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Newborn Screening Tests for Babies

...te newborn screening programs mean some babies may die or develop brain damage or other severe complications because they are not identified in time for effective treatment, said Dr. Howse. All babies across America should receive the benefits of being screened for all of these 29 treatable conditions,...

Targeted Food Tax to Improve Health

...syndrome. They were also almost 50% more likely to die early. But those who regularly drank milk and ate dairy products, such as yogurt and cheese, were significantly less likely to have the syndrome. They were 62% less likely to have it if they drank a pint or more of milk every day, and 56% less lik...

Canadian Cancer Society Calls for Ban on Asbestos

...posed to asbestos at work and that at least 90,000 die annually from asbestos-related diseases. In Canada, almost one-third of the 1,097 workplace deaths in 2005 were attributed to asbestos, said the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. Most industrialized countries, including Canada, no...

Organ Donors Solicited During UKs National Transplant Week

... According to specialists, around a fifth of these die while waiting. The average patient has to wait for up to a year for a suitable liver to become available. For those lucky enough to get an organ, the miracle continues. Stephen Lomas, 51, the recipient of the first adult "live donor" liver transplan...

Nepal Develops More Effective Drug for Typhoid

... person. According to the report, 600,000 people die of typhoid across the world every year....

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...tream. Every year almost 400,000 Indian children die because of diarrhea alone, according to UNICEF. "The government starts throwing money at the problem without really understanding what the problem is," said Shreekant Gupta, who until March headed the National Institute for Urban Affairs think-tank...

All Babies in Massachusetts Should Be Screened for Life-Threatening Disorders

...te newborn screening programs mean some babies may die or develop brain damage or other severe complications because they are not identified in time for effective treatment," said Dr. Howse. "All babies across America should receive the benefits of being screened for all of these 29 core conditions," sai...

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

...ted that more than half a million people worldwide die each year from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and up to 80 percent of these cancers are caused by chronic Hepatitis B. The worst part of the disease is its 'silence'. Many people are carriers of the virus and don't know about it. This is one of...

Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

...ery year about a third of Saskatchewan workers who die from work-related causes die from asbestos-related diseases, says Anderson."This is really harmful stuff,'' he warns....

Lower Mortality Rates in Hospitals With Good Quality Care

...ing hospitals, 2,200 fewer elderly Americans would die each year in the surveyed hospitals from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF) and pneumonia, three common medical conditions. These findings show that these quality indicators, which are widely available on the web, ar...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...on of the 250 million tobacco users in the country die every year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there will be more than ten million deaths a year due to oral cancer in the next thirty years with 70 percent of those occurring in developing countries like India....

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

...ut. They are also almost 50 percent more likely to die early. Head researcher Peter Elwood of Cardiff University said milk consumption has plummeted over the last 25 years amid concerns about the effect its high saturated fat content may have on health and the heart. But growing evidence suggests this ...

Shakira Set for Kids' Charity Gigs

...cause of a social emergency: 350 thousand children die each year due to avoidable causes, 40 million children work and live on the streets. We want an active Latin America, that doesn't give up, united for our children," Contactmusic quoted Shakira, as saying....

Childline Gears Up for Distraught Potter Fans

...can newspaper unveiled that a number of characters die in the book. The review angered author J K Rowling, who appealed to the media and fans to keep away from spoiling the fun of the book for other readers....

Ayurvedic Doctor Sentenced to Five Years in Jail for Causing Death of Woman

... the convicts misfeasance caused the young lady to die an unnatural death, depriving the members of her family of her company....

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...x to seven out of 10 newborns in our slums used to die during childbirth or within a few months but things have changed now. We are organising such competitions every two months and giving women prizes like utensils and plastic cycles for their ready use," said Babita, another community leader. The slu...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...disease. Most patients with chronic kidney disease die of complications from heart disease rather than of kidney failure. In one study, Peter A. McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., of William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich., and colleagues assessed a group of 37,153 individuals who were screened for kidney d...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

... of national outrage over a woman who was left to die on the floor of the emergency room. The Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital, operated by the Los Angeles County department of Health Services, is located near crime hotspots, and serves poor and minorities in South Los Angeles. Predictably i...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

...ke sure they take them correctly, as their parents die or are too sick to care for them. Those HIV sufferers who do survive beyond childhood often face huge challenges that their friends can only imagine, including how to develop relationships and have healthy children themselves. Another face to the chi...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...disease. Most patients with chronic kidney disease die of complications from heart disease rather than of kidney failure. In one study, Peter A. McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., of William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich., and colleagues assessed a group of 37,153 individuals who were screened for kidney d...

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