Nurse Has Miraculous Escape as Window is Blown Off an Air Ambulance
...ile traveling by an air ambulance . He was flying with a patient and the pilot last Wednesday from Twin Falls, Idaho, to Seattle when a window was blown off. At that time they were flying at a height of 20,000 ft. Rapid decompression occurred when Fogg was unbuckled from his seat and reaching for a wat...Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in Pain Due to Cancer
...the queen was also very obese. Bald in front but with long hair in back, the mummy shows an overweight w... as saying. One thing, however, researchers say with certainty, is that Hatshepsut had cancer: cancer that had metastasized. "The type of cancer we dis...Impaired Odour Identification Predicts Cognitive Decline for the Elderly
... impaired odour identification was also associated with lower cognitive scores at the beginning of the study, and with a more rapid decline in the memory of past experiences, memory of words and symbols, and perceptual ...Robbie Donates 1.5 Million Pounds to Help His Native People Beat Addiction
...year-old had set the organisation in collaboration with Comic Relief, which aimed at helping drug and alco...tball match in May 2006, to raise funds in Africa, with the help of pal actor/musician Jonathan Wilkes....One-third of Adults Have Had Some Form of Alcohol Use Disorder During Their Lifetimes
...to-face interviews conducted between 2001 and 2002 with 43,093 adults selected to represent the national p...ad an alcohol use disorder, including 4.7 per cent with alcohol abuse and 3.8 per cent who were alcohol-dependent. "Alcohol dependence was significantly m...Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030
...re expected to reach 8.3 million by the year 2030, with 80 percent of them occurring in Asia, unless more...current 5.4 million annual tobacco-related deaths, with 50 percent of them in Asia, will rise to 8.3 million by 2030 as multinational cigarette companies ta...Amnesia Drug That Blocks Bad Memories on the Anvil
... Harvard and McGill Universities are experimenting with an amnesia drug that may help people discard bad m... The scientists used the drug propranolol along with therapy to "dampen" memories of 19 accident or rape victims for ten days. They asked the patients to...Pure Pomegranate Juice Helps Reverse Erectile Dysfunction Function
...y to get and keep an erection. The majority of men with ED have moderate ED. For the first four weeks o...megranate Juice or 8 oz. of placebo beverage daily with their evening meal or shortly after. After a two-week washout period during which the subjects did n...Electric Field Therapy to Zap Cancerous Tumours
...uld more than double the survival rates for people with one of the most common types of brain tumour. Th...the scalp, to disrupt tumour growth by interfering with cell division of cancerous cells which causes the cells to stop proliferating and die off instead of...Scot's National Drink, Now Available at 1,000 Pounds a Nip
...r whether the whisky should or should not be taken with water. Some argue that a few drops of water actual...of peach and a suggestion of vanilla, is warm, and with only a light lingering "smoke" to it. Gleneagles is confident there will be a market for the 1805...Blood Protein may Hold Key to Why Healthy People Get Heart Attacks
...am, the Netherlands. Earlier studies in patients with chest pain and heart disease have linked elevated levels of MPO with those at highest risk for a heart attack. As part of the study, to examine the relationship of MP...Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore
...e in Sydney, Australia, then roll around the globe with concerts in Tokyo, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Hamburg... producer of Live Earth, said, We're on Chinese TV with 800 million people, ' he told The Observer. 'People often think on a parochial basis, so it's vital ...Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population
...to nearby cities in search of work, only to return with the deadly virus. The remote village fraught with poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and underdevelopment has been shocked into disbelief, after 35 AID...Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema
...ion regarding AMS should be given by professionals with special attention to practical advice. This study is published in Journal of Travel Medicine....Rosehips may Be an Effective Alternative for Rheumatoid Arthritis
... Severely affected patients already being treated with conventional drugs experienced significant improve...nts will receive them. Treating just one patient with anti-TNF drugs, which act on a particular signalling molecule, costs up to $25,000 a year. LitoZin...Bird Flu in Asia Still High Risk Says WHO Official
...e virus. "People must be taught to avoid contact with dying chickens," he said. Asked about those who ...ery rare, and limited to those in frequent contact with infected poultry. But the WHO believes a potential human pandemic cannot be ruled out as long as the...Alcohol Abuse, Addiction Hits 3 of 10 Americans
... Americans, younger and unmarried adults and those with lower incomes," the study's authors wrote in a summary of the study, which is published in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry....Draft National Policy on Sight-saving Drugs unacceptable
...ranibizumab for only about 20 per cent of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, restricting ...lsewhere in the UK, NHS commissioners need to work with local clinicians to ensure that the benefits of these drugs are made available to as many patients a...Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful
...'s surgery, which took place in adjoining theatres with city's four liver transplant surgeons present. T...ients have liver transplants in Britain every year with organs from dead donors. But the number of donors is far exceeded by the number of patients waitin...Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease
...tation of peripheral blood stem cells for patients with peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremiti...erience in research and treating vascular diseases with adult stem cells mostly through its collaboration with Shenyang 463 hospital. A total of 152 patie...