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Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

Mifipriston, the new high-tech abortion drug being freely sold over the counter in the state, may usher in an era of do-it-yourself-abortions,// experts fear. Already, the sale is brisk as the tablets sell like laxatives, they claim, and even as the pharmaceutical concerns treat the city gynaecologists to five-star meals ostensibly to introduce them to “the revolutionary approach to medic...

Self control makes stress response easy

According to pshycologists, believing that one can control a stressful situation makes it easier on your heart and circulation.// Exposure to a stressful situation is potentially damaging to health because it increases blood pressure and resistance to blood flow. Over time, these responses may accumulate to increase the risk of heart disease. But the level of the physiological response t...

Study reveals that it is easy for people to learn from watching others learn

A Canadian research team from the University of Western Ontario had found out that it is possible to learn// complex physical actions by observing others. The study used a robot arm to show how to perform complex mechanical tasks to a group of people. When the video of this learning process was shown to a group, they learned to do the same action in less time than the people in the vi...

Getting A Suntan The Easy Way

New research finds melanotan-1 a new drug combined with sunlight helps the body tan quicker without a lot of sun exposure. MT-1 is a synthetic agent that is similar to the body’s hormone that regulates skin pigmentation. // In previous research, investigators showed MT-1 can induce tanning in human volunteers who are known to tan easily in the sun without the use of sunlight. Researcher...

Quitting Smoking Made Easy By Track Of New Chemical

A new study has been designed to help researchers track a tracer chemical, monamine oxidase (MAO), which will help those struggling to quit smoking. This enzyme has been found to play a crucial role in blood pressure and mood regulation // has two subtypes MAO A and B. The study showed that levels of MAO B in smokers' peripheral organs - the heart, kidneys, spleen and lungs - were red...

Fighting against disease as easy as eating eggs

The immune system has the remarkable ability to discriminate between self and non-self. If not for the effective functioning of the immune system, the human body would have lost its power to fight against diseases eventually leading to death. // The immune system produces certain substances called antibodies, which identify the invading pathogens and cancer cells, effectively labeling t...

Diagnostic Procedure For Tuberculosis Made Easy

Gone are the days where a patient has to wait for weeks to get the test results of tuberculosis, as it now takes just a few days for the disease that claim about 5,000 lives a day in the world//. A new diagnostic test can identify its bacteria in a few days' time. The Imperial College of London has developed a new diagnosis that identifies its bacteria in days and experts...

Men Easy To Satisfy Than the Opposite Sex In Terms Of Physical Appearance

Men can be easily made to feel happy about the way he looks by just looking in to the mirror and if he feels or thinks he looks great he is convinced//. Women on the other hand are very different what they feel is immaterial. It is difficult to satisfy them unless they are supplemented with actual results. A 12 week study program about training the strength was conducted by Ka...

Easy Access To Healthcare Services Essential For Better Survival Rates

Cancer survival rates have bettered among the teenagers and young adults (TYAs) in countries where people can have easy access to healthcare services// than in those where people have to pay for their own medical insurance It has been found that Australia's system of health insurance for all, regardless of age, meant that TYAs were more likely to survive cancer in Australia than they wer...

Tiny Easy Fitting Pump May Be The Answer For Major Open Heart Surgery

Experts say that they have developed a tiny device that could relieve the need for open-heart surgery for thousands of patients//. Scientists at Brunel University’s Institute have developed the new pump, measuring 4mm wide and 10cm long, for Bioengineering and doctors at London's. They claim that the dual-purpose pump would be fed into an artery in the groin area and pushed up inside...

Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

Researchers from the University of Virginia (UVa) and Reckitt-Benckiser (LON: RB) have found that getting a common cold is all very easy thanks // to the amount of viral contamination left behind by a cold sufferer. The study was presented at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). During daily activities, adults infected with the cold virus...

Birth- Control Made Easy And Tasty

A new chewable, spearmint-flavored birth-control tablet Femcon Fe, has hit pharmacy shelves. Femcon Fe, contains the same hormones like other oral contraceptives//. It is convenient in that it offers an option for women who want to carry their birth control pills with them, and those who dislike swallowing pills, according to Carl Reichel, the president of drug maker Warner Chilcott of Ro...

Quitting Not Easy for Smokers Born to Smoking Women

Smokers born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy may find it difficult to stop smoking according to a recent study//. A recent animal research suggests that individuals exposed to nicotine while in the womb may find it difficult to quit smoking. Duke University Medical Center researchers conducted this research. Prenatal exposure to nicotine is known to alter areas of t...

Study Urges Doctors to Go Easy on Antibiotics

Scientists Dr. Herman Goossens and colleagues working for the University of Antwerp, in Belgium claim results of a study that ‘clearly defines’ the link// between continued use of antibiotics and the development of ‘superbugs’ such as MRSA and VRSA due to antibiotic resistance. It has always be known that bacteria and other microorganisms develop resistance to antibiotics due to cont...

Robotic Suit to Assist Easy Movement for Elderly

Tokyo: Elderly Japanese may be able to enjoy independent lives even longer than they do now with a newly-developed // robotic suit, which is designed to assist the user's limbs and could be in use by next year. The suit, developed by professor Yoshiyuki Sankai and students of Tsukuba University, helps the user walk more easily and avoid muscle strains. It also helps the person lift ob...

Controlling Malarial Transmission Not Easy!

Malaria remains a dreaded human infection with around 300 million clinical cases and 3 million deaths reported every year. Controlling this disease// requires an understanding of its transmission and this involves a study of its basic reproductive number, R0. The basic reproduction number is the average number of secondary cases infected by a typical single infected case, in a populatio...

Easy Money-NHS Trusts Make Millions from Parking Fees

Cancer support groups have declared ‘shameful’ and ‘disgusting’ reports that reveal millions of pounds being collected in the name of parking fees//, from patients of NHS Trusts. The figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act show that out of the total 95 million pounds being made during 2005/2006,some trusts raised more than one million and many more than 500,000 pounds, i...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

UK authorities are asserting that they are not pressing panic buttons, at least not yet, in the matter of employing overseas doctors or taking in students from countries under the scanner for terrorist networks. All eight people arrested in the aftermath of two bungled car bombings here last week are from the medical profession, a British police official said Tuesday, rattling a na...