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Organic Tomatoes may Be Healthier for Your Heart Than Traditionally Grown Ones

... grown crops. Dr Alyson Mitchell and his team at the California University used data from a long-term project using standardised farming techniques for the ten-year study. The study found that organic tomatoes have almost double the amount of flavonoids ...

War Trauma-hit UK Veteran Population Set to Increase

...ccording to Dr. Nigel Hunt, Associate Professor in the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, shows that, with no end in sight for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more veterans will return home suffering the effects of ...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

A study by scientists at the University of Bonn and the Institute for the Study of Labour has revealed that intelligent people are more patient in financial...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

...channels because of their huge price difference in the two countries. According to the Daily Times, passengers coming from India prefer carrying cheap drugs, as the prices of Indian drugs...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

A newly-discovered gene boosts the risk of childhood asthma by as much as 70 percent,... gene, called ORMDL3, is located on Chromosome 17, the paper, published online on Wednesday by the British science journal Nature, says. Twenty-four expe...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...te government over a failed 1996 drug test, saying the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. Authorities in Kano, Nigeria's largest state, are seeking 2.75 billion dollars from Pfizer ...

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...ng done on diabetes research in India, even though the country remains one of the most affected by the spread of the disease. Indian scientists have published only one percent of th...

South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

South Africa has seen the first-ever signs of a drop in new HIV infections, said a report released Wednesday in the country with the world's second-heaviest AIDS burden. Preliminary reports from a 2006 ante-natal ...

Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space

...carry out scientific research including a study on the growth of cancer cells in outer space, reports sai...naut would conduct research on cells, bacteria and the crystallisation of protein, said Abdul Rahman Abdul Jamal, director of the Molecule Medical Institut...

Furore Over Spa Planned on Active Philippines Volcano

A project to build a spa on the rim of one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines was in danger of being scuttled Wednesday by government reg...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...f diabetics are risking their health by using over the counter nutritional supplements and herbal medicines without discussing their pros and cons with the health professionals managing their conventional treatment. Annie Chang, a doctorate candidate in...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

.... Researchers at Edinburgh University say that the currently available screening process for the brain condition is not completely reliable, and causes specialists to wrongly tell people that they ...

New Antidotes may Harbour Treatments for Deadliest Poisons

...in, cholera toxin, and shiga toxin. Produced by the deadly strains of E. coli bacteria, these toxins t...h a cell's protein-making pathway, passing through the Golgi network and endoplasmic reticulum before interrupting protein synthesis. A team of research...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

...on have found that injections of stem cells during the gestation period may help prolong the lives of children with brittle bone disease , osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The genetic defect, de...

Common Environmental Chemicals Hamper Ovary Development in Foetus

...mmonly present environmental chemicals can disturb the development of the ovary. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr. Paul Fowler at the University ...

Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified

Researchers from Eli Lilly and Company and the Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified the genetic mutation that may alter tumour cell proliferation, and make them resistant to certain types ...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

New research by the British charity Save the Children, shows that if a Bangladeshi family wanted to eat a simple nutritious diet , they would hav...

CCEA Extends National TB Control Project for Five Years

...(CCEA) today gave its approval for continuation of the Revised National TB Control Project (RNTCP) for f...ive years - - from April 2007 to March 2012 - - in the States of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttranchal. The CCEA also gave its approval for implementatio...

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel warned that the European Union's annual wine budget of 1.3 billion...ry inefficient way" despite huge challenges facing the sector. "We are now actually losing market share to dynamic producers in other parts of the world,...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

In the first systematic multi-year analysis of malpractice claims solely against pediatricians , the answer is neither yes nor no by the researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine repor...

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