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Health News for February 11, 2008

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Karnataka High Court orders Ramoji Rao to appear in Ballari Court

CCEA approves scheme on National Mission on Medicinal Plants

Magnets could keep sharks at bay!

Pammie was first choice for X-Files lead role!

Chidambaran says government to speed up reforms

ICC chief Haroon Lorgat to meet the media in Colombo

Bossy parents cause older teens to indulge in more sex

Aussies turning in droves to alternative therapies

Health News for February 11, 2008

Now, Nintendo Wii offers an excellent rehabilitation therapy
If you think that rehabilitation is all about boring and gruesome mental and physical training regime, you are surely mistaken, for American doctors are now using Nintendos popular Wii video game system as a rehabilitation therapy. ANI

New genetic risk factors for prostate cancer identified
British and Australian scientists have achieved a major genetic breakthrough in the understanding of prostate cancer, paving the way for new tests and treatments for the disease. ANI

Now, Nintendo Wii offers an excellent rehabilitation therapy
If you think that rehabilitation is all about boring and gruesome mental and physical training regime, you are surely mistaken, for American doctors are now using Nintendos popular Wii video game system as a rehabilitation therapy. ANI

New genetic risk factors for prostate cancer identified
British and Australian scientists have achieved a major genetic breakthrough in the understanding of prostate cancer, paving the way for new tests and treatments for the disease. ANI

UK Govt. to fund transplant therapy programme for diabetics
The Department of Health in the UK has agreed to fund a national programme to improve the availability of a groundbreaking transplant treatment for diabetes, which involves the use of islet cells from the pancreas. ANI

New cellular receptor for HIV identified
Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), say that they have identified a new cellular receptor for HIV. ANI

Artificial sweeteners fail to prevent weight gain in rats
Conventional wisdom that low-calorie artificial sweetener can prevent weight gain seems to have been scotched by a Purdue University study, in which rats fed on such sweeteners were still found to put on weight. ANI

How breast and ovarian cancers may become resistant to therapy
Scientists have discovered that mechanism by which found out breast and ovarian cancers caused by a faulty BRAC2 gene may develop resistance to treatment. ANI

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