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New Vaccination For Smokers To Quit Smoking

...ing to the brain, it said. The vaccine has so far proved to be successful as it has already passed one preliminary test. Forty percent of the participating smokers quit within nine months since being injected with the drug. University of Lausanne professor Jacques Cornuz, who helped develop the anti-nic...

Global Outbreak Of Bird Flu Warning By Chinese Scientist

..., children, patients and medical workers, who have proved to be particularly vulnerable to infection, should get inoculation during the September-October period, the time immediately before flu outbreak season. More than 140 million chickens have been slaughtered in South East Asia because of concern that...

Protection against Alzheimer’s could be as simple as drinking green te

... assessment of safety and efficacy of the extract, proved to be satisfactory as of now....

WHO says MMR vaccine is safe and recommends MMR Jab to all children’

...ancet by Dr. Andrew Wakefiled, but doubts were not proved and the same article concluded that there was no evidence to support to link between usage of MMR vaccine and development of autism. World Health Organization recommends the usage of MMR vaccines to all children’s and views that MMR vaccine is the ...

Scientists Find Way To Stop Infection Of Implants

...beads, could bind to its natural target. The tests proved that the vancomycin was bound and active. Finally, they added bacteria and showed that titanium beads with vancomycin on the surface killed the bacteria. When the beads were exposed to more bacteria, the vancomycin continued to kill the new infectio...

Overdentures: An Optimal Solution To Edentulousness

...as been in vogue for quite sometime now and it has proved to replicate oral function better than the traditional dentures. As with traditional dentures, the survival rate of these overdentures has been a subject of interest for dentists across the world. A new study published in the Journal of Periodontolog...

Scientists Have Found A Way To Make Junk Food Healthier

...ports science portal EurekAlert. The alginate was proved to strengthen mucus, the body's natural protection... the body. The alginate is high in fibre and has proved to be palatable and safe, and as such is already in widespread use by the food industry as a gelling...

Nobel For Ulcer-Defying Aussie Scientists

...festyle-related. And his bacteria swallowing has proved very useful as his colleague Robin Warren and he w...served the prize for the courage displayed by them proved in 1982 that Helicobacter pylori bacterium was the main culprit behind the formation of ulcers. The ...

Swiss Researchers Isolate Hair-Raising Stem Cells

...National Academy of Sciences. The researchers have proved that the clonogenic keratinocytes in hair follicles are true stem cells by using rat whisker follicles to demonstrate the inherent ability of these cells to differentiate into hair follicles. The Swiss researchers first isolated stem cells from rat w...

Milk from cloned cows and meat safe to use: But at what cost?

...loning techniques, with Canadian Scientists having proved themselves following the success regarding Starbuck, one of the first cloned cows. Health Canada has been studying the viability of introducing cloned products to the attractive food market for the past 2 years. However, there has been no hint abou...

Too much Salt is bad for health

...anufacturers' Association, said it was still to be proved that cutting salt produced "any long-term health benefits", adding exercise and eating healthily was of more importance. ...

EEG Test on brain may predict future dementia

... followed these people for a decade. The EEG test proved more than 90 percent accurate in predicting who would develop dementia. Dementia is a brain disorder that causes significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity and can also lead to Alzheimer’s disease. The test appears to be a...

German hospital established in Kashmir for earthquake relief

...rs. The establishment of the medical facility has proved to be a boon to the victims of the natural disaster. The unit also is equipped to perform any kind of surgery for those who might need them. Work is going on at full swing in the earthquake-hit area, with the medical staff actively participating for ...

Fish eaters found to have sharper brains

The benefits of eating fish has been proved with evidence following the finding that fish food reduces the age-related mental decline by the equivalent of three to four years. The research adds to the growing evidence that a fish-rich diet helps keep the mind sharp//. Previous findings have ...

Computers Can Teach Patients About Screening for Cancer

... care in a cost effective way//. It has now been proved with authencity that even pateints with minimal education and no computer skills can be successfully educated about health topics using computers that can have valuable implications on the treatment outcome. Patients who used a computer to learn abo...

Vitamin filled nutrition candy for School children

...eptable to children and even adults, the candy has proved more effective in improving iron deficiency-induced anaemia. The nutrition candy however should be seen as a supplement, not a replacement for nutritional food, according to health officials. Children have a five-year window of opportunity when the...

Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

...ccine against the Asian H5N1 strain of bird flu is proved among poultry and so it can be used to vaccinate them. If the clinical trials are positive this prototype will serve as a basis for the production of a real vaccine,' said ANTSZ president Laszlo Bujdoso said in a statement. The vaccine was developed ...

Age-Dependent Alterations Not Specific For Alzheimers Disease

...ar reactivity was calculated. This phenomenon also proved to be age-dependent, but the process was not related to AD. Results indicate that the lack of forehead vasomotion reflects aging better than does the forearm vasomotion. Both of these functions are preserved in AD. The novel findings from this stud...

Urine testing for telomerase enzyme for bladder cancer diagnosis

... high-risk of cancer occurrence. The test which is proved to be 90% accurate is used to measure the level of the enzyme telomerase in urine of patients. The results of the study have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study would be very useful for detecting cancer in smo...

India Has No Case Of Avian Flu Says Health Minister

...igh security lab in Bhopal and their samples have proved negative for avian flu. More than 60 people have died of avian flu in South Asia since 2003 and there is a fear of its mutating into a human strain that could kill millions, the WHO had warned. Asked to comment on reports that the country lacked the...

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