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AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...d it requires the most extraordinary public health education effort to prevent this from becoming a very major problem," said Dr. Roy Anderson, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in Great Britain who spoke at a press conference on the future of AIDS.Although India has a relatively strong economy, te...

When Celebrities Die

...nd. Dr. Jeremy Kisch, senior director for clinical education at the National Mental Health Association, based in Alexandria, Va., says "Suicide is very much an impulse of the moment, so anything you can do to create some postponement, some thinking process, will be helpful," What will work may vary from person...

Gay capital reeling with rising HIV infection

...Aggressive prevention programmes, safe sex and sex education drives promoting condoms had all resulted in a sharp fall in incidence a few years ago. But now the ghost is back and it is vigorously claiming fresh victims at an alarming pace. Health workers say the lackluster attitude of high-risk gay men is th...

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...rnment indifference and corruption, lack of public education and cultural taboos and stigma contribute to raise in the infection rate and lack of resources. Unanimousity established over the fact that main culprit has been the astronomic price of cutting-edge antiretroviral medications. Dr. Chris Ouma of the ...

Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed

... the city and the state has begun a massive public education programme. "The treatment is very simple and consists of a course of antibiotics, once the patient comes in on time. If there is delay death occurs." The symptoms of this disease include high grade fever, headache, diarrhoea, pain in the joints or ...

Big and Bright

...ght, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education and socio-economic status were also taken into account. Many studies have shown low birth weight babies (those born weighing less than 2500 grams) have lower IQ test scores at school age - and the smaller the babies at birth, the larger th...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

...ed. Smoquit will be backed by an extensive patient education program, which will outline the do's and don'ts at each stage of the smoking cessation therapy....

Toddlers stressed out

...t "a lowering of the standards achieved in primary education could well result".// Giving the example of learning a nursery rhyme as an activity that could combine pleasure with finding out about numbers, she said the government's proposals were aimed at ensuring "appropriate" teaching for the early years. T...

Hobbies prevent dementia

...Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.High education and career attainment has already been associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Now it seems that leisure activities, too, protect against cognitive decline as we age.//Researchers at Cleavland University, have been studying 1,000 people ...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

...s a doctor and a counsellor. It also includes free education programmes and counselling sessions and Zyban at discounted prices. Glaxo has also been conducting smoking cessation camps all over Mumbai. Glaxo has also set up a helpline in order to quit smoking. Glaxo had targeted 50,000 patients for its first ...

Women's strong sense of smell

...rs of odour identification, even when sex, age and education were taken into account." The tests were originally carried out on six subjects. They used benzaldehyde again and a second substance, isoamyl acetate, which smells like bananas. Sensitivity to benzaldehyde increased substantially for both the exper...

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

...rganizations. Boldly printed drug labels and a new education campaign are the issues to be considered by consumer advocates and the government to make OTC drugs more user friendly. The campaign, which will include television and radio spots, coincides with the government's changeover to new labels for these ...

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

...ght, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education and socio-economic status were also taken into account. Many studies have shown low birth weight babies (those born weighing less than 2500 grams) have lower IQ test scores at school age - and the smaller the babies at birth, the larger th...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...me-consuming interventions. For example, a 3-month education program was found to lower the percentage of calories youngsters got from fat by only 1.5%--less than this study achieved. Sullivan said she thought snacking was a "critical area" to focus on for improving kids' diets, given that it takes up such as...

What makes young girls smoke

...tified include stress, a parent with a high school education or less, being from a one-parent household, drinking alcohol, poor academic performance, and poor conduct. NHLBI Director, Claude Lenfant, M.D., says, "Getting youths not to start smoking has been very hard. Many environmental, social, and psycholog...

Spreading knowledge to doctors about herbal medicine

...s US medical centres, has set up an internet-based education programme for doctors. They devised a set of email questions,something like a questionnaire,and a list of links that would help answer them. A group of 450 doctors took part in the study and soon increased their knowledge of popular remedies like s...

Advanced STD programs required

...tion, and multiple-component motivation and skills education in STI clinics. The rest of the 30 studies were designed more to focus on behavioral and social psychological outcomes as opposed to morbidity outcomes. Following the review, researchers reached five major conclusions. First, more research is needed...

Quitting the smoking habit

...iatric residents conducted group sessions covering education on smoking cessation and helped participants develop a personal plan for quitting, which was revised as the year progressed. Despite intermittent success, however, none of the treatments in the study was able to help people stay off cigarettes consi...

Personality Impacts Arthritis

...worse clinical status, more neuroticism, and lower education level at the time of diagnosis were significantly ...write, "In addition, screening patients with lower education levels and higher levels of neuroticism may be highly recommended in clinical practice, since these ...

Diabetics & Foot infections

...hat good foot care practice was achieved by proper education and constant motivation of the patients and their families. For this the hospital formed a team called the foot care team, consisting of a diabetologist, foot care educator, general surgeon, vascular and orthopaedic surgeon and orthotist. The foot ca...

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