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Tomatoes Have Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Properties

...published in the journal Platelet, said the tomato substance reduces the stickiness of platelets so they flow smoothly through blood vessels, reducing the risk of a blockage occurring. Up to 50,000 people die each year as a result of clots caused by a build-up of platelets. Those most at risk are people who ...

Australia Set To Implement A national Strategy Tackle Cannabis Abuse

...e national strategies to tackle alcohol abuse, and substance abuse, including cannabis and petrol sniffing. The council comprises the federal, state and territory health ministers, and justice and police ministers. It has been reported that the conference would likely endorse a national strategy on the canna...

Risky Behavior In Teenagers Leads To Depression

...ence and there is growing interest in studying how substance abuse may change brain structure and chemistry, and in turn, cognition and emotion.’ Future research will delve into detailed introspection of the link between risky behavior and gender influence in the development of adolescent depression. ...

The Australian Medical Association To Focus On Health Of Aborigines

...icant set of problems arising from mental illness, substance abuse, alcohol abuse and chronic diseases that are...ry high levels of mental illness, chronic illness, substance abuse and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. He said that the state corrections services shou...

News Antibiotic To Combat Hospital Infection

...r antibiotic known as platensimycin derived from a substance found in the soil released by mice and found that it vanquished both MRSA and VRE. Apparently, the antibiotic works by disrupting the way cells synthesise crucial fatty acids, the scientists said in their work that appeared in the May 18 issue of N...

Drug Addicts In US Expected To Double By 2020

...lion Americans have been said to have encountrered substance abuse problems in 1999. The increasing inclination...resent trend, and an increased tendency leading to substance abuse in the future. 'There is a huge concern that what we're going to be seeing is a tidal wave o...

Research Scans Explain Why People Crave For Food

...sitivity may also relate to their vulnerability to substance abuse, and that the brain network they have identified is a hyper-responsive to drug cues in addicts. Dr Ian Campbell, an expert in obesity from Nottingham and medical director of the charity Weight Concern, said appetite control was notoriously di...

Growing Drug Addiction Rate among Elderly Population

...d that adults aged 50 and above suffer from severe substance abuse problems. It is estimated that the number of...ety. Hence this would lead to the development of substance abuse later in the future. Hence the future is very bleak with an increase in the number of people a...

Sperm Cells attracted By Ovary Scent, Even in Weakened State

...determine whether sperm were attracted to the test substance or the swim velocity was reduced close to the test...nce," Jacobson said. "In the latter case, the test substance may have had a negative influence on the sperm, resulting in suppression of their movement." Novotny...

Researchers Develop Potent Cancer Killer From Vitamin E Derivative

...ous for its anti-oxidant properties, many take the substance as a nutritional supplement. The substance kills cancer cells by causing them to undergo a natural process known as programmed cell death, or a...

Drug Menace among Youth Quadruples since 1997

... they underline the reason why we need in Scotland substance abuse services that are appropriate for children at a much earlier stage." David Liddell, the director of the Scottish Drugs Forum, who has also favored the need for specialist drug services for children said "There has been progress in services, b...

Meira Kumar Suggests Monitoring Systems To Check Drug Abuse

...enting the scheme for prevention of alcoholism and substance (drug) abuse since 1985 to provide service, prevention, awareness on it followed by care and rehabilitation of addicts. Source: PTI News...

Three Arrested For Illegal Export Of Ephedrine Tablets

... illegal export of Ephedrine tablets, a controlled substance notified under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. According to Directorate of Revenue Intelligence here today, the arrested persons have been remanded to judicial custody by the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad. ...

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Sets Cognitive Problems After 10 Years

...ld Development Project, an examination of prenatal substance use among women who attended a prenatal clinic from 1983 to 1985. Women were assessed during each trimester of pregnancy, and again with their children at birth, eight and 18 months, and three, six and 10 years of age. This particular study examines ...

UN Report Paints Alarming Picture Of Narcotics Scenario In NE

...ng and injecting of heroin. Fifty per cent of the substance users injecting drugs were reported in Meghalaya and Assam. In Arunachal Pradesh 31 per cent of such users took tobacco, 30 per cent alcohol and 4.8 per cent opium, the report said adding 20-60 per cent susbstance users were reported to have sex with...

Health Canada Warns Against Excessive Consumption Of Lobster Tomalleys

The soft green substance inside the body of a lobster commonly known as Tomalley, is considered by some as a delicacy and by may others as a waste//, unhealthy product. The health agency of Canada has decided to issue a warning-advising people against eating too much of lobs...

Illegal Drug Trafficking Pose A Great Threat For HIV Epidemic In Northeast

...Myanmar has a significant illicit amphetamine type substance (ATS) manufacturing capacity," the report said. In its recommendations, the report called for "intervention to promote safe sex among drug users", besides suggesting "accurate monitoring and evaluation of the drug use problem" of past and ongoing i...

Rahul Mahajans Condition Is Serious But Stable : Hospital

...ppened because of stale eatables or some poisonous substance was mixed with the food we cannot say at the moment,' he said. A multi-disciplinary medical team headed by Dr. Prasad Rao, who is the hospital's internal medicine specialist, is attending to Mahajan who was admitted at 3 am, he said. He said Maitra...

Court Dismisses 143-Crore Claim Against Hospital In Kolkata For Alleged Negligence In Treatment

...ly cure a patient. They also said that there is no substance in regard to the alleged deficient treatment given to Mrs. Anuradha by the doctors. They stated that the contention against the hospital that it was not having burns ward, and, therefore, the deceased suffered is also without substance. Hence, they d...

Heroin Use May Reduce In Zurish, Study Says

... fewer users as young people start to consider the substance ‘loser drug,’ a Lancet study said. Researchers at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich said: The policy provides an alternative narcotics and needle exchange programs due to which the number of new heroin users in the Swiss state of Zurich...

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