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Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

...rt adds that the process of globalisation is to be blamed for this, as the developing countries are forced to drop tariff barriers against highly successful international brands. Whatever be the reason one this is clear! Smoking is a sure killer. And in the years to come it will turn out to be the deadliest...

Uncontrolled blood pressure

...regularly - so lack of medical attention cannot be blamed for their problem. Given that hypertension is a potent risk factor for both heart disease and stroke, it is important that those concerned, and their doctors, are more aware of the condition, and what can be done to control it....

Sequencing of the Plague

Bubonic plague, the bacterium blamed for the Black Death during middle ages in Europe and now a potential biological weapon, has had its entire genome sequenced. The genes seem to be "unusually fluid", readily re-arranging themselves and picking up new genes from other microbes. That co...

Cirrhosis on the rise

...vical cancer. While some of this increase can be blamed on the side-effects of long-term infection with hepatitis B and C, Professor Donaldson says that the most "convincing explanation" is alcohol. He says: "There is a clear need for a comprehensive approach, across and beyond government, to address the ...

A boon to epileptics

...brain. The use of high-frequency pulses has been blamed for triggering epileptic seizures, and this is some of the first work using low-frequency magnetism.The ten patients in the Gottingen study suffered an average of more than 12 fits a week but, after the magnetic treatment, nearly all suffered fewer s...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...g for the first 30 years// of its career, has been blamed as an illegal killer for the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousands of deaths and emergency room visits, while others claim its unrivaled uses as a prescription drug. The Food and Drug Administration banned GHB in 1990. President Clinton signed...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...study found. Fertility treatment itself is often blamed for some premature births, but the study found pre-term births occurred about as often among women who eventually conceived naturally after trying for more than a year to get pregnant. Most previous studies have compared women seeking fertility tre...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

... study found. Fertility treatment itself is often blamed for some premature births, but the study found pre-term births occurred about as often among women who eventually conceived naturally after trying for more than a year to get pregnant. Most previous studies have compared women seeking fertility trea...

Identifying Predictors Of Anthrax

...compared 47 cases of anthrax -- including 11 cases blamed on bioterrorism -- with about 375 cases of pneumonia or influenza-like illnesses, looking for differences that might help doctors quickly identify someone as having anthrax rather than a typical lung disease. The analysis pointed to several possibil...

Study Proves That MMR Vaccine Is Not Connected To Autistic Babies

...n a very tiny percentage of children, it cannot be blamed for the number of autistic cases that had occurred in Japan during the ban. Ten of the original 13 researchers of the initial paper linking autism and MMR have decided to retract their study. Their retraction will be published in the March issue of...

Heart attack risk increased by depression

... new study has found out that depression has to be blamed for increased risk of heart attack rather than anti-depressants // used to treat the same. The study was conducted on 60,000 patients submitted by 644 general practices. At first glance, results showed both the newer and older classes of antidepress...

Drug regulatory officials giving the nod for sale of Unapproved drug formulations in India

... The drugs controller general of India has however blamed the states’ drug regulatory officials for issuing manufacturing licences despite the absence of marketing approvals from the central health ministry. The drugs controller’s office has also stated that they have asked a panel of experts to examine whe...

Increased physical activity to stop obesity in teen girls

...ning physical activities in teenage girls is to be blamed as the cause of rising problem// of obesity among them. Girls who remain inactive during their adolescence tend to gain more weight that their peers who participate in some form of physical activity during their teens. In a ten year observational st...

Encephalitis Deaths Cross 220 in Uttar Pradesh

...andhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences blamed "official apathy" for the unabated spread of the killer brain fever, which had been striking eastern Uttar Pradesh for nearly three decades. Encephalitis is a mosquito borne disease and is continuing to spread across the state since it broke out Ju...

The Link Between Caffeine Drinks And Obesity

...ade. // Lemonade and other sodas are already being blamed by consumer groups for their role in increasing childhood obesity as many have a high sugar content. For the latest study researchers recruited 10 healthy women aged 18 to 22 from a range of ethnicities. The subjects fasted overnight and were rando...

Infertility rate in UK men increasing at an alarming rate with numbers rising over 2.5 million

...ting factor to low male fertility. One in 10 (11%) blamed alcohol and 7% blamed stress. GP Ann Robinson said: "The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up cal...

Active Lifestyle Helps To Slowdown Illness In Alzheimer's Patients

...tablished that genes in 10 percent of cases can be blamed for the occurrence, but "in the bulk of cases there is no such evidence", said Ravindranath. A source of some satisfaction for neurologists like K.S. Anand, who heads the neurology department at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here, is that there is grea...

Antibiotics Given Too Often For Sore Throat: Study

...llness where antibiotics are ineffective, has been blamed for accelerating the development of drug-resistant strains of bacteria. In addition, the study found that 27 percent of the children received antibiotics not recommended for use against strep throat. Penicillin, amoxicillin, erythromycin and first-g...

Doctor Training Undermined In Britain Due To Shortage Of Cadavers

... donations were not reversed. The government has blamed rising medical student numbers, TV shows and the Alder Hey scandal for the problem. In the last five years, the number of bodies being donated has fallen from 670 to 600 across England and Wales. This has been coupled with a rise in medical student...

Bird Flu Spreading in China's Poultry

...park a worldwide pandemic. Chinese officials have blamed migratory birds for many of the nation's outbreaks and say that vaccinating domestic poultry is their best bet in severing the transmission link between wild and tame birds. Bird Flu dominates summit: The bird flu threat loomed large at the 21-...

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