Archive for the ‘Health Science’ Category
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Washington, March 14 (ANI): A new study has found that 84 percent of male patients are still highly active 15 years after undergoing ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction.
Moreover, these patients, who had had reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Melbourne, Mar 14 (ANI): Australian doctors and scientists have warned that obesity rates and climate change are the two great threats to today’s civilization.
More than 300 health experts signed an open letter that said these forces were now "seriously damaging our planet''.
“As health professionals, we urge Australian politicians ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
London, Mar 13 (ANI): Doctors at OHSU Doernbecher Children''s Hospital have claimed that ethosuximide, one of the oldest available anti-seizure medications, is the most effective treatment for childhood absence epilepsy.
The experts reported the finding in this week''s New England Journal of Medicine.
To come up with the conclusion, the ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): Japanese scientists have found that it is possible to eradicate Helicobacter pylori infections by using antibiotics.
H. pylori can cause stomach ulcers and, in extreme cases, gastric cancer.
Seiji Shiota and Yoshio Yamaoka from Oita University, Japan and Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, respectively, gave H. pylori antibiotics ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Washington, March 13 (ANI): Reports indicate that a statement by World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), which has urged its members not to use tiger bone or any other parts from endangered wildlife, has been welcomed by the WWF and TRAFFIC.
The statement was made at a symposium on ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): People who undergo cancer surgery are more likely to complain of sexual dysfunction, a study has found.
Christian Schmidt and colleagues have said that sexual problems are frequent after operations for carcinoma of the rectum.
In Germany, each year more than 70,000 people develop colorectal carcinoma.
The study was ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
London, Mar 13 (ANI): An extract from tomato seeds has been found to be a potential alternative to aspirin in preventing heart attacks and strokes.
A tomato derivative called Fruitflow, derived from the gelatine that surrounds tomato seeds, is apparently effective in reducing the risk of blood clotting.
Scientists at ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Jammu, Mar.12 (ANI): Health services continue to remain paralyzed in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, as a strike by government medical college employees, excluding doctors, demanding regularization of jobs under the Sixth Pay Commission and release of pending arrears entered the third day on Friday.
Services at the ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
London, March 12 (ANI): While studying how the immune system operates, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine discovered a previously unidentified cell population that may be the body’s double-edged sword, fighting off parasitic infections but also causing the harmful immune responses that can lead to allergies ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Agra, Mar 12 (ANI): Ground water in Dayalbagh, a suburb of Agra, allegedly contains a high level of fluoride and is causing serious health hazards to locals.
People of the area suffer from various diseases on this account.
"The problem of fluoride in the ground water is almost in the whole ...
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