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Pig Stem Cells Show Promise in Repairing Animals’ Heart Attack Damag

...hat they would on their own migrate to the damaged zones of the heart. Marbán’s team was able to confirm th...hat stem cells had matured and grown in the border zones of the damaged area, where researchers suspect both dead and living tissue mingle and some blood sup...

Hundreds dying in northeast from AIDS

...as been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with the virus. The National AIDS Control Organisatrion (NACO), India's apex government agency to combat HIV/AIDS, admitted in a recent report that non-availability of adequate ART in the northeast was a matter...

China Embarks On 'One Dog' Policy

...imed 318 lives nationwide in September. The nine zones are Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chongwen, Xuanwu, Chaoyang, Haidian, Fengtai, Shijingshan and Yizhuang economic development zone. The government has decided to be particularly tough on those keeping ferocious dogs. Only smaller pet dogs, no more than 35 cm...

Jet Lag May Cause Health Problems: Study

...s working unusual // shifts and flying across time zones could affect health. 'While there's no indicati...r humans shorten their lives by flying across time zones or doing shift work, the research does suggest there might be a potential problems,' said study co-a...

Government Announces Steps To Promote Ayurvedic Medicine

...ude, * Setting up of Medicinal Plant Boards in 10 zones countrywide, which would provide support to local ...ouring the nation for this purpose. Already, three zones have been planned at Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Uttaranchal. * Providing traditional medicine to the...

Scourge of Obesity

...n and some African nations is obese, in some urban zones of Samoa, and 45% among certain demographic groups in the United States, notably among African Americans the number of obese exceeds 75%. Even within China, over 20% of the people in certain cities are classified as seriously overweight. Body-mas...

Remove Stigma to Defeat HIV/AIDS in India, says UN Envoy

...as been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with HIV. "The epidemic is spreading rapidly to the general population by way of transmission from infected parents to the infants and from spouses to young married women," Sadik said. "Nearly 60 percent of t...

Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria

...otect pregnant women against malaria, above all in zones there it is endemic. Pedro Alonso and Clara Menéndez’s group is also studying the possibilities of the malaria intermittent treatment as a preventive strategy in pregnant women. Approximately 1,000 volunteer women of the Manhi?a district, in the re...

Tourists Face Health Risks by Missing Vaccinations

...recommended vaccinations are all high risk malaria zones according to the World Health Organisation including Africa, South East Asia and the Asian subcontinent. According to Direct Line Travel Insurance spokesman Chris Price, ‘The last decade has seen a steady increase in travel to Asia, Africa and Sou...

Omega 3 Supplements Is Very Essential For the Kids

...ves of many British kids. He reported from the war zones around the world. But left his job after he nearly lost his life in Croatioa. He along with Close Up's Anita McNaught campaigns for the Omega 3 fish oil and its benefits....

Chikungunya Strikes Chennai, India

...reas such as slums. The city is divided in to 10 zones and each is assigned to a rapid action team. Each team consists of an entomologist, a sanitary inspector and health workers. The team sprays a mixture of pyrethrum insecticide and diesel fuel from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. About 18 fogging machines have been ...

ESI to Set Up Four Super Speciality Hospitals

...uld set up four super speciality hospitals in four zones of the country in order to provide specialised medical care to those covered under its scheme//. 'These facilities will be set up at New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and in either Mumbai or Pune,' ESI director general Ramesh Inder Singh said today. ...

Illegal Drug Trafficking Pose A Great Threat For HIV Epidemic In Northeast

...as been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with HIV, according to estimates by the regional government authorities and private healthcare workers. Manipur with a population of 2.24 million accounts for about 20,000 HIV-positives although unofficial esti...

Bird Flu Restrictions To Be Lifted In Scotland

...e kilometre Wild Bird Risk Area. The surveillance zones also included 175 properties with 3.1m birds as well as free-range poultry. The experts warned at that time that the Cellardyke swan would be unlikely to be an isolated incident. But the fears it appears were put to rest, as that in fact was the only...

Melatonin Can Help Nighttime Workers Sleep

...schedule, simulating a traveler crossing four time zones eastward every day,” explained Dr. Charles Czeisler, Chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and senior author of the study. “For the next three weeks, thirty minutes before each sleep episode, participants ingested ei...

Alcohol Intake During Pregnancy Is Bad For The Baby’s Hear

...oes when he travels across a varied number of time zones from east to west. Some people will get accustomed to it quickly, and some will not, and may even experience some physical problems or illness because of effects on their immune system. This can be explained in case of the Exxon Valdez and Chernoby...

Sunglasses Can Really Pull a Fast One on the Biological Clock, and Set a Lag in the Build Up Of Jet Lag

...ple can adjust their body clocks to different time zones by adjusting their exposure to light. The biological clock, when disturbed causes jet lag, which is felt as fatigue, sleepiness and muscle incompetence. Edinburgh Sleep Centre initiated a study for British Airways that monitored more than 1,000 pas...

Phoenix Islands To Be Protected Under Global Conservation Map

...her sustainable economic development in designated zones of the protected area. In creating the protected area, the Republic of Kiribati took a significant step toward meeting protected area commitments for 2010/12 under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Island Biodiversity Program of Work....

Presence Of Live Avian Flu Is A Cause Of Concern: Scientists

...Pradhan said. Culling and cordoning of affected zones - predominantly in Maharashtra - were done quickly enough to check the spread of the disease, he said. But the existence of a live bird chain is worrying. "This live chain has to be broken as the disease is transmitted from bird to bird and not th...

The Bird flu Hits Denmark.

...ted to speed up the procedure to impose protection zones around new outbreaks. In Europe, the presence of highly pathogenic form H5N1 that can be fatal to humans -- has been confirmed in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Austria, Italy, Germany and the European part of Russia. Other countries still investigati...

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