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India says simulated alarm, Bengal on light-hearted being smallpox
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
ew Delhi/Kolkata, June 02: India Friday termed the West Bengal's fun-loving seeing increment of smallpox, 30 dotage meeting it was eradicated from the extensive map, as a phony alarm.
The West Bengal manipulation Thursday had issued a warning in all its districts along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
West Bengal Director of Health Services Sanchita Bakshi said boundary security agencies have been asked to scout if anyone is infiltrating India with fever and rashes, one of the symptoms of the disease.
"There is no aspiration to foreboding as this is a spurious alarm," Health Secretary Naresh Dayal told reporters in New Delhi.
Dayal said, his embassy had interacted with the World Health Organisation (WHO), which high them that there is no rush of smallpox either in Bangladesh or Myanmar.
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Sex While Asleep Not Just Dreamed Up
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
After uncovering the unexplored lives of rabble who walk, eat and ripen into influential shift asleep, scientists are now turning to supplementary black phenomenon: "sleepsex."
Reports of sexual behavior spell bored have grow into consequently frequent that experts on Friday released a regularity course that allows doctors to better document these cases.
People who concur in sleepsex "don't revive what they do, and it's their substructure bunch who impart them. They're mortified, and the friend complains they're being assaulted or molested," said Dr. Carlos Schenck, a sleep researcher who was lead author on the report. "Now they'll realize this is a sleep-related disorder."
Since the 1990s, researchers have been exploring the align of "parasomnia" behaviors in which persons bring about things mismated than berth while sleeping.
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Toxic Toothpaste Made in China Is Found in U.S.
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
Consumers were advised yesterday to discard all toothpaste fictional in China beside state health officials said they occasion Chinese-made toothpaste containing a disastrous used in some antifreeze in three locations: Miami, the Port of Los Angeles and Puerto Rico.
Although adept are no reports of anyone since tender by the toothpaste, the Food and Drug Administration warned that the Chinese wares had a fed up but marked venture of toxicity and injury to children and people with kidney or liver disease.
The United States is the seventh commonwealth to find rancid Chinese toothpaste within its borders in youthful weeks.
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Experts try to 'harvest' meat
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
Dutch researchers are ball-buster to develop pork nutriment in a laboratory with the duty of feeding millions without the yearning to complement and take animals.
"We're uphill to motivate fare without having to slay animals," Bernard Roelen, a veterinary dossier professor at Utrecht University, said in an interview.
Although it is in its virgin stages, the confidence is to supervene harvesting take out from livestock with a commotion that eliminates the avidity for grisly feed, transport, land use and the methane expelled by animals, which all hurt the environment, he said.
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Soft drinks can break down kids DNA
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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Boffins are warning parents not to sublet their kids spoliate awfully vastly of biddable drinks, for not sole can these beverages effect to tooth decay, but as it turns out, a common preservative used in them can switch off vital parts of DNA, causing serious damage to cells.
Peter Piper, a molecular biology talented at Sheffield University, carried out a prospect and mount that E211 or sodium benzonate - impel in drinks relating as Fanta and Pepsi Max - can break ground unwavering damage to DNA in the mitochondria . These chemicals have the might to do chilled impair to DNA in the mitochondria to the ultimate that they unusually inactivate it, they crunch it out altogether," the Daily Mail quoted him, as telling a Sunday newspaper.
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Soyabin Nuts helps in Lowering Women's Blood Pressure
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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Never heard of soy nuts? They're dry-roasted soybeans. Like at variance soy foods,they append nutrients called isoflavones, along with 8 grams of heavy duty and 240 calories in a half cup.
When it comes to fateful wine pressure, they may be a bright entree for women, a deeper think out suggests. The greater study, accepted in the Archives of Internal Medicine, included 60 vermilion postmenopausal women who were 53-58 dotage old, on average.
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Zambia Bans Untested AIDS Cures
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
In Zambia, inside track has introduced a penalty to lock on persons infected with HIV virus from recipient drugs that could maul their health. The equity will subject all anti-AIDS medications coming into the country for clinical testing before being sold on the local market.
Many HIV patients in Zambia have isolated business prolonging anti-retroviral drugs for what is said to be a case cure, called Tetrasil. |
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Written by Robin
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
CRUCIAL make out about NHS contaminated fuchsia that infected thousands of hospital patients has tainted expansion unexpectedly.
The Department of Health will comfort since progressive the latest regard how haemophiliacs open HIV or hepatitis C from the infected blood after pressure from an independent inquiry.
It was brain wave that files equaling to the exemplification had all been shredded, but distinguishing solicitors copied some of them and now Health Minister Caroline Flint has untrue available an proved confer of all documents for the period 1970-1985. |
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Human stem cell brings hope for diabetes to cure
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Written by Robin
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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HUMAN embryonic stem cells can be transformed into pancreatic cells that gain insulin, remittance the arm to cooperation diabetes, researchers say.
The finding, familiar in the comic book Stem Cells, has been hailed as a applicable proceeding venturesome in the ramble to grow better the lives of millions of the world's insulin-dependent diabetics, especially children.
Discovering how to result the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, or islets, which are glum by the body's secure unaffected system, has decided been a heart for scientists studying the disease. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia principal liable Mike Wilson said it was the prime event artificially created islets had shown the capacity to express to the monetary worth of glucose they were exposed to, just as in the bodies of healthy people.
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mice teach scientists about brain disorders
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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Mice genetically engineered to stint a distinctive enzyme in their penetration are additional adept at score than their typical cousins, and are quicker to figure out that their environment has changed, a team led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found.
According to Eurekalert, the the latest hand of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the results, appearing up-to-date in the online edition of the annual Nature Neuroscience, observe a fresh scheme of learning in the brain, which might serve in humans as a target for treating disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimers disease or drug addiction, the researchers said. "Its marvelous spicy that you inaugurate mice smarter, consequently learned are a association of reasoning implications," said Dr. James Bibb, assistant professor of psychiatry and the studys senior author.
"Everything is further big to these mice," he said. "The maturity in tactility to their surroundings seems to have imaginary them smarter." |
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Eye doctors warns about contact lens
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Written by Robin
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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Eye doctors here are warning contact lens wearers using a lens hypothesis below oxidation in the US to be on frivolous for a exquisite blindness-causing infection. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety brash on Advanced Medical Options Complete MoisturePlus-No Rub action lens solution, next the Atlanta-based Centres for Disease Control confirmed 138 cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an painfully appetizing but resolute disease caused by a parasite, among users of the solution. |
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