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Condoms May not be safe Enough

... virus, or HPV, can be transmitted by contact with skin not covered by a condom. HIV infection by about 80%, to less than a 1% chance of infection per year. The National Institutes of Health says condoms are impermeable to the smallest viruses. The only way to prevent STD's is abstinence or monogamy. How...

Smoking Increases The Risk Of Developing Tuberculosis Infection

...ut their smoking habits and underwent a tuberculin skin test. Factors such as age, sex, education level, b... smokers or ex-smokers, 1,070 (82%) had a positive skin tuberculin test. This was significantly higher than for those who had never smoked. It was also note...

Smoking and heightened risk of TB

...s about 76% of them tested positive for tuberculin skin test. The research results have showed that the increase of the risk of acquiring Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is higher in those people who had smoked for more than 15 pack-years. A pack-year is smoking for one year at a cigarette pack a da...

Use Of Sunscreen In Childhood And Prevents Future Skin Cancer

...ine in childhood can reduce the risk of developing skin cancer in the future. "Sunscreen has always been...art of an overall sun-safety regime to protect the skin and reduce the number of sunburns, especially for children," said dermatologist Jason K. Rivers, M.D...

A New Product Offering protection against anthrax

...rom anthrax . The Bio-Germ Protection kits contain skin lotion, a nasal spray, an aerosol spray and a mask...and the oil of an Australian tree, can protect the skin of public safety workers responding to a potential terrorist attack. The aerosol spray can be used t...

Fentanyl Narcotic Pain Patch under Scrutiny

Fentanyl skin patches (brand name Duragesic) a potent narcotic m...als say that the directions for using the fentanyl skin patch must be followed exactly to prevent death or other serious side effects from overdosing associ...

Choose the apple wisely to keep the doctor away

...her revealing fact that came to light was that the skin contained five times ore polyphenol activity than ... a high proportion of polyphenols in the flesh and skin can potentially produce more health benefits," said Tsao. Source: Journal of Agricultural and Food ...

Increased physical activity to stop obesity in teen girls

... weight, measurements to evaluate body fat through skin fold, records of physical activity and diet of the participants of the study. However, the researchers have also reported a growing tendency among the teenagers to underreport their diets and food intake to the investigators. Reference: The Lancet, ...

New Supplement Found To Be Effective Against Sunburn

...ersity in Besan?on, France, researchers induced UV skin burn on the inner-forearms of 50 healthy subjects ...e minimum exposure to UV rays necessary to produce skin burn and it was also seen that fair-skinned subjects (phototypes II) required eight times more expos...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

...ancer.asp Info about Breast Cancer Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Breast cancer mostly occurs in women over the age of 50, and the risk is especially high for women over age 60. Breast cancer is also found to occur more often in white women than A...

Britney Spears Donates $50 000 To Support Cancer Patients

...ancer.asp Info about Breast Cancer Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Breast cancer mostly occurs in women over the age of 50, and the risk is especially high for women over age 60. Breast cancer is also found to occur more often in white women than A...

Studies On Hearing Loss Discovers New Causes

... by varying degrees of hearing loss and changes in skin and hair pigmentation. A literature search of the English language has failed to reveal previous reports of similar syndromes. In the second study, the relationship between diabetes mellitus and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has been studied for...

Calcium-Vitamin D Combo For Reduced Fracture Risk

...rbed from the intestines or may be produced by the skin when the skin is exposed to sunlight (ultraviolet light of sunlight helps the body to form vitamin D). The absorbe...

More News That Circumcision Could Reduce risk of HIV infection

...the foreskin. The circumcised men have their glans skin more thick and this may prevent the virus from pen...n from Medindia What is a normal foreskin? The skin over the tip of penis normally folds on itself as a sleeve and attaches to the head of penis. This e...

Death Of Singaporean Woman After Mysterious Illness

...death of a woman whose entire body turned black//, skin peeled off and blood oozed from her ears in an ord...ens-Johnson Syndrome, a severe inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes which can be caused by an allergic reaction to drugs, The Straits Times said. ...

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

...B12 and Folic acid to minimize the side effects of skin rash and other effects. ...

Turmeric Found To Slow Down Melanoma Growth

...an anti-cancer effect. Incidence of melanoma, or skin cancer, is increasing rapidly in many with more than 70,000 cases of melanoma and non-melanoma reported each year. In the present study, three melanoma cell lines were treated with curcumin at different doses and for different duration. Results show...

Revolution in Genetics to Open Avenues for Treating Cancer

...ost common type of cancer among women next only to skin cancer. Breast cancer mostly occurs in women over the age of 50, and the risk is especially high for women over age 60. The identification of four new genes related to breast cancer offers a new ray of hope to breast cancer patients. If the function...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...p either getting a second surgery for reduction of skin flaps and others land up in depression following failure. In view of the facts mentioned above perhaps more studies and research might be needed by the FDA to prove that the benefit outweighs the risks and complication involved in the gastric bypas...

A Mirror Miracle!

...of cancer. They intend to insert mirrors under the skin that change their reflectivity as cancer marker bu...firing an infra red beam at the mirror through the skin and measures of the reflected light are taken. The team heads Roger and Leigh say," getting the...

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