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Risk of Thyroid cancer is increased after Childhood Irradiation of Neck region

...d cancer appeared to peak at 20-29 Gy with an odds ration of 9.8. The risk then fell to a low level at doses above 30 Gy. The study shows that widely held belief that lower doses of radiation reduces the late carcinogenic effects does not necessarily apply to the development of thyroid cancer. This point sh...

Small Naps are Beneficial for Doctors to Overcome Fatigue

...from 142 up to 210 minutes. Sleep efficiency – the ration between time in bed and time asleep – also improved for those on the nap schedule, from 73 percent, considered abnormal, up to 80 percent. When prompted, interns on the nap schedule reported far less fatigue. They logged an overall sleepiness ratin...

Children In Slums Of Mumbai Might be Suffering From Malnutrition

... Mange had explained that for BMC, providing basic ration to families living below the poverty line is a priority....

Haryana Claims Improvement in Sex Ratio

...wer than the findings of the 1991 census where the ration was 865 females per 1,000 males. In many areas of the state, the skewed sex ratio had started having its impact with eligible bachelors unable to find suitable girls for marriage due to shortage of girls. There have been instances where the local...

Dairy Farmers, Cheesed Off Over Revenue Loss from WIC Program

...es projected, they have decided to cut down on the ration of milk, and milk products, and eggs to the beneficiaries. The WIC has been faithfully providing food for over 50% of all babies born in the U.S.A.Food vouchers for purchases worth $35 are made available to low income group families every month. La...

Call for a National 'Drugs Funding Program' for Cancer Treatment in Canada

...nadian report. “Essentially, we will continue to ration life-saving cancer treatment, and some Canadians will live and some will die simply because of where they live,” said the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada report. The latest cancer treatments are very expensive. In 2005, only in the province of ...

Wet Distiller's Grains Could Play a Role in Cattle Diets

...stiller's grains can be fed in a steam-flaked corn ration without affecting efficiencies, said two researche...ns, while three of the diets had 15 percent of the ration dry matter as wet sorghum distiller's grains. The distiller's grains replaced a combination of 35 pe...

Shimla Faces Water Crisis

...t of water supply pushing the civic authorities to ration it. // While the hill station with a 250,000 population needs eight million gallons of water daily, it has only six million for distribution, according to the Shimla Municipal Corporation. Civic officials said that starting Thursday, water would b...

New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

...escription drugs to get a kick vis a vis boys, the ration being one in 13. Possibly girls take to abuse of prescription drugs to get relief from certain tensions, opine federal officials. According to surveys, boys go for drugs to experience euphoria, while the girls use them to relieve tension, boost t...

Miners in Madhya Pradesh at High Risk of Developing TB

...ty line (BPL) list, they are not provided with BPL ration cards. Arun Sharma, a local medical practitioner said, "The main reason behind the spread of TB is the type of houses in which they live. The second reason is malnutrition among these people, due to which they easily get affected by TB or any other...

New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

...escription drugs to get a kick vis a vis boys, the ration being one in 13. Possibly girls take to abuse of prescription drugs to get relief from certain tensions, opine federal officials. According to surveys, boys go for drugs to experience euphoria, while the girls use them to relieve tension, boost t...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...a system used by medical or emergency personnel to ration limited medical resources when the number of injured needing care exceeds the resources available to perform care so as to treat those patients in most need of treatment who are able to benefit first. The report provides the greatest detail to da...

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