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World’s First Low Cost Cancer Detector Developed!

April 2nd, 2010

Professor R.N. Sharan of the North-Eastern Hills University (NEHU) has developed a blood-based cancer biomarker which work as a low cost diagnostic tool to detect different human cancers. It is the world’s first low cost diagnostic tool for detection of cancer in the human body. It seems that it is a simple blood-test kit, much like a pregnancy or diabetes test which can easily track cancer through blood test. The procedure to conduct this cancer test is very simple and can be done by an individual sitting at home. It costs as low as Rs. 150.

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Wi-Fi Technology May Cause Cancer To Children

April 12th, 2009

students1UK teachers were warned that the use of wireless technologies such as Wi-fi could cause cancer to the students or make them sterile later in their life. Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has called for a government investigation into the biological and thermal effects of “wi-fi” networks. But the health experts believe that there was no evidence the technology had any detrimental effect.

Teachers are concerned by scientific reports linking wi-fi with impaired concentration, loss of short-term memory, chromosome damage and increased incidence of cancer.

And almost 70 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of primaries have already introduced wi-fi. Currently ATL has called for classroom wi-fi networks to be halted until potential dangers are known.

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Cure Severe Headache

December 15th, 2008

There are lots of people who in their daily life face headache problems. Many don’t know what exactly they need to do at the time of pain. There are several types of headaches. The most common one is ‘tension-type‘ headache.

I have listed out some of the steps to be followed while headache:

- Do not simply always take a Painkiller for headache. All drugs which are used in painkillers have potential side effects. Some of these side effects, such as Reyes Syndrome, a potentially fatal disorder which occurs in children who have taken aspirin, can occur after just one dose.

- You must try to identify the cause of headache. These tension headache usually happens due to trigger. Trigger includes stress, depression and eye strain. These trigger differ from person to person. Read more…

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