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New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

... cases related to drug abuse, 55% of them were the fallout of drug abuse among girls. It dropped to 35% for women when the drugs employed were street drugs....

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...le neck in the health system, overburdened by the fallout of the binge drinking culture on the peoples health. Binge drinking has become a trend evident among all age groups, class, boundaries and cultural lines. Experts have suggested that this trend spells doom for Australia in the next 20 years. Many ...

Clinton Foundation Eases Over-Pricing Of AIDS Drugs Once More

...ent a helping hand to HIV/ AIDS victims. After a fallout between the Brazil government and drug giant Merck over pricey anti-retroviral drugs, the Clinton foundation has helped diffuse the situation. Clinching a deal with two Indian pharmaceutical companies Cipla and Matrix, Bill Clinton announced the ti...

Tobaccos Radiation is Very Much Higher Than from Leaves at Chernobyl

...ieverts a year, compared with 0.199 from Chernobyl fallout in the leaves. According to Papastefanou, though the radiation dose from smoking is only 10 per cent of the average dose anyone would receive from all natural sources, it is an increased risk. "Many scientists believe that cancer deaths among sm...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...e neck in the health system, overburdened// by the fallout of the binge drinking culture on the people’s health. Binge drinking has become a trend evident among all age groups, class, boundaries and cultural lines. Experts have suggested that this trend spells doom for Australia in the next 20 years. Many...

New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

... cases related to drug abuse, 55% of them were the fallout of drug abuse among girls. It dropped to 35% for women when the drugs employed were street drugs. SAV/B...

Clearing the Air for 2008 Beijing Olympics

...nmental controls and decrease emissions, a natural fallout of fast paced economic development. SAV/B...

Seeing is Believing – Cigarette Packs in India to Carry Graphic Description of Risk

...fill the smoker with dread regarding the potential fallout of smoking on innocent children. It is estimated that above 2,500 Indians die every day due to diseases related to the consumption of tobacco products. The graphic warnings will adorn the packs of bidis and packets of chewing tobacco which are a mu...

Bone Fragility, a Risk for Children With Cancer

...ntary behaviors and side effects of treatment, the fallout of cancer, could result in suppression of bone growth and mineralization. This makes the children prone to many problems of the bone during their lifetime such as bone necrosis and fractures related to osteoporosis. The review has brought out the i...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...ough TAI's main objective is AIDS control, a major fallout of their social initiatives has been a dramatic perception change within India's transgender community. Former chief election commissioner T.N. Seshan had initiated electoral enrolment for aravanis. There are currently many elected aravanis in leg...

Mobile Phone and Cancer – A Detailed Study to Understand the Risk

...ad suggested the risk of brain tumor as a possible fallout of using a mobile phone for more than ten years. Prof Challis was quizzed about the possibility of the mobile phone causing as much damage like the cigarette; he was unequivocal in his answer, agreeing to it wholeheartedly. He said: "You find absol...

Chandigarh to Screen Mothers, Children for Genetic Disorders

...of all children would be done to check any adverse fallout later. All government hospitals would introduce screening shortly. While poor people would be provided the facility free of cost, a nominal fee of Rs.100 would be charged from others instead of the actual cost of the test of Rs.1,000, an officia...

Toll of a Potential Flu Pandemic Runs into Millions

... data gathered from 27 countries to understand the fallout of the 1918 flu. The figures were related with today’s population to estimate the toll of a potential flu pandemic. A team led by Professor Christopher Murray, of Harvard, reevaluated past data and discovered that the 1918 pandemic had struck an un...

Men are from Mars and Women from Venus, but why on Earth are Women so Woefully Wronged?

...able strides in increasing the awareness about the fallout of gender based violence on the economic, social and cultural health of a Nation. In India too, we are not far behind. Oct 2006, was indeed a milestone period for the emancipation of women. A new law came into force in India to protect women from ...

Even five year olds are in the throes of eating disorders

...the pre-teens as well, and the recent finding is a fallout of the prevailing pressure on sporting a perfect figure. AV...

Peptic ulcer bacterium peps up a host of diseases by traversing the blood stream

...on with European researchers have discovered// the fallout of the highly mobile peptic ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), in the blood stream. Indeed, a thoroughfare for the bacterium which could throw up many diseases- atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and many severe inflammatory condit...

Health watch dog to scrutinize office cafeterias

...this is certainly called for, to check the obvious fallout of unhealthy eating – lifestyle diseases. The Ministry of Health will keep an eye on the cafeterias and vending machines for the next two years to ascertain the types of food enabled to people at their workplaces. Deputy Director of Health Don ...

Obesity – Made in China

... people, has revealed the ostensible yet unhealthy fallout of fast paced lifestyles; Nearly one in three men and one in eight boys, especially in the urban areas are positively obese. The obesity rate hovered around 9.3% for Chinese male adults with 33.2 percent, depicting the overweight rate. It was also...

Bird-Flu Pandemic will be a Huge Financial Drain, says World Bank

...ion dollars by The World Bank as possible economic fallout of a grave bird-flu pandemic//, has gone in for further reckoning. A threadbare financial analysis has revealed that costs could be up to two trillion U.S dollars, as revealed by the World Bank during the annual IMF-World Bank meeting. Speaking to...

The Flip Side to the Western Influence in Asia

... the region is also coming up with many negative// fallout of a jet setting pace, so much a part of the western legacy. Statistics show that Japan is heading for a demographic crisis, with a rampant spread of mental health problems. The plummeting birth rate in Japan is palpable, and is attributed to the h...

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