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Inability to Recognize Familiar Smells Could Signal Alzheimers

...identify 12 common odors such as lemon, chocolate, black pepper, banana, and soap. The subjects chose the best multiple choice answer for each. At the start of the study in 1997, none of the subjects had cognitive impairments. The participants were tested every year for five years, and over the course of...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

... health advisory in March, and in October required black box warning labels for all antidepressants (includ...hrough Sept. 30, 2005, 12 months following the FDA black box warning, the authors write. The study months were divided into two periods. The period before ...

Mukherjee Inaugurates Tele-education and Tele-medicine Centres in Addis Ababa

...ne centres in Ethiopia. In the present network, black Lion hospital at Addis Ababa and one remote hospital in Nekempte have been chosen to receive tele-medicine services from CARE Hospital, Hyderabad. Dr. Asfaw Atnaf, the chief of the Department of Radiology and of the tele-medicine unit, said that wi...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

...be raised about breast cancer, particularly in the black community. Regular breast checks, screening and, i...e white women look at breasts as sexual things but black women look at them more as something maternal, as a comforter for a child. For us the bottom is more...

U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate

...ow socioeconomic status groupssuch as non-Hispanic black women and children, Mexican-American women and children, low socioeconomic status black men and white women and children, Native Americans and Pacific Islandersare disproportionately affec...

Vaginal Bacteria Vary Among Healthy Women

...acteria in a representative group of Caucasian and black women in North America. Three major findings emerged from the study: there are at least eight kinds of normal vaginal bacterial communities, each community is different, and, among the eight kinds of communities, some bacterial communities are unique...

US Teen Birth Rate Drops to Record Low: Report

...9 in 1991, the report said. The birth rate among black teenagers dropped by 60 percent, from 83.5 per 1,000 in 1991 to 35 in 2005, according to the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Hispanic teens have now surpassed African Americans for the highest birth rate at 48 per 1,000 fo...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...disparaging terms, saying that "she smelt, she was black and she was ugly." Silvestri also described her as "desperate", "an ugly dog" and a "fat thing." Silvestri told the police interviewers that he was angry because Brimble ruined his holiday by dying in his cabin. According to police witness statements...

War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry

...an said, deftly opening his hook to remove a fuzzy black fly from a vise. "If I want to grab this woolly bugger here, I don't want to have to wait; I want to just go and grab it." Taking into account the kind of problems faced by these soldiers the Defense Department has contracted with a group of resear...

Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Shows Steady Increase

...per million white individuals and 10.8 per million black individualswhile the Iowa registry had the lowest, with 3.7 per million white individuals and 5.8 per million among blacks. The geographic differences in incidence are substantial even after controlling for race. Incidence is correlated with high p...

Baby Bump Sparks Off Pregnancy Rumours Again for Holmes

...olta starrer Hairspray dressed in a figure-hugging black dress that seemed to show of her bump, reports the... day when she showed off her still slim frame in a black bathing suit while playing with daughter Suri on the beach. Both Cruise and Holmes have made no se...

Four Percent of American Youths are Requested to Post Sexual Snaps on Web

...e most likely to be asked for pictures were girls, black youths, those with a close online relationship and victims of previous physical and sexual abuse. The authors suggest that it is important to rapidly educate youth about the dangers of these sexual picture requests. They emphasized on the need to ...

Thousands Gather in Sydney for HIV Conference

...woman who died (in hospital) and they put her in a black plastic bag. Right in front of me. "I said, 'Why did they put in her in the bag?' and they said to me, 'Nobody is going to come and get her, she is HIV'. That really freaked me out. I thought, are they going to do the same to me?" Elaripe herself...

Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...by ultrasound. This test looks at thickness of the black space (fluid) in the neck area of the fetus. If there is more than the normal amount of fluid the risk of Down syndrome is increased. Likewise if there is a certain combination of serum markers in the maternal blood test, taken at the same time, ther...

Climatic Change Cause of Dafur Conflict-UN

...- an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers," Ban wrote in The Washington Post. "Look to its roots, though, and you discover a more complex dynamic." Ban says that rainfall in Sudan began declining two decades ago, a phenomenon he says is due "to some degree, from man-made ...

Early Pregnancy Test Reduces Down Syndrome in Children

...by ultrasound. This test looks at thickness of the black space (fluid) in the neck area of the fetus. If there is more than the normal amount of fluid the risk of Down syndrome is increased. Likewise if there is a certain combination of serum markers in the maternal blood test, taken at the same time, th...

Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...by ultrasound. This test looks at thickness of the black space (fluid) in the neck area of the fetus. If there is more than the normal amount of fluid the risk of Down syndrome is increased. Likewise if there is a certain combination of serum markers in the maternal blood test, taken at the same time, ther...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...ave developed two varieties - one from extracts of black tea and the other from green tea to cater to different palates," Hazarika told IANS. "The drink is made from pure natural tea extracts having a lot of medicinal properties in them." The Tocklai Station, located in the tea-growing town of Jorhat i...

Parents are More Concerned on What Their Kids Watch

... and Latino parents, were the most concerned. With black and Latino parents more concerned than white parents about sexual content, violence and language, the report, Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, comes while congress is getting ready to engage in the issue of violence in th...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

...sed by a thin worm that's transmitted to humans by black flies. The worms can cause intense itching, elephantiasis of the genitals and blindness if they reach the eyes. Millions of persons are still infected with onchocerciasis (the cause of river blindness) in 30 countries in Africa. Eleven countries are ...

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