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Minister Flays Mission After Indian’s Death in Maldive

...hope that Indian diplomatic missions would be more sensitive to problems of Indians, after a Kerala man who suffered from meningitis died in the Maldives. The minister's comments came after the family of V.M. Sumesh said the Indian high commission in Male was to blame for the death of their son, who worked w...

Abortions Do Not Raise Risk of Breast Cancer

...always be some underreporting because it is such a sensitive issue," Michels said. They said 15 percent of the nurses reported they had ever had an abortion and 21 percent reported a miscarriage. Over the 10 years of the study, 1,458 of all the women developed breast cancer, Michels' team found. "Among ...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...g. Further, the observation that women may be more sensitive to these effects could help in counseling and in public-service announcements targeted towards women." Source-Eurekaert SRM...

New York Doctors Remove Gallbladder Through Vagina

...hould hurt less because those tissues are far less sensitive than the abdominal muscles. Interest in this idea heightened after doctors from India made a video in 2004 showing an appendix being taken out through a patient’s mouth. The patient had abdominal scars that would have made conventional surgery dif...

Researchers Have Identified Subgroup Sensitive to the Drug Cisplatin

...bgroup of hard-to-treat breast cancers that may be sensitive to the drug cisplatin, rarely used in the treatmen...specific molecular pathway that makes these tumors sensitive to a therapy infrequently used for breast cancer," says Leif Ellisen, MD, PhD, of the MGH Cancer Cen...

Deficiency in Vitamin D Increases the Risk of Cancer

...there appears to be no tumor type that is uniquely sensitive to vitamin D treatment – leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and solid tumor models are all sensitive, which speaks to the value of vitamin D as a potential therapeutic agent in multiple types of cancer. Recent RPCI research explored the mechanisms of vitami...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

... and time-delayed narrowband probing yields a very sensitive and robust technique that allows us to identify bacterial endospores, such as anthrax, in real time,” Scully explains. “We refer to this technique as hybrid CARS for short.” Using the new method, Scully and his colleagues used the dipicolinic acid ...

Gene Screening Points Way to More Effective Chemotherapy

...sts have isolated 87 genes that seem to affect how sensitive human cancer cells are to certain chemotherapy dru...ound that those cells were up to 10,000 times more sensitive to the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel (Taxol). The results are important because the ability to lowe...

April Showers Bring May Flowers – And Plenty of Pollen, To

...s and asthma. However, just because you might be sensitive to pollen, it does not mean you have to avoid those spring flowers that are appearing on every corner; colorful or fragrant flowering plants rarely cause allergy because their pollens are too heavy to be airborne. Who has the best training to help...

Parents To Blame For Soaring Counts Of Binge-Drinkers And Smokers

...et down by adults who were reluctant to talk about sensitive issues such as sex and relationships and turned to magazines for advice. Ofsted also found that some secondary schools still allow homophobic or sexist attitudes among pupils to go unchallenged. The inspectors entreated for the wider provision of...

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

...hod for brain imaging analysis that is exquisitely sensitive to subtle differences in brain structure,” she said. “This type of imaging has not been used before to study bipolar patients. We also revealed how commonly used medications affect the bipolar brain.” Although other studies have measured increase...

Court Refuses to Intervene for Law on Surrogate Motherhood

...ed to have valid laws, rules and regulation on the sensitive issue. "It's a personal issue and the court cannot interfere," said the court, turning down the plea. Roy in a public interest petition had alleged that many foreign nationals were hiring Indian women as surrogate mothers to use their wombs to ha...

Breast Cancer and Bra Wearing: Possibly Linked

...ymphatic vessels are very thin, they are extremely sensitive to pressure and are easily compressed. Chronic minimal pressure, such as tight bra straps or bands, on the breasts can cause lymph valves and vessels to close. A look at the breast cancer rate in countries where bra wearing is not the norm shows a ...

Asians in US Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White

... of the Asian eye and are evolving more ethnically sensitive procedures, Park adds. GPL...

ALL Relapses in Most Children After Treatment

...inued to thrive even after the major population of sensitive leukaemia cells were destroyed and the patient appeared to have gone into remission. "We have shown, for the first time, that children with a greater number of these cells at diagnosis are more likely to experience relapse much sooner after treatme...

Pregnant Women Expecting Sons Will Do Well to Avoid Beef

...lly, the fetus and young children are particularly sensitive to exposure to sex steroids. Therefore, the consumption of residues of steroids in meat by pregnant women and young children is of particular concern."...

'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers

...est athletes, construction workers and anyone with sensitive eyes. The glasses are made possible by a new material uniquely suited to the task: a low-cost sheet that changes color and shade using almost no power. Prototype "smart" glasses were presented today in Chicago at the American Chemical Society's 233rd...

Postnatal Health and Sexual Problems Persist Even After a Year

..., focusing on issues such as perineal problems and sensitive health problems. "This, coupled with greater public awareness of these issues, will hopefully make it easier for women to get help for both short-term and long-term health problems." Source-Eurekalert...

Genetic Pathways to Curable and Incurable Forms of Pancreatic Cancer Identified

...ost nil. Moreover, these cells appear to be highly sensitive to the tumor-promoting properties of TGFb and thereby manifest a more aggressive behavior. "With accurate animal models of both forms of pancreatic ductal cancers now in hand, it should be possible to unravel the detailed mechanisms behind their d...

Hospitals in US are Going Green

...We can force suppliers to generate environmentally sensitive products,” a top executive has said. Stacy Malkan says it should be possible to make health care industry ecologically sustainable without compromising on patient safety or care. SRM...

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