New Delhi : Even as the controversy over the origin of the new antibiotic-resistant bacteria named after India New Delhi Metallo-beta lactamase-1 (NDM-1) — continues, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has virtually endorsed the study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal saying that the article had drawn attention to the issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and, in particular, raised the awareness of infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria. In a statement ...
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Making love is not only beneficial for body and soul, but it also boosts brain's growth and improves performance at the workplace, a new research suggests. Scientists from Princeton University have revealed that people with fulfilling sex lives are less anxious, violent and hostile, as compared to their virgin counterparts. A study conducted on rats has suggested that sex apparently can help the brain grow. The research also pointed out that sexually active rodents were less anxious than ...
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Berlin : A suicide attack on a mosque in south—eastern Iran killed at least 27 people and injured 167, the local governor said on Friday. Two bombings took place late Thursday at the grand mosque in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan—Beluchistan province. The bombs went off within minutes of each other at the mosque’s gate. Governor Ali—Mohammad Azad told state television that because many of the injured were in critical condition, the death toll could increase. The radical Sunni group ...
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Dengue which is a chronic disease in Delhi that makes an appearance after the monsoon, when stagnant water and pollution are ordinary places for the particular mosquitoes to breed in, has struck in advance. With two cases of the vector borne infections that had been in the preceding week of June and reports of fresh cases rising up on the surface from private hospitals, the disease is fast rising as a chief threat this season. Giving some information, the health officers revealed that the ...
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LUDHIANA : Haematology unit of Christian Medical College on Monday started the first comprehensive haemophilia care centre in north India. The centre has a workshop for patients and their kin. With specialized laboratory facilities to inhibitor screen facilities, the institution has done four major elective surgeries on haemophiliacs. Comprehensive care for haemophilia patients involves experienced clinical haematology support, coagulation facilities in the laboratory for factor assay and ...
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Radiotherapy no longer will be a lengthy procedure to treat breast cancer. Now the patients can take a dose for 30 minutes only, instead of present regime of over six weeks. British doctors has tested a new technique to blast the tumour inside the breast by just one shot tat will last for half an hour. The research team, having an Indian Dr, Jayant S Vaidya as well, treated some areas affected by cancer with radiation. But they focus only on the tumour rather than the whole breast, as is the ...
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A Pair of conjoined twins was successfully separated at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Women and Child Institute in Bangalore after an 11-hour surgery on Monday. The eight-month-old Nigerian twins, Peace and Patience, who were joined along the torso are now stable and under observation in the ICU. The twins along with their parents Emmanuel and Comfort Adgube had traveled all the way from Nigeria get their bodies separated. The complex surgery Beginning at around 6.30 a.m., the surgery concluded ...
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New Delhi : From today Vaxiflu-S will be available for Rs. 350 on prescription; it will be effective for one year India on Thursday launched its first indigenously manufactured anti-influenza vaccine that will protect people against the A(H1N1) flu, which has killed over 1,500 people in the country since the pandemic broke out last year. Manufactured by Zydus-Cadila Healthcare, Vaxiflu-S will be available in markets from Friday. The monovalent single-dose vaccine, available for Rs.350 on ...
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Mother’s milk is good for the baby. It improves immune system; intestine development speeds up and overall improves the baby’s DNA, a new study has revealed. Many studies in-fact have concluded that breast milk is important. The first thing a baby should get is the mother’s milk. The breast milk improves genes functionality which helps protect the baby from several illnesses. Researchers from the University of Illinois have unveiled the fact that the first food that the infant’s take ...
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New Delhi : With uncertainty continuing over the jurisdiction of medical education, the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Human Resource Development on Tuesday made a beginning towards sorting out the issue by deciding to study the drafts of the two proposed regulatory bodies the National Council for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH) and the National Commission on Higher Education and Research (NCHER). The members of the two proposed overarching regulatory bodies would meet to discuss ...
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New Delhi : The Government is not in favour of any legislation to ensure population control, but would make people aware of available means of family planning, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Wednesday. “Let me make it clear that we are not in favour of controlling population growth through any kind of legislation. But by way of generating awareness and persuading people to have small family size for betterment of the health of the mother and child,” he said. “We also need to ...
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New Delhi : Denying media reports that a huge quantity of radioactive material was dumped on the Delhi University campus, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental on Saturday said a team of experts did not detect any abnormal radiation levels at the site. “An Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) team that visited the campus on Saturday did not find any abnormal radiation around that area. The team would also visit the remaining departments in the next few days. The amount of radioactive material ...
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Obesity has long been linked to cardiovascular problems, diabetes and indigestion. Now a new research provides strong evidence that the condition can also raise the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. According to the study, people with a specific variant of fat mass and obesity gene, known as FTO or ‘fatso’ gene, have a greater likelihood to fall prey to the Alzheimer’s disease associated with problems with memory, judgment, and thinking. 206 elderly analyzed To reach this conclusion, a ...
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A new treatment based on the shells of sea creatures like lobsters may offer fresh hope to paralyzed and brain-damaged patients. US researchers have found that a simple sugar found in crustacean shells appears to be able to cure damaged spinal chords, reports The Daily Express. Professor Richard Borgens, director of the Centre for Paralysis Research in Indiana, which is pioneering the new treatment, said: “This is the most exciting development for spinal cord and brain injury since Second ...
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People who follow a low-calories diet in the hope of losing weight shouldn’t bother unless they exercise as well, a new study has found. “This research shows that simply dieting will not likely cause substantial weight loss. Instead, diet and exercise must be combined to achieve this goal,” said lead researcher Judy Cameron from Oregon Health and Science University. To conduct the research, Cameron studied 18 female rhesus macaque monkeys. The monkeys were placed on a high-fat diet for ...
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New Delhi : The government is planning a comprehensive scheme to stabilise the population in coordination with the States — but the plan does not involve legislation, according to Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Speaking at a function to mark five years of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Mr. Azad said that while the government was making all efforts to improve healthcare, the time had come to give priority to stabilising the population. “We are in the ...
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Our understanding of how dietary fat causes cardiovascular disease changed in the last few years, and dietary guidelines reflect this change. It now appears that the type of dietary fat is as important as the quantity of dietary fat. Earlier recommendations emphasised lowering the total amount of fat in the diet to less than 30 per cent of daily calories. Newer guidelines recommend a range of 25 to 35 percent of total calories from fat, with less than 7 per cent coming from saturated fat, up to ...
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New Delhi : Calling for an immediate suspension of the ‘clinical trials' of the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine being conducted by a non-governmental organisation with the approval of the governments in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat on Wednesday demanded an impartial enquiry and action against those responsible for granting permission to carry out the trials for a pharmaceutical company. The HPV vaccine, Gardasil, meant to ...
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Mothers who drink heavily while pregnant are putting their babies at risk of epilepsy, a new study has shown. Researchers found that children born with a condition caused by exposure to alcohol in the womb are more likely to suffer from debilitating seizures. They looked at 425 people aged between two and 49 who had foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Fewer than 1 per cent of people develop epilepsy, but 6 per cent of those with FASD had it and 12 per cent had experienced at least one ...
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New Delhi : DMRC chief E. Sreedharan was hospitalised on Wednesday after he complained of uneasiness before he was to board a flight to Kolkata. 77-year-old Sreedharan was rushed to Apollo Hospital here at around 11 am, sources said. “He was to go to Kolkata today and he was in the airport this morning. He felt little dizzy and immediately left for Apollo Hospital,” the sources said. ...
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