Archive for June, 2008
Height of corruption? India’s poorest paid Rs 883 cr as bribe!
Dr. Teeth 30 June, 2008
(7) Comment The level of corruption is “alarming” in the states of Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, says a new survey based on experience of BPL households in availing various public services last year.
The ‘India Corruption Study 2007′, brought out by NGOs Transparency International India (TII) and Centre for Media Studies (CMS), found that about one-third of Below Poverty Line (BPL) households in the country bribed officials to avail a total of 11 services — from police to PDS.
According to the survey, which covered 22,728 households in all states and Union Territories, Rs 883 crore (Rs 8,830 million), in all, was estimated to be paid as bribe by BPL households last year.
The report grouped states into four levels on extent of corruption — alarming, very high, high and moderate. While five states come into the “alarming” category, the corruption level is “moderate” in states like Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana and West Bengal, the survey found.
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The Diligent Blogger
Sneakyheathen 28 June, 2008
(8) Comment Hey, it’s been kind of slow around here, and I was asked to post my introduction, so here goes. My name is Corey Freeman, I’m the [female] blogger over at Diligent Design. I got into freelancing as kind of a summer job, and I’m doing some guest posts for fun to branch out and improve my writing skills. I believe in writing for subscribers, not for search engines and advertisers. I’m not really a health nut, but lately I’ve been seeing the benefits of getting back into shape, and so I’m going to be trying a few training regimines in the next couple of months, and I guess I’ll be blogging some health tips here. Hope to have some fun and get some good feedback.
Nice to meet you all.
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Using Video Games to Get In Shape
Sneakyheathen 25 June, 2008
(4) Comment Nintendo has just released a new product into the market called Wii Fit. This game for the Nintendo Wii console allows you to train your body with yoga, balance excercies, strength excercies, and aerobics. The product is a good solution if you’re not able to get out to the gym, or if you’re like me, and it’s simply too hot outside to be good for you to excercise.
The game uses a balance board which measures the player’s weight and center of gravity. If you input your height, it will also calculate your body mass index. The game provides about forty different activities, including jogging, deep breathing, ski jumping, and step aerobics. The program can also keep track of your outside activities, such as sports, stsretching, or even cleaning and gardening.
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ReDesigned DentalBlogging - You Gotta See This!
Dr. Teeth 25 June, 2008
(6) Comment So guys, finally after 9 months aboard the webmasters ship DentalBlogging got its own custom designed costume! How you guys feeling about it?
I was monetizing the theme all the night so that i can release it by morning, made some tweaks and turns and yeah i am done; feels so good though i am completely exhausted now.I really wanted a theme before i start with the contests saga [oh yeah, lot of contests coming up].
The new theme is based on Web 2.0 concept and designed to keep the readers at ease and sticky too!
I would really appreciate if you leave your reviews, thoughts, opinions, suggestions, comments, ideas, contradictions, etc., etc….
Stay tuned and subscribe to the newsletter!
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Help Me Start a Contest!
Dr. Teeth 24 June, 2008
(4) Comment Howdy guys, hope you are all high on spirits 
As you all know, the contests season is on the peak and i don’t wanna miss this opportunity starting one at my place. This time i am looking to host a grand contest on my recently revived Forum in July but there’s a problem i need to work out in co-operation with you guys.
I have come up with two things in mind; contest about getting referrals and other one is MOTM [Member of the Month], i would like to know your opinions on this. Which one would fare good and have an impact on the forum, or you could also shell out your own suggestions.
Secondly, the most important thing about the contest is prizes! What all stuff can be given as prizes- cash, RS accounts, Domains, etc.
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New AIDS Threat Emerging in India Among ‘Call Center Romeos’
Dr. Teeth 22 June, 2008
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A new AIDS threat is rising in India’s numerous call centers, where young staff are increasingly having unprotected sex with multiple partners in affairs developed during night shifts, a top AIDS expert has warned. While India has made great strides in bringing down its HIV infection rate, the promiscuity among “call center Romeos” is a great concern, Dr.
Suniti Solomon, who detected the first HIV case in India in 1986, told an international medical conference Saturday. The United Nations, however, still estimates there are some 2.5 million Indians living with HIV and AIDS now.
“India has reached a plateau of the infections,” Solomon told the International Congress on Infectious Diseases, which ends Sunday. Her concern now is the call centers, where many of the young staff work at night to correspond with the daytime working hours of their American and European clients.
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Market Leverage Ruling the Roost!
Dr. Teeth 21 June, 2008
(8) Comment The blogging bells are ringing loud and often, thanks to Market Leverage which has come out with some outstanding marketing strategies. Every other blog i visit has a contest sponsored by ML and the blogging arena is just going Ga-Ga, contests look more attractive and appealing now!
It all started when i received a newsletter from Balkhis. Syed was conducting a contest as usual on his blog but this time it had some charm, the prizes ML sponsored were just too good to be true, at least for me Upon browsing through other blogs, i noticed that its not just Syed’s blog they sponsored, they are many other lucky one’s such as Market Leverage Bag of Stuff, Cash Tactics Contest Time, Chad at CDFNetworks. The hype these types of contests receive is just commendable; taking for example Balkhis stats, they were more than 900 comments and 6800 page views per day and leave alone the subscriber base. I wish to offer you all an exciting contest like this at Dental Blogging too!
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Orgasm and Indian Men, Poles Apart!
Dr. Teeth 18 June, 2008
(4) Comment Indian men may claim to have a healthy sex-life, but a new international survey claims that orgasm often eludes them.
Only 46 per cent of Indians manage to achieve orgasm almost every time they have sex but their counterparts in Italy, Mexico, Spain and South Africa are the most likely to climax, with 66 per cent of them managing to hit it right almost every time, claims the latest ‘Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey’.
However, the Indian men can find solace in the fact that their Asian counterparts from China and Hong Kong (both 24 per cent) are the least likely to achieve orgasm every time, who are closely followed by Japanese (27 per cent).
The survey further points out that the more orgasms one has, the better he feels in general.
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Launch of British Dental Bleaching Society
Dr. Teeth 17 June, 2008
(6) Comment A new dental association has been launched in response to the increasing public demand for teeth whitening.
The British Dental Bleaching Society (BDBS), was launched at the World’s Aesthetic Congress on Friday by Linda Greenwall, editor of Aesthetics Dentistry Today and a specialist in prosthodontics and restorative dentistry.
Chaired by Ms Greenwall, the BDBS board includes representatives of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (BACD) and the European Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products Intended for Consumers (SCCNFP).
The BDBS aims to ‘educate dentists and the entire team about bleaching and teeth whitening’ whilst meeting the needs of dentists who want to stay up-to-date and informed of the latest clinical procedures, techniques and rulings, Ms Greenwall said, as well as lobbying for stricter enforcements of rulings over who can administer teeth bleaching.
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Indian Origin Doctor Heads New Jersey Medical Dody
Dr. Teeth 13 June, 2008
(1) Comment Dr Gupta said that during his presidency at the MSNJ, he would work to keep the profession attractive for the best and brightest, and make the public and politicians aware of the mismanagement by insurance companies obsessed with profit. 
Dr R Prasad Gupta, who took over recently as the 216th president of the Medical Society of New Jersey, has pledged to work to preserve the integrity of the patientphysician relationship and decision-making.
Healthcare is at the centre of the patient-physician relationship, he noted.
“Most of the healthcare is delivered in an 8 feet x 10 feet examining room which may be located either in physician’s office, hospital, clinic, or anywhere else,” Dr Gupta told India Abroad.
“When the patient and doctor enter the room they establish a sacred relationship. The patient tells the doctor his/her deepest and darkest secrets and problems they are facing which they will not tell even their clergy or the loved ones or in a confession booth.
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700-pound Mexican man hopes to stand for wedding
Dr. Teeth 11 June, 2008
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Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his own two feet to get married.
Interviewed at his home in northern Mexico, where he can still do little more than sit up on a bed, Uribe said more than two years of steady dieting have helped him drop about 550 pounds from his Guinness record weight of 1,235 pounds.
He hopes Guinness representatives will confirm in July that he holds a second title: The world’s greatest loser of weight.
But Uribe is still unable to walk his fiancee, Claudia Solis, down the aisle.
“It frustrates me a little, because it is not easy to get out,” said Uribe, who has not been able to leave bed for the last six years.
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How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
Dr. Teeth 11 June, 2008
(2) Comment Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic performance to our income. Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has looked at the most important question of all. In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many his results were surprising, but they’ve since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia.
Q: How much sleep is ideal?
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Milk Protein Negates Side-Effects of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Dr. Teeth 9 June, 2008
(1) Comment In a significant breakthrough, biotechnologists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have found that a protein present in milk negates the side-effects of anti-inflammatory pills - the most frequently prescribed drugs all over the World for acute inflammatory disorders.
The researchers, who have been working on the project for the past 15 years, have established that lactoferrin, a protein present in the human, bovine, camel and goat milk exerts a protective effect on anti-inflammatory drugs.
Chronic administration of common anti-inflammatory drugs like nimuslide, paracetamol, aspirin, diclofenac and ibuprofen according to experts lead to gastric and intestinal injuries. “These drugs are most frequently prescribed but their chronic administration leads to damage of gastroduodenal mucosa resulting in gastric and intestinal injuries, which include peptic ulcers and formation of structures within small and large intestines,” said Prof. Tej P. Singh, a biotechnologist at the department of biophysics in AIIMS.
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Traditional Fish Medicine For Asthma
Dr. Teeth 8 June, 2008
(3) Comment Hundreds of asthma patients from different parts of India took the traditional fish herbal drug but the numbers have drastically come down this year.
The Bathini Goud family, which has been administering the herbal drug with fish free of cost for over 160 years, continued distribution of the medicine since Saturday night at Exhibition Grounds in the heart of the city.
About 300 members of the family gave the medicine through the night and this exercise is expected to continue till Sunday night.
The ‘prasadam’ is administered on the occasion of ‘Mrigasira Karti’, which heralds the onset of monsoon. It started at 7.32 p.m. Saturday, the time decided by astrologers.
The Bathini family performed traditional prayers at their ancestral house in Doodhbowli before the event.
However, the turnout has drastically come down as the medicine is losing its popularity with every passing year due to controversies surrounding its ingredients.
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Cadbury launches ‘Tooth-Building’ Gum!
Dr. Teeth 3 June, 2008
(6) Comment Cadbury has hit the US market with a gum that includes an ingredient it claims will help rebuild tooth enamel.
Cadbury Adams, the confectionery giant’s US arm, has unveiled Trident Xtra Care.
The new gum includes Recaldent, a form of calcium that ‘increases tooth remineralisation’ and is derived from milk, the company said.
Cadbury, which has the exclusive US rights to the Recaldent ingredient, said Trident Xtra Care was a ‘significant advance’ for chewing gum in the US.
‘Recaldent is a powerful ingredient that actually replenishes calcium and phosphate to remineralise and protect teeth by filling in the tiny crevices where cavities can form,’ said Dr Doris Tancredi, vice president, regulatory and emerging science, Cadbury Schweppes Americas Confectionary.
‘The result is that teeth become stronger and less vulnerable to future damage.’
Trident Xtra Care is available in two flavours – peppermint and cool mint.
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