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Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...ith the costs of the few available anti-AIDS drugs still very much beyond the affordability of the victims, a vaccine is being perceived as a welcome development. DBT and the Union Ministry of Health have already started a vaccine development project under the Indo-US initiative on HIV/AIDS....

Depression may cause delayed wound healing

...ic features and wound healing. Further research is still continuin....

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...m effect of the plastic tube in the ear. There are still questions about the tubes' impact on hearing decades later. The cost of surgery is about $2,000 to $3,000. "This study should encourage families to be a bit more willing to wait to have their child undergo surgery," said Perrin. Other doctors say ...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...ther than the fingertip. Other testing systems are still in the pipeline, including a patch that changes color as it draws glucose through the skin and a glucose monitor that is worn like a watch. Though such innovations are always welcome, one shouldn’t lose track of the real goal – prevention. Even smal...

Pesticide impairs male reproductive function

...volved. Many developing countries including Mexico still use DDT in their fight against malaria causing mosquitoes. The disease infects as many as 500 million people each year and may kill as many as 2.5 million across the globe, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO, along with hundreds of ...

Spouses and other partners lower blood pressure says new research

...ort-term changes in blood pressure of a person are still unclear but Dr. Gump said that it is possible that over time, temporary flare-ups in blood pressure may take a toll on cardiovascular health. So the calming influence of a partner may counterbalance this and eventually benefit the heart. Gump and h...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...osed to the health hazard because most governments still allowed smoking in public places. She added that scientists around the world agreed that there were no safe permissible levels of second hand smoke. "Far from being a mere annoyance or a minor discomfort, exposure to second-hand smoke causes cancer ...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...isease but the expensive anti retroviral drugs are still way above the reach of an average South African. ...viral drugs and the Government says this drugs are still too expensive for its health budget....

Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

...mplications. Bracytherapy, though widely adviced, still remains a controversial treatment in the eyes of many cancer specialists....

Smoking spreads Cancer

...s that may also help explain the link. Smokers can still reduce their risk of dying by quitting - even after the cancer is diagnosed....

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...jority of the mice treated with live reovirus were still alive, but all of the animals injected with the de...gh nearly everyone is immune to reovirus, there is still "justified concern" about the safety of injecting the virus directly into the brains of people accor...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

... general public is that although gastric cancer is still very common, these are very rare families," Caldas told. Inspite of the fact, living without a stomach and their eating habits had to be adjusted such preventive measure has to be emphasised. Hence the patients with strong family history should disc...

Noise tampers hearing

...rework display or some distance away, the sound is still loud enough to create atleast a temporary threshold shift, which will cause muffled hearing and ringing in one's years. So it's always better to wear a pair of throw-away ear plugs in such situations....

Better prostate cancer detection

...ond biopsy - when the first is clear but cancer is still suspected....

How much can exercise improve health?

... of Vermont said, that the quality of the research still can be better.He feels that the researchers need to standardise meanings of terms, so that everybody agree on what they are talking about as they always try to see what works best. He also added that studies should be more tightly targeted to exactly...

Starch fights cancer

...so long as you do not chew them too much. They are still trying to find out more about resistant starch - which, in the past, has proved hard to study because it is difficult to measure it. Meanwhile, the healthy message is - keep on eating fibre, but start considering starch as well. Source : CSIRO ...

Depression and heart failure

...echanism by which depression worsens heart failure still has to be established....

Tea drinkers have lower rates of heart disease

...ve heart disease or cancer, although the reason is still unknown. One likely reason is the high levels of antioxidants in tea. Antioxidants, found also in fruits and vegetables, mop up the harmful free radicals produced by the body's chemistry. Left unchecked, free radicals damage cell components like ...

Gene clue to antibiotics

... into the biology of this important disease, which still poses a major threat to humanity....

Acupuncture provides relief

... designed because the patient undergoing treatment still thinks of themselves as receiving a valid form of ... control group suggests the laser substitute might still be stimulating the nerves and so not controlling properly for the effect of needle insertion....

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