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Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...get around with the help of a walker. There have been other cases of EEE, one of several types of enceph... The virus is still considered rare -- there have been fewer than 89 cases in the past 70 years -- but proves fatal to more than half of the people who are...

Divorce Leaves Women Significantly Worse Off Financially Than Men

...men suffered financially after divorce. "There's been lots of coverage of the big cases where women have been given massive divorce settlements," Kaufman said. "But these are very rare cases. In run-of-the-mi...

Toni Collette is Pregnant

...t is strange the last three films I've done I have been pregnant. I'm just like, what is the universe trying to tell me," she said. "But I think everything happens when it's meant to," she added....

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

...th variant CJD . The technique, which has so far been used mainly in animal models, works by mimicking a...tly needed to ensure that the technique, which has been applied to brain tissue, can be applied to other tissues, such as blood, that might be used in tests...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

...05, as we had a better base there. The project has been extended to two other districts. We hope to take o...added. Despite all the hindrances, the project has been well received by the people. Now, C-NES is planning to launch another two ships to extend the serv...

Appropriate Sanitation Gives Confidence for the Schoolgirls

...menstrual hygiene to young girls. "This has also been done since many parents are hesitant about teaching their daughters about this very important aspect of their lives," said Devaraj....

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...ory of Hormone Replacement Therapy Estrogen has been used to treat the symptoms of menopause for years, beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1970s, medical studies found that postmenopausal women who used estrogen therapy alone had a significantly increased risk of uterine cancer. Then rese...

Meet the 07/07/07 Baby

...think much about it because their kids have so far been born a few days earlier or after the date given. It's an amazing set of co-incidences. I hope she will have lots of good fortune. But she's so beautiful, we already feel like the luckiest parents in the world, Herbethe said....

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...It now turns out that literally too Americans have been growing shorter these days, falling behind the Eur...d Half of the 20th Century. Americans had always been giants, with the tallest men in the world going back as far as the data exists (at least to the mid-...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...re. "I want people to know that few studies have been made on reducing side-effects of anti-cancer drugs," he said. "This field is lagging behind (the development of cancer drugs) but is still important for patients' quality of life." The study, which was outlined at an academic meeting in Japan las...

Marilyn Monroe was Just too Hygienic for Clark Gable!

...e had a fetish for cleanliness, she could not have been less fastidious regarding personal hygiene," the New York Post quotes Bret, as writing. "Like Jean Harlow, she bleached her pubic hair and never wore panties . . . She suffered from what today would be described as a form of irritable bowel syndrom...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

..."The government shouldn't regulate that. But we've been trying to educate people to the linkage between be... driver for Oklahoma-based Melton Truck Lines, has been getting advice from a wellness coordinator with the company. He carries weights in his truck, and fo...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

... asylum petition in 2001 after proving that he had been repeatedly beaten and abused by powerful, armed st...lly by immigration officials because the abuse had been carried out in private, but an appeals court in Minnesota reversed that decision and approved her cl...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...hoppers. They said that African scientists have been working for more than a quarter century on developing resistant varieties of maize by selecting and crossing varieties with various degrees of resistance to the virus. They said the resistance to the virus requires multiple genes located on differ...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

... an extremely important problem in horses that has been under-reported, said Dr. Craig Thatcher, a profess...esult from the fact that many pasture forages have been fortified with the goal of improving weight gain and productivity of cattle and other food animals, ...

Skin Cancer Rates Soar In Warmer Regions Of UK

... that since 2003 the rise in skin cancer cases has been even higher. The latest research shows that in Cornwall there has been an increase of 18 per cent in the number of cases between 2003 and 2005. As of now, there are more ...

Overweight Baby in Clinic

...or cholesterol problems. Over the years there has been an increase in number of overweight kids. Dr Swati Karandikar has been treating number of obese kids. She said: "We give them lifestyle advice and do a session on their di...

Deficiency of Vitamin D Levels may Be Common in Healthy Kids

...tes. Decreased blood levels of vitamin D have also been linked to obesity. The researchers however added that further study is needed to determine the appropriate blood levels of vitamin D in children, as well as a review of the current recommendations for vitamin D intake. The study appears in the cu...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

...d' fat mixture into the breast tissue after it has been taken through liposuction from the belly or bottom...osed in Europe every year. Though Celution has been designed for lumpectomy or partial mastectomy patients, the company has plans to venture into cosmet...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...ctive as well. While African American women have been found to have a lower incidence of breast cancer than Caucasian women, African American women die from the disease at a higher rate. The gap between death rates among African American and Caucasian women is increasing. Though access to healthcare is ...

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