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Beehives to curb caries

Now scientists are confirming in laboratory studies that one of the substance-propolis, a resinous product collected from beehives--may inhibit the development of tooth decay. Researchers at the University of Campinas, Brazil, found that propolis// considerably reduces dental plaque formation. Propolis is a potent inhibitor of glucosyltransferase (Gtf) enzymes, enzymes that synthesize glu...

Honey curbs bacteria in the oral cavity

The antimicrobial properties of honey could prove effective in arresting the dental plaque bacteria believed to be responsible for dental caries, a New Zealand researcher will report at the American Association// for Dental Research annual meeting this month. An enzyme in honey that produces hydrogen peroxide is the key to the antimicrobial activity of honey, according to Dr. Peter C....

Beehives to curb dental caries

Now scientists are confirming in laboratory studies that one of the substance-propolis, a resinous product collected from beehives--may inhibit the development of tooth decay. Researchers at the University of Campinas, Brazil, found that propolis// considerably reduces dental plaque formation. Propolis is a potent inhibitor of glucosyltransferase (Gtf) enzymes, enzymes that synthesize glu...

Curbing medication errors with new rules

The FDA has proposed two new rules that would help improve patient safety by reducing medication errors. Medication errors alone are believed to be responsible for as many as 7,000 deaths. These errors have been attributed to problems of medications with similar names, poor handwriting by doctors on prescriptions, or too many new drugs for doctors to remember as they go from patient to pa...

Wake Up Call: U.N Takes Stock to Curb Fake Medicines Racket

The Counterfeit Medicines Racket is growing at alarming proportions. The United Nations has risen to the occasion, driving a // world wide initiative , by way of a task force team that would strive to put an end to the sale of counterfeit drugs. A three day meeting is underway in Rome, starting today, February 16th, where all the key players - Pharamaceutical companies, Regulatory bodies...

Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug curbs the disease in mic

Frank LaFerla, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and also the senior author in the research said that the experimental drug// AF267B is effective against both forms of brain lesions found in Alzheimer's disease in mice. This compound (AF267B) curbs both the amyloid protein plaques that collect in Alzheimer's-affected brains, as well as another les...

Generous Donation by US Helps to Curb the Outbreak of Measles in Fiji

Recently there is an outbreak of measles in Fiji but so far there have not been any human fatalities. The US has extended its helping hands in an effort// to assist the Ministry of Health. The American Embassy has donated $US120, 000 ($F215, 439) worth of measles vaccines. The World Health Organization’s representative in the South Pacific, Doctor Chen Ken said that there were 70 confirm...

India Needs To Get Its Act Together To Curb the Rise of HIV/AIDS

India doesn’t seem to have learnt its lessons yet, because there appears to be a lackadaisical approach in curbing the spread of AIDS/HIV//. Next only to South Africa with the highest number of AIDS/HIV cases, the figure touching a mammoth five million mark as per statistics in 2003, very little has been done ever since to bring down the number of AIDS/HIV cases, according to Prof Suzanne...

Health Survey To Curb Childhood Obesity In Australia

Concerns have been raised about the alarming rate of increase in childhood obesity among school children in Victoria. According to official estimates, about 6% of Australian children are obese and 17% are overweight. // VicHealth, one of the important health promotion bodies of the State has highlighted the need for appropriate measures to curb childhood obesity. Additionally, it has...

Rich Countries Need to Curb Genital Surgery Before Criticizing Traditional Practices

Female genital mutilation (FGM), excision of clitoris is practiced as an initiation rite for women in rich countries without the use of anesthetics. A senior doctor sounds// off that instead of blaming the traditional practice that is going on for generations, sorting out the aesthetic procedure seeks prime importance. A report published on bmj.com last month probes that the procedur...

Bedwetting Could Be Curbed By A Simple Change In Diet

According to experts making some simple changes in the diet will go a long way in curbing bedwetting. Parent’s watchfulness of what their children eat and drink// makes a lot of difference in solving the problem. Dr. Kirk Pinto, pediatric urologist at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, said that children who are having trouble with bedwetting should avoid the three...

Drug Approved to Curb Alcohol Dependency

A study of alcoholics has revealed that of the two drugs approved for curbing alcoholics' cravings, naltrexone, proved to be little more beneficial than specialized counseling. // However the second drug, acamprosate, on the market was not better than a placebo. Naltrexone, was sold generically in daily pill form under the brand name,ReVia by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., while acampros...

Govt to Pass Amendment to Curb Sex Selective Abortions: Ramadoss

Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Wednesday assured representatives of the civil society and NGOs that the government is willing //to bring amendments in the legislation concerned to prevent sex selective abortions. "The government is willing to bring further amendments in the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act for st...

Government has Set up a Special Committee to Curb Polio Cases

The Indian government has set up a special committee to check cases of polio that have more than doubled since 2005.// Till the first week of August the country reported 155 cases, as against 66 last year. Most cases are from Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state. "The committee comprising doctors, health workers and health ministry officials will work in collabo...

Allowing Children To Drink At Home Curbs Binge Drinking

In a unique way to curb binge drinking, researchers say parents should allow children try out alcohol at home. The study says that allowing youngsters // to drink at parties and at home may be the best way to teach them to drink responsibly. Professor Mark Bellis, the author of the report said that children who are allowed to watch their parents consume alcohol in moderation and allow...

Brain Protein Maybe Helpful in Curbing Obesity

Scientists have identified a protein in the brain of rats that they say may help curb obesity though they haven't yet tested how the protein behaves in human beings.// Alessandro Bartolomucci and colleagues at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) in Rome spotted the TLQP-21 protein in the brain of male rats and isolated it...

NHS Will Do Well to Curb Use Of Umbilical Cord Blood For Treatment of Cancers

should discourage commercial banking of umbilical cord blood. On the contrary, women should be motivated to donate to public// blood banks without the motive of financial gains. Umbilical cord blood endowed with stem cells are beneficial in treating diseases like childhood leukemia. Bone marrow which is used for treating such diseases is sometimes replaced with cord blood, which is ine...

Brain development in teens curbed by alcohol tolerance

According to a study published on Tuesday, the younger brains of teens are capable of withstanding alcohol’s effects on social behavior.// However, the researchers found that this enhanced alcohol tolerance may make teens indulge in heavy drinking that could result in permanent damage to the under-developed regions of the brain. They used adolescent rats as substitutes for t...

Stricter Norms for Chemists in Punjab to Curb Addiction

The Punjab government and its pharmacy council will frame stricter rules for the chemists to// curb addiction to medicines, especially among the youth. Medical Education and Research Minister Tikshan Sood told reporters here Wednesday that the department and the pharmacy council would ensure that the 25,000 chemist shops in the state employed qualified pharmacists to dispense medicin...

US Experts Necessitated On An Action Plan To Curb AIDS In Blacks

Nowadays AIDS in America is being called as 'Black Disease' as commented by Phill Wilson, executive director of the black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles. //It is because of the growing AIDS population among the blacks, accounting to more than 55% of the total AIDS cases across the country. African-Americans comprise 13% of the total population in United States and it is said that they are...

Government Initiates A Program To Curb HIV

A Program called ‘Safe Needle Exchange Program’ has been initiated by Health Ministry inorder to curb the increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS among the drug users in the city. // While speaking to the reporters at the third international inter-faith conference, Anbumani Ramadoss, Union minister said that the virus is more likely to contract through the educated youth who are prone to drug us...

WHO Alerts Governments to Step Up Action to Curb AIDS

WHO has coaxed political leaders of the Western Pacific region to take action to curb HIV. Survey points out that 2006 has witnessed the phenomenal increase// in Aids infection with figures escalating to 8.6 million. Only 1 million of that figure had AIDS in the previous year. WHO has issued the call to governments to intervene and adopt appropriate measures to contain the spreading of th...

Movement Of Counterfeit Drugs Should Be Curbed: Ramadoss

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Monday stressed the need for inter-state cooperation to prevent movement of substandard and counterfeit drugs.// "States should create a good system of intelligence-cum-legal wing, generate information and prepare dossiers on the culprits. They should share the information with all the stakeholders to facilitate curbing this menace," Ramadoss said.<b...

Help of Minority Leaders Needed to Curb Polio: Ramadoss

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Tuesday said the government was keen to interact with leaders of religious minorities to help curb the polio outbreak in India.// According to him, a sense of "complacency" in the polio immunisation campaigns in Uttar Pradesh last year had led to the growth of the disease in the state this year. "We had held a number of discussions with m...

A Drug That Curbs the Urge for Alcoholic Drinks is Here

Scientists from Australia have announced that they have discovered a drug that will curb craving for alcoholic drinks. //This drug supposedly blocks the sensation of a” euphoric high” that is reached when drunk . The research studied hypothalamus, the part of the brain where orexin, is produced .Orexin is a chemical that induces euphoria. A compound that effectively blocks the effect of...

Estrogen Curbs Appetite: Research

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found out that Estrogen regulates the brain's energy metabolism in the same way as the hormone leptin, leading the way to a viable// approach to tackling obesity in people resistant to leptin. Their findings were published in the December 31 online issue of Nature Medicine. "We found that estrogen suppresses appetite using the same pathways...

Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way as the Hormone Leptin

Estrogen regulates the brain’s energy metabolism in the same way as the hormone leptin, leading the way to a viable approach to tackling obesity in people resistant to leptin//, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the online issue of Nature Medicine. “We found that estrogen suppresses appetite using the same pathways in the brain as the adipose hormone leptin,” said lead...

Antiviral Drugs Curb Influenza Virus

According to an analysis of household-based studies by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Michigan and University of Virginia, published// in the current print edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology, two antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, are highly effective when given as a preventive measure to reduce the spread of the influenza virus....

IRS Helps Curb Malaria in the Tropics

In our special series this week we’re looking at efforts to fight malaria. One tool used by health professionals is indoor residual spraying, or IRS//. Insecticides are applied to the interior walls of homes to protect the family against the mosquito that carries the disease. With IRS, protection can be guaranteed for up to one year. is a medical entomologist who chairs a U.N. Committ...

Discovery Leads to Way to Curb Anthrax Effect

Researchers have found a mechanism that anthrax bacteria use to elude the body’s defenses, which could lead to a drug or therapy// to lessen the effect of anthrax bacterial species Bacillus anthracis if used in a bioterrorism attack. For the last four years, Dr. Rowe Byers, professor of microbiology, and Dr. Jean Arceneaux, associate professor of microbiology, have worked on the proje...

Vitamin C Could Help in Curbing Cancer

New Zealand researchers claimed Friday that vitamin C was vital for good health and could even help beat cancer by making chemotherapy treatment more effective//. Dr Margret Vissers, from Otago University's Free Radical Research Group, said laboratory experiments showed for the first time that vitamin C was a vital part of healthy living and not just a health supplement to be taken whe...

‘Rip Van Winkle’ Treatment May Curb Cancer Cell Growh

A new research supports the theory that bringing about senescence in aged cells may help curb proliferation of tumor cells//. Inducing senescence in aged cells may be sufficient to guard against spontaneous cancer development, according to a paper published online this week in European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO reports). It was previously unknown whether cellular senescence or...

Asia Pacific Region Officials Agree to Curb Aviation Pollution

Governments in the Asia-Pacific region have now agreed to curb airline pollution through a range of measures such as reducing the number of planes circling// airports as they wait to land. Only a couple of days ago Australia had announced that it was introducing traffic control changes at its airports to enhance aviation fuel efficiency. Flights would be appropriately rescheduled so t...

Drinking Age Must Be Raised to Curb Binge Drinking-Voices Warn

A report has come out with the suggestion that Britain’s drinking age should be raised to 21, in order to curb the binge-drinking spree that is threatening to knock out teenagers. // In an article for the journal published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), journalist Jasper Gerard claims that Britain has "lost the plot" over the regulation of alcohol. Gerard...

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

The illegal barter of kidneys was first exposed when thirty poor women of the fishing community, living on Chennai’s outskirts, were discovered to have traded their kidneys.// requires that only relatives of patients be allowed to donate kidneys for transplantation. However a recent report from the Ministry of Health of Tamil Nadu seems to i...

Botox Could Curb Excessive Sweating too

Botox, a chemical used in cosmetic treatment, can also stop excessive sweat, German doctors report. It is already approved by the FDA to treat severe underarm sweating//. Botox, the magic toxin, can apparently be used not just to iron out wrinkles. It can also be used to curb excessive sweating, German doctors have found. Botox contains a tiny amount of the botulinum toxin....

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

The government launched a campaign Monday against South Korea's hard-drinking culture which costs billions of dollars a year in social and economic losses, officials said . The campaign focuses on advertisements on television and elsewhere to enhance public awareness of the dangers of excessive drinking, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said. "South Koreans consider offering alcoh...

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

The Indian Army is to conduct psychological tests on its recruits in a bid to control the large number of suicides and fratricides that have occurred in the past few years, a defence scientist said Friday. "Through the new tests (being introduced from October), we would be able to gauge the personality of a recruit, his ability to grasp a given situation and the ratio of positive t...

Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

Duke University Medical drugs Center researchers have opened up a new way to screen drugs for possible heart-related side effects and to develop new drugs. The Duke researches compared the actions of two breast cancer drugs in experiments involving human cells and rats. The drugs in question were the older drug trastuzumab, whose trade name is Herceptin, and the newer drug lapatinib,...

Talcum Powder Curbs Lung Tumor Risk

GAINESVILLE, Fla. University of Florida researchers report the talcum powder stunts growth of metastatic lung tumors by cutting the flow of blood .The talc stimulates healthy cells to produce endostatin, a hormone considered the magic bullet for treating metastatic lung cancer. The UF researchers say talc is an exciting new therapeutic agent for a cancer largely considered incurable....