Moms More

...seems to be the time when a woman is prone to fall prey to mental illness. Those women whose children have crossed the age of one seem to be safer from the onslaught of mental illness. The cause of such mental illness soon after delivery in women has been traced to changes that occur in physiology of the ...

1 2 3