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Tag: "legacy" at medical news

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...the Great Lakes basin and deal with the continuing legacy of dangerous chemicals, such as PCBs, once used electrical equipment but banned in 1970s. Even though PCBs have not been used for decades, they are still being found in some fish at unsafe levels. The report was based on a comparison of Ministry of...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

...IV positive child, died the following year but his legacy persists. His adoptive mother Gail Johnson, whose campaign for young AIDS victims is being turned into a Hollywood movie starring Naomi Watts, said Nkosi would have been thrilled children can get the medicines and live longer lives. "But he would d...

Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe

...eatment decisions and builds upon Abbott's 30-year legacy in hepatitis testing." HBV genomes have been classified into eight genotypes (A-H). Detecting HBV genotypes is important in terms of both monitoring the disease and guiding treatment decisions. For example, genotype C, which is prevalent in Asi...

Taking Animals Out of Laboratory Research

...2,000 for FRAME during her life and left a 100,000 legacy to the charity when she died last year. Their daughter Sarah will also attend. This legacy forms part of FRAME's contribution to the remodelled laboratory. The overall cost of expanding and r...

Goans Celebrate Monsoon Festival

...ast of John, the Baptist . Monsoon festival is a legacy Goans have inherited from the Portuguese, who ruled the State until it was liberated in 1961. During the celebrations, Goans jumped into rivers, ponds and wells amidst persistent rains. In villages, the festival was celebrated with much tradition...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

... sometimes demand payoffs. Overspecialization, a legacy of the Soviet era, is a big problem because patients are shuttled from one narrowly focused specialist to another. Meanwhile, no physician generally takes responsibility for their overall state of health. But critics say these changes are no substi...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

... battle against a chemical fire some say spawned a legacy of cancer, Parkinson's disease and birth defects.T...rovince. When asked if the new law was a fitting legacy to his father, Bob Shaw, who died of esophageal cancer in 2004, he said: "Without question. For my f...

Dabur India Q4 Profit Surges 31%

...ne of Indias leading FMCG Companies. Building on a legacy of quality and experience for over 120 years, Dabur today is Indias most trusted name and the worlds largest Ayurvedic and Natural Health Care Company. The largest Indian Personal Care and Health Care Company, Dabur India is also a world leader in Ay...

New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths

...cases of unexplained infant deaths and a positive legacy emerging from tragedy, says a feature in this weeks BMJ. Sally Clark was arrested in 1998 for the murder of her two infant sons. She was imprisoned but won her appeal in 2003. She died in March this year. The consequences of the case, says Jonathan...

Low Levels of Testosterone may Increase the Risk of Death in Older Men

... data have already been published, its a wonderful legacy for participants to realize that the knowledge gathered has not come close to being exhausted. Its an enormous bank of data," said Laughlin. "Though we are beginning the final visits with the RB group, analyzing the data from the RB study, including ...

Dire Future Predicted for Europe's 4 Seas

... Sea). Researchers said this was partly due to a legacy of past phosphate and nitrogen loads (from agriculture and industrial/domestic effluent) that had accumulated in soils, aquifers and sediments and continued to leak into the sea. This may be further exacerbated by nutrient loads accompanying intens...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

... battle against a chemical fire some say spawned a legacy of cancer, Parkinson's disease and birth defects.T...ovince.” When asked if the new law was a fitting legacy to his father, Bob Shaw, who died of esophageal cancer in 2004, he said: "Without question. For my f...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

...his paper is an important part of her considerable legacy to nursing research and its publication would not have been possible without the major contribution she made to this important research project.' Source-Eurekalert SRM/B...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

...this study. Their generosity has created a lasting legacy that will help to reduce the terrible toll that diabetes is taking on the world's health," said Dr. Tuomilehto of the Diabetes Unit in Finland's National Public Health Institute. To validate their findings, the researchers compared their initial re...

UK Mental Health Reforms Will Do More Harm Than Good, Critics Warn

...vices available to all other patients. Wales has a legacy of under funding and poor resourcing of mental health services and will, therefore be disproportionately affected by the diversion of resources away from ordinary patients into these statutory provisions,' a noted psychiarist has observed. As it h...

UK’s Junior Doctors Losing Hop

...vice to the highest bidder without considering the legacy for future generations of patients.” AN/V...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...ildren to transmit the best possible environmental legacy to them. These actions are leading to the recovery of the ozone layer and allowing to help us hand it over to our next generation," Shende told IANS just before leaving for Thimphu. Shende underlines the fact that the Montreal Treaty has not only m...

American Cancer Society Honors Exemplary Cancer Caregivers

...ervice” and made attention to compassionate care a legacy of his service. Source: American Cancer Society Sorce-Medindia SRM...

Research on Human Metabolic Disorders

...ually analyzed 1,500 key books, review papers, and legacy scientific reports published over the past 50 years. The team used strict quality control criteria accepted by the scientific community to assemble the network piece by metabolic piece during more than a year of intense work. "This accomplishment w...

'Young and their Reproductive Health' - Theme of World Population Day

...ds to be answered is 'Do we want to leave behind a legacy of famines and plagues, barren land and illness?' If not, then serious measures are called for to tackle the spiraling population through political decision- making and by providing an international framework to address the issue. 'The one proces...

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