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Indian Students in Qatar Opts For Distance Education

... offered include all streams - from humanities and science to commerce and business management programmes. The courses are being offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The latest postgraduate diploma courses in child and family counselling, journalism, early childcare, educational planning,...

Teenagers with Obesity Face the Risk of Heart Disease

...na, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota, reported science portal EurekAlert. This analysis included data from examinations of 460 participants aged 14-20 years (245 girls and 215 boys). The researchers used ultrasound and other methods to measure the size, shape and pumping function of the teenagers' hear...

Asthma Could be Combated by Breathing Exercises

...ife among 57 adults with mild asthma, reported the science portal EurekAlert. The first technique focused on shallow, nasal breathing with slow exhalations and the second technique used general upper body exercises, accompanied by relaxation. The exercises reduced the use of reliever inhalers by more tha...

Well-Planned Surgeries Also Carry Health Risks

...ertainly not all of it.” That requires more basic science and human studies to understand the mechanisms underlying ill effects and a concerted effort by all members of the health care team to avoid them, says Dr. Meiler. He talked on this topic at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Anesthes...

New Revolutionary Drug Could Stop the Spread of HIV

...se existing drug regimes are failing, reported the science portal EurekAlert. About 80 percent of people being treated for HIV show resistance to one or more of their drugs, a spokesman for Panacos said. There are several existing ways of tackling HIV. Many medications work by blocking reverse transcript...

New Multi-Modal Contrast Agents, A Boon For Medical Imaging

... professor in the department of speech and hearing science and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Watkin's findings, the result of work with former graduate student Michael McDonald, who is now completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, were published recently in t...

Mount Everest to be Site of Research into Hypoxia

...nvironment will teach us invaluable lessons in the science of survival.’ According to Dr Mike Grocott said:...e world's highest medical laboratory, taking field science to a new level.’ He also said that Everest's summit was at exactly the limit of human tolerance fo...

Simple Arm Exercises Could Help Relieving Leg Pain

... Hallam University's centre for sport and exercise science studied more than 100 patients aged between 50 and...mproved after they took part in arm exercises, the science portal News-Medial reported. This is the first large-scale trial of its kind to show that a regula...

Best out of waste: Microbiological revolution!

...tries bridging gap of the traditional wall between science education and research. This is done by initiating in high school and undergraduate students a drive to do innovative research. According to the professor,...

Trees to Predict Climate Change

...as also received accolades for its contribution to science popularization in the province. 'The museum has recorded the name, time of death, climate around the year of death, and other information,' Li said. 'The oldest tree stored in the museum died 4,420 years ago.' 'However, the amount of trees in t...

New Technique For Science Experiments

...e is so flexible that it can be applied to surface science experiments ranging from developing better paints to exploring the bonding of proteins to cell membranes. So-called "gradient composition surfaces"--their chemical composition changes gradually across the surface--have been shown to be powerful res...

Crackdown on drugs makes African students insecure

...ahya Abdalla, who is doing his Masters in computer science from Jamia Hamdard. "To avoid the humiliation, I just left the place," he added. Police officials admit they are keeping a close watch on African students for suspected drug peddling. According to Narcotics Control Bureau officials, poverty and l...

Acupuncture to Relieve Fibromyalgia Symptoms

... and laboratory medicine, clinical research, basic science research and clinical epidemiology. Mayo Clinic Proceedings is published monthly by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research as part of its commitment to the medical education of physicians. The journal has been published for more than 75 y...

Stern Action will be Taken Against 'AIIMS Coterie' warns Ramadoss

...ng the prestige and dignity of the premier medical science institution and sought his removal from the post of AIIMS president. "He (Ramadoss) has been personally targeting AIIMS and victimising faculty members and other staff for reasons best known to him. We demand his immediate removal as president of A...

Grapes are not sour…

...zole. Richard Wurtman of the brain and cognitive science department at MIT is unconvinced, however, and believes further research is needed to determine whether the compounds discovered are melatonin, or something very similar. (source : Eureka)...

Depression Could Quickly Grow Into UK’s Biggest Proble

...d changing. But he did caution that this political science was still in its very young stage of being implemented or followed. He said that the idea of government developing a concept like universal happiness, like all utopian projects, deserves scepticism. He said that the states are usually advised to leav...

Melatonin Hormone Found in Red Wine Grapes

...The study results were published in the journal of science of food and Agriculture. This is a hormone which i...le. But Richard Wurtman of the brain and cognitive science department at MIT feels that further in depth investigation has to be done to prove that the substan...

Marijuana may be Helpful in Lowering Blood Pressure

...shown to help in lowering blood pressure, reported science portal The News Medical. Maor carried out laboratory experiments with rats and found that this novel compound reduced blood pressure when administered to rats in relatively low doses. The additional tests carried out by him also showed that the ...

'Humiliated' Dean Contemplates Leaving AIIMS

... proceeding on leave last week, appointed forensic science department head T.D. Dogra as acting director even as Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss chose Deka for the job. Ramadoss and Venugopal are at loggerheads over the issue of autonomy of the institute. The Delhi High Court has sought their versions of...

Antibacterial Products Ensure Food Safety and Health

..., academia and government. As the society for food science and technology, IFT brings sound science to the public discussion of food issues. For more on IFT, see http://www.ift.org. The not-for-prof...

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