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Australia Witnesses Legionnaires Disease Outbreak

...poorly-maintained air-conditioning towers.It is an air borne disease and has an incubation period of up to 10 days after initial exposure. // Symptoms include headaches, fever, chills and muscle aches. The deadly legionnaire disease outbreak occurred in the north of Melbourne. So far ten victims have b...

Air Pollution Exposure Increases Risk Of Heart And Respiratory Disease

Exposure to fine particulate air pollution could be responsible for increase in car...MA. The association between chronic exposure to air pollution and health disorders have been highlighted by numerous environment based studies. Of late,...

Poor Quality of Cabin Air in the Plane Can Cause DVT, After A Long Flight

...ses of DVT after long flights, could be poor cabin air quality//.DVT is not caused by mere sitting in cra...s according to researchers, who suggest that cabin air quality may also play a key role. A study in today's issue of the Lancet journal seems to throw up p...

Colour Of Urine Can Reveal The Health Status Of The Patients

...ed cells. Urine that turns black when exposed to air can also be a sign of alkaptonuria, a rare enzyme disorder that causes abnormalities of the skin and cartilages. And gout can produce pink urine. This diagnostic tool goes back many centuries. The ancient Greeks first diagnosed the rare blood disor...

Legionnaires Investigation in Chatswood's Shopping Area

...mophilia is usually found in water sources such as air conditioning cooling towers, whirlpools, spas and showers. As a precaution, the Northern Sydney Central Coast Public Health Unit has conducted an inspection of cooling towers in Chatswood. But it was negative and hence the Director of the Communi...

Decrease in Air Pollution Holds the Clue to Reduced Mortality

... have proved that decrease in the fine particulate air pollution shows up as better survival rates on a p...he Harvard Six Cities study, long-term exposure to air pollution particles causes high rates of mortality. The team analyzed data for 8 more years and duri...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

...ldren, told IANS. "It was like a breath of fresh air for the residents, who have known little happiness in their lives. Their lives are strictly regulated by law and even in their transit homes and shelters they are forced to follow a schedule. There's little entertainment. "But the sessions brought ...

Job Stress, causes build up of ‘Sick building Syndrome

...hs and fatigue. The discussion revealed that dry air and hot offices did contribute to such symptoms but the symptoms shot up with acute stress. The London researchers now debate that these symptoms may have come up more, due to work related stress, rather than faulty building design. Stress, that was ...

Bamboo Shoots Causes Botulism Outbreak

...42 of the patients were comatose, many of who were air lifted to hospitals in Bangkok. The sick were all among about 170 participants in a Buddhist festival in the Banluang district of Nan province last week. All of who contracted this deadly disease, after consuming contaminated processed bamboo shoot...

Dirtiest City: New York Wins Hands Down

...' face a pronounced risk of developing cancer from air toxins and the risk is estimated to be 68 residents per million, with the national average being 41.5 per million. Manhattan residents breathe the worst air, with cancer risk, enhanced at 136 residents per millio....

Air Quality Study Leads to Widespread Support for Smoke Free Vote

...s and bars//. A team of researchers measured the air quality, using a portable monitor in 64 pubs acros... permitted. The study revealed that the quality of air was very poor, with a very high particles rate. This, when inhaled, would cause harm to the health. ...

Death by Smog in California

...ans are at a risk of contracting cancer because of air pollution. Researchers at Harvard University also ...in. A separate USC study conducted revealed that air pollution from ozone causes reduced sperm counts with about a 3% drop in sperm as ozone level increa...

Chemicals causing Cancer Found In Soft Drinks In UK

...the amount of benzene they would breathe from city air in a day. Benzene, can cause certain cancers, is thought to be formed when two common soft-drink ingredients the preservative sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid interact. It is found that people who have inhaled very high levels of benzene in the wo...

Kids Overcome Behavioral And Sleep Problems After Tonsillectomy

...se enlarged tonsils and adenoids block the flow of air through their throat and impair their ability to b... throat is narrowed or blocked, keeping sufficient air from getting into the windpipe and lungs. People with sleep apnea often snore, or snort and gasp thr...

Malfunction Of Key Growth Factor Increases Mortality Rate From Pulmonary Fibrosis In Blacks

...is a deadly, very complex disease where the lung's air sacs are replaced by tough fibrotic tissue," Galina Bogatkevich said. Using modern physiological technology called proteomics, Bogatkevich's laboratory compared healthy and diseased lung fluid and found that a key growth factor that is supposed to in...

Nanoparticles and Their Damage to Liver Cells

...it is understood that nanoparticles present in the air may have an adverse// effect on the liver cells. These nanoparticles are mainly found in the pollution from traffic exhaust, household goods such as paint, sunblock, food, cosmetics and clothes. Nanoparticles are atoms and molecules 80,000 times s...

Too Much Of Fried Food Increases Cancer Risk

...nd potentially harmful particles released into the air when oil is heated to the temperature needed to cook chips or stir-fries, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. All cooking oils produce these harmful particles but vegetable oil is the most dangerous. Corn oil and olive oil also pose a risk...

Donor Heart Gives Way for Patient’s Own Hear

...fter Easter. "It has been like a breath of fresh air for her. She is doing a lot more by herself now and she is making me redundant." One major benefit of the operation has been that Hannah no longer needs to take the strong anti- rejection drugs she was on while she had the donor heart. She had al...

Mumps Epidemic Spreads Easily From Infected Air Travelers

...rtain air-borne diseases can spread easily through air travel. According to health officials, 515 suspected cases have been reported in Iowa, and the disease has been seen in six neighboring states....

New Antibiotic For Faster Relief From Asthma

...on of the airways, or bronchi, and affects the way air enters and leaves the lungs, thereby disrupting breathing. During an asthmatic attack, the airways of a patient become narrow, making it difficult to breathe. Doctors say steroids can help to treat the underlying lung inflammation associated with t...

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