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AIDS Picture In India Not As Rosy As It Seems To Be

...anization, more than 0.92 percent of the country's adult population is living with HIV. More than six states have an infection rate of more than one percent. Large-scale movement of people from the rural to the urban areas seeking employment has been in a way responsible for the spread of the deadly kill...

U.N. Official Doubts India On AIDS Data

...ion says that less than 1 percent of the country's adult population is infected with H.I.V. and that there are six states, and possibly a seventh, with a infection rate of more than 1 percent. The spread of H.I.V. has been accelerated by millions of job-seeking migrants to cities, where many are infected ...

Religious groups overcome objections to cervical cancer vaccines

...oiced about them promoting promiscuity among young adult girls. The thing with cervical cancer is that it is almost always caused by the Human Papilloma Virus or the HPV, which spreads exclusively by sexual contact. Religious groups had feared that introducing these vaccines would promote uninhibited sex...

Breastfeeding To Reduce Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes

...ociated with risk of diabetes. More than 9 million adult women are believed to be afflicted with the chronic disease in the United States alone. If left untreated, it can lead to many different complications, all of which pose a significant health burden to the sufferers. The most predominant ones includ...

Kalam To Lay Foundation Of Vellore Research Center

...e on the use of bone marrow and cord blood derived adult stem cells for the treatment of a variety of diseases, Dr George M Chandy, Director of the hospital, told a press conference. Research at the centre will look at the mechanisms of differentiation and expansion of cells and how they could be manipul...

Concern Over High Smoking Rates Among Young

...ghai still leads the way in terms of the number of adult male tobacco-users, and more young people and females are joining-in. The average smoking-rate among local people is 25.57 %, made-up mostly of tobacco users in the suburbs, while, 50.61 % of male citizens smoke frequently. Of local nicotine-addict...

Calcium From Food Better Than From Supplements

...rowth period of puberty in which 60 percent of the adult bone mass accumulates and thus prevent osteoporosis in adulthood. The study, published in the November issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that children who already receive adequate amounts of calcium in their diets do not be...

Stem Cells From Hair Follicle To Repair Nerve Damage

...s. Therefore, more recent studies have focused on adult stem cells for future clinical applications. And h...ively abundant and accessible, active, pluripotent adult stem cells, said the researchers. In earlier studies, the team led by Robert Hoffman, a professor a...

AIDS Numbers Continue To Rise : WHO

...mission rate was still high. In Kenya, the overall adult infection rate dropped from 10 percent in the 1990s to 7 percent in 2003. In Zimbabwe, the HIV rates among pregnant women fell from 26 percent in 1990s to 21 percent in 2003. The report also adds that because of the expansion of voluntary HIV testi...

Height of ignorance in people!

...cations from painkillers.' A nationwide survey of adult households in the United States was commissioned to determine perceptions of NSAIDs users on the effectiveness of the drugs and their safety, and knowledge regarding side effects and medical complications associated with over-the-counter and prescrip...

Research Targets treatment for dementia and brain injuries

...l's and Professor Bartlett's research demonstrated adult mice produce multi-purpose, or progenitor, cells in the hippocampus. 'The research suggests while progenitor cells in mice do not behave like stem cells, which have the ability to self-renew, the progenitor cells are nevertheless capable of generat...

Food packaging with Bisphenol A damages the brain

...in development and also for normal function of the adult brain,' he said. In his words, 'What remains unclear is how inappropriate hormone signalling, or blocking the normal signaling at a critical time during development, will influence later life.' This study will warn people against the potential dan...

A Comparative Study On Dietary Habits In Middle School Students And Increase In Weight

...roaches into one’s life and persist throughout his adult life. Hence various policies regarding the diet specified to these students should be cautiously prepared without compromising on the nutrition value. ...

Bisphenol A in plastics affects brain

...egion causing disruption of normal function of the adult brain. Professor Scott Belcher and his team from University of Cincinnati are responsible for studying the harmful effects of BPA present in plastics of packed foods which has been published in the Journal, Endocrinology....

Panic In Russia Over HIV Infected Blood

...he HIV infection rates in the country at 2% of the adult population. The Deputy Chief of the Regional Administration’s Health Department, Mikhail Ivanov has said that only 7 people were treated with the HIV-positive donor’s plasma, and a woman is reported to have been infected as a result of this. The do...

US life expectancy climbs to a new high

...re more likely to have health insurance than other adult age groups. And deaths from heart disease, stroke and cancer declined between 2 percent and 5 percent. But along with that longevity comes a greater prevalence of chronic diseases. And while gains in health care and well being continue to be ma...

Adult Children Fail to Understand Parents Wishes

...ws that totally different views may be held by two adult siblings with regard to their parents’ wants. // T... There is a broad range of accuracy with regard to adult children while predicting parental lifestyle, housing, financial, and medical preferences. This prov...

Baby Lennox Gets Liver Transplant

...s long as 10 hours, in which half the liver of the adult donor will be used. Lennox developed chronic liver problems and jaundice within weeks after his birth. His bile ducts were found to be completely blocked, and a transplant appeared to be the only way of saving his life. The parents of the baby boy...

Adult Stem Cells Can Fight Diseases

...th and Science University have found evidence that adult cells may be useful in fighting disease. The res...ing ways of treating disease with stem cells using adult cells. Previous research had shown that adult cells can be fused with cells from other parts of th...

New Fund Launched To Help HIV Positive Women

...raise its immunity levels, while in the case of an adult it can range between US$ 12,000 and US$ 15,000. The HIV positive women and children will get the ARV treatment for six months from the Fund. The risk of transmission from mother to child can be reduced to 1% from the current 25% by early treatment. T...

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