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When ‘Humpty Dumpty’ Falls Agan

...was seen that within six months of seeking medical attention after an injury, 2.4 per cent of the children were...equent head injury. Among those who sought medical attention specifically for a head injury, 3.2 per cent had a second head injury. That number increased to 5.5 ...

Fashion Fraternity Turns Socially Conscious

...cious too," said Sethi. Ritu Kumar has turned her attention towards ecology. Her latest collection "Urban Roots" has made use of natural fabrics and vegetable colors. "Kishan Garh used to be a forest rich area and now there are almost no forests left. This moved me tremendously. We have to maintain the ecolo...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

...ous water shortages in Australia have focused much attention in recent times on climate change. Environmental worries have moved centre stage and they will be key issues in a federal election due later this year. Sydney Morning Herald, a prominent newspaper, hailed the Earth Hour programme as a symbolic gest...

Emergency Department Strain As Ice Problems Grows

...lion population in 2003-04. Despite recent media attention on the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis, theyfound relatively stable numbers of hospital separations for cannabis-induced psychosis over thefive years from 1999 to 2004. "In contrast, hospital separations for amphetamine-induced psyc...

Bird Flu Vaccine - Indonesia Attracts WHO Attention

...us. Following their resistance, Jakarta received attention from WHO officials, who visited the Indonesian capital for an emergency meeting. A temporary solution has been arrived at where Indonesia would continue to share the virus samples with the WHO; yet, the drug industry will not be allowed to make use o...

Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre

...ealth Inspector Dr. Susan Finnerty, said that more attention was to be drawn to integrated care planning; the new law under the mental health act. In other words, this means that teams must harness psychiatrists, occupational therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, speech and language therapists a...

Who Gets Heart Failure? Race Takes Back Seat to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

...ntrolling hypertension. 'A lot of public health attention has already been paid to getting high blood pressure under control, so it may be just that this risk factor is under tighter control in some ethnic groups than in others,' he says. 'African Americans are clearly getting heart failure from causes othe...

Number of Specialists Best at Treating Children's Fractures Decreasing

... suffering from a fracture should seek out medical attention at a facility that has specialized care dedicated to children. “Such a facility will have pediatric doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists who have a special interest and experience with children,” said Dr. Widmann. “At HSS we treat orthopedic problem...

ADHD Problem in Children – a Risk Factor for Alcohol Problems in Later Lif

...themselves. Researchers believe that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at risk for alcohol- as well as other substance-related problems as they grow older. Yet the research is not always consistent. Two new studies help to confirm that ADHD is a risk factor for alcohol problems;...

Chronic Diseases- Lion’s Share of Canada’s Health-care Coss

...sthma, arthritis, diabetes and heart failure, more attention is required by the government in this area. While acknowledging that “Ontario is facing a daunting challenge to prevent, reduce and better manage chronic diseases”, Hession stressed that action needs to be taken now to fight conditions that are of...

Merry Old Folks

... volunteers showed a better balance between paying attention to negative and positive images. Says Dr Michae... the study: "Whereas younger adults often pay more attention to emotionally negative information, older adults (above 55) tend to assign equal importance to emot...

Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care

...he findings tell me is that we need to pay as much attention to children’s social and emotional development as we do to their cognitive, academic development, especially when they are together in groups,” said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit research group. The cont...

Role of Lifestyle Choices in Heart Risks

...ir daily routine, it does suggest that we pay more attention to how dark chocolate and other flavonoid-rich foods might offer cardiovascular benefits”, said the researchers. Coronary heart disease deaths are often caused by platelets sticking together and forming blood clots (thrombosis) that limit blood flo...

Your Kids may Not Be Fat Because of too Much TV or Video Games

This is one study finding bound to be paid attention to, by whooping teens. Researchers have come out with the revelation that// long hours of watching TV or playing video games are not related to teenagers piling on the pounds. According to lead researcher Stuart Biddle, professor of exercise and sp...

Doctors Warned to Keep Track of Tumorous Lymph Nodes

...y Baxter, M.D., of the University of Toronto, call attention to the many questions that must be addressed befor...vements in patient outcomes and, worse, may divert attention from effective strategies.” Source-Eurekalert BR>ANN...

Reason Behind Dyscalculia Revealed

...ust as prevalent in the population as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – around 5% of the .... However, dyscalculia has not been given the same attention as other disorders and the underlying brain dysfunction causing dyscalculia is still a mystery. It i...

Key Science Web Sites Buried in Information Avalanche

...b to make their information available must now pay attention not only to the quality of their sites but also how easy they are to find. Dr Ralph Schroeder, Dr Alexandre Caldas, Professor William Dutton, and Dr. Jenny Fry of the Oxford Internet Institute have investigated how the Internet is changing the way ...

Leukemia Survivors Prone to Other Cancers

...ter in their lives, say US researchers//. Early attention and prompt treatment could help children overcome leukemia, but they are 13.5 times more likely to develop other types of cancers than the general population. The study, held at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, involved 2169 peo...

Malaria-resistant Mosquito Developed

...eld release," he said. Now they need to turn their attention to working with human malaria and trying to engineer a mosquito resistant to that. William C. Black IV, a professor of entomology at Colorado State University, noted that the work was done with Plasmodium berghei, which infects mice, rather than P....

Asthmatic Children Still Not Breathing Easier, Study Says

...ntive medications – has received relatively little attention until now," Halterman said. Especially interested in this disconnect, Halterman and her colleagues began to examine the data and found several potential reasons for it, including children not using the daily medication consistently, being exposed ...

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