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Researchers Question The Effectiveness Of Homeopathic Remedies

... is more valuable . . . The ultimate proof is that science make progress in changing reality: in allopathic [conventional] medicine by preventing, alleviating, and curing disease ever more effectively.” In an accompanying editorial of The Lancet comments: “It is the attitudes of patients and providers that ...

Statins Taken For Reducing Cholesterol Found To Reduce Death Rate Associated With Heart Attack As Well

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 ...

Genetic Tests Could Become As Affordable As Blood Tests

... solution filled with other pieces of DNA, reports science portal Science Central. "They are supposed to be the future of diagnostics, whereby you use these to analyse all of your genetic information, that allows you to be able to tell which are your genetic diseases or to diagnose cancer very early on," sa...

Mushrooms can help fight chronic disease

...uman body. Joy Dubost, doctoral candidate in food science and other Pennsylvania state food scientists have found that among the most commonly consumed mushrooms, portabellas and criminis have the most of the antioxidant ergothioneine. The white buttons follow close behind. Infact, white button mushrooms h...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ~Alan Valentine Mobile technology, specifically the use of cell phones, has become an internal part of today’s life all around the globe and has permanentl...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...ents for chronic diseases. This emerging branch of science is called nanomedicine. These delivery agents are called nanoparticles, and are assembled from three short pieces of ribonucleic acid. The microscopic particles are designed in such a way that they possess both the right size to gain entry into cell...

Scientists Awarded Appropriately For Contribution Towards Medical Research

...roblems, it should fist have a clear sense of what science can and cannot be expected to do. This in turn, depends on some understanding regarding the scientific research and the scientific community. It would help if scientists tried harder to explain their everyday work to the general public Right? With t...

Medical Curriculum in India to change says Health Minister

...tional medicinal system is time tested. Diagnostic science would be given more priority." Recently the quality of traditional Indian drugs was under criticism from a few international health magazines recently and Ramadoss is particularly interested in putting in place a proper mechanism that involves some ...

Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology

...parallel advancements taking place in the field of science and technology and the implementation of novel theoretical ideas to practice have facilitated the upcoming of this field in a big way. Even with the very little knowledge that is currently available regarding nanotechnology, scientists have manufac...

Launch Of India’s First Virology Course At Pun

...ontainment Complex, the new course has enrolled 14 science graduates, selected out of the 400 students who took the national entrance test. The course comprises of four modules: hospital-based, field-based, laboratory-based and epidemiology. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Forensic Phonetics – Scientific Solution for Legal Problem

...mising one. The origin of forensic medicine, the science that deals with determining causes, manner and circumstances of death dates back to as early as 3000 BC, when King Zozer appointed a chief justice in charge of investigating suspicious deaths. Later in 44 BC, it was concluded by a physician that onl...

Medical Fraternity Urged To Revamp Indian Healthcare

... are truly proud of our accomplishments in medical science and technology, we must be aware that the health indicators of our country do not do us proud," Manmohan Singh said. "It is a matter of serious concern that after so many decades of our effort, our health indicators are among the worst in the world...

Left-handedness Increase The Risk Of Breast Cancer

...dle aged women born between 1932 and 1941, reports science portal EurekAlert. They recorded body measurements and risk factors such as social and economic status, smoking habits, family history of breast cancer, and reproductive history. They found that left-handed women were more than twice as likely to ...

Scientists Have Found A Way To Make Junk Food Healthier

...s and odourless off-white coloured powder, reports science portal EurekAlert. The alginate was proved to strengthen mucus, the body's natural protection of the gut wall. It could slow down digestion and the uptake of nutrients in the body. The alginate is high in fibre and has proved to be palatable and s...

Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Attack

...including coal and also from forest fires, reports science portal EurekAlert. Evidence shows that both short- and long-term exposure to these particulates is associated with death from cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, and more specifically from myocardial infarction, it says. Additionally, this r...

Smokers Face The Risk Of Getting Diabetes

...ng participants in a major national study, reports science portal EurekAlert. They compared the incidence of diabetes after five years among smokers and among those who had never smoked. Twenty-five percent of participants who smoked and did not have diabetes when the study began had developed diabetes fiv...

US Senate Votes against Testing of Pesticide on Humans

...ation of the facts’ by Democratic senators. “Sound science and public health protections have affirmed the safety and ethics of human data studies,’ the group said in its statement. An alternative amendment, sponsored by Republican Senator Conrad Burns, also passed the senate by a vote of 57 to 40. That ve...

Children Of Smokers Start Smoking Early

...ols in high-crime Seattle neighbourhoods, reports science portal EurekAlert. "Keeping children from smoking starts with parents and their behaviour. Some parents say they disapprove of teenage smoking, but continue to smoke themselves," said Karl Hill, director of the University of Washington's Seattle Soc...

The Science of Solar Eclipse

...oper care of a pregnant women during an eclipse as science has discovered that people who hurt themselves by way of a cut or a fracture, during an eclipse take a longer to heal as the blood flow seems to be more during that time than at any other time. Avoid all unnecessary risks. However, if you wish to ha...

Complete Robotic Surgery To Revolutionize Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

... parallel development taking place in the arena of science and technology, the day is not far before robotic surgery would be included in the above list. Robotic-assisted laproscopic prostatectomy represents one of the most innovative treatments, minimally invasive, high-tech treatment, that is gaining impo...

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