Tag: "countries" at medical news

FDA's control is inherently weak

... unable to ensure that trial participants in those countries receive the same level of protection as those in the United States. The FDA has little idea where research takes place overseas, what level of ethics review exists, how foreign researchers recruit participants or how many patients are taking exper...

Misleading anti-malarial drug

...alaria preventative in non-immune populations from countries such as the UK where the disease is not endemic. The publication warns that it is not known if Malarone is as effective as the previous main choices – mefloquine and doxycycline. Professor Joe Collier, editor of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, said...

Bronchitis in the young

...t 16,000 people aged 18 to 47 at 28 centres in 13 countries has shown just the opposite. The researchers found that the disease affects up to 12% of adults under the age of 40. Young smokers were particularly at risk, and men were more affected than women. Chronic bronchitis often gives rise to bouts of hea...

How to prevent wrinkles?

...group of 300 people aged 60 or over living in many countries . They have found that whether they were fair or dark-skinned, those who ate lots of green leafy vegetables, beans, olive oil, nuts and multigrain bread, were less susceptible to wrinkling. Eating less butter, red meat and sugar was also linked to k...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...rs people spend asleep per night in more developed countries has decreased from nine hours to seven-and-a-half hours. The change has been made to accommodate increased demands of work and more leisure activities. A team from the US Department of Medicine in Chicago, investigated whether lack of sleep can alt...

Stay away from strenouous work

...40 years, the number of working women in developed countries has nearly trebled, and women are on average working longer into their pregnancies....

Zinc supplements improve survival rate

...ignificantly improve survival rates, especially in countries where infants often die from infectious diseases. The research involved 1,154 full-term but smaller than normal babies born in New Delhi, India, most weighing 5 1/2 pounds or less. Mothers fed them supplements containing zinc or minerals for nine mon...

Olive oil does good

...m cancers. They studied bowel cancer rates in 28 countries across the world, most of which were in Europe. Ho...evious studies. "What our findings suggest is that countries with high intakes of olive oil have relatively lower incidence rates of colorectal cancer than would...

Hormone replacement therapy helps women

...ollowed a group of over 1,000 women from different countries for a few years - assessing them with the State Exam, which measures cognitive performance. The women also gave information on their use of HRT. It appeared that lifetime use of HRT did benefit cognitive function - especially in older women. The m...

Early menopause- The cause

...men's reproductive habits. As women in developed countries delay motherhood into their 30s, it may even be that one day women in their early 20s could take a genetic test to confirm that they weren't at risk of premature menopause. If there were indications that they were at risk of premature menopause, they...

Rubella nearly wiped out

...atients about vaccinations, and perhaps help other countries with their vaccination programs. Infants in the U...of 128 cases in 1995. As of January 2001, 44 of 47 countries in the Americas had childhood rubella vaccination programs, though most have been in effect for less...

Early menopause- The cause

...men's reproductive habits. As women in developed countries delay motherhood into their 30s, it may even be that one day women in their early 20s could take a genetic test to confirm that they weren't at risk of premature menopause. If there were indications that they were at risk of premature menopause, they...

HIV infections have reached a new high

...new heterosexual infections are acquired abroad in countries of high HIV prevalence and brought to the UK by people who come to live and work here. These new figures give us the clearest indication yet that, without a boost in HIV prevention investments and a reinvigorated national HIV prevention programme, o...

Final push to eradicate leprosy

The governments of countries where leprosy is still a health problem need to en...zil for their annual meeting. Brazil is one of six countries in the world where leprosy remains a major public health issue. The others are India, Madagascar, Mo...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

...rcent of new infections are in the world's poorest countries where life prolonging drugs are not available to most sufferers....

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

A study of eating patterns across different countries justifies an association between breast cancer and...nia, looked at dietary supply data for a number of countries in North and South America, Asia and Europe. Such data reflects only the supply of food in a given c...

A crude custom

...tion, female circumcision has been falling in some countries in the last decade. In Kenya, a 1996survey found that 76% of teenagers had been circumcised, compared to 100% of women over 45. Several governments have introduced legislation to ensure the process is only carried out in hospitals by trained doctors...

NBE to conduct test for medical students from abroad

...ry, state governements, and our embassies in other countries regarding the changes,” the sources said. The India Medical Council Act was amended last year to incorporate these provisions, they said....

Obesity a global problem

...ood processing and even leisure time in developing countries are causing a rise in obesity levels. Paradoxical...adult obesity in many places. The phenomenon means countries that still face problems of under-nutrition also need to pay attention to the prevention of obesity-...

Hyperactivity disorder a biological malfunction

... ADHD behaviour, and prescriptions in the European countries have gone up by more than 45 times in the past six years....

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