New Delhi: Bowing to pressure, the NCERT is all set to roll out a watered down syllabus on sex education shifting focus from use of condoms to abstinence while informing children about AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases. The new revised module arrived at during a meeting of education repre...
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CancerConsultants.com - News 27/05/2008Poororal health can significantly increase the risk of developing severaltypes of cancers. These results were recently reported in the Lancet Oncology.Recentresearch has indicated that there may be a link between periodontaldisease and the risk of different typ...
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London : More and more teenagers in Europe are turning to alcohol and drugs to improve their sex lives, a new study has revealed.Intheir study, researchers questioned 1,341 young people in nine citiesacross Europe - a third of men aged 16 to 35 and a quarter of femalessurveyed - said they drank only...
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Kolkata : Bird flu has resurfaced in Darjeeling district ineastern India, West Bengal's Animal Resources Development (ARD)Minister Anisur Rehaman confirmed Friday.  The H5NI strain of the virus has been detected in Kurseong town inDarjeeling by the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in...
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London : Gout has long been believed to be caused byunhealthy lifestyles, but now researchers at the MRC Human GeneticsUnit, in Edinburgh have found that a gene variant may also raise therisk of this painful joint condition.The researcher team, led by Professor Alan Wright, analysed morethan 12,000 ...
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WASHINGTON : Expressivewriting -- writing about one's deepest thoughts and feelings -- mayhelp improve the quality of life of cancer patients, a U.S. studyfound. Study leader Nancy P. Morgan of the GeorgetownUniversity Medical Center said cancer patients participating in writingthera...
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New York : Drug resistanttuberculosis is spreading faster than previously feared and its rate ofoccurrence is at an all-time high, a new report by the World HealthOrganisation has found. The study, "Anti-tuberculosis drugresistance in the world", is based on data collected between 2002 and2006 on 90...
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PALAKKAD: All ayurveda doctors in the statewill observe ?ayurveda rights day' on February 26 to protest againstthe step-motherly attitude of the government towards the sector.AyurvedaMedical Association of India state executive committee member Dr KGopinath and Association district president Dr ...
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The UK Stem Cell Foundation, the Medical Research Council and ScottishEnterprise, in partnership with the Chief Scientist's Office, arefunding a ?1.4 million project to further the research at theUniversity of Edinburgh with a view to setting up a clinical trialwithin two years.The initiative co...
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Washington: A laser-based breath-analyser is not just a high-tech way to detect alcohol on your breath - it can help identify debilitating diseases like asthma or cancer, says a new study. The study, by researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder is the latest in a line that more fully...
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AHMEDABAD :The education department, now in the dock for the Patan gangrape, ranks numberone in cases of sexual harassment at workplace. That is understandable, giventhe number of women who work in thisdepartment. But, all theseyears when Anandiben Patel was the education minister, the departmen...
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This year's theme on World Cancer Day is "children and second-handsmoke exposure". Around 700 million children - almost half of theworld's children - breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularlyat home.Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world. WHO estimates that84 million p...
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On the eve of the Florida Republican primary, Sen. John McCainlaunched a robo-call campaign attacking his rival Mitt Romney that somegay rights groups say amounts to gay baiting.The call, which comes at the end of a hotly contested election thatcould very well determine the GOP nominee, reads as fol...
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While they may tut-tut at the 'youth of today', whenit comes to the bedroom it's the oldies who are acting irresponsibly,it seems.A tenth of sexually active over-50s do not usecondoms and do not know about their partner's sexual history, puttingthem at risk of catching sexually trans...
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Washington (ANI): A new study conducted by the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill has revealed that for some women, digital mammography maybe a better screening option than traditional film mammography.Women under the age 50 with dense breasts who arepre-menopausal or perimenopausal get more...
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NEWYORK : Scientists claim to have uncovered evidence that our planet Earth isgetting soft in the middle. The researchers in the UnitedStates have carried out a study and found that material in part of the planet'slower mantle has unusual electronic characteristics which make sound propagate...
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Mangalore :  Dental Council of India (DCI)President Brigadier Dr Anil Kohli has observed that research should bemade mandatory with any programme in medical education, especially indental science courses. Dental research has not shown its fullpotential in India so far, he remarked.Dr Kohli ...
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The much-talked about second-line therapy for HIV/AIDS patients whohave become resistant to the first-line of anti-retroviral therapy wasrolled out at the JJ hospital on Thursday. A rough estimation suggests that about 3,000 patients across the country may have become resistant to the first-line dru...
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DUBAI :Baba Ramdev, the yoga guru, is conducting a camp here for the first time inwhich hundreds of people are expected to participate. Organised at the Airport Expo,Dubai from January 25 to 27, the camp is attracting hundreds of enthusiasts. The renowned yoga exponent hascome here after succ...
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TUESDAY : Same-sex couples are as committedand happy in their romantic relationships as heterosexual couples, findtwo studies in the January issue of the journalDevelopmentalPsychology.The authors of the studies say their findings challenge thestereotype that same-sex relationships aren't as hea...
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In a space littered with failure, tiny BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc.believes it can succeed in finally bringing a treatment for femalesexual dysfunction to the U.S. market.The search for a so-calledfemale Viagra has proved to be difficult and frustrating both forpotential patients and drugmakers, wi...
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CONCORD, N.H. - Some high school studentscontinue to smoke, drink, eat junk food and have unprotected sex. Butthey are in the minority, and the percentage of young people behavingbadly is much lower than it was a decade ago, according to the 2007Youth Risk Behavior Survey released by the state Depar...
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New York :  If you are overweight, eat lessor exercise more to have a youthful heart, a new study in US reiterates.The scientists examined a group of healthy, overweight but not obese,middle-aged men and women and found that a yearlong regimen of eithercalorie restriction or exercise increase ...
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IMPHAL : The first-ever day-longconvention on HIV/AIDS by Manipur Legislators` Forum on HIV/AIDS (MLFA)began today at Konthoujam assembly constituency. The Manipur Legislators` Forum on HIV/AIDS was formed on June 30, 2007to make political commitment to meet the challenges of HIV/AIDS areality in M...
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Scientists have shed new light on the maddening and often inexplicable problem of itchy skin.Certaintypes of chronic itch, including one known as primary localisedcutaneous amyloidosis (PLCA), are so serious they require medicaltreatment. And researchers at King's College London have found that...
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PATNA :Taking anti-rabies vaccine in case of dog bite may not be a big deal for moneyedpeople. But for the poor, this really becomes a matter of concern, for majorityof them can hardly afford to purchase the said vaccine, which is quite costly,from the open market. Forovercoming this handicap, t...
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It's been several years of talking to young, not soyoung, prospective first-time, voluntary first-time and repeat blooddonors. There have been heart warming tales, some matter-of factresponses and some plain rude ones. A look at some of the attitudes towards blood donation threw up someinterest...
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Pregnant women shouldboost their intake of vitamin D in the winter months to prevent theirchild suffering rickets, the Government has said.The Department of Health urged women to consider taking supplements if they are expecting or breastfeeding.Although no exact data is available, health workers ar...
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JAKARTA :A 24-year-old Indonesian woman has died of bird flu in the capital Jakarta, thehealth ministry said on Wednesday, bringing the toll in the nation worst hit bythe H5N1 virus to 94. "Thewoman died on Christmas Day early in the morning and tested positive for birdflu," Muhammad Nadhirin, ...
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NEW DELHI : In a recent study on the teen's activities by the group ofresearchers on the working of imparting ?sex education' in schools inCalifornia said that sex education is effectively functioning. Most of the youths said in firm words that they would delay their sex lives, a pioneering ...
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