Depression a cause for Death in Elderly

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 06 Oct 2003

Depression and its symptoms have been shown to accelerate death in many people, but previous research has not looked at the elderly in particular. ...Read More

New birth control to limit women's periods

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 28 Sep 2003

New birth control to limit women's periodsSeasonale, a new drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, would reduce the number of women's periods to four a year by taking the hormone...

Pain Common in People with MS

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 30 Aug 2003

Multiple sclerosis is known to cause pain among patients, but studies are lacking on how much pain patients feel or how pain affects their daily lives....Read More

Eat Like a Greek for Good Health

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 28 Jun 2003

It looks like the Mediterranean diet is a simple recipe for good health.Harvard researchers who monitored the diets of 22,000 Greeks found that those consuming the classic diet -- rich in olive oil, u...

Admission to Russian varsities is looking up

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 14 Jun 2003

Admission to Russian universities has picked up after a six - year low following the amendment of the Indian Medical Council Act in March 2002.This was evident from a two - day exhibition on the Russi...

Answers For OCD soon

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 13 May 2003

Researchers have thrown light on how brain processes disgusting images. They say that their research could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Scientists made a study on h...

Blindness can be stopped with drug for acne treatment

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 29 Mar 2003

Stargardt's macular degeneration, also called juvenile macular degeneration, is an inherited disease which affects one in 10,000 people. This condition results from a defect in the ABCR gene, which i...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

Posted in General Support group on Fri, 14 Feb 2003

COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is characterized by breathing difficulty due to partial blockage of the bronchial tubes. Asthma is a chronic ...

Indian Nationals with Foreign Medical Degrees can now practice in India

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 04 Feb 2003

A new policy by the Government of India will now enable Indians who have acquired medical degrees from abroad, to practice in India, through a screening test that will be conducted by the National Boa...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 21 Jan 2003

Recent studies to establish an effective treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) have discovered that drugs or molecules used to inhibit myostatin - a protein that inhibits muscle growth - mig...