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Central Team Submits Report on Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Mumbai Cases
- January 29, 2012
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Centre Assures full Supply of DR-TB Drugs and Technical help RNTCP Maharashtra to Adopt Identified Cases and Offer free Treatment The Central Team that visited Mumbai to examine the reported Drug resistant cases has submitted its report to the Union Minister of Health and Family WelfareShri Ghulam Nabi Azad. The following points emerged unanimously from the consultations held at Mumbai: – The reported cases by Hinduja hospital [...]

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United Arab Emirates (UAE) woman dies after weight-loss surgery
- January 29, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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A 27-year-old woman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has died after a weight-loss surgery at a hospital in Sharjah. Samah Mustafa, a mother of three, had been suffering from knee and back pain for two years. She consulted doctors and they advised her to lose weight, her family members told the Gulf News daily. Mustafa’s mother said her daughter [...]

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Molecular pathology boon for prenatal diagnosis: Expert
- January 29, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Around half a million newborns in India suffer from congenital genetic disorders every year – the highest in the world – but advances like molecular pathology have helped detecting these disorders at early stages, an expert said Saturday. “The number of children born with genetic disorders in India is highest in the world,” I.C. Verma, director, Sir Ganga Ram hospital, [...]

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Drinking tea cuts blood pressure
- January 29, 2012
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Drinking up to eight cups of tea a day lowers blood pressure and could prevent heart disease, Australian scientists have found. Researchers at the University of Western Australia gave black leaf tea, such as Earl Grey or English Breakfast to volunteers with normal to high blood pressure. They were given drinks containing 429 milligrams of the plant chemical polyphenols — [...]

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Pakistan committed to eradicate polio this year: Gilani
- January 29, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Pakistan is committed to eradicate polio by the end of 2012, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has told Microsoft chief Bill Gates. Talking to Bill Gates in Davos, Switzerland, Gilani Friday said Pakistan would use all resources to rid the country of the crippling disease, it was reported here by the Associated Press of Pakistan. Gilani is in Davos for [...]

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Mainpuri tobacco causing cancer? – Brij Khandelwal
- January 29, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Pakistan’s Sindh province is reported to have banned the “Mainpuri tambakoo”. And Indian doctors and activists too are talking of an alarming rise in the number of oral cancer patients in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district where the tobacco is manufactured. ‘Mainpuri tambakoo’, as the product is called, contains betel nut, camphor, tobacco, cinnamon, clove, slaked lime as its major ingredients. [...]

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Endurance tests can detect nerve disease early
- January 28, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Muscle endurance tests can detect abormalities in the early stages of multiple sclerosis, according to the latest findings, reveals a study. Multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurodegenerative disease, is characterised by symptoms such as loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness or abnormal sensation in any area, problems of moving arms or legs, etc. While MS patients’ walking abilities and muscle strength [...]

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Tripura begins culling to contain bird flu
- January 28, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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With a fresh outbreak of bird flu at a government-run farm in western Tripura, authorities Friday started culling more than 1,600 poultry birds to contain spread of the infection, officials said here. “In addition to culling poultry birds, destruction of eggs and feed material also has begun at the ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) farm at Lembuchara in western [...]

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Caffeine elevates estrogen levels in Asian women
- January 28, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Asian women who consumed an average two cups of coffee daily had elevated estrogen levels as compared to those who consumed less. However, Caucasian women who consumed an equivalent amount of caffeine a day had slightly lower estrogen levels than women who consumed less. Estrogen is the main sex hormone in women, essential for the menstruation and reproduction. Total caffeine [...]

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Battered baby battles for life, parents untraceable
- January 28, 2012
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As a two-year-old abandoned baby suffering from multiple injuries battled for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Friday, police were still trying to find her parents. Baby girl Falak, who was admitted to AIIMS Jan 18, is showing signs of recovery, but her chances of survival are only 50 percent, say the doctors. Falak was brought [...]

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Teenager living on chicken for 15 years falls ill
- January 27, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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A 17-year-old British girl who collapsed and had to be rushed to hospital was found to have survived for the past 15 years on nothing but chicken nuggets. Stacey Irvine, from Castle Vale, Birmingham, has eaten nothing else since the age of two, The Sun reported. She has never touched green vegetables or fruit and was found to have anaemia [...]

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Bihar to launch health drive for poor
- January 27, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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The Bihar government will launch a three-month-long health drive Saturday to treat some 10 million poor people. Officials hope to reach out to the poorest of the poor in the rural parts. “The ‘Swasthya Chetna Yatra’ will end April 30,” Health Minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey said here. Choubey said doctors would go to rural areas which normally lack health facilities. [...]

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Tablet computers cause postural problems
- January 27, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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The use of tablet computers such as the Apple iPad cause postural problems, which can be improved by placing them higher to avoid low gaze angles. “Compared to typical desktop computing scenarios, the use of media tablet computers may be more of a concern for the development of neck and shoulder discomfort,” said lead investigator Jack T. Dennerlein, from Harvard [...]

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Infant brains are primed with ‘intuitive physics’
- January 27, 2012
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The brains of infants come primed with “intuitive physics,” inspite of their seeming helplessness and rounds of eating, crying and sleeping. “We believe that infants are born with expectations about the objects around them, even though that knowledge is a skill that’s never been taught,” said Kristy vanMarle, assistant professor of psychological sciences at the Missouri University’s College of Arts [...]

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PFCs weaken immune response to vaccine shots in childhood
- January 27, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), widely used in non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing and fast-food packaging, seem to lower immune response to vaccination in children. A new Harvard study is the first to document how PFCs, which can be transferred to children through the mother, prenatally and postnatally, from exposure in the environment, can adversely affect vaccine response. “Routine childhood immunisations are a [...]

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Exercise helps in calming hostile bosses
- January 27, 2012
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If your boss is giving you a hard time, lying, making fun of you in public and humiliating you, he or she is likely to benefit from some exercise. A new study by James Burton from Northern Illinois University shows that stressed supervisors, struggling with pressures, vent their frustrations on their employees less when they get regular, moderate exercise. Burton [...]

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No cardiac risk with food fried in olive, sunflower oil
- January 27, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature death, but the same is not true of solid or reused oils. While eating lots of fried food can increase some heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity, a link between fried food and heart disease has not been [...]

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Chhattisgarh gets notice for botched eye operations
- January 25, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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The Chhattisgarh High Court Tuesday issued notice to the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on botched eye operations in September that left several aged persons blinded in one eye. The high court, which is based at Bilaspur town, some 100 km from Raipur, issued the notice as it took up a public interest litigation (PIL) on the issue. The [...]

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‘Time to scale up work on TB control’
- January 25, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Even as the health ministry continues to be in a denial mode over cases of totally-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) surfacing in Mumbai, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) Tuesday urged stakeholders working on the deadly disease to scale up services. “There is an urgent and critical need to scale up services, by stakeholders working for TB care. TB needs to be actively [...]

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Powerdrunk people feel taller and bigger
- January 25, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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People who feel powerful tend to overestimate their own stature, feeling larger than they actually are. “Maybe there’s a physical experience that goes along with being powerful,” says Jack A. Goncalo of Cornell University, who co-wrote the paper with Michelle M. Duguid of Washington University. “For people who are less powerful, maybe other people and objects loom larger, and for [...]

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