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23 Nov 2009Health

May Live Longer When Treated With Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the November 15 issue of thethat can stay confined to the liver and often cause death from liver damage. Since it is usually unable to be removed b...

Medicalnewstoday | 22 Hour(s) Ago

Spiced Fruit Pudding

in the canned fruit cocktail, refined flour, essence, spices, breadcrumbs and brandy or rum....

Sify | 14 Hour(s) Ago

Spicy Chicken Rice

Blend the green chillies, coriander and fresh ginger in a paste and add to the yogurt.Mix well and marinate the chicken pieces for at least 8 hours in the fridge. (for best results marinate chicken overnight).Cook until the onions become golden then add cumin powder, turmeric and salt. Cook for 3 minutes....

Sify | 14 Hour(s) Ago

Mix all the ingredients for the dough.

dough should be slightly harder than the chapati dough; Knead well and keep aside.Adjust sweetness according to taste;Keep aside.Pull out small balls from the rava-maida dough and roll them into small circular pooris.Make sure the pooris are not too thick.Spoon in the filling on one half of the circle and fold along the center.Seal the ends with some water or milk. Note: If you have the plastic/me...

Sify | 14 Hour(s) Ago

Asthmatic Kids Hit Hard by H1N1

led by researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario says that asthma is a significant risk factor for severe disease in children who get H1N1 virus compared with the seasonal flu.The researchers looked at the charts of 58 children admitted to SickKids between May 8 and July 22, 2009 and compared them to 200 children admitted with seasonal influenza between 2004 an...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

20-25 Per Cent Of Brain Cancer Patients Show Verbal And Physical Aggression

One in five people with brain cancer show physical aggression and one in four exhibit verbal aggression, according to research presented at a recent major cancer conference in Australia.The world leading research, by Dr Eng-Siew Koh and other researchers from Liverpool and Royal North Shore Hospitals in Sydney, also found that 30 per cent of family members identified patients displaying disinhibit...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

Common Pain Relief Drugs Promote Cancer Growth: Study

revealed that common pain relief medication such as morphine can actually encourage the growth and spread of cancer cells.Opiate-based painkillers have been shown to stimulate cancer growth. Two new studies have shown how shielding lung cancer cells from opiates reduce cell proliferation, invasion and migration in both cell-culture and mouse models.The researchers focussed on the mu opiate recepto...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

Connecticut To Investigate Loss Of Health Data By Insurer

Apparently the California-based firm Health Net lost hundreds and thousands of patient records last May but waited six months to disclose the incident. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the six-month delay could be a violation of the law.A portable external hard drive with seven years of personal and medical information on about 1.5 million Health Net customers, including 446,00...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

By End of This Century, World Will be Warmer by 6 Degrees Celsius

world is on track to warm by a whopping 6 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, scientists have said.According to a report in New Scientist, the estimate was made by the Global Carbon Project, a group of 31 scientists from 7 countries led by Corinne Le Quere at the University of East Anglia and the British Antarctic Survey, who used satellite and national inventory data to track emissions of...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

Second-Hand Smoke in Outdoors also Poses Health Risk

Researchers have raised concerns over the increasing exposure to second-hand airborne smoke even as bans on indoor smoking have forced smokers at bars and restaurants onto outdoor patios.They assessed the levels of a nicotine by-product known as cotinine in nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke outdoors and found levels up to 162 percent greater than in the control group."Indoor smoking bans hav...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

How Viruses Attack Bacteria

mechanism through which some viruses, known for attacking humans and animals, attack bacteria is being studied by scientists.Texas A and M University researchers say information about such viral attackers, called phages or bacteriophages, might aid in the treatment of bacterial infections."The phages first attach to the bacteria and then inject their DNA. Then they reproduce inside the cell cytopl...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

UN Report Says African Women Remain Undervalued

report has concluded that women in Africa have yet to receive the financial recognition they deserve for the time and effort put into domestic and reproductive world.The place of women in statistics also needs to be sorted out on the African continent, where there are many gaps, the report said.The 2009 African Women Report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), launched in Ga...

Medindia | 13 Hour(s) Ago

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