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Former smokers can be protected with vitamin A derivative

Former smokers constitute almost half of all newly-diagnosed lung cancer cases. Smoking inflicts serious damage to the lungs that do not disappear as soon as people quit, as it takes time for the tissue to recover. It has also been found that smoking causes genetic damage in the form of loss of a gene that could protect cells from becoming cancerous. Researchers from the University of Texas have...

Reliable Help For Smokers From Nicotine Patches and Former Smokers

Orlando: According to researchers, the support from a group of ex-smokers combined with nicotine patch, may be a good way to assist women smokers in public houses , to kick the habit. // Dr. Jeanette Andrews, nursing professor at the Medical College of Georgia observed 103 women smokers. About 50% of them were asked to use nicotine patch and behavioral treatment from nurses combined wi...

Former IMO President Shows Interest In Winning General Election

Dr James Reilly, former president of the Irish Medical Organization (IMO) has expressed his interest to contest in the next General Election for Fine Gael// . Previously, Nora Owen, the party’s former Justice Minister held the seat. The ambitious contestant is seeking the nomination in the Dublin North constituency and is positive about the success in the political party’s selection c...

Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case

Lester Crawford, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has been subjected to a federal investigation following accusations of financial improprieties. // Attorney Barbara Van Gelder has mentioned that a grand jury had begun a criminal investigation of Lester Crawford. She is believed to have told a federal magistrate, in a telephone hearing, on Thursday, that she...

Justice To Former Male Nurse In sex Discrimination Case

A former student male nurse yesterday won a landmark sex -discrimination case against NHS hospitals that did not permit him to perform intimate medical //procedures on women patients, if a female chaperone was absent. The Equal Opportunities Commission said the court ruling challenged assumptions that all men are sexual predators and as men make up only 10% of the workforce it...

Residents Of Former Industrial Towns In UK Most likely To Become Obese

Researchers are of the opinion that people living in former industrial towns, like Easington in England are the most likely to become obese.// According to a survey conducted by a credit reference company ‘Experion’ and analysts Dr Foster Intelligence, the residents of Easington, in the Durham county are 22% more likely to become obese than the average person, while those at another m...

Sex Determination Test Informers to be Rewarded

People who inform Haryana health department about illegal sex determination tests will be rewarded, officials said Thursday.// Health officials said informers would be given Rs.10,000 for every instance where information of sex determination tests or illegal abortion of fetus was found true. Decoy customers used for detecting the illegal practice will also be given Rs.10,0...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Suffers Heart Attack

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad suffered a heart attack Thursday and was admitted to hospital where he has been placed under observation. // Mahathir, 81, had complained of mild chest pains on Thursday morning and was then admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of the National Heart Institute, the hospital said in a statement released by the official Bernama news ag...

Fact Sheet on Polonium-210 - The Substance That Killed Former Russian Spy

Two UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) physicians with special expertise in radiation poisoning have compiled a fact sheet on polonium-210, the substance implicated// in the death of a former Russian spy. Benjamin C. Smith, M.D., is a nuclear engineer, and Ziad N. Kazzi, M.D., is a medical toxicologist. They are in UAB’s Department of Emergency Medicine. Kazzi, co-director of the UAB Cente...

Former Chilean Dictator Hospitalised After Heart Attack

Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet, 91, suffered a heart attack Sunday and was taken to a military hospital, an official statement said.// A medical bulletin described Pinochet's condition as "serious but stable". It said his heart was not working sufficiently and that his lungs were also affected. On Nov 25, Pinochet, who ruled from 1973-90, marked his 9...

Former Chilean Dictator Recovering

Augusto Pinochet, probably Chile's most hated dictator is said to be in a stable condition after a heart attack on Tuesday. //The General had undergone an angioplasty to reopen his arteries. Juan Ignacio Vergara, head doctor at the Military Hospital in Santiago said that though there was no immediate risk of death, his condition rendered him vulnerable to medical complications. <br...

Italian Who Met Former KBG Spy is Arrested

An Italian, Mario Scaramella who met - ex-KGB agent - Alexander Litvinenko on the day the Russian became ill from radiation poisoning was arrested.// He was arrested on Sunday in Naples while returning from London and taken to Rome, the man's father, Amedeo Scaramella said. Scaramella, who is the first person connected to the poisoning case to be arrested, met Litvinenko a...

Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players

A former official of the Mets, a leading baseball team of New York, has pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in San Francisco to distributing// performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of former and current Major League Baseball players for a decade. Kirk Radomski, 37, who had worked as a clubhouse assistant for the Mets from 1985-95, admitted to selling banned drugs, including ana...

Former French PM Rocard Discharged from Kolkata Hospital

Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard, who underwent emergency brain surgery after falling ill in India, was discharged from hospital here on Tuesday. "He has become absolutely normal. He has got back his total memory and he is discharged from the hospital today. And, he is absolutely normal as the health and memory is concerned," said G. K. Prusty, a neurosurgeon at CMRI. <br...

Former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Died of Cancer

Former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar today died in the Apollo Hospital of the city. He was suffering from Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cell and was admitted in May after his health condition deteriorated. Chandra Shekar, a MA from the Allahabad Universtiy, is survived by two sons. He was born on July 1, 1927. He was a Member of Parliament from Ballia Lok S...

Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.

Just as the father is preparing himself to electrify the entire world with a 24-hour musical spectacular, the son has a run-in with the law. He is hoping to arouse the conscience of the people on the burgeoning climate crisis, but his son has handed him a huge embarrassment by being hauled up on drug abuse charges. Orange County sheriff's deputies in Florida stopped Former...