Melbourne, Sept 17 : Consuming alcohol can be good for your heart, but you have to be a lazy smoker with an aversion to fruit and vegetables to reap the full benefits, suggests a Brit researcher.

UK’s leading researcher on the link between health and behaviour, the Australian expatriate Michael Marmot, found that smokers with the worst diets and poorest exercise habits could consume as many as 14 standard drinks a week, and still cut the risk of having a heart attack, stroke or other form of cardiovascular disease.

Greater quantities were less beneficial, though still better for those people than being teetotal.

Case of Niketa Mehta brought Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act under public eye. The 37-year old MTP Act, allows termination of pregnancy from 12 to 20 weeks, if two medical practitioners are of opinion that “there exists a substantial risk that, if the child were born it would suffer from physical or mental abnormalities so as to be seriously handicapped.”

Sleep Apnea in men, is also linked to erectile dysfunction(ED). A recent research by researchers from the University of Louisville, has offered a hope regarding treatment of erectile dysfunction(ED). In patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), ED is linked to the chronic intermittent hypoxia—oxygen deprivation (CIH) experienced during these episodes of obstructed breathing.

Dr. David Gozal, professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville, said: “Even relatively short periods of CIH … are associated with significant effects on sexual activity and erectile function.”

SK Setia, DPI (schools), introduced comprehensive AEP (Adolescent Education Programme), to be implemented from October onwards, in all senior secondary and secondary schools of the city. The programme will be implemented in collaboration with State AIDS Control Society, Chandigarh. Under this programme, red ribbon clubs would be established in schools.

A recent study has shown that combination of Avastin with gemcitabine-cisplatin chemotherapy improves the time lung cancer patients live without progression of the disease. This combination also increased the tumor response rate by 70 percent as compared to treatment with chemotherapy alone. This study was led by Christian Manegold of Heidelberg University in Mannheim, Germany.

Avastin approved in several countries as a treatment for colorectal, lung, breast and kidney cancer. This drug works by directly inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor, a key mediator of the growth of new blood vessels. The lack of blood vessels prevents oxygen from reaching the tumor cells and they die.

The Chinese health Ministry had reported the death of one more infant on Monday. The authorities however failed to give any details about the death.

Earlier last week, one infant had died from kidney stones in the northwest Gansu Province of Xinhua. Due to the expanding food safety scandal in the country, nearly 500 babies have been reported sick by the tainted formula within a period of few days. Out of these nearly 102 belong to northwest region of Gansu alone.

According to a report published by Xinhua news agency the second infant died due to the contaminated infant milk powder, manufactured by the Sanlu Group, based in the northwest region of Gansu province. The police had so far arrested two traders for selling up to 3 tonnes of contaminated milk.