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How do babies understand language?

...ens to foreign language finds it even difficult to say where a word begins or ends, but children learn to...hat they have a very flexible mind. Didn’t someone say “The child is the father of the man”!!!...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...f essential life saving medicines. However critics say even now many in the poorer countries will be unable to afford the new drug cocktail as offered by Cipla. Another argument is that counseling and close monitoring of medication is equally important, at least in the developing world, where treatment ...

Children suffer the most when parents divorce

...vorces that occurred during the study period. They say pre-divorce marital conflicts harm the children more than the actual divorce itself. Another finding was that children of parents in high conflict relationships, who divorced, were better off emotionally than children of parents in high conflict rela...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...rt says that an alarming number of cancer patients say that they never knew or that they were never told about the possibility of enrolling in a clinical trial for cancer treatment. Among the 16% who knew about the trials but declined to participate, 30% believed that the therapy used in the trial would ...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...nt in an endemic form in India. But it is wrong to say thedisease spread from here," he says. India produces 25 million doses of the FMD vaccine annually, of which IVRIproduces 4 million doses. The rest is manufactured by two companies in theprivate sector, Indian Immunological, Hyderabad and Intervet B...

Depression may cause delayed wound healing

Researchers in the UK say that wound healing in depressed people is four times slower than that of normal people. These and related reports find a place in the latest issue of the journal, “Psychosomatic Medicine”. Psychological factors could have direct and indirect effects...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...ild undergo surgery," said Perrin. Other doctors say the new findings will likely lead to discussions about re-evaluating current guidelines. "It may be reasonable to delay ear tube surgery in some carefully defined groups," said Dr. James Lemons, who specializes in the study of hearing impairment at ...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

...s increasing. The doctors who assisted the survey say that underestimation of the severity of asthma can lead to dangerous and life threatening situations....

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950s and say rumours suggesting the contrary have no scientific evidence to back them up. The studies, from researchers in the US, UK, France and Germany, should help free the polio vaccine manufactured by the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...aria research in the world. Public health experts say the Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute will put the university at the forefront of efforts to find an effective vaccine and new treatments for the mosquito-borne disease, one of the leading killers in developing nations.Malaria kills atleast one million...

Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

... Though AIDS activists have welcomed the move they say other companies must take the cue from cipla and follow suit....

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

...ersity of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, say that many patients fail to use these antibiotics because they misunderstand simple reactions to be drug allergies. Penicillin and penicillin-like antibiotic drugs are often preferable to alternative antibiotics, Salkind noted, because they are cheap...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...f by the court. Health experts and AIDS activists say that this would lower the cost of medicines to ordinary South Africans suffering from the disease but the expensive anti retroviral drugs are still way above the reach of an average South African. South Africa has nearly five million people or more ...

Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes

...latest warrior against the disease. Only time can say how successful this warrior is, in his mission....

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...ing even a few kilos could make a huge difference, say doctors. They are urging overweight women to change their diets, and take excercise, prior to embarking on fertilty treatments. Obese women have long been known to have problems conceiving naturally, and studies have shown that their overall succes...

Surgery made simple

...result in conditions like septicimia and pneumonia say the Scientists.Such anomalies can cause contamination of the lungs by contents of the food pipe and may prove fatal. The Tracheostomy kit minimizes the risk as it has a dilation scale which allows physicians to know accurately how big a hole t...

Helping stroke patients to recover balance

Researchers in France say that the distorting spectacles can help stroke patients with posture problems to recover their balance. They think that the spectacles reset the patient's mental makeup and hope that the effect will lead to a long-lasitng cure for some postural probl...

Big and Bright

...ys but only 2.8 points in girls. The authors say differences in IQ of this size are trivial and of no clinical importance to individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weigh...

Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...ovement in the placebo group. The researchers say that iron decreases levels of nitric oxide, a hormone that is known to irritate the lungs. It is very difficult to state that iron should be recommended to patients on ACE inhibitors who are troubled by a cough. Since this is a small study, it is too...

Pregnancy Blues

...cations during pregnancy, but Evans and colleagues say the benefits may outweigh the risks for women with severe depression, and non-drug treatments exist for mild to moderate depression....

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