Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes
Scientists are assessing research that suggests high doses of vitamin E may help fight diabetes. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world with many ravaging complications, affecting millions of people. Complications can lead to heart disease, eye damage, kidney failure, non healing ulcers all over the body and can also cause complications of the nervous system. Diabet...Warrior Gene Claims Slammed by Maori
Maori leaders have slammed claims that Maoris carry a "warrior" gene which make them more prone to violence, risky behaviour and criminal acts, terming such claims// as dangerous and inflammatory. According to New Zealand researche, a genetic epidemiologist at Environmental Science and Research, Dr Rod Lea and his colleagues, Maori men have a "striking over-representation" of monoamine...Spirited, Smiling Young Warriors Take on Cancer
New Delhi: Dressed in colourful attire and frolicking to their heart's content, brave young hearts battling cancer and those who have survived came together here Thursday to// send the message - the disease is curable. The occasion being celebrated at the National Stadium was International Child Cancer Day. Prabhasimran Anand, a bubbly eight-year-old, who is still battling...Emboldened Warriors-Cancer Fighting Foods
All over the world, researchers are discovering that some foods and supplements do have an important role in the prevention of the modern// world’s deadliest killer- the ‘big C’. At the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, a one-day symposium, more than a dozen research papers on this topic will be presented. Selected highlights are shown below: Black raspb...Warrior Culture in Los Angeles Police Force
Anguished questions are being raised over the police brutality seen while dispersing a rally of immigrants in Los Angeles on May Day. To quote from an eye-witness account - Without warning, cops descended into a park full of families, homeless and handicapped individuals and street cart vendors. They were merciless. For the next 30 minutes, hundreds of activists and bysta...