BioScholar News |
Brain attacks as serious as heart attacks: Expert
BioScholar News With strokes or brain attacks on the rise in India, an expert Sunday stressed on the monitoring of high blood pressure – a prime cause of such attacks and called for them to be taken as seriously as heart attacks. Hypertension (HTN) or high blood … |
Times of India |
Ready to wed? Go under knife first
Times of India “I underwent a hair-transplant surgery in June before asking my girlfriend’s father for her hand. I had almost gone bald. My girlfriend feared her family would reject me on this count. Moreover, I wanted to look good on my wedding day,” says Vashisht … |
Proactive Investors USA & Canada |
Cellmid awarded Japanese patent for autoimmune disorder treatment with …
Proactive Investors USA & Canada This adds to its patent coverage and follows its receiving earlier this month of a European patent for the use of anti-midkine antibodies to prevent and treat cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The European patent is the most important … |
Washington Post |
HBO’s ‘Life According to Sam’: When a mom’s research might be the key to her …
Washington Post Washington Post contributing editor David E. Hoffman reports on three recent cases in which doctors were all but helpless to defeat infections run amok: In Tucson, an adolescent girl picked up a MRSA virus from a playground scrape; only a lung … |
Calcutta Telegraph |
Choke on fumes, chafe at neglect
Calcutta Telegraph The most polluted city among the metros being crowned the country’s lung cancer capital is no coincidence, but Calcutta failed — or rather refused — to see it coming. This “congenitally dust-prone” city has done little over the years to lower air … |
The Canberra TimesUnion cabal keeps Labor in death gripThe Canberra TimesI want a party in which a person with ambition can win preselection without attaching themselves to a union bloc. Labor is suffering brain death because most members and senators …
AIR POLLUTION CAUSES LUNG CANCERAmerican Live WireStraif said there were dramatic differences in air quality between cities around the world and that the most polluted metropolises were in China and India, where people frequently don masks on streets t…
The AgeUnion cabal keeps Labor in death gripThe AgeI want a party in which a person with ambition can win preselection without attaching themselves to a union bloc. Labor is suffering brain death because most members and senators are essentially the sa…
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Identifying high risk heart failure cases
Telemanagement Heart failure is known to have a poor prognosis, with a mortality rate at one year of 35 to 40 per cent. According to researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, it’s possible to estimate a patient’s prognosis from information given at hospital … |
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Delhi worst hit by air pollution: Study
Times of India “We found depression incidence to be twice high in Delhi as compared to the control group. Our study shows this is linked to air pollution. Liver and kidney function is also affected,” he said, adding that long-term exposure to benzene can cause DNA … |