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Tackling Prostate Cancer With A New Dietary Supplement

...is one of the biggest cancer killers in industrial countries and affects //more than 500,000 men worldwide every year. This number is expected to increase with the ageing population, prompting increasing focus on prevention. Researchers now say that a daily supplement containing plant oestrogens and antioxidan...

Estimates For Number Of HIV/AIDS Deaths In India Still Not Available

...largest after sub-Saharan Africa. It said if the countries of the region treat the problem as "business as usual", an additional 12 million people would be infected in the next five years. (IANS) Medindia on HIV/AIDS – Further information AIDS: AIDS is an epidemic disease, a potentially preventable, d...

Intense Fight Against Polio In India Gets Results

...ion: polio had been eradicated from the developed countries through vaccination, but is still existent in India and some of the other developing countries. For more information read: <a href="#patients/paediatrics/immunisation.asp">http://www.medindia.net/patients/ paediatrics/immunisation.asp &#...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

...ents with stage 1 seminoma from 70 hospitals in 14 countries were recruited in this study to compare the effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Between 1996 and 2001, the researchers randomly assigned 543 patients with stage I seminoma to receive a single course of carboplatin and 904 patients to receive rad...

Lung Cancer Deaths Declining In Men But Not Women In European Countries

...n is still rising in most EU countries, except for countries like United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark. The greatest increases were in France, Spain, and Hungary. Rates for women in Hungary exceeded those for women in all other member states (mirroring those for Hungarian men) and also exceed the rates for men ...

Junk Food Causes High Level Of Insulin Resistance In Children

... of one rich country, Denmark and two other poorer countries – Estonia and Portugal. Insulin resistance, which is a main precursor for development of heart disease later in their life, was measured in each of the 3.189 children’s. The results of the study show that the children of the most educated and highe...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

...ents with stage 1 seminoma from 70 hospitals in 14 countries to compare radiotherapy with chemotherapy treatment. Between 1996 and 2001, the researchers randomly assigned 543 patients with stage I seminoma to receive a single course of carboplatin and 904 patients to receive radiation therapy. After a median f...

Indian And Danish Research Agencies To Work Together For Osteoporosis

...ctive to promote economic activities in developing countries like India by investing in commercial projects together with industry. Commenting on the investment, Avesta Nordic chairman Helle Bechgaard said: "IFU had been keenly watching the rapid growth in the biotech sector globally, but more especially in ...

Study Warns About The Use Of Popular Asthma Drug To Stop Children's Coughs

... countries, however it is still used in developing countries to treat routine cough in children with asthma. A study has found no benefit of the drug. "We found a lack of good evidence for using Methylxanthines for children's cough that was not associated with other asthma symptoms," says lead author of the...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...ation.asp Compare India’s population with other countries <a href="#health_statistics/population/countrypopulation.asp">http://www.medindia.net/health_statistics/ population/countrypopulation.asp World Population clock Gives the approximate World population. World population clock is dynamic...

International Osteoporosis Research Centre To Be Started In India.

...ndate to promote economic activities in developing countries like India by investing in commercial projects together with industry. Commenting on the investment, Avesta Nordic chairman Helle Bechgaard said: "IFU had been keenly watching the rapid growth in the biotech sector globally, but more especially in ...

Education And Income Level May Not Guarantee Health

...children. The research that was carried across the countries of Denmark, Estonia, and Portugal, is published in...ed schoolchildren from Denmark (one of the richest countries in Europe), and two poorer countries, Estonia and Portugal. Insulin resistance (a pre-cursor of hear...

Identifying What Consumers Look For On Food Stuff Labels

...gher in the AsiaPacific region compared with other countries confirming that a major part of the world’s consumers are still more interested in fat, calories and sugar than carbohydrate levels. Australians were the most GI-savvy: 82 per cent know about this diet, followed by 80 per cent of Koreans and 76 per c...

HIV Infection Higher In Drug Trafficking Countries

...nfections is sweeping along the heroin-trafficking countries of Afghanistan to Eastern Europe. “This HIV/AIDS epidemic is just beginning and the virus is, again, ahead of our responses,” says Chris Beyrer. “Drug treatment and HIV prevention must be implemented now, everywhere the heroin is flowing.” Afghanis...

"Defeat AIDS Pledge" by Andhra CM

... the country. He cited the example of some African countries where the dreaded disease had caused havoc. (Source- IANS)...

‘No Epidemic Risk in Mumbai’ Assures Health Ministe

...isms, causes water borne diseases. In developing countries four-fifths of all the illness is caused by water-borne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death. Floodwaters can carry with it Raw sewage, Silt, Oil or Chemical wastes and cause diarrhea and dysentery. Infectious disease...

Risk of Breast Cancer Overestimated with Hormone Replacement Therapy(HRT) Treatment

...s also a popular treatment especially in developed countries for women to avoid the natural body changes which are equated to 'getting old'. ERT can help to reduce the undesirable symptoms of menopause such as vaginal drying and preventing osteoporosis after menopause. Side effects of estrogen replacement th...

E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana

...n - it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings. More on medindia: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/depression_about.htm http://www.medindia.net/know_ur_body /nervous.asp http://www.medindia.net/patients/ aids/prevention_about.htm http://www....

Breastfeeding Decline In Middle East Worries UN

...six months of their lives.// "Several high-income countries in the Middle East such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar,...intain patterns similar to industrialised European countries where exclusive breastfeeding is below 35 percent," Unicef said in a statement released as part of o...

Breastfeeding Revisited thanks to WHO and UNICEF

...tant observations in many countries. While in some countries it applauds the efforts, in other it is critical of the policies. Breast-feeding has been the responsibility of every mother since the time of eve, hence why this sudden reawakening to an age-old practice. As the world undertook industrialization ...

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