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Prevention better than fire-fighting. Hong Kong Beefs Up Precaution Against Bird-Flu

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is taking all precautionary measures against bird-flu, having fully understood the ramifications of the bird-flu crisis on the economic health. After bouncing back with an envious economic health, // a bird-flu crisis is the last thing needed so authorities are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the flu never enters, even by fluke! A new central poultry sla...

Smoking can depreciate intellegence

Smoking in old age appears to be linked to intellectual impairment over the age of 64, research has found. A team from the Institute of Psychiatry in London carried out a community survey of an area of England They studied more than 630 people aged 65 and over. Smoking and drinking habits were recorded at the beginning of the study. The volunteers' intellectual powers were also asses...

Smoking risk precedes colon cancer

People who smoke are more likely to develop the colorectal polyps that can precede colon cancer. Researchers at Texas analysed the medical records of 1,232 consecutive patients attending for colonoscopy. They found the incidence of polyps// - growths in the colon or rectum that may precede cancer - to be greater among current smokers than in ex-smokers and non-smokers. Moreover, the s...

Environment and Diet Found To Precipitate Asthma

Asthma is found to be more common in developed countries and has increased over the past three decades in many countries. According to a new // study environmental factors and diet may be the reason for higher rates of asthma seen in developed countries, according to a new study. In the study involving more than 10,000 primary-school children from three cities in China, the children from...

Stress A Precursors Of Asthma In Kids

A latest study reports that kids with asthma are more likely to experience worsening symptoms of asthma due to life events like moving or family relationships. // 60 children who had asthma for at least three years were studied . None had a history of chronic stress. Over 18 months, kids kept asthma diaries, recording asthma attacks and results of peak flow tests, which measured their br...

London Emergency Services Receive Wide Appreciation

The key for a metropolis in coping with a terrorist attack is how fast and co-ordinated// are the cities emergency medical services. Yesterday London witnessed one of the worst terrorist attacks when it was still celebrating the successful 2012 Olympics hosting bid. In the morning rush hours at 8.51 am a bomb explosion took place at Liverpool Street subway station and a call was recei...

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

The risk of Bird flu incidence into Bhitarkanika Sanctuary in Orissa is very high as migratory birds are expected// to arrive in this sanctuary in an other 2-3 weeks. Bhitarkanika Sanctuary is about 174 km from Bhubaneswar, Orissa which has nearly 300,000 migratory birds arrive from all parts of the world during winter, the sanctuary also as a collection of very large mangrove forests and...

Diligence Of Chennai Doctors Appreciated: Anbumani

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday urged the State Government to immediately take up renovation and modernisation of the 80-year-old Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet in north Chennai.// After a visit to the cholera wards in the hospital, Anbumani told journalists that though the doctors in the CDH had been successful in controlling the cholera outbre...

India should increase precautionary measures against Bird flu

India's Wait and Watch Policy against preparing for Bird flu epidemic may be very risky in a situation when all other countries are taking intensified precautionary measures for curbing in case of a bird flu outbreak. Even the World Health Organization has asked India to beef up // its precautionary measures to avoid an epidemic. India has a bird flu threat this winter from china due t...

Mystery behind the Formation of Vertebral Precursors Unraveled

Snail belongs to the extensively studied family of transcription factors. The Snail factors are known to control the transition of the epithelium to a mesenchyme state in cancer. //They are thought to play a role in controlling tumor invasion. Jacqueline Kim Dale, Ph.D., formerly a Senior Research Associate at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, and Olivier Pourquié, Ph.D., Stow...

PET-CT Scores High On Precision for Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer Recurrence

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have established via a study, the high reliability factor of PET-CT for detecting recurrent ovarian cancer// , which is perhaps even more precise than mere CT or PT conducted exclusively. The researchers analyzed 54 body CT, PET and PET-CT examinations on 53 patients with ovarian cancer who were being studied for recurrence of...

Lawn Mower injuries - children needs precaution

All over the world, when summer approach and the schools become closed for vacation, most of the children show interest in mowing the lawn. For any reasons like either to earn money or to help their parents, //children fall into the hands of dangerous condition, which needs more precaution. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that about 20,000 children below 19 years in an...

Sleep Disorders Are A Precursor To Brain Degeneration

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have found that people with sleep disorders develop degenerative brain diseases around 11 years after their disorder is diagnosed //. The findings of the study are to be presented June 19 at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies' SLEEP 2006 meeting in Salt Lake City....

Precautious Measure Help Tolerate Nausea In Patients

Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues finds it’s better to inform the patients who undergo difficult medical procedures //about the dizzy feel of nausea previously. ‘A person’s expectations can strongly affect how they respond to adversity – both subjectively and physiologically,’ said lead author Max E. Levine, Ph.D. ‘Being prepared for difficult...

Memory Loss and Amnestic MCI – Precursors of Alzheimer Diseas

Researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have found that Alzheimer’s damaged communication pathways between frontal and temporal lobes//, which are responsible for short-term as well as long-term memory power. According to a new study published in the Journal of Radiology, early Alzheimer’s disease plus recent memory loss may be linked to change brain activities in several area...

Body talk: Accept and appreciate the way you are, for a healthier you!

New York: Dissatisfied with ones own body, to the extent of comparing with others is not a sign of good health say Ohio State University researchers.// Women, who do not complain about their body and harbor a need to change the way they look, are more likely to eat healthy because of intuitive guidance, rather than the dissatisfied lot who resort to fancy diets and weight loss methods....

Elective surgery should take precedence over bureaucracy, says surgeon

A Christchurch surgeon has put forth the idea that it would do well to reduce bureaucracy in hospital administration, an idea that had earlier been opposed and led to the// removal of 5100 patients from the waiting list. The Canterbury District Health Board had removed the patients from waiting lists and referred tem to the general practitioners to comply with the Health ministry pol...

Precautionary Recall of Beef over E.coli Contamination Concerns

Jim's Market and Locker, Inc. conducted a voluntary recall of over 5,000 lbs. of ground beef as a precautionary move in order to alert consumers //of probable beef contamination that was processed and/or handled by the firm. On Saturday morning President Jim Goeser said, "We should note that we have a negative test on the beef in question from a certified lab but the voluntary recal...

Heart Rhythms Swing Precariously to Emotion, especially Anger

Heart rhythms can swing perilously when we are angry, even igniting life and death situations, to reveal scientists after studying nearly 1000 cardiac patients//. With the help of special instruments, called implantable cardioverter defibrillators, inserted near the heart, doctors studied the connection between emotions and heart rhythms in a group suffering heart disease. ICD’s are e...

Vitamin E Precursor Alpha-TOS Found Effective Against Breast Cancer Cells

A vitamin E precursor has been found to be effective to reduce tumor volume in breast cancer patients //with high levels of human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2). Almost 30% of breast cancer patients show high levels of HER2.This is presumed to be the feature that makes the disease stubborn to many treatments including chemotherapy drugs. Researchers in Griffith University...

Dual Gene Therapy Suppresses Lung Cancer in Preclinical Test

Combination gene therapy delivered in lipid-based nanoparticles drastically reduces the number and size of human non-small cell lung cancer tumors in mice, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center //and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report in the Jan. 15 edition of Cancer Research. Two tumor-suppressing genes given intravenously reduced...

Statin Therapy Cuts Bad Cholesterol Unprecedented 70 Percent

Research conducted at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston shows that a combination statin therapy lowers bad cholesterol by an unprecedented// 70 percent, and has the added benefit of reducing life-threatening inflammation that can lead to heart disease and stroke. The results published this week in the American Journal of Cardiology, also show 46 percent reduction in C-reac...

Tea Workers Health Precarious, a Study

A large number of laborers in Assam's tea gardens are suffering from under nutrition and infectious diseases, according// to a survey. The state, number one producer of tea in the country has most of its workers facing health problems says a survey conducted by the Regional Medical Research Center, NE Region of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The survey was unde...

Take Precautions Before You Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet

Your spring cleaning is done. Or is it? Did you clean out your medicine cabinet? Before you flush old or unused medication, precautions need to be taken . There is increasing evidence of small amounts of contamination in water because not all the medications get removed by sewage treatment systems, revealed Dr. Steven Sheaffer, Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at University...

New Approach to Treating Precancerous Esophagus Condition

The use of concentrated radio waves appears to be a safe and effective way to "burn" away abnormal cell growth in the esophagus that can be a precursor of cancer . The new procedure is being tested in patients with Barrett's esophagus, a condition associated with the continued reflux of stomach acids into the lower esophagus that can damage its lining over time. While this condition...

Precancerous Blood Donors Do Not Pass on the Disease

Dont worry yourselves to death even if those who have donated blood for you might have developed cancer since . There is no evidence that recipients of blood from donors with undiagnosed cancer are any more or less likely to develop cancer than recipients given blood from non-cancer donors, a study of more than 350,000 blood transfusion recipients shows. Researchers sa...