Mumbai, Mar 18: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has urged stock traders in Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to work for self and country to help beat current economic recession.

Ramdev, who held a special yoga camp for the employees of BSE, said that these are not the times to sit back, but to stand on one''s feet and work towards a better living.

He added that yoga teaches people the values of a good work culture and that will help people have a prosperous life.

Washington, Mar 18 : Frankincense oil-tracing its origin to India, Africa and the Middle East- may prove to be an inexpensive alternative therapy for treating bladder cancer, according to a new study.

Scientists have shown that an enriched extract of the Somalian Frankincense herb Boswellia carteri can kill bladder cancer cells.

Research demonstrates that this herb has the potential for an alternative therapy for bladder cancer, which is twice as common in males as it is in females.

Led by HK Lin from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Oklahoma City VA Medical Center, the researchers set out to evaluate frankincense oil for its anti-tumour activity in bladder cancer cells.

Hanoi  - Large supermarkets in Vietnam have stopped selling Johnson & Johnson products on news that the company's baby shampoo sold in the US contained chemicals that could cause cancer, the supermarkets said Wednesday.

A US consumer group, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, reported this week that it had found formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane in several varieties of Johnson's baby shampoo. The chemicals are considered probable carcinogens, and are banned from cosmetics in some countries, but not in the US.

"We got the order to stop selling most Johnson & Johnson's products, except for makeup powder, in our supermarket chain on Tuesday," said Nguyen Tuyet Thu, a sales manager at Coopmart, one of Vietnam's largest domestic chains.

Washington, March 18: A team of scientists from multiple research institutions has taken an in-depth look at the connection between flu infection and pneumonia.

The study led by researchers from the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, and the Karolinska institute in Sweden appears to have disproven a common theory about flu-like pneumonia.

The researchers point out that some viral infections trigger a decrease of immune cells in the blood, a so-called "lymphopenia".

Washington, Mar 18: Scientists have suggested a new strategy to treat the distress related to traumatic memories.

Their strategy is based on the study of a drug, RU38486, which blocks the effects of the stress hormone cortisol.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is among the most common and disabling psychiatric casualties of combat and other extremely stressful situations.

People suffering from PTSD often suffer from vivid intrusive memories of their traumas.

Washington, March 18: Scientists at the University of Montreal and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center may have reached a step closer to realising novel treatments for infertility, for thy have for the first time cloned important sperm-binding proteins.

The researchers say that their success in producing and purifying a protein key to sperm maturation, termed Binder of Sperm (BSP), may have implications for both fertility treatments and new methods of male contraception.