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El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...with a remote forcing by ENSO. The climate-disease story might be even more complicated and needs further research. In the case of Bangladesh, "another mediating factor in the ENSO-cholera relation might be the melting of the snowpack in the Himalayas and its effect on monsoons, precipitation and river dis...

Skinny people need to exercise too

...one that is fit not just slim. So the moral of the story is that exercising is mandatory for all- if one needs to live healthy. Are the couch potatoes listenig?...

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

This is a story about five gentlemen with a rare genetic mutation that confers a very high risk of stomach cancer. Yes! Dr. David G. Huntsman of the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada and colleagues report on five members of two families with a r...

Drugs may fog memory

...the middle of sentences and would repeat a joke or story they had told already.The drug cannabis people used,// the more they abated in their everyday memory, scientists conclude. The findings come from one of the largest studies carried out into the impact of recreational drugs on psychological function...

Prostate cancer and Vitamins

...he treatment, raising the risk of haemorrhage. The story shows that doctors and patients alike need to be better informed about the potential risks of complementary therapies....

Animals Can give us a second chance at life

...wo patients’ livers could not. “The ending of this story is that both of these patients are doing remarkably well today,” he says. It has been know that since the early 1990s about 16 people have died in human xenotransplantation trials. There have been patients in Parkinson’s disease trials who have had...

Animals can give us a second chance at life

...wo patients’ livers could not. “The ending of this story is that both of these patients are doing remarkably well today,” he says. It has been know that since the early 1990s about 16 people have died in human xenotransplantation trials. There have been patients in Parkinson’s disease trials who have had ...

Sugar Cravings

... at night, when hunger strikes may seem a familiar story for many. Researchers say sugar cravings occur because people do // not eat enough throughout the day. People tend to get too hungry, and when this happens they tend to crave carbs and sweets . Studies show when people starve themselves or diet, th...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

... and breast cancer. Health writer Liz Szabo in her story in the newspaper USA TODAY said, "A growing body of research shows that, once inside the body, fruits and vegetables spring into the role of superheroes, fighting cancer and other diseases in at least eight simultaneous ways. And, like the Super f...

Intense Fight Against Polio In India Gets Results

...dia and 12 from Uttar Pradesh. It has been a long story of fighting prejudice against immunization of the disease, ignorance in the minority community that the drops might cause impotence later on in life and distrust against the government for focusing so much on a single disease - which has been eradica...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

...nd breast cancer. Health writer Liz Szabo in her story in the newspaper USA TODAY said, "A growing body of research shows that, once inside the body, fruits and vegetables spring into the role of superheroes, fighting cancer and other diseases in at least eight simultaneous ways. And, like the Super f...

Patients Fare Better With Doctors Who Do More Angioplasty Procedures

...ting that “practice makes perfect” isn’t the whole story for the minimally invasive procedures known as percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). The researchers say their data, from 18,504 artery-opening procedures done in 14 Michigan hospitals by 165 physicians during 2002, reflects current angioplasty...

Bird Flu Survivor Recounts her ‘hell

...bird flu virus and managed to survive recounts her story of being 'in hell'.// 27 years old Pranom Thongch...f Srisomboon, central Thailand, tells her horrific story on how she watched first her chickens dying... Then it was her niece who coughed blood as she passed...

Teens not interested in early sleep

...y Carskadon said, “We've found another part of the story the mechanism in the brain that builds up sleep pressure is working at a different rate in adolescents than in pre-pubescent children and the results of the study show that when children are little, their sleep pressure rises faster so they fall asle...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

... for the heart for five years. Riad heard Ahmed's story while his daughter was in surgery. "I don't know what to say. It is such a gesture of love...I would like (Ahmed's parents) to think that my daughter is their daughter." When asked why to donate organs, Jamal al-Khatib, father of the boy, said: "I h...

Another Benefit For Human Health Attributed To Omega-3-Fats

...rove cancer treatment and patient well-being,” the story quoted Dr. Pardini as saying. Source Nutrition and Cancer ournal...

‘Miracle’ HIV Cure Claim Under Scrutin

...sts could find out more. Grulich says the 'whole story smells a bit fishy' and can't be regarded as credible until further tests are carried out in a transparent way, because the legal threats have muddied the waters. Stimpson clearly could benefit either from establishing the first positive test was wro...

HIV Positive People Touching 60,000 In UK

...lth record in Western Europe. "It will be the same story year after year unless the recent Government funding to improve sexual health services is spent wisely." "That's why we're calling for Primary Care Trusts to commit publicly, today, to spend their share of the 250 million pounds funding on the front...

Stem Cell Pioneer Is A Fraud, Claims Colleague

...nd was felicitated around the world. The stem cell story got cloudy last month when Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh resigned from the research team on ethical grounds. It emerged that the eggs for research were donated by junior female researchers from Hwang's own team. This is expressly fo...

Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity

...rst citizen, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. It's a story that goes way back in time. Christianity came to India in 52 AD, long before it travelled to many of the west European Christian countries. The religion is believed to have been introduced by St. Thomas, a carpenter by profession and an apostle of J...

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