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Sniff out flatulence

Scientists think they have discovered the Holy Grail of bad smells - a product that could wipe out the lingering effects of flatulence. American researchers believe the answer to the age-old embarrassment could be charcoal. Their research revealed// that an object called a Toot Trapper, a cushion covered in activated charcoal, reduced the smell of flatulence to almost unnoticeable levels....

Aspirin deflated

A new study suggests that some people who take aspirin to beat off heart attacks may not be getting all the benefits they thought they were. Heart attacks are caused by clots. Doctors often recommend daily use of aspirin to help prevent heart attacks.// Aspirin works by blocking the formation of thromboxane A2, a chemical in the body that makes platelets sticky and promotes blood clot...

Methods to have a flat stomach

Doctors at the University of Texas, offer provide some valuable tips on how to keep off a bulging tummy. Even if you are not overweight, you might find it hard to maintain a flat stomach. Some people just have a genetic tendency to accumulate// fat in the abdominal area. Or, if you have lost height as you've got older, a rounded stomach might become more apparent. Don't depend on doin...

'Inflatable-pants' heart failure therapy suffers due to lack of evidence.

According to a new review on ‘Inflatable-pants' heart failure therapy lack of conclusive evidence it supports the government's opinion that too little evidence exists to support a device that uses balloon-like pants as a treatment for heart failure. // The technique in question is called “External counterpulsation”(ECP), a noninvasive therapy to improve blood flow to the heart. This i...

Steps Taken To Maintain Inflation Rates Says Chidambaram

The Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said that the inflation rate had taken a dip to 3.9 % and hoped it would remain under control.// He said that various steps are taken to maintain the stability in the price. We are happy it is below four percent now. Anything under four percent can be considered under control," Chidambaram told reporters here. Asked whether the gover...

Beans Devoid Of Flatulence Causing Compounds Would Soon Hit The Market

Researchers from the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas found that Lactobacillus casei (L casei), when fermented along with the beans reduced its flatulence capacity// and increased the nutritional value. Beans are a cheap and key source of nutrition especially in the developing countries. Marisela Granito led the Venezuelan team to analyze the method of creating flatulence-free beans...

Fear Of Flat head Syndrome Makes Parents Ignore Advice About Cot Death

Parents are ignoring advice to place babies to sleep on their backs to reduce the risk of cot death amid fears about a growing number of children with 'flat head syndrome'. // Campaigners said there had been an alarming increase in the 'dangerous practice' of babies sleeping on their front or side. Researchers believe that the proportion of parents who are ignoring the official advice...

Products Removed From Shelves Due To Aflatoxin

In US Chocolates and snack products were removed from the shops after experts confirmed that they had high amounts of aflatoxin in them. Aflatoxin B1 is normally present// in moulds but in high amounts they result in cancer. Three brands of snacks are being recalled from shops due to the discovery of potentially cancer-causing toxins in rice flour are Quaker Seasons Caribbean Chicken,...

Drug Prices Rising Faster Than Inflation

A recent report has revealed that the prices of brand-name prescription drugs that are commonly used by older Americans are rising// faster than the rate of inflation. However AARP's quarterly Rx Watchdog Report shows that prices of the 75 generic drugs commonly used by older Americans remain unchanged. AARP survey of around 200 brand-name prescription drugs found that there wa...

New Flat Keyboard To Tackle Hospital Super Bug

A hospital in London has developed a flat computer keyboard that it claims could help reduce incidences of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus // aureus (MRSA), one of a number of hospital-acquired infections that kill 5,000 people each year in Britain. MRSA, which is transmitted mainly by touch, is a specific strain of the staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibioti...

Number of HIV Cases in India Not Inflated: Ministry

Rubbishing a British journal's research report that the number of HIV cases in India is inflated by 60 percent, the health ministry Friday said// that the estimate was unrealistic. According to the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), India is home to 5.2 million HIV-infected people in the age group of 15-59. Quoting an article published in British journal BMC Medici...

ChemGenex Treats First Patient With Ceflatonin

Melbourne-based ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals has treated the first patient in a new phase II/III clinical study designed to evaluate the efficacy of Ceflatonin// (homoharringtonine or HHT) in patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) who have failed or were intolerant to treatment with two or more prior tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). The new study is designed to complement the ong...

Britains Free Fruit -And -Vegetable -Scheme Falls Flat

According to a study, UK s 119 million pound campaign to boost fruit and vegetable intake among young children could have been in vain after all . Professor Janet Cade and colleagues of Leeds University assessed the impact of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SFVS), installed in 2004, on 3,700 young students from 98 schools in the north of England. A specially devised measure fo...