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War Trauma-hit UK Veteran Population Set to Increase

The population of British war veterans suffering from war trauma is set to increase, according to a...ghanistan, more and more veterans will return home suffering the effects of war trauma. The condition covers a variety of problems relating to stress and emoti...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

...s specialists to wrongly tell people that they are suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). They insist that the new technique developed by them can detect people having fatal levels of abnormal proteins called prions, which kill off brain cells and are thought to cause the disease. Dubbed...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

...s suffered from migraines, the prevalence of teens suffering one or more migraines in the previous year was nearly the same in lower vs. higher income groups8.6 percent vs. 8.4 percent, respectively. But when the Einstein researchers focused on those teens without a strong family predisposition for migraines...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

...e Gold Coast Bulletin he had treated four patients suffering from pneumonia in a single morning this week. Th...ment. It is not known if there are more children suffering from the virus in Perth or if it had moved across to the eastern states....

Tenaxis Medical Inc. Announces First Human Use of Vascular Sealant

...estigational product was used on a 74 year old man suffering from vascular insufficiency of the leg requiring the implant of a synthetic vascular bypass graft. This is a procedure that is usually accompanied by profuse bleeding at the suture lines and requires the physician to use manual pressure for up to 30 ...

Former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Died of Cancer

...ay died in the Apollo Hospital of the city. He was suffering from Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cell and was admitted in May after his health condition deteriorated. Chandra Shekar, a MA from the Allahabad Universtiy, is survived by two sons. He was born on July 1, 1927. He was a Member of Parli...

No Flu Outbreak Here , West Australians Told

...e Gold Coast Bulletin he had treated four patients suffering from pneumonia in a single morning last week. The doctor said the number of serious flu-like diseases had skyrocketed in recent days....

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

At least 2.2 million people in the US could be suffering from atrial fibrillation, it is estimated. And the number of patients is forecast to soar. It is a condition in which part of the heart does not beat the way it should. Instead of beating in a regular, normal pattern, part of the heart beats irreg...

Global Warming Threatens Tibet

...d, the whole of the Tanggula Range of mountains is suffering higher temperatures, lower rainfall and greater vaporization losses, an overall trend towards drier weather. The melting of the frozen earth beneath the surface is the cause of 80 percent of the damage to the road on the Plateau. As the icy core of...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...s study, according to Dr. Thatcher, because humans suffering from obesity experience chronic inflammation. If obese horses are also found to suffer from chronic inflammation, the possibility would then exist for the horse to serve as an animal model for the study of obesity in people for the very first time....

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...n early age has been the only way to save patients suffering from NPHP. With a new mouse model Mathias Treier a... Michigan carried out a genetic screen of patients suffering from NPHP. They found that like the mouse model some patients carried mutations in the same GLIS...

Eyeglass Guide Launched That Aids in Choosing the Right Eyewear

...roup. "With more than 3.2 million people each year suffering from preventable forms of blindness, it's critical for everyone to be vigilant in getting regular eye exams and to do all they can to protect the health of their eyes -- both now and in the future," Tisch added. According to Tisch, the guide will e...

Online Counterfeit Pills Kills Woman

..., Bergeron complained in e-mails to a friend about suffering from nausea, diarrhea, aching joints and other ailments. She was also suffering from hair loss and vision problems and they are symptoms of poisoning," said Stanton. Police found ...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

Patients suffering from Cushings Syndrome can breathe a bit easily now. The US drug manufacturers Corcept Therapeutics has received orphan drug status for its Corlux from the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.). Cushing's Syndrome is a disorder caused by prolonged...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

..., and young children are especially susceptible to suffering severe effects from high pollution levels. The total number of Chinese whose lives are cut short by pollution-triggered diseases aligns closely with the figures that were reportedly left out of a recent World Bank study. China's State Environme...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

..., 75 percent survive, with only 10 percent of them suffering a major handicap. Yet, about half will have a mild handicap, such as a learning disability, often not apparent until they're in school."These kids do tend to be smaller than their peers, especially skinny, but most of them are functioning in regular ...

Listening to MP3s During Lightning Could Be Disastrous to Your Brains

...o patch up the eardrums, but the patient was still suffering from 50 percent hearing loss, and would require hearing aids. The fractures and burns have healed. However, the iPod was destroyed irreparably. He would require hearing aids, New Scientist quoted Dr Heffernan as telling the New England Journal of M...

Jade Goody Believes Miscarriage was 'God's Punishment' for Wrong Deeds

...nish people. He stands by them and shares in their suffering as we see in Jesus Christ'....

Survey Shows Emergency Services Of British Hospitals Doing A Good Job

...receiving emergency treatment within 60 minutes of suffering a heart attack, though there still exists a variation between hospitals. In England, 64 percent of patients were given "clot-busting" drugs within an hour of calling for help in 2006-07, as against 58 percent in 2005-06. Says Dr. Clive Weston, a...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...Commonwealth Games. But with the water board now suffering from a "credibility" problem, Mathur said the agency will outsource these public works. "I am hopeful because we are not going to do the job ourselves," said Mathur. "We'll hire the best outside agency."...

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