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Nurses' jobs bad for their health
MIL/Agencies Dec 12, 2006 Author: ANDRÉ PICARD
Canada's nurses suffer significantly higher rates of workplace injuries, stress and chronic health conditions such as depression and high blood pressure than other workers do, according to a new report.
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Aspirin may block prostate problem
MIL/Agencies/ET Dec 11, 2006 Author:
Washington, December 11, 2006 - Aspirin and other similar painkillers may reduce the risk of developing an enlarged prostate, the condition known as benign prostatic hyperplasia, a new research suggests.
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Malaria helps spread AIDS: study
MIL/Agencies/ABC Dec 9, 2006 Author:
December 09, 2006 - New research suggests malaria may be helping to spread the AIDS virus across Africa. Scientists in the US and Africa say the diseases are likely to spread more quickly when they interact.
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New launch of 'polypill' for treating heart disease
MIL/Agencies Dec 9, 2006 Author:
New Delhi, December 09, 2006 - Indian pharma major Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is likely to launch a first-of-its-kind pill to tackle heart diseases in the second half of 2007, it was announced on Thursday.
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Africa bird flu worries experts
MIL/Agencies Dec 8, 2006 Author:
Bamako, December 08, 2006 - Experts on bird flu were increasingly concerned for Africa on Wednesday as an international conference heard that three countries on the world's poorest continent continued to record outbreaks of the deadly disease.
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Gay Marriage legal in Canada, debate not to reopen
MIL/Agencies/AP Dec 8, 2006 Author:
Toronto, December 8, 2006 - Canada's Parliament voted not to reopen the gay marriage debate and let stand a law passed last year that legalized marriage for same-sex couples. The people as a whole are not satisfied though the law has defeated them.
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Hindus worship Bhishma Pitamah to seek long life
MIL May 2, 2006 Author: Swamy Raj Baldev
In olden days of Mahabharat, there used to live Paru’s family. After passing great many generations, a powerful emperor by the name of ‘Dush Yant’ (Dushyant) emerged on the throne of Great Bharat.
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Pregnant woman should avoid alcohol and smoking
MIL/Agencies Apr 26, 2006 Author:
When the question of pregnant woman comes the next question automatically involves the health of an unborn child and the negative or positive effects of the mother over the child follow:
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 | Emergency successful operation performed on Mahajan
MIL/Agencies Apr 23, 2006 Author:
BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan, who was shot at by his younger brother, Pravin Mahajan, on Saturday morning, continues to be critical. He has undergone another operation. This was an emergency operation and medically reported successful. The damage to the liver is reported to be not as grave as thought to be.
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UK Immigration Laws irk Indian Doctors, seek revision
ML/Agaencies/BBC Apr 22, 2006 Author: Nitin Raj Baldev
London – Immigration laws are very important internationally, they are interconnected with the careers of different nationalities. Before framing these laws it is necessary to keep in view the interests of all concerned, good laws are those which do not create problems.
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Sex in Old and Middle age boosts the life span of both genders
MIL/Agencies/AOSB Apr 20, 2006 Author:
Middle-aged and older people in Western countries were the first to take the contraceptive pill, challenge the institution of marriage and campaign for women's rights, and now they are continuing to reap the benefits of the sexual revolution.
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Safer option for preventing breast cancer
MIL/Agencies Apr 19, 2006 Author: Jonathan Bor
Women at high risk for breast cancer might have a safer option for preventing the disease, doctors said yesterday after concluding one of the largest breast cancer prevention trials in history.
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Storm evacuees suffer serious health setbacks
MIL/NYT Apr 18, 2006 Author: Shaila Dewan
The study, conducted by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Children's Health Fund, is the first to examine the health issues of those living in housing provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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 | Medical association questions Ramdev's medicines
MIL/Agencies Apr 17, 2006 Author:
Patna -The Indian Medical Association (IMA) president-designate has cast his doubt popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev's ayurveda medicines on his claim as “magic concoctions” and demanded that they be tested.
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Over 100 die by malaria, 30,000 suffering from fever
MIL/Agencies/AP Apr 15, 2006 Author:
Gauhati, (India) Apr. 13 - Medical authorities have announced an alert in India’s northeastern state of Assam after an outbreak of malaria, which caused death for over 100 people, though officials are quoting less numbers.
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Heart transplant reversed first time, gives Hannah a new life
MIL/Agencies Apr 14, 2006 Author:
The life-saving and pioneering operation to reverse Hannah Clark’s heart transplant has given the 12-year-old a new lease of life. Surgeons, under the expert guidance of retired Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, removed her donor heart and restarted her dormant one at Great Ormond Street Hospital on February 20 of this year, as per icWales
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 | Tarceva, new anti-cancer drug prologs life and improves conditions
MIL/Agencies Apr 12, 2006 Author:
Mumbai: Roche Scientific Company on Tuesday launched an anti-cancer drug `Tarceva' (erlotinib), which can prolong and improve the quality of life of the patients suffering from lung cancer.
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What is perfect Living Water for health?
MIL/IW Apr 5, 2006 Author:
Infinity Water claims that it is a Perfect Living Water. It is for you to determine how far their claim is right? They say that it is based on the most advanced scientific understandings of vibration and energy as the foundation of living chemistry, where as the mainstream medical model is still caught up in the mechanistic limitations of Newtonian Physics.
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 | Organ re-engineered for the first time in bladder transplants
MIL/USA Today Apr 4, 2006 Author:
Boston — The once-fanciful dream of regrowing the heart and other failing organs has suddenly edged closer to reality: The first complex organ, the bladder, has been rebuilt in seven patients from living tissue cultivated in the lab.
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Magic of magnetic therapy ?
MIL/Healioheath Apr 4, 2006 Author:
Magnetic therapy is a safe, non-invasive method of applying magnetic fields to the body for therapeutic purposes. It helps to speed the healing process and improve quality of sleep without any adverse side effects.
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