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Mediterranean diet component snatches cancer cell’s immortality: Study

May 21 -- Scientists have found a compound in foods associated with Mediterranean diet that deprives cancer cells of their immortal nature, says a study.

05/21/13
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US accolade for India for developing diarrhea vaccine

New Delhi, May 15 --The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Wednesday congratulated India for developing an indigenous rotavirus vaccine for prevention of diarrhea.

05/16/13
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Got high blood pressure? Try hanging up your cell phone

A study released Wednesday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension in San Francisco found that talking on a mobile phone causes systolic blood pressure - the higher number in a blood pressure reading and the number doctors pay more attention to as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease - to rise significantly.

05/16/13
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Stanford Professor Nalini Ambady has few weeks left to find a South Asian donor match

Mumbai, April 28 -- The clock is ticking away for an Indian-origin professor at Stanford who is suffering from leukaemia and is desperately waiting for a bone marrow donor match.

04/28/13
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Haemophilia: High treatment costs bleeding patients

April 17 is World Hemophilia Day

New Delhi, April 17 -- Amit Ahuja, 32, is at an age when a man is usually at his productive best. But haemophilia, a genetic blood disorder, has left him frail and confined to his bed.

04/17/13
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Swiss Pharma giant Novartis loses patent battle in India

New Delhi, April 1 -- In a ruling lauded by health experts and activists, the Supreme Court Monday dismissed Swiss pharma giant Novartis AG's petition seeking patent protection for its anti-cancer drug Glivec (Imatinib Mesylate).

04/01/13
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Lack of donors leads to ‘kidney rackets’ in India

New Delhi, March 26 -- Five years since the busting of a thriving racket in human kidneys in Gurgaon, where unsuspecting poor people would have their kidneys removed without their consent, a "huge disparity" between demand and supply of organs for transplant continues to promote a black market in kidneys, says doctors.

03/30/13
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Leech therapy makes a comeback in India

New Delhi, March 28 -- A few years ago when Hollywood actress Demi Moore said she let leeches suck her blood as part of a therapy to look fresh and young it made headlines. This ancient medical therapy of using leeches for clinical bloodletting to treat certain health conditions is making a comeback of sorts in India where the therapy is said to have originated.

03/28/13
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AAPI plans 9-city childhood obesity awareness campaign

First Lady Michelle Obama's "Choose My Plate" program replaces the more complicated Food Pyramid and is easier to use.

Chicago, March 5 -- The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) plans to organize a nine-city childhood obesity awareness campaign in the US with seminars and music concerts by Indian singer Shankar Mahadevan in June.

03/05/13
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