Why Saliva of adults help fight bird flu better

	Why Saliva of adults help fight bird flu better A study on human saliva provides new insights into why older people were better able to fight off the new strains of "bird" flu and "swine" flu than younger people. Zheng Li and colleagues explain that saliva does more than start the process of digesting certain ...
	Better medicare for poor: J. Jayalalithaa Dr V. Shanta, chairperson of Cancer Institute, presents a memento to chief minister J. Jayalalithaa at the launch of diamond jubilee year held at the institute —DC. Chennai: Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said her government was conscious of ...
	For better health, walk or cycle For the sake of their health, Indians would do well to leave their cars, scooters and motorbikes behind and walk or bicycle instead, according to research just published in the journal PLOS Medicine. That also means that more investments ought to go into ...
	Poor health reduces women blood donors in India While the overall number of blood donors in India has grown over the years, women constitute only a tiny 10 per cent share owing to health problems like pernicious anaemia and low haemoglobin levels or being underweight. "It is not that woman do not ...
	Govt. bans painkiller The government has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of painkiller drug dextropropoxyphene, a drug that has been banned in various countries. “...Central Government hereby suspends manufacture for sale, sale and distribution of the drug with ...
	Infants sympathise with victims of aggression Infants as young as ten months old express sympathy for others in distress in non-verbal ways, according to a new research. Infants at this age are known to assign goals and intentions to geometric figures; hence the researchers used a series of animated ...
	25 % men under 40 seeking treatment for erectile dysfunction A new study has found that one in four men seeking medical help for newly-developed erectile dysfunction (ED) was younger than 40 years, and nearly half of young men with the condition had severe ED. While larger population-based studies are needed, ...
	Zydus recalls Warfarin tablets in US Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA Inc, a subsidiary of Ahmedabad-based pharma major Cadila Healthcare (popularly known as Zydus Cadila), has voluntarily recalled one lot of Warfarin 2 mg tablets as some tablets of the above lot have been found to be ...
	15-minute walk after meals could help cut Type 2 diabetes risk Washington: A fifteen minute walk after each meal may help older people regulate blood sugar levels and could reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study has claimed. The study by researchers at the George Washington University School of ...