Health News: Cow To Give Cancer Fighting Proteins
AUGUST 18. NEW DELHI - A cow with altered genes has been produced, which the researchers of China claim to be a rich source of cancer-fighting proteins. The cow is known to produce the CD20 antibodies in its milk.
This cow with special genes was born on August 2 and many more are expected to be [...]
Health News: A new video game for fighting cancer
AUGUST 14. WASHINGTON – Video games have long been criticized by many people for having adverse effects on children. It was believed that children, who played video games, were more likely to get violent in nature.
However, recently many researches were conducted on the effects of video games on children. It was surprisingly found that [...]
Health News: Heat likely to have more effect on elderlies
AUGUST 13. WASHINGTON – According to the U.S National Institute on Aging (NIA), due to the effects of ageing on the ability of a body to respond to summer heat, adults, especially older ones, are more at risk to develop heat related illness such as heat fatigue, heat stroke, heat exhaustion and heat cramps.
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Health News: Give second booster to your child for preventing chicken pox
AUGUST 13. NEW YORK – Since the introduction of vaccines having the capability of fighting chicken pox in United States, medical experts felt that this one-shot deal of giving one single injection when the child is one year old is enough to give them a lifelong immunity from the disease.
However, recently experts are learning [...]
Health News: Testosterone is the primary cause for disease transmission in men
AUGUST 11. WASHINGTON – It is believed that men are more prone to infections and generally, transmit diseases.
An American biologist believes that the reason behind disease transmissions is testosterone, the male sex hormone.
Penn State doctoral student, Daniel Grear, concluded after an experiment on mice that increase of testosterone is the prime reason for [...]
Health News: Anorexia affects men too
Recently, there has been a great deal of hype regarding anorexia amongst girls all over the world. The increase in the number of girls with the disease first came into the limelight when there were reports of some fashion models dying due to the disease.
It was found that the disease is also affecting a [...]
Health Tip: Diabetes is deficiency, not a disease
Before you are frightened with various stories of diabetes being an incurable deadly sickness, let us first reaffirm the fact that diabetes is NOT a sickness or a disease. It is simply a deficiency of a certain hormone which may cause you to avoid consuming certain food items and perform certain activities.
Diabetes occurs [...]
Health Tip: How to have good hygienic hands?
Remember the AIDS awareness campaign “AIDS choone se nehi phehelta” (Aids does not spread by touching) well even if AIDS does not spread by touching each others hands there are loads of other diseases which spread via our hands.
Diseases can spread when our hands are moist. Diseases can spread when we shake hands with a [...]
Genital Warts: Common sexually transmitted disease
Genital warts, also called condylomata acuminata, are one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, research reveals that genital warts infect 5.5 million Americans each year. HPV (Human papillomavirus) is responsible for genital warts.
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Parkinson’s disease: A chronic movement disorder
Parkinson’s disease is a disease that causes disorder in movement. It is chronic and very progressive in nature, which means that the symptoms remain and worsens as time passes by. This disease occurs when a group of cells in brain begins to malfunction and then eventually die. These cells are responsible for sending information to [...]
Crohn Disease: A chronic disorder in intestinal walls
Crohn’s disease is a chronic disorder causing inflammation in the deeper layers of intestine walls. This disease may recur many times in the life of any individual. It generally affects the ileum area of the small intestine and at times may affect various portions like mouth, stomach, esophagus and appendix.
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Hodgkin’s disease: A deadly disease
Most of the medical personnel know Hodgkin’s disease as Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has been named after Thomas Hodgkin, who studied this particular type of lymphoma. The disease spreads over from one lymph node to the other. If detected in the early stages, the disease is curable through chemotherapy. The disease takes an incurable form in [...]
