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Bird flu In Indonesia: Government To Launch ‘Village Preparedness’ Schee

...le at village level, is being launched in order to speed up the reporting of any outbreak. under this scheme, at least five personnel will be appointed to monitor bird flu cases among both birds and humans in every village. Doctors will also be trained to handle bird flu cases. The president has also urg...

Severe Gum Disease Triples Heart Disease Risk

...associated PAF-AH activity is lowered and thus may speed up cardiovascular disease. The study appears in the December issue of the Journal of Lipid Research and was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. CONTACT: Sathya Achia-AbrahamUniversity News ServicesPhone: (804) 827-0890Email:...

Fructose is a tricker and not all that sweet!

...n foods and, in particular, fructose, may actually speed the process for a person to become obese." 'If you feed fructose to animals they rapidly become obese, with all features of the metabolic syndrome, so there is this strong causal link,' Johnson said, 'And a high-fructose intake has been shown to ind...

Moderate Exercise Is Good For The Heart: Study

...ng at nine months of age died after the locomotion speed was increased from 10 metres per minute to 17.5 metres per minute, he said. The speed was subsequently reduced to 14 metres per minute for the duration of the study, and no additional ra...

Health Problems Due To Ecosystem's Degradation

... relatively stable climate and the wildlife. The speed at which the natural ecosystem has been changing has been particularly fast in the past 50 years, according to the WHO Director-General Dr. Lee Jong-wook. Even though this has resulted in economic development, this has not been even across the world....

TI Cycles Introduces Foldman

... and the Spring are equipped with high-quality six speed Shimano gears and advanced suspension systems. The portable cycles are fun to ride, comfortable and easy to maintain,' TI Cycles Brand Manager Sandeep Sridhar said at a preview of the folding bikes. Priced at Rs.7,999 and Rs.8,999, the two models ar...

Adult Stem Cells Can Fight Diseases

... molecule, called insulin-like growth factor 1, to speed up the process as it is too slow to be effective on many human conditions. Stephen Minger, director of the Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at King's College London, said there are few stem cells that can fuse like this, with bone marrow stem cells bei...

Lack Of Estrogen In Brain Tissue Of Women Can Lead To Alzheimer's

...hat deficiency of estrogen in the brain tissue can speed up the build up of ‘plaque’, which is a common characteristic of the disease. An analysis of the serum estrogen levels revealed lower levels of the hormone in both patients with Alzheimer’s and control subjects. Hence no correlation between the ser...

Queensland Bans OTC Sales Of Cold And Flu Drugs

...ine is often used as a raw material to manufacture speed and combination with cocaine. This is the most abused drug on the streets among the youth. It has also emerged that the Pharmacy Guild of Australia will monitor the sales of these cold and flu drugs so that amphetamine labs do not crop up all over ...

Motorcycles Cause Greater Pollution

...an makes, though may be a feast to the eye for any speed enthusiast, emit hydrocarbons that have been linked to global warming and are even suspected of being carcinogenic, the study said. Researchers said that since motorcycles weren’t a primary means of transport in most developed countries, “the impor...

Australian Company Gets $10 million For Developing Skin Cancer Gel

...cancer gel developer Peplin has said that it would speed up the process of human testing of its fast-action cancer cream since it was able to get an amount of $10 //million from institutional investors for this purpose. The company based in Queensland, Australia is developing the PEP005 compound as a t...

Peripheral Artery Disease Can Be Delayed By Walking

...ler average annual decline in walking distance and speed than those who walked one to two times per week. They also noted a disparity in the amount of exercise between people of different races. The researchers realized that only a small proportion of African-American study participants walked for exerc...

Huge demand for high street chlamydia tests

...asier to call in for a screening test - helping to speed up both the detection and treatment of chlamydia in people who might not have otherwise come forward for testing....

Wounds Heal 25% Faster In Older Adults Who Exercise Regularly

...dy in older adults finds that regular exercise may speed up the wound-healing process by as much as 25 percent//. The faster that a wound heals, the less chance it will become infected. The results appear in a recent issue of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. This is the first time such a...

Breast Cancer Drug Should Be Made Widely Available

...cretary Patricia Hewitt has asked the officials to speed up the process of reviewing Herceptin so that it can be made widely available to women with breast cancer....

New warning signs for child meningitis

...d new early-warning signs for parents, which could speed diagnosis and treatment. Until now, parents have been warned to look out for their child having a headache, stiff neck, sensitivity to light and a pinprick rash as signs of meningitis. But these symptoms can occur as late as two hours from the chil...

Resistant Influenza strains creates panic in US

...92 %. The researchers were very surprised at the speed with which the influenza strains develop the resistance. They feel that this is due to the widespread, over-the-counter and unregulated use of the drugs in other countries. Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir) both the antiviral drugs bel...

Researchers Identify Role Of Protein In Sperm Hyperactivation

...al component of the mechanism that a sperm uses to speed up its integration with the egg so that fertilization can take place. Reserachers say this study could provide useful pointers when examining the issue of male infertility.// "No one had ever seen inside sperm cells to measure all the currents th...

Road accidents greater threat than AIDS, TB: WHO

...d traffic calming measures such as median drivers, speed bumps, rumble strips, road markings, traffic signs and roundabouts are usually not present in most of these countries.' The report highlights that the World Bank has been helping many of the South Asian countries including India in improving hazard...

International Teleradiology: The Future Of Radiologic Diagnosis

...ns, a ‘nighthawk’ company, based in Bangalore. The speed of the examination, the accuracy of the clinical information obtained and the low incidence of technical problems are some of the distinct advantages of International Teleradiology. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) restrict paym...

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