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Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...d on reaching their calcium-addicted adulthood and die prematurely. Surmeier's hunch was to try isradipine, a well-tolerated hypertension and stroke drug commercialised under the name of DynaCirc, which blocks the channels in the cell surface that admit calcium. Tested on lab-dish cells and then on m...

Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash

...on the sale, transport and processing of pigs that die from diseases. More than half of the world's pigs are raised in China and last year, residents consumed 50 million tons of pork. According to Jia, the disease is not transmitted, or harmful, to humans but "it spreads very quickly among pigs"....

Chikungunya Affects Kerala's Healthcare Status

...esent outbreak, which has seen more than 40 people die in the past two weeks in the south and central districts of Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam and parts of the capital city has raised questions about how good Kerala's healthcare system really is. According to sources, more than 100,000 people are ...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

...val. At least 75 of every 1,000 children in Orissa die before they complete their first year, says Grassroots Features. "I kept watching helplessly as my child lay dying on my lap," said Padmavati. "We went to the Gunia (the local traditional healer) but the condition did not improve," said Suryamani ...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...rwal. UN figures show close to 10 million people die a year in India, where 85 percent of the billion-plus population are Hindus who practice cremation. That leads to the felling of an estimated 50 million trees, leaves behind half a million tonnes of ash and produces eight million tonnes of carbon dio...

Racial Discrimination Takes The Nobility Out Of Doctoring

...heart attack, blacks were 9 percent less likely to die than whites, the researchers said, perhaps because...ttack, blacks were up to 26 percent more likely to die than whites, the study found. I wished we knew what's going on, says lead researcher Dr. Ioana Pop...

British Funds 250 Million Pounds to Reduce Child Mortality

...tain aimed at reducing the number of children who die before their fifth birthday. The funds will also... state's population, are 25 percent more likely to die before their fifth birthday than those from other groups in the state, the release said. In Madhy...

Ask Right Questions and Save Country from Further Healthcare Crisis: Michael Moore

...0 soldiers that are dead today may not have had to die had our news media done its job. My point is that the media didn't ask the questions." Moore said he hoped that by asking questions Americans could effect change in the health-care system. In "Sicko," he finds an uninsured patient who lost two...

Regular Sex Increases Longevity in Men

...hing, for they are only 33 per cent more likely to die before 80 if they were widowed....

WHO Intensifies Work on Safe Blood for Mothers

...s and testing. Globally, more than 500 000 women die each year during pregnancy, childbirth or in the postpartum period 99 percent of them in the developing world. An estimated 25 percent of those deaths are caused by severe bleeding during childbirth, making this the most common cause of maternal mor...

Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

...y International, who pointed out that 68,000 women die each year from backstreet abortions. Brown said that Amnesty's views on abortion were inspired by its international campaign to combat violence against women. But, Martino said, "the Church teaches that the murder of a human being can never be justif...

Fears Of Spread Of TB After Students Death

...cases of TB annually, and about five to 10 victims die per year, usually from a depressed immune system and not from TB alone. People who were possibly exposed to Kalpana Dangol will be given skin tests to see if they have been infected. TB is detectable eight to 10 weeks after exposure. Even if a t...

The Long Wait ... Dying for Lack of Kidneys

... four years -- when they survive. Eight Mexicans die a day hankering for organ transplants, and even in...atistics are available on the number of people who die waiting. In the United States last year, 6,287 transplant-seekers died (more than 96,000 are current...

Mood Swings and Late Nights are Signs That Your Teenage Kid is in Love

...ed altruism, which meant that they were willing to die for their beloved....

Environmental Problems Take Huge Toll of Lives Across the Globe

...vironmental health risks. Thirty-seven children die each day of water-related diarrhea in Europe, most...ment. In Netherlands alone about 21,000 people die every year due to the impact of environmental factors. This number could be cut by 14 percent by i...

Stem Cells- a Miraculous Boon

...em cells to grow into the specific cell types that die off in diseases like diabetes, Parkinsons disease, and heart disease, hence all the hype about potential cures. To harvest stem cells, the embryo has to be destroyed. Stem cell research is vigorously opposed by elements in society ranging from the V...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

...rious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25 years earlier than Americans overall. T... high accident and suicide rates, about 3 out of 5 die from mostly preventable diseases, he says. Obesity is a serious problem. These patients often get ...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...firefighters are two to three times more likely to die from cancer than the general population. Natha...asingly shown that firefighters are more likely to die of cancer than others. <B...

The DNA That Spells Double Risk of Heart Attack

...ng a condition due to which nearly 100,000 Britons die each year. The latest findings are a result of two research projects which, for the first time has spotted a common DNA sequence that is behind the increased risk of heart disease. During the first study, Icelandic scientists drew a comparison bet...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

...riginal illness. In the United States, more people die from medical errors than losing their lives from traffic accidents, breast cancer or HIV/AIDS." Though mistakes are done by medical professionals in the past simple steps and closer scrutiny can reduce them to quite an extent. <B...

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