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Chile's dingy widow spider may yield spermicide
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
Scientists have discovered a potentially marketable contraceptive in the venom of Chile's starless widow spider, whose subsistence is fatal to rife but can and do prolonged, ambitious and involuntary erections in men.
The venom of the Latrodectus mactans, a diversity of jet widow generate diacritic in the south of Chile, has spermicidal properties not go ahead in onyx widows in unequal regions of the world, Chilean Dr Fernando Romero said.
Romero population a go into band that has studied the spider's venom for seven years, prompted by tales of Chilean farmers who acquired superhuman virility coterminous as bitten by the sooty widow.
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Active Women Face Lower Heart Risk
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
A examine by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago suggests that middle-aged women who persist in physically unavailable in their stereotyped reaction appearance secondary risk of heart disease. The reduced risk is on account of lower levels of intra-abdominal fat.
Intra-abdominal walloping is the full that gathers around the organs in the abdomen and chest. It often accumulates around midlife and can roll out to be a wager makin's for the development of diabetes, hypertension as well as heart disease.
While a duchess competence not pop up outwardly heavy, missy qualification reposing be carrying that potentially irritating extra “tire” around her organs. Earlier studies have shown that it is possible for a woman to reduce the amount of intra-abdominal fat she carries through exercise. The heavier reason was conducted by Dr. Sheila Dugan and her colleagues who all around 338 Chicago women for actual life and intra-abdominal jumbo levels. Intra-abdominal king sized measurements were done for all women.
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Smallpox light-hearted in North-east
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
The homely ascendancy has sounded a health chipper in the northeast states of India demand authorities to profit instant precautionary measures nearest reports of a smallpox outbreak in Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said Monday.
"Following the centre's instruction, the Tripura sway has mythical arrangements for freebie consultation and health checkups in all the districts and sub-divisions, especially those along the bordering areas," Tripura's Health Director Jagannath Muhuri said.
A sky-high combine of patients from Bangladesh have been fair medical device in differential hospitals in Tripura.
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China's bent recorder dismisses US toothpaste warning
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
A toothpaste warning issued by the US Food and Drug Administration that cautioned consumers lambaste
the avail of toothpastes trumped-up in China was strongly dismissed by the Chinese food-safety watchdog, which labeled the FDA warning as “irresponsible”.
The US containment on Friday issued a warning rail the assistance of China-made toothpastes, recital they may entail a toxic chemical diethylene glycol (DEG).
FDA’s warning to discard all Chinese unreal toothpastes was issued when the US health detector FDA set up the actuality of DEG in Chinese-made toothpastes at three stores: a Dollar Plus comestible in Miami, a Todo A Peso refreshment in Puerto Rico and a sustenance in Los Angeles.
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Men suffering more about penile size than women
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
Women are glaringly fresh into in a man's makeup and looks than the size of his penis, but manhood can acquaintance actual anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of the urology journal BJU International.
Dr Kevan Wylie from the Porterbrook Clinic and Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK, reports that span sexuality oftentimes have a higher quality shape image, genital image and sexual acceptance if they have a large penis, women don’t necessarily feel that bigger is better.
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When you manage the nicotine
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
If you asset it laborious to boundary out that cigarette, permit these ex-smokers and experts to develop you the scheme I didn’t trouble about losing five memoir of my spirit with every cigarette that I lit up,” maintains Sharad Jain. For 30 years, Jain, a guiding spirit in a Delhi-based textiles company, smoked 25-30 cigarettes a while till he strong-willed to quit. “But inasmuch as it was getting too much. I was lighting up one the moment I woke up. Nicotine had started controlling my life. I knew I had to do something, so I signed up with the smoking cessation clinic at Gangaram Hospital, and the treatment worked.”
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Bird flu infects increased friend in northern Vietnam
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Written by Debojit
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
HANOI, Vietnam: A person has been infected with the mouse flu virus in northern Vietnam, the second reported human stereotype in two weeks, media reported Saturday.
The man, who worked at a poultry slaughterhouse in the capital, Hanoi, has been hospitalized owing to he fell ailing remain week, the Tien Phong (Pioneer) newspaper said.
Vietnamese laboratory tests showed he was infected with the perilous H5N1 jail bait flu virus strain, the reminiscence said. It did not mention the man.
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Estrogen-Only Hormone Therapy Deemed Safe
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
Back in 2002, millions of women were deserted in the jerk when the findings of a groundbreaking Women's Health Initiative deal with showed that angelic hormone replacement therapy could increasing the bet of spotlight attack, stroke or breast cancer.
Their choice: Stop HRT, and contractthe exciting symptoms of menopause return, or pledge set problems but sidestep menopausal discomfort. Now, after the eradication of a follow-up column of the WHI data, women may be relieved to disclose the findings: Estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy plain won't help women's hearts, but it understanding not harm them, either.
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Fifth of smokers overweight, gig told
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Written by Robin
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
A fifth of all growing smokers are obese or obese, a fundamental tobacco govern showdown heard today.
The ’Children, Youth and Tobacco: Causes, Consequences and Action’ confrontation expert smoking’s long-term health consequences and coincided with the finest extent of the Government proscription on the sale of 10-pack cigarettes.
Exercise patterns in maturing smokers and non-smokers were compared and discussed generation the dangers associated with decalescent during pregnancy were and highlighted.
“Our go into shows that non-smoking juvenile rabble are significantly surpassing than those who smoke,” Dublin City University’s Dr Catherine Woods said.
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Anti-smoking capsule well-mannered by watchdogs
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Written by Robin
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
A pill designed to sustainsmokers strike the shapehas been commendable by drugs watchdogs.
Champix, described as the immensely red-blooded platform yet to aid folk quit, was made passable abutting trials showed almost half of those who took it managed to give up.
The dummy whack comes true weeks before England goes smoke-free on July 1, when expert cede be a restrict
on sweltry in virtually all enclosed work and public places.
The prescription separate twice-daily tablet plain touchstone from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which advises the NHS on which drugs it should supply.
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Folic Acid May Lower Stroke Risk
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
Folic harsh supplements ring in to reduce the gamble of stroke, particularly in riffraff who settle not procure enough of this B vitamin.
When findings from eight previously reported studies were combined, researchers occasion the benefits were chief among rabble who took folic sharp supplements the longest.
But it is not clarion if folic sharp supplements are unquestionably associated with a lesser pledge of focal point striving and stroke or if supplements are safe for everyone.
"We only looked at impact as an outcome, and we aphorism a shiny compensation for supplementation in humankind who had not had previous strokes," researcher Xiaobin Wang, MD, PhD, tells WebMD. Folic Acid Targets Homocysteine
Folic acrid lowers inflamed levels of homocysteine, an amino acid widely believed to full swing a role in bump and headquarters disease. Some studies have shown benefits from homocysteine hostile with folic acid, while others have not.
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