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Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

A key hormone involved in appetite control, called ghrelin, has been identified by researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University(OHSU). Scientists have demonstrated the effect of the hormone on the brain and have shown that the hormone activated the specialized neurons in the hypothalamus involved in weight regulation. Ghrelin is a hormone produced in the stomach with the abilit...

Stop spending on new treatments; allocate funds to improve the existing treatments.

A study conducted by Steven H. Woolf, M.D., professor and director of research in Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Department of Family Medicine reported that it will be fruitful // and more lives would be saved if US stopped spending on improving the medical facilities and provided the existing facilities to the public. The congress allocates funds to the National Institute of He...

￡4m Allocated To Tackle Suicide and Protect Lif

Health Minister Shaun Woodward announced that funds to the tune of ￡4m or more will be allocated to combat the rise of suicide cases in Ireland. This spending should take care of containing// the unhealthy trend, atleast for the next two years. The suicide rates have gone up by almost 50%. A senior medical post will be instituted to exclusively cater to mental health problems with sui...

MP Government Allocated Rs. 3 Billion For Women-Children Nutrition

The Madhya Pradesh government has allocated Rs.3 billion for providing a nutritious diet to undernourished women and children in the state//, Rs.1.9 billion more than the previous year. The main beneficiary would be children, adolescent girls and expectant and nursing mothers who will get the supplementary nutritious diet from mother and child welfare centres called anganwadis, said a...

Money Allocated for Child Welfare Programme In Kashmir

Srinagar, June 4. Nearly Rs 3.66 crore has been sanctioned for providing nutrition to children in 1,703 Aanganwari centres in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district //during the current fiscal, Social Welfare Minister Haji Nisar Ali said today. A total of 1,010 Aanganwari centres are functional in the district while 693 more are being set up during the current fiscal, Ali told a meeting of...

Funds Allocated to Illinois and Chicago to Prepare in Case of a Flu Pandemic

Federal officials made a formal announcement about providing Illinois and Chicago with additional financial assistance to the tune of millions of dollars//, for executing plans to combat influenza pandemic. Health officials have been perturbed about cases of bird flu in Europe and Asia, which has also raised concerns of an impending worldwide pandemic. The U.S. Health and Human Servi...

Mental Health Providers Can Be Successfully Located With Pediatricians

Mental health providers can be successfully located with or in pediatric practices, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the N.C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.// Writing in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, the researchers said, “With the increased need for identification, diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders in pri...

Researchers Locate Genetic Link for Nicotine Dependence Among African Americans

Scientists at the University of Virginia Health System have identified, for the first time ever, several genetic regions that are likely to carry the genes for nicotine// dependence (ND) in an African American population. This is the first genome-wide study of such linkage and included the largest group of African Americans to participate in this type of linkage study. Until this study, p...

Funds Allocated To Prevent Transmission of HIV From Mother To Child

The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) of India, has come up with another project. This scheme named "Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS" //is expected to cost Rs 342.81-crores. The Global Fund aids the financial assistance for this scheme. The fund will also be spent for reducing the transmission of HIV to women from their partners and to provide H...

MDCT Accurately Locates Bowel Perforation: Study

A new study shows that Multidetector CT (MDCT) without the use of contrast media can show the precise site of a bowel perforation.// This helps in avoiding the need for surgeons to do exploratory surgery of the patient's gastrointestinal tract to locate the problem. In the past, the best way to find a perforation in the bowel was to administer oral or rectal contrast media then watc...

Central Budget Allocates Rs.99.47 Bn Proposal for Rural Health Mission

New Delhi: The central budget for 2007-08 Wednesday proposes an increase in the allocation for the flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) from Rs.82.07 billion in 2006-07 to Rs.99.47 billion in 2007-08. // Presenting the budget, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said in parliament that major emphasis would be on mother and child care and prevention of communicable diseases like t...

NRI Doctors Relocate to India

Brain drain is being reversed it seems, thanks to the boom in the Indian// economy. Many foreign and Indian doctors settled abroad are now seeking to relocate to India. The Artemis Health Science (AHS), a premier medical institution in Gurgaon, near India’s capital, New Delhi, says it is getting a lot of enquiries from foreign doctors in the United States and the European...

Multiple Regions of the Brain Locate Pain

Spatial aspects of pain, an important component of diagnosis, are now revealed to be processed by many more areas of the brain, than previously thought.// Spatial aspects of pain are a common problem in diagnosis, said Robert Coghill, Ph.D., senior researcher on the study and a neuroscientist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Patients cannot always distinguish pain from indi...

Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

Sanaa is at least 2,500 years old. It claims to be the world's oldest inhabited city. It is also the capital of Yemen in Middle// East. Its population of 1.74 millions is said to be living on living on borrowed time. For in a country where water is a scarce commodity, whatever water is available is soaked up by khat. Everywhere one turns in Yemen, one can find men with cheek...

Novel Technology to Locate and Treat Tumors

Research teams at Yale University and the University of Rhode Island have demonstrated a new way to target and potentially treat tumors using a short piece of protein that acts like a nanosyringe to deliver tags or therapy to cells, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers show that, the protein fragment, called pHLIP (pH (Low)...

Russian Government Allocate Funds for HIV Vaccine Project

The Russian government will allocate one billion rubles (US$39.4 million) to develop a vaccine for HIV, Russia's chief doctor has said. "The government will soon issue a decree allocating one billion rubles to boost current research for a HIV vaccine," Gennady Onishchenko said Thursday. He said four leading Russian research institutes would take part in the three-year...