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NACO to provide free condoms at CWG

August 3, 2010 Health

In a bid to avoid any possibility of HIV/AIDS spreading at the international sporting event of Commonwealth Games, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) is planning to offer condoms at CWG venues, games village and nearby hotels. NACO secretary K Chandramouli revealed that condoms will be given to players and team officials for free of [...]

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Condoms for same-sex couples to be introduced soon

August 3, 2010 Health

Recently the government of many countries have made gay marriage a legal act. And now an ace condom maker is all set to launch a gay condom as number of the HIV infections among the same-sex couples has been increased in India. The condom may be named as Spice Up. According to a survey by [...]

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Syllabus to create rural doctors almost ready

June 3, 2010 Health

To cope with shortage of doctors in rural areas, the government is about to give final shapes to the syllabus of a short-term course to produce doctors for these arrears. The course will train the doctors in rural medicines and surgery. The state governments have given acceptance to the syllabus with minor changes. The course [...]

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Drug for avoiding fractures in women approved

June 2, 2010 Health

The Food and Drug Administration has given its approval of the sale of Amgen’s osteoporoses drug Prolia. The drug is a meant for avoiding fractures in women who have entered in their postmenopausal stage. The drug has already received approval last week in European market. Amegen sees this drug as most promising for its business [...]

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Alarming rise numbrs of tobacco addict girls

June 1, 2010 Health

Number of tobacco addict girls is increasing in India. According to a report, 8.3% girls take tobacco in some form and what worries more is that the girls are in the age bracket of 13-15. Global Youth Tobacco Survey has release these statistics in its recent first such report. The experts are saying that it [...]

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Gates Foundation funds to control tobacco menace

May 31, 2010 Health

In order to have more control over rapidly growing global tobacco epidemic, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted $5 million for Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh for strengthening of their National Tobacco Control Programme. The fund was granted for Public Health Foundation of India. The funds will be implemented in many district of the [...]

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Real cause of pain relief from acupuncture found

May 31, 2010 Health

The mystery of pain reliving mechanism of acupuncture is finally revealed. In a new study it has been found that a natural pain killing chemical called adenosine is responsible for the fast relief from the pain. The scientists now say that acupuncture’s effectiveness can be enhance if the process is added with well-known cancer drug [...]

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Now a vaccine to prevent breast cancer

May 31, 2010 Health

Trial on mice has shown that a vaccine to prevent breast cancer is a possibility. American scientists have successfully experimented that the vaccine can save mice from developing breast cancer in them. Now they plan to conduct trials on human also. However, it may take many years before any such vaccine is available for its [...]

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BPO young employee smoke to avoid stress

May 28, 2010 Health

To get relief from increasing stress in the BPO sector, the employees are resorting to taking nicotine. The outsourcing job is now under the grip of smoking habits of the employee as besides the stress, other reasons cited for the habit are boredom and monotony. A new study also points out that peer pressure builds [...]

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Indoor tanning high risky for skin cancer

May 28, 2010 Health

Indoor tanning has been shown in a study as having triple risk of a deadliest skin cancer called melanoma. A scientist study has reported that chances of melanoma are 75 percent higher in the people who have been tanning indoor as compared to those who never did it. The study says that the risk of [...]

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