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Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...few nations in the world where life expectancy has declined sharply in the past 15 years. The average Russian ... After the Soviet collapse, the health care system declined as it failed to keep up with the western medicine. Today, many who can't afford to pay or bribe esp...

Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

...or Health Statistics, the birth rate for teenagers declined 2 percent in 2005, falling to 40.4 births per 1,00...rvey), and the teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined by one-third since the early 1990s, the United States still has the highest rate of teen pregnancy i...

Depression Therapy Reduces Suicide Attempts

Suicide attempts declined during the first month of treatment in a study of more than 100,000 patients treated for depression. The findings, published by Group Health researchers in the July American Journal of Psychiatry, show a similar pattern for populations of adolescent...

Declining Sex Ratio

Sex ratio in India has declined over the century from 972 in 1901 to 927 in 1991. The sex ratio has since gone up to 933 in 2001. In contrast, the child sex ratio for the age group of 0-6 years in 2001 is 927 girls per thousand boys against 945 recorded in 1991 Census. As far a...

Hurricane Katrina Still Wrecking Lives - More So With Blacks

...ealth care, while 17 percent said their health had declined and 16 percent said they had mental health troubles. Almost a quarter said their marriages had broken up, their relationships had failed, or they were drinking more since the August 2005 hurricane. The city's long-standing racial friction became a ...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

... authors also found that the rate of brain atrophy declined by two-thirds, to the rate expected during normal aging. In another promising sign, the men ended up with more muscle mass after undergoing the treatment. Unfortunately, testosterone treatment would not be feasible in women because of its side effe...

Mammogram Rates On The Decline In America

... using HRT believe their risk of breast cancer has declined and so they don't feel the need for mammography. Women might not be going to their doctors as often for their hormones, and so are not being told it's time for a mammogram. That's a concern because just because they are not taking HRT does not mean...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

...tly after use of hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) declined in 2002 and 2003. While purified genistein is not as potent as HRT, Helferich said, it still poses a risk to midlife women because the amount consumed is much higher. The labels of many products that contain this and other isoflavones lack vital i...

Rise in Cigarette Use may Elucidate Asthma Epidemic in Children

...Goodwin said. Although cigarette consumption has declined in some segments of the United States population since its peak around 1981, the consequences and health effects of the drastic increase in the mid-1980s are still affecting adults and children, she added....

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...ming Epidemic, says, "It's staggering. The USA has declined relative to all other industrial countries in virtually every quality of life measured -- health, equality, savings, sustainability -- though that's not so with the GDP and certainly not with the number of billionaires.," he says. Unsurprisingly, the...

Policeman in Trouble for Seeking Oral Sex in Return for a Favour

...unted policeman.) The trooper, James Randy Moss, declined to comment Tuesday. Highway Patrol spokesman Mike Browning confirmed investigators have interviewed the porn star, who is identified on a citation by her real name, Justis Richert. In her blog, written under the screen name "Barbie Cummings," she g...

Performance of Mental Tasks Affected by Sexual Orientation

...tation. The study found that mens mental abilities declined faster than womens and that sexual orientation made no difference to the rate of that decline either for men or women....

Red Wine Lessens the Risk of Prostate Cancer

...onal glass of red wine per week, the relative risk declined by 6%. Why red wine? Doctors dont know. But much of the speculation focuses on chemicalsincluding various flavonoids and resveratrolmissing from other alcoholic beverages. These components have antioxidant properties, and some appear to counterbal...

Sun Bathing Reduces Sperm Count

...e a normal sperm count, but in some cases this has declined when we check again before treatment, which may be several months later. It is only recently that it has occurred to us that there may be a seasonal effect at work, the BBC quoted Dr Thomas Mathews, the Medical Director at Bourn Hall, as saying. He...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

... form of tobacco. From 1995, cigarette consumption declined dramatically. Though it is a good sign, the other side of coin that is worrying is an increased trend in other forms as well as more number of females and young population joining the list of consumers. The global trends show 1.1 billion smokers of...

FDA Grants Standard Review for GSK's Experimental HPV Vaccine Cervarix

...s reports. A GSK spokesperson on Thursday said FDA declined to grant priority review, which could have been completed in six months. Cervarix and Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil have been shown to be 100% effective in preventing infection with HPV strains 16 and 18, which together cause about 70% of cervical c...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Apologizes, Lung Surgery an Option for Him

...e, CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding said. But she declined to provide more details on Cooksey's involvement in the case, and would not comment on the propriety of his actions. Interestingly the mayor of the island of Santorini in Greece, Angelos Rousso, denied Speakers marriage took place at all. He told ...

Shrinking of Mt. Kilimanjaros Ice Cap Not Due to Global Warming: Study

...ria, the world's largest tropical freshwater lake, declined in the late 19th century, when the decline of Kibo's icecap began. The volcano Kibo is the highest point on Kilimanjaro, about 19,340 feet above sea level. The researchers say the lake and the icecap likely suffer from a precipitation decline cause...

Teenagers Untimely Death Draws Attention To Safety Of Over The- Counter Drugs

...eath. "We are looking into it," she says. Yet, she declined to comment whether the labeling requirements for methyl salicylate products might be changed. Experts say that methyl salicylate is not the only common pain reliever that can be dangerous if used improperly. Accidental poisonings from acetaminoph...

Womans Death increases Pressure on LA Hospital to close down

... spokesman Michael Wilson confirmed the change but declined to elaborate Wednesday, saying it was a personnel matter. L.A. County supervisor Zev Yarovslosky called the hospital's actions a moral and human breakdown. Burke said the county-run hospital, which handles 49,000 emergency patients a year, is a cru...

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