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Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

The idea that children who are overweight will grow up to be overweight adults isn't especially accurate. Many studies have found that body mass index in childhood is very often reflected in body mass index in adulthood. People who were thinnest as children and fattest as adults tended to have the highest adult risk of disease. The study looked at the health records of 1,142 children....

Computers may become surgeons

Brain surgery, endoscopies and other complicated medical procedures could be made safer and faster in the future by using computers. Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles are examining the way people use vision// to interact with their environment and are attempting to design computer systems based on their findings. Currently, surgeons routinely use technology tha...

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

A new system has been developed to prevent mix-ups over identification of newborn babies. The system, which records the fingerprints of newborns as barcodes, has been introduced in the maternity ward of La Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid, Spain. As soon as babies are born, their fingerprints, and those of their// mothers, are stored in electronic barcodes which mother and baby wear on their...

Diabetes could become an epidemic

The Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation is predicting a 300pc rise in the number of people affected by Type 2 Diabetes, though other experts say this figure is possibly a little high. In a new report from the DRWF it is indicated that an epidemic of type two diabetes is to occur. If left untreated or mismanaged the condition can lead to heart disease, blindness and kidney failure. I...

Teenagers may become violent after watching aggressive acts

Witnessing crime or violence may have a bad effect on the very impressionable// teens. These adolescents may feel that it’s ok to be violent and later they become violent too. In a five-year study done by the researchers of Harvard Medical School involving over 1500 children and teenagers have found these starling results. The researchers for the study had studied the tens,...

Influenza Avian Flu strain has become more contagious and dangerous.

The Influenza avian flu strain - H5N1 has mutated since 2002 to become more dangerous //and increases the risk of causing a pandemic disease. The Asian strain H5N1 influenza virus has changed its characters since 2002, as the virus has become less deadly to ducks; the virus multiplies in the ducks without infecting them but spreads and infects other birds and humans. The duck Waterfowl...

Girls Who Undergo Genital Mutilation Can Become Infertile

A recent study that appears in the current edition of The Lancet said that girls who undergo genital mutilation might be at high risk from becoming infertile.// Female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced in more than 30 countries. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 132 million women and girls in Africa have undergone FGM, and that about 2million procedures are don...

Gene causes moles to become cancerous

According to recent finding, researchers have identified a gene that causes benign moles on the skin to become cancerous. This could allow doctors to treat more effectively patients with early stages of melanoma. A team of scientists lead by Dr. Rhoda Alani of Johns Hopkins University, found a gene known as Id1 that causes cancer cells to grow in melanoma. Id1 blocks a tumor suppresso...

Moles become cancerous due to genes

According to new study, researchers have identified a gene that causes benign moles on the skin to become cancerous. This could allow doctors to treat more effectively patients with early stages of melanoma. A team of scientists lead by Dr. Rhoda Alani of Johns Hopkins University, found a gene known as Id1 that causes cancer cells to grow in melanoma. Id1 blocks a tumor suppressor gene th...

Genetic Tests Could Become As Affordable As Blood Tests

Researchers in the US have developed a way to print DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), which they say will one day make genetic tests as cheap as blood tests. The technique called Supramolecular Nano-Stamping (SuNS) uses handy genetic tools called microarrays, which are not generally used in medical diagnostics.// The new technique has been developed by Francesco Stellacci and his...

Sensitive teeth could become bad memories

From children to adults everyone has had a sensitive tooth at some point of their life. A visit to the dentist will tell you that 'your tooth is worn out' or 'you brush in a hard way, so your teeth are damaged.' // Now scientists from the Leeds University have come out with a solution that could make sensitive teeth a bad memory. The researchers have developed a solution which they cla...

Obesity Among Children May Become a Major Problem

The NHS Scotland figures have revealed that about 34% of the 12 year olds in Scotland are either clinically obese or overweight. The Information Statistics Division (ISD) has published this research conducted by the Government. Childhood obesity is directly connected to latter year // problems like diabetes, depression, osteoarthritis, back pain, low self-esteem and heart disease, which...

India becomes a member of IARC

At a press release Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Information and Broadcasting Minister said that Dr. Manmohan Singh has approved for a six million dollar scheme to join the International Agency// for Research on Cancer (IARC). It helps to prevent and improve cancer treatments in the country. This membership will help in the development of cancer vaccine in India and help us recognize the envi...

India set to become the global knowledge hub

Now the fourth largest reservoir of scientific and research talent in frontier areas of research in the world, India is poised to emerge as the preferred hub for knowledge-based industries. // Its skills in the knowledge economy are not restricted to information and communication technology alone, but spans agriculture, defence, novel drug discovery, biotech, nanotechnology, missile tec...

Manned Mars Mission May Become A Reality

An ion engine has been built by Australian scientists which is reported to be ten times more powerful than the one used by ESA for its Moon mission. This brings a manned mission to planet Mars closer to reality. // An electric field is used by ion engines to accelerate a beam of ions away from the spacecraft providing propulsion. Tests on a prototype at ESA’s Electric Propulsion La...

Malaria Detecting Watch May Become A Health Hazard

Medical experts have warned that the new wristwatch invented by South Africa's Gervan Lubbe which can detect the symptoms of malaria can turnout to be a health hazard. They have warned that the device may contribute towards spreading infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS.// There are some who have also expressed doubts if the watch can really perform functions like detecting diseases. 'I...

Children Of Alcoholics Tend to Become Drug Abusers In Adulthood

A new study conducted by David Flora, PhD of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (now at York University), and Laurie Chassin, PhD of Arizona State University//, says that parental alcoholism is directly linked to illicit drug well into adulthood. It is generally known that children of alcoholics (COA's) suffer because of their parent's abusive habits, but this is the first time...

Kerala To Become Testing Center For US Bound Nurses

India has now become a testing ground for nurses who are bound to the US. This follows intense lobbying on the part if the Indian State Government of Kerala. // The National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) may be conducted in Kerala by the US. The NCSBN is a not-for-profit organization, whose membership comprises the boards of nursing in the 50 states, the District of Columbia a...

Himachal Pradesh Fails To Become Health Tourism Center

The Indian State of Himachal Pradesh's plans to become a flourishing health tourism center has not proved to be a success. There were plans to take advantage of its sylvan settings and its 'panchkarma' ayurvedic cure system // and establish a healthcare hub similar to that which came into being in yet another Indian state, namely Kerala. Four years ago, the Central Health Ministry sa...

Cancer Treatment To Become Less Expensive

The diagnosis and treatment of cancer will become less expensive and easier in India as a result of the latest technologies. Cancer can be easily detected with the help of polyfex stent, and Fuji intelligent chromo endoscope.// This will particularly contribute towards preventing gastrointestinal cancer claiming too many lives in the country, according to the Society of Gastrointestinal E...

India Can Become Major HIV Drugs Producer

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that India can easily become a market leader in the manufacture and supply of medicines for HIV across the world. Several people in the African Continent are dying as they do not have access to HIV drugs.// India is in a position to provide low priced diagnostic tests for children, and also contribute the trained health personnel badly need...

Inhuman Error: Medicine Becomes Poison, Causing Death

Blame it on human error, fate, bad luck or just apathy- What do you say , to yet another shocking case of human error, where a woman dies after being given a medicine that was not meant for her.// Barbara Maguire, 51, was admitted to Glasgow's Stobhill Hospital in the emergency ward, after a stomach complaint in 2004. NHS, has confirmed that Miss Maguire, by a quirk of fate...

Nature’s Bounty ,Seaweed, Becomes A Blessing For Diabetes Patient

An Australian lady patient, has become the first receipent of a simple transplant method for diabetes, which depends on seaweed. She is believed to be the third patient world over,to have undergone this transplant procedure, an experiment that will not need anti-rejection drugs. // Janice Stewart was injected with about 200,000 pancreatic cells taken from a dead donor , which was arr...

Mice model becomes surrogate for human prostate

Another importance of stem cells comes to the fore front as claimed by Australian scientists who have grown a human prostate in mice. This is the first time in the world that such a feat has been accomplished. // The feat is to grow a human prostate gland in mice using embryonic stem cells. This would be helpful in treatment for prostate cancer and other diseases....

Smoking Related Illness Could Become A Major Cause Of Death By 2020

According to the WHO, narrowing of the breathing passage, which results due to smoking is said to become the world's third biggest killer by 2020. // Called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the ailment entails two specific health problems: chronic-obstructive bronchitis and emphysema of the lungs. Unlike simple bronchitis, the breathing passages narrow due to...

India On The Road To Become 'Open Defecation Free'

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the Rural Development Minister today in New Delhi Announced that the country was set to achieve open defecation free status under the governments // Total Sanitation Programme ( TSC) by 2012. Open defecation is a problem that is not faced only in rural India but also in urban India. The lack of enough public bathrooms, a clean sanitation environment, and basic...

India Can Become A Role Model In Combating HIV Infections

India's success in reducing new HIV infections in the southern states through awareness and condom-use campaigns could serve as a roadmap for other countries, says an Indo-Canadian expert.// 'There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's AIDS problem will explode - as the disease had done in southern Africa - but we now have direct evidence of something posi...

Studies Show Brain becomes Less Specialized With Age

According to studies published by Yale University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, earlier this month One of two separate areas of the brain light up when young people look at a house or a face // , but each image activates both areas of the brain at the same time in older people. The researchers though not yet sure, one theory according to Christy Marshuetz, assistant...

HIV Becomes More Infectious Due To Human Immune-system Protein

Scientists have found that the human form of immune-system protein, cyclophilin A, changes the shape of HIV particles to make them more infectious//. Cyclophilin A is found in HIV-1 when the virus attacks human and monkey cells, researchers at University College of London said. The researchers, who infected cells from Old World monkeys with HIV-1, found that cyclophilin A c...

Medical Education Becomes Dearer In Scotland

After India now it is time for the medical students in Scotland to voice their opinion against the hike in their fees. British students held demonstrations //outside the Scottish Parliament to show their disapproval. The students said that the fees of up to ￡2,700 were very much close to the top-up fees. But ministers and Scottish Executive say that they were opposed to top-up fees. Bu...

Youngsters Become Criminals Due To Alcohol and Drugs

According to a report it is found that there is an increase in number of children charged with alcohol/drug-related crimes. Campaigners asked for tougher action// to tackle young criminals. According to the statistics the number of children under the age of 16 charged for criminal offences due to alcohol increased by more than 150 % in the past year. The crimes include violence, sexual c...

India Set To Become Hub For Clinical Trials

India is fast emerging as an attractive destination for conducting global clinical trials due to availability of vast pool of patients and also well trained medical professionals and sophisticated technological infrastructure. // The clinical research outsourcing market in India was valued at Rs 3.1 billion in 2005 and is expected to grow to Rs 13.2 billion by 2010. Most of the US and...

Elderly Become Conscious About Their Looks

According to a recent survey it was found that people who were in their sixties have become increasingly conscious about the way they look//. This resulted in an increase in the rates of cosmetic surgery. The TV programmes have also played their parts in creating awareness among the procedures used in these surgeries. Statistics show that there is a 40 % increase in the number of men and...

Drawing from Myth to Become Mistress of Spices

The smell of egg and mutton biriyani fills the air at Shilpa's stall at the 'Aravanis' talent village' near the Koothandavar temple as the Hindu deity is readied// for his marriage with hundreds of transvestites in an annual ritual. Shilpa is an 'Aravani', one who is among nearly 300,000 transvestites who live in this South Indian state and cooking is one skill they have traditionally...

British Psychiatrist At 62 Becomes The Countries Oldest Mother

A 62-year-old child psychiatrist has become Britain’s oldest mother after undergoing IVF treatment//. It was reported that Patti Farrant, professionally known as Patricia Rashbrook, gave birth to a boy, weighing about 3 kg, was born at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, by caesarean on Wednesday. It was reported that she is already a mother to three grown-up children from a...

First Test-tube Baby Set to Become a Mother Herself

Louise Brown, 27, the world's first test-tube baby, is expecting a baby of her own.// Louise was born using IVF to her parents, John and Lesley on July 25, 1978, after trying unsuccessfully for nine years to have a child. After Louise's birth hope was restored to many infertile couples. Millions of babies have been born using IVF including Natalie,20, who is Louise's sister....

Sleep in' dirty – Unwashed duvets become a hotbed for mite

This might be a wake up call to get the duvets washed and clean. Research has found out that many Britons do not wash their duvets even in six months, and these could// be the most happening places for mites, filth and even dead skin. A survey conducted in many households revealed that two in five Britons confessed to sleeping on duvets unwashed for 6 months. The dust mites and filt...

India Hopes to Become Free of Bird Flu Soon

India hopes to soon declare itself free from bird flu, incidence of which early this year had hit the country's poultry industry hard, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said today. // Addressing a conference of state secretaries and directors of Animal Husbandary on Avian Influenza, he asked state governments to implement the central package for poultry farmers and said the government...

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...

Mature Muscle Fibers Can Revert to Become Cancerous

Mature muscle fibers, rather than their less-developed neighbors, are the tissues that turn malignant in a soft-tissue cancer//that strikes children and teens, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center Dallas have found. The research, performed in fruit flies, not only provides a clue to how the cancer arises, but also means that scientists can use the...