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Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...ts popularity in recent years due to a controversy surrounding its ingredients. The turnout has come down over the last five years. Less than 100,000 people had turned up last year. The Goud family still claims that more than half a million people gather from India and even abroad to take the medicine. With sc...

Should Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Insurers?

... than most to get it. In the face of uncertainty surrounding the interpretation of genetic information, occasional discriminatory practice by individual insurers and a lack of solutions to the problem of social justice, he says, it is preferable to maintain the status quo, at least in the medium term....

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

...ld not be safe to cut into the brain tissue or the surrounding blood vessels in any way, without first understanding the cause of the swelling and the low blood pressure," Levitan said. "As a result, they decided not to continue with surgery at that time," he said, adding that an MRI and angiogram would be stu...

Abbott's Humira(r) (Adalimumab) Gets Approval by EU for Crohn's Disease Treatment

...obstruction, fistulas (ulcers that form tunnels to surrounding tissues), and malnutrition. Over the course of their disease, as many as 75 percent of patients with Crohn's disease will undergo surgery at least once for complications or disease resistant to treatment. Of those who undergo surgery to remove a port...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

... and hospital ethicists are concerned about issues surrounding an increasingly used procedure to curb the shortage called donation after cardiac death. In the first donation after cardiac death organs were taken after the patient was brain dead, where there is an irreversible loss of brain activity. In these c...

Fluctuations in Ocean Salinity Could Forewarn of Climate Change

...enough, it sinks, drawing in additional water from surrounding areas, and initiating an ocean circulation loop called thermohaline overturning. Using a combination of modern observations, numerical models and palaeoclimate data, scientists have now discovered that a build up of salt in the waters off the coast...

Doctors Warns Expectant Mothers to Stay Out of the Sun

...y in the summer should be aware of the health risk surrounding increases in temperature," the Telegraph quoted a Maggie Blott, a spokeswoman, for the (RCOG), as saying. She also warned women to wear loose clothing, keep well hydrated and eat healthy food little and often so that they would keep fit. "Pregnan...

Shrinking of Mt. Kilimanjaros Ice Cap Not Due to Global Warming: Study

...dlatitude glaciers, which are warmed and melted by surrounding air in the summer, the ice loss on Mt. Kilimanjaro is driven strictly by solar radiation. Since air near the mountain's ice almost always is well below freezing, there typically is no melting. Instead ice loss is mainly through a process called subli...

Cells Responsible for Spread of Breast Cancer Identified

...e. More recently it has been thought that the area surrounding the breast, rather than the breast cells themselve...tant, as it confirms that when abnormal, the cells surrounding the breast produce a specific factor, causing breast cells to change and migrate. With further stu...

Quack of Gurgaon Confesses of Aborting 250 Female Fetuses

...e on. "We have decided to dig up the whole area surrounding the hospital. It is very likely that more remains would be recovered." Police have sent the fetuses and bones for forensic tests. According to Additional Superintendent of Police Anil Dhawan, the accused had been fined for practising as a medical...

FDAs Failure Urges It to Reassess Its Policies

...as seen seen in the Vioxx scandal, the controversy surrounding the Avandia diabetes pill and the contamination of imported pet food. California farmers have instituted voluntary changes in growing and processing practices to better protect their products from such contamination. Over a decade, food imports hav...

Green Tea Compound may Be a Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...roblasts -- cells that form a lining of the tissue surrounding the capsule of the joints -- then were cultured in a growth medium and incubated with the green tea compound. The fibroblasts were then stimulated with pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1?ò, a protein of the immune system known to play an important rol...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

...ohol use of a single brief counseling intervention surrounding HIV and alcohol. In a randomised, controlled trial, 143 attendees at an STI clinic in Cape Town who used alcohol were given a 60-minute experimental counseling session that focused on HIV and alcohol risk, or a 20-minute educational control interv...

Large Fluid Intake Won’t Help to Keep Cool for Marathon Runner

...lators that vibrate at a frequency relative to its surrounding temperature and communicate the temperature by radio wave to a recording device worn by the runner. For previous studies, body temperatures have been taken after races, but this was the first time that researchers have monitored body temperatures con...

Support for Trauma and Grief

... strength from it. In order to recover from it a surrounding of safety and security is needed. Man organizations are extending support to the students there. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is also providing help and support through clinical providers and trained educators. Mental Health Co...

Clearing the Air for 2008 Beijing Olympics

...gh, humidity is high, wind speeds are low, and the surrounding hills restrict venting of pollution. Thus, regional pollutants and ozone build up over several days until dispersed by wind or removed by rain. Typical industrial, coal-burning cities within several hundred kilometers of Beijing add to the local poll...

A Discovery That may Lessen a Health Disparity

...nately affects people living in southern China and surrounding areas, as well as recent Southeast Asian immigrants to the United States, says the American Cancer Society. It also is common in Alaska Natives and is 50 percent more likely to occur in blacks than in whites. SULF2, a recently identified heparin-de...

Developmental And Behavioral Problems Can Plague Children With Asthma

Much of the research surrounding childhood asthma has sought new approaches to managing the disease.// However, little was done to address other conditions that often appear along with asthma including depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which can negativ...

Combined Imaging Approach may Be Effective in Diagnosing Some Brain Clots

...us thrombosis. This is a condition in the membrane surrounding the brain where blood flow has been partially reestablished in a previously blocked vessel. Research has shown that cerebral veins partially or fully blocked by a blood clot—with or without treatment—can open spontaneously, open partially or remai...

Henna from Rajasthan for Aishwarya-Abhishek Wedding

...rwal, a Sojat-based mehndi trader. Sojat and its surrounding areas in the Pali district of the state boast of the most intensive henna cultivation in India. Up to 90 percent of Rajasthan's commercial henna production is in this area. Over 100 henna processing units are in operation in Sojat. Bollywood's ho...

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