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Vitamin D Might Prevent Development of Active TB, Study Says

... D supplements 'could be an important strategy for tackling the disease'. Vitamin D was used to treat TB in sanatoriums before antibiotics were used, according to BBC News. Peter Davies, a chest specialist and secretary of TB Alert, said it is positive that the study's findings confirmed what already was su...

British Scientists Discover New Protein to Treat Epilepsy and Schizophrenia

...level of the protein in the brain could the key to tackling diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia, the Bristol scientists think. There are 100 million nerve cells in the brain, which each have 10,000 connections, called synapses, which link to other nerves cells. These connections chemically transmi...

Various Civil Society Groups Form Alliance to Fight HIV/AIDS

...gma and discrimination are indeed problem areas in tackling HIV/AIDS. There is acceptance of the problem at the highest level, although lots need to be done to make it (the disease) acceptable in the society which is still in a denial mode," Goswami said. As part of the awareness drive, the Alliance is org...

WHO Launches Effort to Stop Spread of HIV, Other Infections from Hospitals

...hat we have a problem, and it's time that we start tackling it in earnest," he said. O'Leary said, "Different places are going to have to set their own priorities and, maybe more importantly, figure out how they're going to address those"....

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

...ons of the challenge and technological options for tackling it. Climate experts are hoping it will clearly state the low costs of avoiding a climatic catastrophe in the coming decades by using technologies currently available to prevent the world temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius over pr...

Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia

...hat while both types of treatment are effective in tackling the illness, the former actually had a number of advantages over the latter. Oral antibiotics are also cheaper than those given via the IV route. Professor Stephenson said that the findings were certainly good news for all involved - kids, paren...

Experimental Drug Ketasyn(TM) (AC-1202) Treats Alzheimer's as Diabetes of the Brain

... disease. Interestingly, other treatments aimed at tackling the "type 3 diabetes" hypothesis have yielded similar results: AD patients lacking the APOE4 genotype have responded positively to an insulin-sensitizing drug, and to direct exposure to insulin, while patients expressing the APOE4 genotype showed lit...

West Told to Stop Blaming China for Pollution

...supported the need for collective global action in tackling the serious environmental problem. He said industrialisation in the West, particularly in the UK more than a century ago, created the present problem. However, Ralph Peterson, chief executive officer of US-based CH2M HILL Companies expressed concer...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

... Now ivermectin used to be a most effective way of tackling this disease. In the mid-1980's, it was introduced as probably the most broad-spectrum anti-parasite medication ever. It is effective against most common intestinal worms (except tapeworms), most mites, and some lice, though it is not effective again...

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

Israel has offered help to India in tackling its severe water problem with not just technology ...ead awareness about water conservation and ways of tackling the problem," added Daniel Zonshine, the Israeli consul general in Mumbai. The mission organised the...

Kerala Opposition's Unique Protest Over Fever Deaths

...ever. So by all means we have done a better job in tackling the fever," Sreemathi said. She said that there had been 76 deaths in the two most affected districts of Kottayam and Pathanamthitta. Chandy, however, hit out at the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and said the government had done n...

Gene Study Throws Up New Targets for Leishmaniasis

...ld be a boon for drug engineers, whose budgets for tackling this neglected disease are already slender. British-led scientists compared the genetic code of Leishmania major, which causes the cutaneous form of leishmaniasis, with those of L. infantum and L. braziliensis, which cause the more dangerous, visce...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

...ers, says the programme has made a major impact in tackling malnutrition. The whole village is mapped and charts are drawn to indicate the nutritional status of each child as well as the village. The maps use colour coding to the grade the child - the colour red indicates severe malnutrition, yellow moderat...

Indian Researcher Duo Finds Automated Tailgating can Save Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

...d the developing world, rises, traditional ways of tackling the problem, such as simply building more roads or improving public transport are becoming less and less effective," said Mitra. "Automated highway systems are one of the many approaches that have been suggested to tackle the problems," he said. ...

The Hospital Superbugs

...care-associated infection every year in the UK and tackling the super bugs costs the NHS 1bn a year. 1 in 12 of us will pick up an infection during a stay in hospital. There's a 1 in 77 chance of contracting MRSA and a 1 in 50 chance of developing C. diff. CHAI brings together some of the country's leading...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...CCC), which in turn fathered the Kyoto Protocol on tackling greenhouse gases. The IPCC has issued four reports since 1990, delivering judgements that are progressively more emphatic -- call it gloomy -- about the nature and severity of climate change. They have also become profoundly influential, forcing ...

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