Canada Introduces Mandatory Nutrition Labeling
... risks like heart disease. Both contribute towards producing bad cholesterol in the blood. The good (HDL) cholesterol levels are brought down considerably by the industrially produced trans fats, which also damage the arteries by promoting smaller LDL particles in the human blood stream. Endothelial dysfunctio...New Computerized Imaging Systems Help In Better Dental Treatment Planning
...s 20 percent of the conventional CT imaging, while producing sharp images of the head, teeth and the airways in a single minute. * The CBCT system follows the guidelines issued by the American Dental Association and the British Orthodontic Society as far as radiation exposure norms are concerned. * There imag...Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity
...y scientific and technological luminaries, besides producing a host of civil servants, entrepreneurs and political leaders, including India's first citizen, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. It's a story that goes way back in time. Christianity came to India in 52 AD, long before it travelled to many of the west......any comes from the country's vineyards. 'No other producing country imports as much wine as we do,' said Rotthaus. 'he fact that a lot is purchased from overseas is tied up with emotions.' According to Rotthaus, many customers associate French or Italian wine with certain lifestyles. The fact that the same...Our Gain US’s Loss in the Health Care Facility
...ast year and their numbers are growing by 15%/year producing $2.3 billion /year by 2012. In many foreign hospitals the medical tourists are asked to sign documents waiving their right to sue doctors for malpractice. This has led to the US hospitals to pronounce that patients will be faced with spending incre...Oman and Turkey To Cooperate in Health Field
...cooperation in primary and public health care, and producing medical equipment and medicines. The MOU also covers collaborating in scientific gatherings wherein specialists from both nations will be participating, and exchange of medical information. Joint venture pharmaceutical facilities and hospitals are a...Nicotine Vaccine May Help Smokers To Quit Smoking
...developed 'NicVax' which the company said works by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine, and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain, reported the health portal HealthDayNews. This process potentially reduces the pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addictio...Jharkhand Pharmacies Refuse To Sell Viagra
... We fear many customers will demand Viagra without producing a prescription and that may create law and order problems." Viagra (sildenafil citrate) manufacturer Pfizer is launching the drug in the Indian market this week, seven years after it was introduced in global markets. "We have informed Pfizer not t...FDA allows barley producers to make healthy heart claims
There is good news for companies producing foods made of barley.The US Food and Drug Administration has permitted foods containing milled or whole barley // , like breads, cereals and others to proclaim on the jacket that they reduce heart disease risk. The FDA ruling affirming barley’s nut...Fat rich diet is real dangerous and predispose lifestyle diseases.
...hanism is that fats in the diet do not let insulin producing enzyme to act properly and so the disease occurs. The link between obese individuals and type 2 diabetes is long known. In the United States, two out of three adults are overweight or obese. Experts have said obese people are up to 80 times more ...Caffeine pill to keep soldiers alert in the field
...efense pill to keep soldiers alert in the field by producing the stimulation enjoyed by regular coffee drinkers is being developed by defense scientists in Singapore.// In what is believed to be the first extensive study of the effects of caffeine on Asians, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore's leading de...Jharkhand Chemists to Boycott Viagra
... We fear many customers will demand Viagra without producing a prescription and that may create law and order problems." Sinha said that if Viagra made it to the state then the drug dealers would make a neat profit, but that did not mean that they were prepared to risk the lives of other people since the youth...Tamiflu substrate produced from Bioengineered Bacteria
...lion Tamiflu drugs and many countries have started producing the generic version of the drug Tamiflu manufactured by the Swiss pharmaceuticals Roche. Due to the gold rush for shikimic acid which is used for production of Tamiflu antiviral drugs, there has been a great shortage of Chinese star anise, which co...Specialist rural GPs to get incentive in Australia
...local communities. "However, there is no point in producing and maintaining a highly skilled procedural workforce if the rural maternity units or hospitals where they work are closed to save money," he said. "We look for real commitments from our state and territory governments to maintain our small rural ho...Sunflowers Could Hold the Key to New Class of AIDS Drugs
...bstance called as 'DCQA' has been the sole hope of producing a new class of AIDS drugs. But this is available in very minute quantities and naturally is pretty costly. The researchers from Bonn worked in collaboration with the Caesar research centre to make this substance available at a fraction of the earlier...Tobacco plant based Vaccine against Plague
...on of these two antigens as it gives the option of producing the required antigen vaccines depending on the strain of the bacterium which causes the outbreak. By injecting the antigens in the plant the researchers were able to produce high quantity of stable antigens within 10 days of infecting the plant, when...Roche offers HIV drug expertise to poor nations
...cal manufacturers with the technical expertise for producing generic HIV medicines. These countries are home for 69 percent of the HIV/AIDS population in the world. Saquinavir is a protease inhibitor, one of a class of drugs that work by blocking part of the virus and preventing it from replicating itself....Self-defense Mechanism of food borne bugs found
... Pathogenic bacteria cause food borne illness by producing toxins in the food and these toxins, which enters with the food causes illness in some cases of food poisoning the bacteria is consumed with the food leading to multiplication and pathogenicity inside the stomach. Pathogenic bacteria causing food bor...Autoimmune disorder caused due to mutation in cryopyrin protein
...ture that the protein Cryopyrin is responsible for producing hypersensitive immune response leading to autoimmune disease. // The protein Cryopyrin is activated by the bacteria against which the protein produces an immune response by activating IL-1 beta, which produces signals for the immune system to produ......the Journal, had warned that there was a danger of producing nurses who were "increasingly proficient on paper and decreasingly proficient in practice." She believed that what nurses were learning in theory was becoming increasingly divorced from what they were actually doing in practice in their profession. ...