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Whirlpool Bath Tubs Contain Potentially Lethal Bacterial Strains

... Bacterial strains especially those found in feces contributed about 95% of the samples, while 81% had fungi and 34% contained potentially deadly staphylococcus bacteria. Dr Rita Moyes said that the occurrence of these bacteria could be attributed to the improper maintaining and cleaning of the pipelines. Air ...

Acupuncture As Good As Drug Therapy In Migraine Treatment

...atient belief in the treatment modality could have contributed to a successful outcome. After demonstration of such promising results, perhaps may be it is time for doctors to recommend to their patients, acupuncture treatment as well....

Annual Budget 2006: Health And Education Sector Receive A Boost

... a facelift. The service and industry sector has contributed to a 7% growth of the Indian economy over the past 4 years. Let us hope that this increased spending on the education and health sector would add momentum to socio economic growth and development of the country. ...

Government, Aids NHS, Re-focus On Sexual Health Initiatives

...nt due to paucity of treatment measures, which has contributed to propagation of the disease. Nearly 60,000 cases in Britain are diagnosed with HIV, since the World War II, and Chlamydia cases have simply gone up three times in the past decade. To quote the survey’s findings "There is a noticeable disconnect be...

Many In The UK Will Live For 100 Years

...ndon. A combination of factors are thought to have contributed to the increase in longevity, he said. These include better medical care, the elimination of disease and better nutrition. Improved treatment for heart disease and cancer, improved diet and lifestyle, especially among the affluent, are among the r...

Uterine Cancer Cases On The Rise

...es the risk of uterine cancer. Early detection has contributed towards increasing the 5 years survival rates to 77% in the UK, since 1976, when it was only at 16%. The standard treatment for the ailment is removal of the womb, or hysterectomy, while radiotherapy is also used in the case of advanced stages of the...

Alzheimer’s: Blame it On the Genes; Lifestyle changes the only Saving Grac

...ad Alzheimer’s, it was found that heredity factors contributed as one of the major risks of Alzheimer’s. Some identical twins did not have Alzheimer’s, though their twins did. Though this is not a foregone conclusion, yet it points a finger to heredity that predisposes a person to be struck by Alzheimer’s. Thom...

Anger, laden with numerous pitfalls - Deflecting an angry outburst always pays

...by anger, just before the injury, appeared to have contributed to the injury. In addition to this, the researchers sought answers from a parallel team of adults; each person was linked to a patient and rating of emotions for the day and hour of the week was compared with a patient parallel’s response during the ...

Health Services Plagued By Corruption

...Corruption in medical services is reported to have contributed to a large extent for the failure in containing the AIDS epidemic, which is spreading rapidly across the African Continent. ...

Public Health awareness to help scientists in Scotland!

...pidemiologists and social science researchers have contributed enormously to the development of Generation Scotland and we are now ready to build upon this momentum by working with thousands of families across Scotland to create a resource that will inform the separate and combined effects of genetic, environmen...

DNA damage and cancer risk, increased due to red meat diet

...he rise of ready meals, which are rich in calories contributed to the trend. World Cancer Research Fund recommends 80g of red meat per day and not more than that for those who are at an increased risk of bowel cancer. Hence diet plays a very important role in the prevention of cancer....

Bharat Rao Is 'Inventor of the Year'

...osis and Therapy Group. Rao is reported to have contributed towards developing the Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Nonstructured Data (REMIND), which is an automated analysis and data collection tool. Patient care plans can now be personalized as a result of this tool. Rao is an IIT graduate...

Men Are More Vengeful Than Women

...rtant role in society’s evolution, and also having contributed towards its stability. The researchers speculate that men play a greater role in enforcing justice in a society. The study also showed that when a person watches the suffering of a person whom he likes, the impact is felt by him also. ...

Aspirin Serves To Reduce Cardiovascular Events

...69 heart attacks, and 625 strokes. Aspirin therapy contributed towards a reduction of 12% in the case of cardiovascular events, and 17% in the case of stroke. In the case of cardiovascular death and heart attacks, the effect was not seen to be very significant. In the case of the 44,114 men, the number of hea...

Record Number of Countries Contributed to UNFPA in 2005

More countries contributed to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in 2... donor nations to 171.// In 2004, 166 nations had contributed to UNFPA. Every nation in Africa pledged funds to UNFPA in 2005. Contributions to the UNFPA regular...

High Decibel Noise May Lead To Tumor

...re to constant noise was a significant factor that contributed to the development of tumor. Five years of constant high decibel noise increased the propensity to develop the tumor. According to the findings, wearing ear-protective aids, to a great extent, helped in reducing the development of tumor. It is po...

Down’s Syndrome Is The Leading Birth Defect In the U

...s been pooled in from 11 states. Petrini, who also contributed to the report, says that as a group heart-related defects are probably the most common birth defects in the country. This new report will help the Health Department determine "the appropriate allocation of resources for basic and public health resear...

Soft Drinks May Reduce Esophageal Cancer Risk

...d by others that carbonated soft drinks might have contributed to the development of adenocarcinoma of the esopha...test of the hypothesis that soft drinks might have contributed to the increase in this cancer. We found that contrary to the hypothesis put forth by other research...

New Gastric Cancer Drug Unlikely to Benefit Kidney Cancer Patients

...alth and Science University, both in Portland also contributed to this study. For more information visit mayoclinic.org/kidneycancer-rst. Contact Mayo Clinic 200 First St. SW Rochester, MN 55902 United States http://www.mayo.edu/news...

War Against Cancer Continues

...4%. New drugs like Gleevec and Herceptin have also contributed towards this. The suffering and death due to cancer is sought to be eliminated by 2015 by the National Cancer Institute....

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