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Stroke Due to Inherited Reasons Strikes Women More

...ritish results are in the same line as the results drawn by an American team of researchers done earlier th... stroke as well. This is concurrent to the results drawn by the British researchers. Rothwell explained that Strokes can surprise you by occurring suddenly ...

Sad Adults -Childhood may Hold the Clue

...tracked into an average age of 29 years. Results drawn depicted that a very significant part of them; 75 percent, grew up into severely depressed adults. Depression was also observed to begin very early onwards; at childhood itself. Writes lead researcher Cathy Spatz Widom, "These results underscore ...

Research on Top of the World

...s and doctors climb Mount Everest. Blood samples drawn at various altitudes will give an idea of oxygen l...he expedition, a DNA map of the volunteers will be drawn after tests at sea level. Scientists feel a link explored between genes and oxygen level could defin...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...ing deceptive. However, any conclusion that may be drawn from the readings of the polygraph rests with the interpretation of the examiner, who happens to be a Forensic Psycho physiologist (FP). Flurry of Querries There are three basic approaches to questioning a subject during a Polygraph test. Three ...

Skipping Breakfast and Fast Food Consumption - Leads to Weight Gain

...t The Miriam Hospital. Researchers analyzed data drawn from Add Health, a school-based study of over 20,000 adolescents in grades 7 through 12 in the United States. The current study used information from two "Waves" of data that consisted of a total of 9,919 adolescents. Wave 2 data was collected from t...

Federal Plan: Strategies to Cut Down Wait Times for Children’s Surger

...aiting times for children’s surgery, seems to have drawn flak in the initial stages. The project has been criticized as a half-hearted endeavor, sans the opinion of the provinces. The15-month pilot project is geared to collate accurate data regarding six crucial surgical areas. The areas delineated are c...

Better ‘Nannying’ Now Than Nevr

...n and WHO, the amounts of funds diverted to it has drawn protests from political opposition parties. Avers SNP health spokeswoman Shona Robison’ Whether this is the best way to get the message across, or to spend the public's money, is open to question. ‘Rather than using this cash on an advertising ca...

A Shot at the Gun

...ivided the country into four groups. Conclusions drawn from the study indicated that the states, which had the higher rates of firearm posession by households, had also the highest rates of murders, i.e. 60 percent, including murders carried out by children themselves. ‘Our findings suggest that in the...

Link Found Between Periodontal Disease and Pancreatic Cancer

...alysis, and therefore no firm conclusions could be drawn from these studies. Data for the new study came from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which began in 1986 and includes 51,529 U.S. men working in the health professions. Participants respond to questionnaires about their health every two ...

Pharmac to Phase Out Aropax, Well-known Antidepressant

...ed by about 49,000 New Zealanders. This move has drawn flak from psychiatrists in Australasia. Yet, the agency maintains that both drugs are the same, except for the appearance and the packaging. Further, this move is expected to result in a saving of $45 million over a three year period. Dr Allen Fra...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...Celebrity Big Brother’. The participants, who were drawn from various sections of the western society, were living in social isolation, as the rules of the game demanded. Sharing space with people who were dissimilar, invoked the smoldering demons of pride, prejudice, discrimination and racial intolerance,...

EU States Agree on Clone Food Plan

...dy to accept the products. An indication may be drawn from the US, where a recent independent survey found 60 per cent of Americans would not knowingly eat food from cloned animals. Recent articles in the UK mainstream media calling cloned animals ‘farmyard freaks' is also reminiscent of the term ‘F...

The Odds Of Stopping Smoking

...lp them to quit completely. This conclusion was drawn by a group of Cochrane researchers after they studied data from six trials that compared the effects of giving people either varenicline or a placebo. Together the trials involved 2451 people on varenicline and 2473 people on placebos. Pooling the...

Now Prisoners To Promote Awareness On Aids

...id Baburaj. The prisoners - all men - have been drawn from 22 jails. For the past three weeks they have all been housed in the Central Jail here and have been practising for the event. Kerala Governor R.L. Bhatia and Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan would attend the programme. This programme was ...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

... health care professionals and impoverished donors drawn from the poverty-ridden community of tsunami survivors. They were catering to patients across several hospitals in Tamil Nadu, many of whom came from other Indian states and some from abroad. This ‘one-way’ trade involving the poor, selling their kid...

Soldiers Readying to Fight Stress With Yoga

...e group of around 20 demonstrators and instructors drawn from different formations were also trained by a team from the Swami Ramdev Yoga Institute at the Nagrota-based 16 Corps headquarters in Jammu and Kashmir. "They would hold anti-stress camps in units and brigades across Kashmir," the official said...

Mid-day Naps Healthy for Your Heart

...r. According to him, no firm conclusions can be drawn on the basis of this study alone, except that the issue is worth further investigation. "Right now, we would only reassure those who take a siesta that this may actually be not simply pleasant and relaxing, but also a healthy habit”, Trichopoulos a...

Excess Iron in Blood may Damage Arteries

...lood flow to the limbs. In the study, blood was drawn to promote iron reduction at six-monthly intervals from some of the patients, but not from others. When the researchers analysed the results for patients aged 43 to 61, they found fewer deaths from all causes in the iron-reduction group, and fewer...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

...nia and Depression, or NARSAD, involved 300 adults drawn from the general population. The findings suggests that the manner in which the eyes can follow a target and how well one can pay attention to a task together help to pinpoint risk factors related to schizophrenia. “I was able to integrate several ...

Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed

...y and implement a programme foreign to Mozambique, drawn up we don't know where or by whom", he said, "There was even a case where the partner wanted to give instructions to the Ministry". "The partners must understand that Mozambique is a sovereign country, with a government whose task is to lay down th...

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