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Female Heart Attack Victims Show Signs of Lasting Depression

...o back to the clinic less frequently for follow up check ups or cardiac rehabilitation. Thus they do not have much support and assistance in making the lifestyle changes that are necessary for recovery after a heart attack. The findings confirm a longstanding view that physicians should be screening for ...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

...cyclists can use the Internet or a mobile phone to check on bike availability at any one. Each dock has a panel that gives instructions in several languages. Costs for the user have been kept right down. Rental is free for the first half hour, rising to one euro for the second, two for the next and so ...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

... people prefer to have male children. "This will check both foeticide and infant mortality," the minister for women and child development Renuka Chowdhury told the Hindustan Times daily. Officials said the data would permit the government to focus efforts on areas with a large gap between the number of...

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

...the disease - The World Hepatitis Day is a reality check of the world status in the treatment of this disease. The distinct categories of Hepatitis are A, B and C of which Hepatitis B is particularly virulent. In India alone, nearly 36 million people are severely affected by the Hepatitis B virus. World...

Dengue Fever in Singapore Likely to Increase: Minister

...nths ahead" and urged Singaporeans to make a daily check of their homes for potential breeding spots. "I would like to stress that our fight against dengue must be underpinned by collective efforts and commitment of all in our community," said Yaacob. "Breeding in homes continues to pose a challenge," ...

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

...don and his colleagues used a "dose calculator" to check the dose given to a woman according to her age, bo...ers egg development. They used the calculator to check the dosage given to 161, and found that 75 per cent were being given a higher dose than required, wh...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...n, President of Varanavasi Village Panchayat. To check their tobacco consuming habits, Nagarajan said that we have adopted a resolution to ban smoking and chewing in our panchayat villages. Varanavasi Village Panchayat consists of five villages namely Azhalavur, Thalampaptu, Varanvasi, Arambakkam and R...

Researchers Developing smart Wardrobe' to Download Songs to smart Shirts

...ed to manage shirts with accelerometers in them to check on how active kids are during the day, said Prof. Thomas. Smart clothes could also be used to monitor whether elderly people are missing meals or falling over. If sensors in the clothes detect there may be a problem they could be programmed to aler...

Hairy Boy Bets on Laser Treatment for Cure

...d his turn in a long queue of people for a medical check up. The visit to the health camp was just another effort on the part of Dilip Patil, Prithviraj's father, in his quest to diagnose and possibly find a cure for his Class 5 son. Skin specialist Dayanand Naik, who found that hormonal and pathologica...

Reason Behind Trouble Remembering in ADHD Kids Revealed

...e, she also spoke about the tests she conducted to check the ability of ADHD kids to cope with distractions. The patients were asked to play with the same computer card game, while distracting images also flashed up on screen. They did not recognise distractions as a deviation from the task, or as a distra...

Indian Introduces Paan-flavoured Condoms

... earlier estimates, but vowed to spend billions to check a wider epidemic. Previous estimates from India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) had put the HIV caseload at 5.2 million, while UNAIDS in 2006 estimated 5.7 million cases which would have been the highest in the world....

TB Traveler Underwent Surgery to Remove Infected Lung Tissue

... in a hood. Special procedures were under taken to check whether the hoods were indeed working. When the operation began speakers diseased part of the lung was immediately noticeable. It was not a healthy glistening reddish one with smooth border. Speakers diseased part had lots of bumps on it. The lung...

Food Cravings are Linked to Weight Managenemt

...st thataccepting food cravings and keeping them in check may be an important component of weight management. Supplemental results from the Comprehensive Assessment of the Long-term Effects of Restricting Intake of Energy (CALERIE) trial provide new insights into food cravings, specific types of foods cra...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

... company followed standard operating procedures to check products before distributing them. "Everything came back confirming the product was safe and fine," Melbourne said. "We haven't confirmed that is in fact the issue, but that's something we're digging deeper into, because it coincides with this part...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...orking in the slums and women leaders there. "We check whether they are taking iron tablets or not, getting all the injections required during pregnancy or not. We also see whether they are aware of a balanced diet - and not necessarily costly food," said Kamla Jaiswal, a community leader in the Shiv Nag...

Weight Management Achieved by Controlling and Not Suppressing Food Cravings

...study, accepting food cravings and keeping them in check may be an important component of weight management. The first six-month phase of the study provides new insights into food cravings, specific types of foods craved, and their role in weight control. Cravings are really normal; almost everyone has...

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

... clearly had said that not enough has been done to check the abuse of Aboriginal children and promised to implement recommendations of the report. The inquiry has made 97 recommendations, like changes to the education system, tightening of pornography laws, immediate action to reduce alcohol consumption ...

Glaucoma can Be Cured by Oven Cleaner!

...ions. "Before using any nanoparticles we have to check for toxicity," New Scientist quoted Seal, as saying. Seal added that the substance did not irritate the eye when it was tested on both rats and rabbits and in some cases they helped protect cells from light damage. "We realised that nanoceria mi...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...ty health officials said, a supervising nurse will check the emergency room waiting area at least once every eight-hour shift to ensure that no patient is left unattended. King-Harbor must still respond to a separate federal report, not yet released, that found emergency room patients in immediate jeopa...

Memory T Cells Protect the Body from Viruses

...ges of the infection. Its like having a security check point, said Sigal. Also, many cancers, like viruses, must pass through lymph nodes to metastasize, so this research may help develop vaccines that prevent tumor metastases....

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(Date:12/4/2009)NEW YORK, Dec. 4 Thousands of KPMG LLP employees came together in more than 90 offices nationwide today, to participate in a community service event which combines the audit, tax and advisory firm,s
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(Date:12/4/2009)BOSTON, Dec. 4 Substantial progress has been made over the last 15 years in the healthcare community,s ability to diagnose and treat epilepsy and its complications. Yet this progress in epilepsy man
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