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Tag: "silent" at medical news

Secret Herb Could Tackle Hot Flushes And Night Sweats In Breast Cancer Patients

...elonging to the mint family, could soon answer the silent prayers of these numerous cancer victims. //Researchers at the University of Manchester are now evaluating the use of this herb, normally found in any kitchen to stop hot flushes or night sweats, which necessitate changing of clothes, three or four t...

Reservation boycott by Medical student fraternity continues in Bangalore

...will end today and from tomorrow it will only be a silent protest wearing black badges till the Centre's decision on the issue is known." Still the interns and the Post-Graduate students said, "We will work as usual and wait for the Centre's decision till May 11, when the Human Resource Minister Arjun Sin...

More Than 200,000 Miners In Rajasthan Suffer From Silicosis

...ilicosis were over the age of 40. Silicosis is the silent killer of over 100,000 lives in Rajasthan. Though the existence of this occupational disease is common knowledge, the government of Rajasthan continues to flout the rights of the miners by failing to ensure that they are protected from the cause o...

Anti-Quota Stir: Students Take Out Massive Silent Rally

...nd members of medical faculty taking out a massive silent protest// march in the national capital amid tight security. The striking medicos under the banner of 'Youth for Equality' were joined by students from the Delhi University, medical colleges around the capital, parents of some agitating students, l...

Amphetamines Being Abused In Northeast: UN Report

The last three decades have seen a silent shift in drug usage in northeastern states, says a United Nations report released on Wednesday//. The report titled "Drug Use in the Northeastern States of India" says that the 70s saw heroin smoking by youth followed by injection of drugs in the ea...

Consumer Court Dismisses India’s Biggest Ever Medical Error Clai

...t,' Saha said. 'The judgement has also remained silent that I vouched under oath that every rupee from this case would be spent for promotion of health in India.' 'The NCDRC has dismissed the case on two basic grounds - that the primary doctors were acquitted and that the West Bengal Medical Council ha...

Recd Number of Abstracts Submitted for Sci Cong on Osteoporosis

... health professionals and individuals to fight the silent epidemic of osteoporosis. Themes to be covered during the five-day IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis include 35 oral presentations and more than 680 poster presentations that focus on nutrition, smoking, exercise and osteoporosis; osteoporosis dia...

Bone Strength Increases In Rats With Citrus Juice Breakfast – Study Say

...center at Texas A&M in College Station. ‘It's a silent disease of aging. But if we can maintain our bone strength, maybe we'll be able to prevent it,’ Patil noted. For the study, 36 males rats were included for two months in the lab of Dr. Farzad Deyhim, professor of human and animal nutrition at Texa...

Medical Role In Interrogations Curtailed By Pentagon

... them to increase the stress of detainees, giving silent approval that calls for harsher treatment. Rubenstein, with Physicians for Human Rights, pointed out that anything short of a complete ban on the use of psychologists or physicians in interrogations would result in interrogators mis-using the se...

Senior Researcher Harassed In AIIMS

...l group of progressive students and doctors held a silent protest within the campus, during the recess, to register their protest against the anti-reservation propaganda. "My participation in the group was not taken kindly in my Department and they found me incompetent post-protest even though the Head o...

'Pig Fever' Detected in Kerala

... pig farm in Wayanad, about 600 km from here, kept silent about the sudden death of pigs at his farm. Later, after media reported on the possibility of the disease, samples were taken from the farm and sent to Bangalore followed by Uttar Pradesh. "We have taken elaborate steps to see that vaccines are dis...

Agencies Express Concern Over "Breast Ironing" In Africa

...ameroon and other countries. "If society has been silent about it up to now it is because, like other harmful practices done to women such as female genital mutilation, it was thought to be good for the girl," said Ndonko. "Even the victims themselves thought it was good for them." But the practice is ass...

Natural Approach to Immune Regulation May Help Transplant Patients

...n T cells express the inhibitory receptor, they go silent and may even die. A long list of other cells that provoke an immune response might be "kept under control" by this approach, Dr. Horuzsko says. He envisions, in the not too distant future, giving cytokines and growth factors to patients so target...

March towards Free Pneumococcal Vaccine

...cal disease as well as their supporters marched in silent protest on Wednesday on parliament to push// politicians towards funding a vaccine for the deadly disease. Pneumococcal disease causes meningitis. While the vaccine, Prevenar, against the disease is free in Australia, New Zealanders pay about $400 ...

Complete Vaccination Of Poultry Flock Essential to Check The Spread Of Avian Flu

... than 95 per cent would be needed to guard against silent spread.' The study, funded by the Department of ..., suggests that the most effective way of tackling silent spread of the disease would be to place unvaccinated 'sentinel' birds in poultry flocks. By monitori...

Risk of Silent AIDS epidemic in Middle East and North Africa

...st and North Africa are at risk of plunging into a silent epidemic of AIDS//. Only 0.2 percent of the population in Middle East and North Africa carry the virus that causes AIDS. The region has the lowest rate of HIV infection in the world according to UNAIDS agency. Experts says many individuals at risk...

Valve Disease Study Suggests New Public Health Concern

.... Nkomo says. Valve diseases are referred to as silent killers in part because a person can have severe valve disease without having symptoms, and it may take some time before there is heart failure. “When physicians diagnose valve disease in the elderly, we hesitate to perform surgery because of the ris...

Reducing the Risk of Protease Inhibitor-Related Atherosclerosis

...cumulation of cholesterol within the arteries is a silent problem.” ?Although Vitamin E, an antioxidant, has been shown to prevent the negative effects of protease inhibitors in vitro (in the test tube), the vitamin provided no benefit to the mice in this study. Long-term side effects a concern Protea...

Rise in Esophageal Cancer is emphasized by Richards’ deat

... development by 30 times. Esophageal cancer is a silent killer. The symptoms become obvious at a very advanced stage. Difficulty in swallowing, pain in the throat and weight loss is some of them.Chemotherapy or radiation therapy followed by surgery is the present treatment. However, the rate of survival i...

India’s Silent Killer on the Prow

...ese steps must be adopted promptly to rein in this silent killer else the long-term costs to the country may prove to be devastating. <BR...

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