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Elderly People Can Take Up Computers To Fight Depression

...group.Participants in the survey included an urban community sample of 206 adults over the age of 65 (with a mean age of 80) that was randomly selected from three zip codes in lower Manhattan.Source: Newswise ...

WHO declares Tuberculosis – ‘An Emergency’ in Afrca

... TB partnerships, public-private collaboration and community participation in TB control activities. According to WHO release, in the other four WHO regions of the world, TB trends are either stable or in decline and are on track to reach the MDG targets of halving TB prevalence and deaths by 2015. For mor...

Atypical Antibiotics For Super Bugs

...s bacterial strains that appear in health-care and community settings, he says. At least one of the cephalosporin compounds identified has entered Phase I clinical trials (human studies), but results are not yet available. Researchers had recently discovered, in a study published in the February issue of the...

'Art of Living' concept expanding around the globe

...understanding (MoU) for collaborative research and community healthcare initiatives.// The MoU was signed during Ravi Shankar's two-day visit to Krasnoyarsk from Monday. Under the agreement, the academy will join hands with the Art of Living foundation to develop programmes for the staff and postgraduate stud...

Immunosuppressive drug shows promise in treatment of eye disorder

...ansplanted organs from being rejected. The medical community has only been interested in worrying about the problems caused due to immunosuppression. Looking at the other side of the coin, there seems to be benefits as well.// It has been found out that the immunosuppressive drug mycophenolate mofetil, used ...

Mushrooms can help fight chronic disease

...nerative diseases, and even cancer. The scientific community has been trying hard to protect the body form the harmful effects of free radicals by supplementation with anti-oxidants, substances that counteract the free radicals. // Anti-oxidants are abundant in fruits and vegetables. It has now been found tha...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

...rious rays was electrifying to both the scientific community and the public. The public wanted radiation in e...ms and the list goes on. Members of the scientific community have been wise enough to devise acceptable safety norms for the optimal use of radiation. Yet, one a...

Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking

...xposure to these behaviors through family members, community and social events and media may influence attitudes and expectations about alcohol and tobacco use long before children ever consider using these products themselves, according to background information in the article. Young children’s attitudes have...

Hospital Infections Like MRSA Affect The New Arrivals More

...03). At one hospital, patients admitted from the community accounted for 49% of total MSSA cases and 25% of total MRSA cases. The proportion of methicillin resistance among patients admitted with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, rose from 14% in 1997 and 1998 to 26% in 2003. Most patients (at least 91%) a...

Researchers Begin Study To Find Out If Angioplasty Can Be Safely Done In Smaller Hospitals

... angioplasty //can be safely performed in smaller, community hospitals, easing access to the therapy for patien...andomly assigned to have angioplasty at either the community hospital without on-site cardiac surgery where they underwent diagnostic catheterization or at a cen...

Patient Negligence - Significant Problem In The Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

...ing surveys prone to poor patient recall or single community healthcare facility use. The researchers found 36 percent of women 40 and over in New Hampshire had either never had a mammogram or had not had one in over 27 months. Older women over 80 years old were more likely than younger women to not receive ...

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

...n regarded as a women’s issue until the scientific community has established that a male factor is held responsible in roughly half of all cases of infertility. Infertility is associated with significant physical and mental trauma and imposes serious financial constraints for assessment and treatment of the s...

Injury Rates High For Workers In Poultry Farms

...ed in a peer-reviewed journal, were distributed to community groups in a working paper. Poultry processing is the largest and fastest growing sector of the meat products industry, according to the authors. In 2002, North Carolina and four other states accounted for 70 percent of all broiler production in the ...

Women may not be tested often after stroke

... a study of 1,234 stroke patients treated in Texas community hospitals, show that there’s still a long way to go in diagnostic evaluation of all patients who suffer ischemic strokes. About 88 percent of all strokes are ischemic, which means they’re caused by blood clots traveling to the brain or by blockages i...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

...ere seems to be a strong resolve in the scientific community to combat this impending and much dreaded pandemic. ...

Dental health neglected by over 60 % of Indians

...he goal however, cannot be achieved without active community participation...

Problems in rural health delivery and remedies

...ty of doctors in primary health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs) due to recruitment delays, i...evel of mistrust and corrupt ion, neglect, lack of community participation and ownership, and ineffective monitoring. It is precisely to address these maladies...

A new anti diabetic drug on the anvil

...oved for marketing till date, among the scientific community DPP-IV inhibitors are expected to offer significant potential for being the therapy of choice, once approved. The Phase I study will be conducted by Parexel U.K., a leading global CRO. The Phase I study is expected to be completed in February 2006 a...

Guidelines for treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis formulated

... for Sick Children (SickKids) provides the medical community for the first time with specific guidelines for treating juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), previously known as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. To date, a clear approach for treating the different forms of the disease has not existed, despite many a...

Ruling On Non Disclosure Of HIV Positive Status Is Not Ethical

...HIV status. In June he was sentenced to 300 hours' community work for having unprotected sex for four months with a former partner and not telling her of his condition. Despite the earlier conviction, the woman expressed her unhappiness with Wednesday's decision, and remarked that it should be made legally man...

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