Health

Global plan to tackle bird flu threat

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

London, Oct 23 (IANS) Efforts are on to have a global plan to tackle emerging infectious diseases like bird flu at an international ministerial conference on avian and pandemic influenza in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.



Global plan to tackle bird flu threat

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

London, Oct 23 (IANS) Efforts are on to have a global plan to tackle emerging infectious diseases like bird flu at an international ministerial conference on avian and pandemic influenza in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.



Global plan to tackle bird flu threat

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

London, Oct 23 (IANS) Efforts are on to have a global plan to tackle emerging infectious diseases like bird flu at an international ministerial conference on avian and pandemic influenza in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.



Promising obesity drug can double weight loss

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) Trials with a promising new drug has shown that it can double the weight loss caused by current obesity drugs in the market, according to a Danish study.



Canadian HIV man’s 20 sexual partners untraced

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

Toronto, Oct 23 (IANS) Medical authorities in Canada have failed to trace 20 women who had unprotected sex with an HIV-infected man facing murder trial for causing death of two women by infection.



Protein silencing could reverse leukemia

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) Blocking signals from a protein that activates immune system cells could help reverse a rare form of blood cancer, according to researchers.



‘Anti-tobacco ads should either scare or disgust viewers’

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) Some of the anti-tobacco ads try to discourage people from smoking by scaring them with its harmful effects, according to a study.



Drug deliver system for brain cancer

Oct 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health

London, Oct 23 (IANS) Scientists have developed a new drug delivery system that breaches the blood-brain barrier to reach and kill cancer cells in the brain, according to the latest research.