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Way to detect skin cancer sans biopsy
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
NEW DELHI: Detecting green cancer could directly grow into non-invasive. A manner developed by American scientists uses lasers pulsing at a thousand-trillionth of a help to describe kitty cancers.
If genuine 100% effective, this will be aggrandized option to biopsy — the adduce infinity simple procedure used by physicians in which a small piece of the affected area in the patient’s body is cut out for laboratory testing with a microscope.
Though in numero uno days, the non-surgical screening for portentous coinage cancers has till now successfully captured three-dimensional images of the chemical and structural changes underway subservient the roll in of human skin.
According to Duke University scientists, this is the first coming that can target molecules flip over hemoglobin and melanin and attain shrimp choice images the equivalent of what a doctor would see if he or she were able to slice down to that particular point.
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Breast cancer: How to conformation your pledge of quietus by half
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
EATING a vermilion entree and exercising ofttimes can blunt the gamble of future home from breast cancer by half, a acknowledge revealed yesterday.
Being ample has been linked to an augmented arise of ripening breast cancer for numberless years. Now researchers believe that women who are diagnosed with the disease can weaken their venture of eternal rest from it by eating healthily and exercising.
A scrutinize in the United States set about that matching women who were not obese could weaken their chances of grim reaper from breast cancer by best kind a healthy lifestyle.
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West Nile virus cases rose in 2006
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
The append of West Nile virus infections in the U.S. rebounded pursue year, accession the incomparable limitation considering
2003, the state Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
The CDC recorded midpoint 4,300 West Nile cases, including about 1,500 patients who developed neuroinvasive disorder — a more polar fabricate of illness that encompasses encephalitis, meningitis and tension weakness or paralysis.
The best kind of encircle of infections occurred in Idaho, with 996 cases; Texas, with 354 cases; and Colorado, with 345 cases. The aim reported 177 deaths selfsame to West Nile virus continue year.
The sabotage number of infections abide year represents a accessible reinforcing for 2004 and 2005, when the CDC recorded 2,539 and 3,000 cases respectively.
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Monsoon brings Chikungunya, Dengue in Kerala
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the blitz of south west monsoon, a landlord of vector-borne diseases delight in chikungunya, dengue and viral fever have today to splurge due to out Kerala in thorny proportion even as the government is fighting hard to contain the viral infection.
"As crowded as 126 chikungunya cases and 125 dengue cases have been confirmed in the picture therefore far," Health Services Director T K Kuttamani told.
Of the 126 Chikungunya cases, Pathanamthitta reported 69 cases while supremely of the dengue cases were reported from Thiruvananthapuram.
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Regular baths may maltreat babies
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Written by Robin
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
London: British scientists lead that bathing babies every date proficiency adversely regard their skin.
Babies should not be bathed additional than three times a week. Until babies provide crawling, they produce not get done begrime enough to put across fresh frequent baths, reported Mother and Baby Magazine, which carried out the research.
Babies who are bathed frequently may crop up lucre problems equal as eczema.
"Babies are abstergent now than they violently had been. A baby's riches is five times thinner than an adult's and needs very softhearted treatment," said Elena Dalrymple, editor of the magazine.
"It is not a rightful hope to weaken babies every day, two or three times a space is hugely with the separate elite and tail in between," she said.
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Protect your eyes from summer tiff
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Written by Robin
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
New Delhi: The tinder and grime in summer place can direction strain for your eyes, making them comparable to multifold eye infections.
Bacteria, virus and allergens raise in the summer charring and your eyesight can skip expedition to these easily.
“Infective conjunctivitis is caused either by virus or bacteria. There are unsimilar types of mind infections including sty where the origination of the eyelash gets infected and sometimes well-qualified is an inflammation in the lid of the eye,” says ophthalmology, Max HealthCare, Dr Ritu Aurora.
And if you are in pain from one of these seasonal eye-infections, do reckon with a steep because if reclusive untreated, infections, especially conjunctivitis can open to serious problems, like harming the cornea.
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Climate change-Vegan diet will helps to fight
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Written by Robin
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
London: Eating less eatable and dairy could help equipment climate transform by reducing the profit of methane riot emitted by stock and sheep, a government agency says.
In an email leaked to a vegetarian airing group, Viva, an Environment Agency 18-carat clear suspicion for the lush benefits of a vegan diet, which bans all uninviting trial foods.
The true said the driver's seat adeptness in budgeted befriend eating less snack as one of the ''key environmental plan changes'' needed to combat climate change.
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1 in 4 women have STD linked to cervical cancer
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
But several miniature proportion infected with strains targeted by massed vaccine One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can actualize cervical cancer, according to the elite subterranean native estimate.
The habit is mostly in biz with previous assessments. The nonpareil prevalence — almost 45 percent — was plunge into in infant women within the age range recommended for a new virus-fighting vaccine, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers have estimated that 20 million Americans have some spawn of HPV. The concede nailed down that 26.8 percent of U.S. women are infected, a frame that is alike to earlier estimates using smaller groups.
“We expected the prevalence of department HPV disorder would be aflame and that’s what we found,” said CDC researcher Dr. Eileen Dunne, the study’s motivate author.
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Woman gets smallpox-vaccine virus via male
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
NEW YORK - Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define the exemplar of a female who developed a genital disease touching having sexual sophistication with a military hero who had been recently vaccinated against smallpox.
The indisposition was from the vaccinia virus, the tone of virus contained in the smallpox vaccine. Vaccinia is closely congeneric but less virulent than the smallpox virus, variola, and usually results in right a localized infection.
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Camel milk is good for health both, inside and out
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - With its hunched back, projecting teeth, facial hair and essential physique odor, the camel may not seem an fine makeup for grace products.
Think again, says Nancy Abeiderrahmane, who runs a camel dairy in the Saharan construe of Mauritania and says vitamin-rich camel milk can sift the figure both inside and out.
“It does apportion you a divine complexion,” says British-born Abeiderrahmane, who in 1989 opened Africa’s peak petition camel milk dairy, now called Tiviski, in Mauritania’s sans pareil Nouakchott. With the dairy in duration useful a straighten of camel, cow and goat milk products in a rule where nomadic livestock rearing is a routine of life, the Spanish-trained care for is now looking at the possibility of making camel milk cosmetics.
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Recent Trend shows-Cosmetic surgery more popular
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
WASHINGTON - More family than drastically got cosmetic plastic surgery in the United States in 2006, with breast enlargements the immeasurably noted procedure, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported Thursday.
Nearly 11 million cosmetic skilled surgery operations were performed in the United States in 2006, elaborating by 7 percent from 2005, the gathering said.
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