India has patented an ayurveda medicine that promises to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy during cancer treatment and improve the blood platelet count among patients.
The medicine, Medihope, made by a Pune-based manufacturer, was awarded the patent after it received favourable field results. It will be in the Indian market within a month.
“We [...]
Pregnant women who consume caffeine even about a cup of coffee daily are at higher risk of giving birth to an underweight baby, researchers said.
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The new findings published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) also linked any source of caffeine, including that from tea, cola, chocolate and some prescription drugs, to relatively slower foetal [...]
Discovery by Scientists at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics :-
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Ten years ago, when biophysicist Abhijit Chakrabarti started looking at telltale proteins in the red blood cells of children suffering from leukaemia, there weren’t many takers for his research.
Chakrabarti, professor of biophysics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in Calcutta, believed that the [...]
A groundbreaking treatment for pain, eight times stronger than morphine, has been discovered by scientists. The revolutionary technique involves an injection of the protein prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), which can combat serious discomfort for more than three days — an astonishing 14 times as long as the five hours of pain [...]
Vitamin D, once linked to only bone diseases such as rickets and osteoporosis, is now recognized as a major player in overall human health.
In a paper published in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Anthony Norman, an international expert on vitamin D, identifies vitamin D’s potential for [...]
Stents, a new technology used in angioplasty is very effective, Dr Sunil Kapoor, Chief Cardiologist at Care Hospitals, said .
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Kapoor attended the World Conference of Cardiologists at Washington recently.
Stents, used in angioplasty procedures, are thinner, coated with new drugs which were more effective in prevention of re-narrowing.
Stents also have biocompatible, biodegradable polymer which dissolves by [...]
Scientists have designed a sensitive prototype to test dozens of diseases simultaneously by scanning a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva or urine samples.
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Unlike lab tests today, results could be available in minutes, not hours to weeks. The prototype works on the same principle - giant magnetoresistance or GMR - that reads data on [...]
If you think that snoring is bad for your health, think again, for a study has suggested that the nocturnal snorts, whistles and wheezes can give you a long and healthy life, particularly if you are elderly.
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Researchers in Israel have carried out the study and found that people aged over 65 years who [...]
A faulty gene variant that can cause heart attack mortalities also potentially opens the way for improved treatment following such attacks.
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“It’s been known for some time that a defective ACE2 gene is associated with high blood pressure, but our research has also clearly linked one variant of this gene to a greater likelihood of mortality [...]
A sip of smoke to help drop the fag . A puff of cigarette may not be in vogue anymore with a sip promising the same smoking experience sans nicotine.
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Called ‘Liquid Smoking’ the drink has South African herbal extracts, say its Dutch manufacturers United Drinks and Beauty Corporation.
The drink has already been on sale for [...]
Playing tennis or badminton might be an excellent way of keeping fit, but if you’re not careful, you may end up paying in old age, healthwise.
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A new study headed by Navah Ratzon, director of occupational therapy department at Tel Aviv University (TAU), can be applied to any number of leisure sport activities.
“Increasing numbers [...]
A new research has confirmed for the first time that normal skin can become drier from creams.
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The findings are based on Izabela Buraczewska’s study, in which she looked at what happens to the skin at the molecular level and also what positive and negative effects creams have on the skin. Her research has revealed [...]
Researchers from University of Medicine Berlin and McMaster University in Canada have found that stress may activate immune cells in the skin, leading to inflammatory skin disease.
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This cross talk between stress perception, which involves the brain, and the skin is mediated through the “brain-skin connection”.
The immune cells in skin can over-react, resulting in [...]
A vaccine in the making — equally effective for birds, men and other mammals — offers a shield against another outbreak of bird flu.
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Of all the viruses that can cause a devastating pandemic (worldwide outbreak), the influenza virus is the most likely to cause one. Influenza is a tricky disease to control. The world [...]
A purple tomato genetically engineered to contain nutrients more commonly seen in dark berries helped prevent cancer in mice, British researchers said on Sunday.
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The finding, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, bolsters the idea that plants can be genetically modified to make people healthier.
Cancer-prone mice fed the modified fruit lived significantly longer than animals [...]
Researchers in the US claim to have got new insight into the mechanisms that underlie an enlarged heart — a finding that could lead to development of new treatment for managing this common cardiac ailment.
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An enlarged heart can lead to heart failure (Image: CNRI, Science Photo Library)
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According to them, high blood pressure, heart valve disease [...]
A new study by University of Michigan researchers has linked tart cherries, one of today’s hottest ‘Super Fruits,’ to lowering risk factors for heart disease.
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Besides lowering cholesterol and reducing inflammation, the study found that a cherry-enriched diet lowered body weight and fat - major risk factors for heart disease.
In the study, at-risk, obese rats [...]
An American nutritionist says that the morning banana diet can be a recipe for disaster for most people.
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Kerri Glassman, a contributor to the programme ‘The Early Show‘, says that Japanese people are particularly crazy about the morning diet of bananas.
According to her, people there are suggested that they eat as many as bananas with worm [...]
An oral vaccine for diarrhea reduced hospitalizations of children with rotavirus by 70 percent in Philadelphia, saved money and prevented infections among unvaccinated children, researchers reported on Saturday.
Three reports presented to a meeting of infectious disease specialists showed the benefits of the vaccine, which prevents the most common cause of severe diarrhea.
In one report, Irini [...]
According to new British health guidelines, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be treated with drugs such as Ritalin only in severe cases and never when they are younger than 5.
There is widespread concern that such medication is used too freely to calm hyperactive children. The new policy is [...]
