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Get, set, go...

...rom 13 to 15. Extra effort to exercise during this time will make a big difference, say researchers at the... exercises.Other children spend the same amount of time doing stretches and warm ups.After a year, the girls doing circuit training had amassed an extra 2% ...

Breast screening among diabetic women

... wonder whether managing diabetes takes up so much time and attention that there is little room for other aspects of health care. Since women with diabetes run the same risk of breast cancer as the rest of the population, it's important they don't miss out when it comes to screening....

Thumb Sucking in children Lead to Overbite

...ly to end up// in the orthodontist's office by the time they reach adolescence, a team of dentists reports.Their study found that kids who used a pacifier or sucked their fingers or thumb by the age of 4 to 5 were more likely to develop protruding front teeth and an irregular bite, compared with their pee...

Asprin aids in pregnancy

...o clarify the optimal dose of aspirin and the best time to start the drug in pregnancy....

Robots craft medical history

...t the data. The operation took less than an hour's time and the patient was discharged from the hospital 48 hours later....

Acne Drug linked to suicide attempts

...les J. Bishop, was actually taking Accutane at the time of his death. Blood tests should reveal if the drug was in his blood. // Accutane is very effective against severe acne, but has been wrought with controversy due to some devastating adverse effects. Doctors have known for years about the potential...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...e patterns of gene expression in the cancer at the time of diagnosis....

Handbook cum diary on regulatory information

...The information is self-explanatory and saves much time on repeated inquiries. The list of banned drugs have been updated in such a way that the diary contains even the drugs which are brought under the list with effect from January 1, 2002. The Association has also included the list of all pharmacy coll...

A novel augmentation

...s work was remarkably conspicuous and could in due time help scientists reduce the confidence on donors for uncommon organs....

Choose your mate

...ominent for their proclivity for mating almost any time and at any place. They put some females in tubes with seven males so that female choice and male contest could come into action. The experiment was carried out on fruit flies of a wide variety of age groups. The scientists measured offspring in te...

Drugs control and industry departments to share a common e-platform

...ch is both informative and interactive at the same time with the inauguration of www.aponline.gov.in, the state government's latest initiative to integrate all the activities of all its departments under one umbrella. The portal is being developed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as part of a joint vent...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...rs "need to follow their patients over a period of time to watch what may happen" as they take the drugs. The compounds may cause abnormal liver function, and at least one version of the pills, which was recalled, was linked to kidney failure. The new guidelines combine the growing realization that elev...

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

... was put on the market in early 1996. Between that time and 2000, prescriptions for the drug have increased by 2,000 percent. Abusers discovered that they could get a powerful heroin-like high by crushing the pill and injecting, swallowing and inhaling the powder.// Abuse of OxyContin, the nation's best...

Immune cells halt round in space

...h allows cells to remain suspended for months at a time in continual free fall, just as they would be in Earth orbit. According to Neal Pellis, chief of JSC's Biological systems Office, the cells in the bioreactor began to change in the first 15 minutes. One of the first changes was that T-cells were some...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...cycles significantly longer.And she added that the time from the start of the cycle to ovulation, which is...orter than five days, was less than this amount of time in a third of the women who took in the pheromones....

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

...ly had suffered from asthma for a longer period of time than the patients with normal or high POD. Low POD patients also used less beta-agonist medication than high POD patients. Fatal or near-fatal asthma is not always accompanied by severe symptoms and, therefore, some patients may not seek appropriate ...

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...s of between 30 and 50 per cent and an increase in time to first exacerbation. Researchers found that the beneficial effects of tiotropium on lung function persisted over a period of more than 24 hours. The researchers add that, once-daily treatment with tiotropium should be considered an effective first...

AAI Pharma Files Lawsuit Against Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

...be fairly easier to go through. This is the second time that DRL has suffered a setback in the past three weeks as recently Novartis withdrew from developing its licensed anti-diabetes molecule to Novo Nordisk that had been sub-licensed to Novartis....

Obesity a global problem

...tion, technology, food processing and even leisure time in developing countries are causing a rise in obesity levels. Paradoxically, childhood malnutrition and stunted growth may be found hand-in-hand with adult obesity in many places. The phenomenon means countries that still face problems of under-nutr...

Less sleep increases mortality rates

... over one million adults conducted over a six year time period// shows that the old advice that you need e...ght might need modifying. Looking at the length of time people sleep and its relationship to life expectancy, researchers at the University of Texas, and co...

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