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A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

...illed drinks. Further sinusitis is always on the rise due to bacteria and fungus in the atmosphere. Traffic pollution is also a big culprit. It is better to seek immediate medical attention when people suffer persistent cold or irritation in the throat. Even facial pain, nasal discharge, blockage, conti...

Rural Heart Patients Missing Out

...tality from circulatory diseases has been shown to rise with increasing remoteness. Professor Krum and colleagues examined differences in primary care management of chronic heart failure between rural and urban areas. Their study, published in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, sh...

Hemangioblasts Aiding Eye Damage Repair

...sts' -- the mythical cell in the embryo that gives rise to our entire blood and immune system as well as t...s are the ultimate master cell of the body, giving rise to all of the tissues and organs. The use of human embryonic stem cells is controversial because man...

Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

...igurement and can take many months. That has given rise to one of the diseases many nicknames: saldana, or one-year sore. Though present in all Afghan cities, it is in Kabul's crowded neighborhoods that the disease has exploded and spread to hundreds of thousands of people. "When we have one case in ...

Number of Syphilis Cases Rising Among MSM in U.S.

...o fivefold. "We are seeing that syphilis is on the rise among a very specific subset of [MSM]: those who are having a great deal of sex with multiple sex partners," Joel Ginsberg, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association in San Francisco, said, adding, "Among these men, there seems to...

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

...fered a clue as to why oral cancer has been on the rise recently and more so in persons not regarded as pr...ina. Oral cancers linked to HPV have been on the rise in the United States since 1973, a trend that may be driven in part by the popularity of oral sex am...

Global Warming To Effect Eastern Coast Of India

...corresponding thermal expansion, related sea-level rise is expected to be between 15 cm and 38 cm by the middle of this century and between 46 cm and 59 cm by the end of the century. According to a study conducted by the Ministry of Environment & Forests on the impacts of climate change on various sec...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...ip into poverty. There has also been a substantial rise in obesity in young girls in the UK, the report points out.While girls in Britain often outperform boys in school, they are still victims of discrimination in the workplace. The report points out that a recent study found they were still woefully und...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

...temperature is equivalent to the average predicted rise through global warming by the 2080s, and is caused by the cooling effect of water as it evaporates into the air from leaves and vegetation through a process called transpiration, said Dr Roland Ennos, a biomechanics expert in Manchesters Faculty of L...

Investigating Coral Reefs to Help Understand Past and Future Climate Change

...ised by abrupt climatic change and rapid sea-level rise due to polar ice sheets melting, similar conditions to what we see the Earth facing now and which are predicted for the future. Reconstructing past environments may lead to a better estimate of the climate sensitivity and hence of future climate chan...

Holy Grail Of Dermatologists On The Verge Of Discovery

... healing, behave like embryonic skin cells, giving rise to new hair follicles. "We showed that wound healing triggered an embryonic state in the skin which made it receptive to receiving instructions from wnt proteins," Cotsarelis said in a University of Pennsylvania news release. The researchers note...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

Any conflict situation inevitably gives rise to mental health disorders. Not many seem to have turned their attention to the deplorable situation in our own backyard. Yes it is happening in Kashmir. A year-wise break-up of patients visiting the Government Psychiatric Hospital in capital Sri...

Clock Gene Plays Role in Weight Gain, Study Finds

...nomical cycles that effect Earths environment, the rise and setting of the sun, and the passing of seasons....

Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem

...etals is growing rapidly, and along with the sharp rise in metal prices, we have seen the depletion of metal-rich terrestrial mines. For mining companies and their investors, undersea mining offers high concentrations of ore at relatively low production costs,' said Prof. Halfar. 'The mining operation...

Rice Containing Breast Milk Proteins to Be Grown in Kansas

... (USDA) has given a green signal for plantation of rise modified to express proteins often found in breast milk in Kansas. This is the first time that any food crop containing genes that produce human proteins will be grown on a large-scale. Developed by biotech company Ventria Bioscience in Sacramen...

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...th in 2006. An aging population and the alarming rise in obesity a leading cause of diabetes are expected to push spending growth rates on diabetes drugs up 16 percent to 20 percent annually. The analysis projects that, by 2009, spending on medicines to treat diabetes could soar by 60 percent to 68 ...

Pediatric Cancer Stem Cell Identified

...ls in a tumor. However, they are capable of giving rise to other cancer cells, and thereby drive tumor growth and metastasis. To prevent recurrence and progression, effective long-term therapies must target the self-renewing population of cancer stem cells. The zebrafish is ideally suited for use in tar...

Figures of Dengue In Singapore On The Rise

...ed. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said the sharp rise could be caused by a different strain of the virus spreading in Singapore. So far, one man is believed to have died this year from dengue fever. The Health Ministry has not reported any other dengue death cases. Health officials have been combin...

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle During Adulthood may Delay Old Age Disability

...tery of tests to measure walking speed, ability to rise from a chair, and balance. Walking endurance was measured with a timed 400-meter walk. Poor physical performance is a predictor of future disability, nursing home admission and mortality. The researchers found that men and women who were obese at a...

Rise in Cigarette Use may Elucidate Asthma Epidemic in Children

...sthma epidemic in children may be explained by the rise in cigarette use by adults over the past century .... cigarette use may be a contributing factor to the rise in asthma among children during the same period through increased exposure to environmental tobacco ...

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