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Copeman Healthcare To Establish Private Clinics

... of establishing its presence in Ontario and other prominent cities in the country by the year 2007. //The Health Minister of the Province has said that large fines will be imposed on the organization if any legislation is contravened. It has been opined that the move of Copeman Healthcare will contribute towa...

Hh Signaling May Play Role In Fat Formation

...he hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway may also have a prominent role when it comes to fat formation in the case of mice and flies, according to a new research. // The research also reveals the effect that genes have on fat storage. The Hh pathway in mammals also decides as to whether adult stem cells are meant fo...

Rise in the death rates among the British due to alcohol intake.

...deaths for all these patients were reviewed it was prominent that the deaths were due to liver damage especially cirrhosis. When the death rates of England, Wales and Scotland all put together are compared with 12 other European countries it provided further proof to firmly establish the fact that the numbe...

The MRSA Superbug May Yet Be Overcome

...covered that an ordinary kitchen sponge can play a prominent role in destroying MRSA superbug, which is capable of resisting many // antibiotics. It has already claimed several thousand lives. One single brand of the kitchen-scouring pad alone contains the cure to this on its surface. The antibiotic, accordi...

War Against Cancer Continues

...tant role in this. The genetic factor also plays a prominent role in gallbladder cancer. The Helicobacter pylori bacteria are also reported to be responsible for stomach cancer. The intensive cancer research has resulted in the survival rate rising to 64%. New drugs like Gleevec and Herceptin have also contr...

Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity

...ght in a new philosophy and social ideology. Many prominent opinion makers, social leaders and outstanding educationists of Kolkata, the seat of the British empire in the last century, were Bengali Christians, like W.C Bonnerjee, the first president of the Indian National Congress, and Michael Madhusudhan Dut...

Seasonal Variation In Exercise And Eating Habits Identified

...son. In addition, this seasonal variation was more prominent among middle age men, nonwhites and among those with a high school education or less. The study results only emphasize the need for balancing the number of calories consumed and burned through balanced diet and physical activity. The findings could...

IT Raids Target Chennai Doctors And Hospitals

...km from here, and the offices and residences of 14 prominent doctors were raided by 300 IT officials simultaneously. About Rs.6 million in cash as well as fixed deposits and other investments worth several millions were seized in the raids from the 30 odd locations in Chennai. Still, said Chief Income Tax Com...

Excess Cdk5 Enzyme Can Harm Brain

...al School has revealed that a brain enzyme plays a prominent role// in maintaining and developing learning and memory. If the enzyme is present in high levels, then it can have adverse effects on the brain. The tests were conducted on mice. The Cdk5 enzyme also plays an important role in the death of neurons i...

Dental health neglected by over 60 % of Indians

...its' and 'being born with bad teeth', a perception prominent in rural areas. According to the survey, as much as 60% of people in India have never visited a dentist and only 2% actually visit a dentist regularly. When it comes to dental problems, a dentist’s clinic is someplace where the Indians would last w...

Good News For Cataract Patients

...ter and marks a new era in cataract surgery," said prominent doctor Bakshi. There are 10 to 12 million cases of blindness in India every year. Of these, a whopping eight million are due to cataract, said Agarwal adding that his innovation is not patented. He hoped that doctors across the world would use this ...

Changes In Brain Structure From Methamphetamine Abuse And HIV Infection

... and motivation). HIV infection is associated with prominent volume losses in the cerebral cortex (involved in higher thought, reasoning, and memory), basal ganglia, and hippocampus (involved in memory and learning). In methamphetamine abusers who are also HIV-positive, decreased volumes are correlated with ...

East Or West Yoga Is The Best

...st two years, there has been a real yoga boom with prominent stars like Madonna and Laura Bush, wife of US president George W. Bush, leading the way. Yoga, in Sanskrit, means unity of body and spirit. "Yoga promotes physical and mental balance in a society that is becoming more stressful," Schramm said. ...

Identified Protein To Inhibit Cell Migration

...sis, or spread, throughout the body. CIB1 plays a prominent role in the activation of PAK1 and potentially may be another important player in the regulation of this kinase. The other activators of PAK1 include relatives of the notorious Ras family of tumor promoters, the GTPases Rac and Cdc42. CIB1 activation...

Researchers Discover Protein That Causes Malaria

...Thus, the binding of EBA-175 to glycophorin A is a prominent target for the development of therapies to control malaria. To explore the molecular basis of the binding of EBA-175 to glycophorin A—with the rationale that such information might reveal strategies for preventing and treating malaria—the researcher...

New Diseases

...ffected younger people who had presented with with prominent psychiatric or sensory symptoms at the time of clinical presentation and delayed onset of neurologic abnormalities, including ataxia within weeks or months, dementia and myoclonus late in the illness, a duration of illness of at least 6 months, and a...

Epilepsy surgery to help child development

...rmally after the surgery, with the gain being most prominent being that of 15 or more points in the IQ. The researchers concluded that although postoperative recovery also may show delay in mental development, most children, the development proceeded at a normal pace all through their life. Children suffering...

A Drink a Day may Keep Diabetes Away

... led to diabetes into account. The effect was most prominent among women who mainly drank beer and wine. Heavier drinkers, however, were found to have an increased risk of developing the disease when compared with the light to moderate drinkers....

New cholera strain identified

...n and comes from the environment.” The pathogen is prominent in India, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea Thailand and the US. <br...

No link between bad weather and rheumatism

...e the weather might simply be because it is such a prominent feature of daily life or, they may attribute changes in pain to the weather because an association between the two is widely believe....

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