GAO Investigation Questions Validity of DNA Testing Kits

Posted in Others Support group on Fri, 28 Jul 2006

Home DNA testing kits claiming to analyze consumers' DNA for genes which affect diseases like heart disease, cancer, or diabetes are misleading because they provide...Read More

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Is Familial

Posted in Others Support group on Thu, 27 Jul 2006

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has a tendency to affect many members of a single family. The disease causes severe anxiety...Read More

Early Diagnosis of Postpartum Depression Is Very Essential Among New Mothers

Posted in Others Support group on Thu, 27 Jul 2006

According to a study conducted by Linda Chaudron, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical Center...Read More

Gates Foundation Adopts Fight against Encephalitis

Posted in General Support group on Wed, 26 Jul 2006

The fight against Japanese encephalitis, a bird-borne Asian virus that has left a deadly trail of death or more commonly survivors with brain damage has been adopted by the the Bill & Melinda Gates Fo...

eGFR Diagnostic Test -A reliable and understandable measure of kidney impairment

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 25 Jul 2006

Kidneys are in charge of maintaining the water level in the body and ensuring the toxins and impurities are excreted out. When the kidneys get affected, it results...Read More

Adults In Their Seventies Could Drink Alcohol To Help Against Heart Ailments

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 25 Jul 2006

The study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, reported the findings that adults in their seventies who drank up to seven alcoholic beverages a day were likely...Read More

Medical Students Protest Proposed Tabling of Reservation Bill

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 24 Jul 2006

Students of B J Medical College today organised a public gathering here under the banner of 'Youth For Equality' to protest against the tabling of the reservation bill in the monsoon session of Parlia...

Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury with Embryonic Stem Cells

Posted in Others Support group on Sun, 23 Jul 2006

Acute spinal cord injury can be treated by transplanting human embryonic stem cell without any harm, according to a recent study by UC Irvine researchers....Read More

Bausch & Lomb Launches New Vision Correction Technology

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 22 Jul 2006

Bausch and Laumb today launched a new vision correction technology, Zyoptix Aspheric, which reduces post-Lasik surgery sight distortions. ...Read More

Monsoon Related Diseases On The Rise In Mumbai

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 22 Jul 2006

Reports from the civic hospitals on Friday have indicated that eight more deaths from suspected leptospirosis, dengue, malaria, fever and other rain-related ailments,...Read More