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

...stitution that has been has beenmaking FMD vaccine since 1972. "FMD is prevalent 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 c...

New antibiotic already developing resistance

...r problem worldwide, and hospitals are ground zero since infections and antibiotics are part of everyday life in these settings. Bacteria have an innate ability to mutate, and when they are repeatedly exposed to an antibiotic, they learn to change themselves in order to evade the drug. Bacteria that cause ...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...rial that the issue of surgery is an important one since it's often overused. A 1994 study found about one-fourth of ear tube insertions were inappropriate. "I think the study has a really important finding, but it has to be looked at preliminarily," said Perrin. "It's not easy to be accurate with testing...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...acity to transform into full organs. He adds that since one's own body is the factory, there is no question of biological rejection as these new organs are produced by one's own body itself. Though Dr. Matapurkar has won the patent after four years of patient waiting, there is a long way to go before th...

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

...FDA does not have the authority to implement a ban since the ads are allowed by law. At the same time several doctors told committee members that such as would encourage patients who otherwise would not seek medical attention when needed. This point has been emphasised by Psychiartrist Dr. Saul Levin sai...

Asthma! A new warning for heart disease

...that heart disease is an inflammatory process, and since asthma is an inflammatory disease as well, it woul...that heart disease is an inflammatory process, and since asthma is an inflammatory disease as well, it would be interesting to find if asthma patients had an...

New Laser Techniques cure degeneration of the eye

...of the disease. This treatment is quite expensive, since it requires trained skills. Doctors feel, the key to successful treatment is early self-diagnosis. This is effective, when doctors recommend patients to visit an optometrist or eye specialist if they notice any change in the clarity of their vision...

Big and Bright

... 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 weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. Th...

Alzheimer cure

...choline, which these neurons produce, is lost and, since it is involved in learning and memory, results in cognitive decline. In London and California, researchers now reveal that it is the lack of a signalling molecule called nerve growth// factor (NGF) which underlies this neuronal loss. In mice with e...

Need for Colon cancer screening

... this research should be repeated among women too, since they tend to develop colon tumours later in life than men. Source : Journal of Medicine August 2001...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

...tations were particularly apparent in the children since they inherit key elements of their immune systems from their parents, and thus there is a strong chance that they will be programmed to target the same regions that the mother targeted. In mothers in whom mutations has already arisen, the children co...

Stay young the Chinese way

...ave to fear of losing the battle against senility since a group of Chinese scientists announced recently that they have created a highly effective drug to retard the aging process. Li Changling, a Beijing University professor, who led the team of scientists, said he and his colleagues have detected the ...

Quitting smoking stops lung decline

...sation of decline in lung function is encouraging, since the process of quitting requires several attempts before the habit is eliminated. The results also suggest that the beneficial effect of smoking cessation on mortality may partly be mediated through a reduced decline in pulmonary (lung) function....

Avacado a day

...always better to get them by using the whole food, since there are likely many beneficial substances working synergistically. Watermelon, which was also found to be protective of the liver, is also a good source of the carotenoid lycopene....

Antioxidants found in chocolates

...and sugar. The darker types of chocolate are best, since they have less sugar....

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...hould sleep has reduced SIDS deaths by 70 per cent since 1989, however last year 158 babies still died from SIDS," said Dorothy Ford from SIDS Australia."There could be a significant further reduction in deaths if all women stopped smoking."Dr Walsh and colleagues found that while health care givers were "...

Complementary and Alternative medicine

... acupuncture to yoga - has increased in popularity since the 1960s. A new survey reveals that complementary and alternative medicine has always been popular, although the type of therapies used has changed over the years. // The greatest increase in popularity was in the transition from the 1960s to th...

Treatment for pre-menstrual syndrome is ineffective

...nt, which has been routinely prescribed by doctors since the 1960s. They concluded that there was no "convincing evidence" to support the continued prescription of progesterone or progestogens to treat PMS....

A need for new stem cell lines

...rrible diseases won't be healed. He also said that since much biomedical research is international, it's likely most useful lines and reagents will be developed outside the U.S..Therefore, a ban on importation would also curtail important research....

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...lation who suffer from the debilitating headaches, since drugs that regulate these hormones could prevent or reduce the severity of the headaches, according to Dr. Mario Peres, the study's lead author. // According to the report, chronic migraine sufferers had higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone ...

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