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Processed foods – "the" cause of obesity!

... supply that is changing people's biochemistry and driving them to eat more and move less. He proposed this hypothesis that was published on Aug. 11 in Nature Clinical Practice: Endocrinology and Metabolism, after gathering results from thousands of studies on obesity. He says that it is unjust and of no use...

Alarming Raise In Illegal Blood Alcohol Levels Among Emergency Patients

...0 mg/100 ml, which is above the legally acceptable driving limit and therefore considered to indicate intoxication, rose from 526 to 1124, representing an increase of 113%. And the number of patients with alcohol levels above 480 mg/100 mil rose from five to 29, an increase of 480%. The highest blood alcoh...

'Copycat Attitude' Pushes Kids to Commit Suicide

Peer influence may be driving many adolescents to commit suicide, say psychiatrists.// Adolescents who commit suicide may be suffering from deeper psychological disorders, and therefore the immediate incident that triggers a suicide may be misleading. Commenting on Rahul, t...

Drivers in Casts, a Threat to Others

...research.// While there is still no law against driving with a plaster cast neither in Australia nor in Ne... the driver does risk being charged with dangerous driving if they have an accident in either country. The study of 200 patients in plaster casts by surgeon...

Autopulse Would Reduce the Mortality Rates in Rural Victoria

...ng oxygen, medication, defibrillation equipment or driving the patient to hospital. The lead author said that AutoPulse would be of great help in those areas where there are fewer paramedics. The study results were published in the Medical journal of Australia....

Study Finds direct link Between stress And Ovarian Cancer

... “The concept of stress hormone receptors directly driving cancer growth is very new.” br>...

Stem cells help in the understanding of drug-resistant, recurrent tumors

...of tumor cells that appear to act like stem cells, driving the tumor's ability to grow and spread. If some of these specialized cells escaped destruction by chemotherapy or radiation, the tumor would be able to recur quickly, often in a form resistant to chemotherapy. Similar cancer stem cells have been prev...

Transfer of NHS hospital care into the community may not save costs

...such a move. // Indeed cost savings has been the driving force behind the idea of such a shift, but it became clear after studying the costs of rehabilitating 220 senior patients, recouping from illness, that there were not many savings worthy of mention. The figures produced by the analysis showed that...

New Technique Identifies Unknown Genetic Mutations That Can Cause Cancer

..."This approach gives us a way to figure out what's driving the growth of a cancer in an individual patient an... a tyrosine kinase gets stuck in an "on" position, driving out-of-control cell division and, ultimately, cancer. This potentially devastating kinase activation...

BPO Companies are Blamed for Spoiling the Health of Asian Youth

...ut that sleep deprivation leads to accidents while driving vehicles. Source:PTI News...

Rich Countries Need to Curb Genital Surgery Before Criticizing Traditional Practices

...icine which, by a process of disease mongering, is driving the advance of female genital mutilation by promoting the fear in women that what is a natural biological variation is a defect, a problem requiring a knife, he concludes. (Source: Eurekalert)...

Researchers Try Early Surgical Intervention to Treat Parkinson's Symptoms

...er on in the course of their disease. 'One of the driving theories behind this study is the possibility that if deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy was applied early, it may change the progression of the disease, hopefully slowing its advance,' said David Charles, M.D., vice-chair of Neurology and director...

Air Pollution Not Given Due Importance

...should be enforced with penalties on non-essential driving and motor use. She said that unwanted usage of vehicles should be taken off the road until the air quality improves. This would improve the AQI from a poor 60 to a moderate 45 and reduce hospital admissions, prevent deaths, and reduce illness among o...

Privatization Plan of NHS Health Care Revealed

...It is about putting multinational companies in the driving seat of the NHS." Lord Warner, the health minister, defended the policy but said he was withdrawing the advertisement to correct "a drafting error", but insisted the contracting out of NHS management would go ahead. The advertisement asked firms ...

Mild Intoxication Limit ‘Attention Span’ - Study Fins

...deo. Although the research did not directly test driving aptitude, the implications for driving could be serious. ‘We rely on our ability to perceive a multitude of information when we drive (spee...

Cancer Causing Protein May Heal Alzheimers

Researchers have found that a protein known for driving the growth of cancer also plays a surprising role in restoring the ability of neurons to regenerate // , making it an important target for addressing spinal cord damage or neurological diseases like Alzheimers. "The finding suggests that the same pr...

Mumbai Hospital gets Sports Therapy Rehabilitation System

...nal sporting arena has sports trainers and coaches driving athletes and sportspeople to peak performances," said Ashish Thakur of the MedTech company that installed the system. "However, more needs to be done to ensure success. The training and injuries of sports stars bring to light an imperative need for...

Helping a Family Going Through an Illness

... such as routine shopping, laundry, yard work, and driving children to activities. This will allow you to assign specific tasks to those who wish to help.? Help schedule carpooling and playdates for days that she is seeing the doctor or having treatments.? Become the point person to organize who will bring t...

Research on Effect of Party Pills on Driving

...ry interesting to study in terms of its effects on driving performance, mood, sleep and so on," Dr Thompson s...ed in court after being arrested in Queenstown for driving erratically. On being questioned it was found that he had taken 40 party pills although he himself...

US Teens turn Wiser to Risky Behavior

...cohol use, sexual activity, and rash motor vehicle driving are declining among the American youth //. Encouraging as this news is, this downward trend needs to be steeper and the disparities between racial and ethnic groups need to be reduced further. As director of the division of adolescent and school ...

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