MEDI BYTES : 24-5-10:

1.India empowers rural women through pregnancy test strips: India distributed over 65 million pregnancy test strips to rural women in the last three years to reduce unwanted pregnancies and to improve antenatal care, the health ministry said .

2. India's largest private healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals plans to set up 32 new hospitals in the country over the next two years.

3. scientists have identified the role of a protein generated by the phosducin gene in modulating blood pressure in response to stress in both mice and humans.
4. VITAMIN-D: useful as antibiotic,against heart attacks,bone health : Vitamin D has important roles in reducing inflammation, blood pressure and helping to protect against heart disease. Vitamin D plays an important role in activating the immune system, fostering the "innate" immune response and controlling over-reaction of adaptive immunity, and as such may help control autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
5. New “liquid condom” to protect women from transmitted diseases including HIV - developed by the scientists will not only empower women by aiding in controlling their pregnancy without their partner’s permission it will also protect them from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV.
The new contraceptive gel can trap semen as well as any particles wider than 50 nanometres, which include the HIV, herpes andpapilloma viruses.
6.Life is the finest art of nature and nature is the finest art of divine. But our scientists have almost on the way to change the way that god has created. Researchers have created a DNA and have placed it in a simple bacterium to begin the so called man made life for the first time. These modified bacteria can also be employed in medicine production, water purification and many more. The bacterium which is the output of this long research is supposed to prevent pollution and may generate energy as well.
7. 'No time to exercise' won't work but intense bursts of exercises would work.