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Small Change Could Stop Epilepsy Seizures for Millions

...Dhaka, Bangladesh, were not ideal. Some children dropped out of the follow up studies and there was a sex-ratio imbalance for one of the drug groups. But even with these shortcomings, the study showed that most children tolerated phenobarbital well and behaviour even improved in many, they reported....

Zimbabwe Receives 15m Dollars of AIDS Drugs from US

...ce," he said. Zimbabwe's HIV prevalence rate has dropped from 24.6 percent in 2003, through 20.1 percent in 2005 and to about 18.1 percent. Zimbabwe is one of the countries hardest hit by the HIV and AIDS pandemic with at least 3,000 people dying weekly from AIDS-related illness -- or about one person ev...

First Case of West Nile Virus Death in Madison County

...more illness. CDC funding for West Nile prevention dropped from $45 million last year to $27 million (20 million) this year, although an added $8 million (5.9 million) was set aside for Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....

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

...a statue of the god Shiva. Literature for the unit dropped references to the use of iron after priests pointed out the metal was considered inauspicious because of its association with "the dark force". The latest model also has a chimney that traps much of the particle matter produced by the fire and rele...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

..." he added. The annual trade volume at Tsukiji has dropped to 570,000 in 2006 from about 800,000 tons in 1986. "A majority of the members of our cooperative say that they need space for processing fish to serve supermarkets' needs," Ito said. "If we don't have this, the wholesale market may disappear from t...

New Anti Fungal Drug Eraxis as Good as the Older Medicine

...cacy, and low cost. The price of echinocandins has dropped substantially but remains several fold higher than that of generic fluconazole," they wrote in a commentary, also published in the Journal. A second study, conducted in Italy, found that giving fluconazole prophylactically to babies born preterm an...

Flooded Oz Town Demands Beer to Quench Thirst

...t had been in danger of running dry, until the SES dropped off the required supply, the Telegraph quoted him as saying....

Indian Born Dr. Death Claims All Charges Against Him are Dropped

...r, refuted that charges against Dr. Patel had been dropped and plans to extradite him have also been shelved.... been telling the neighbours over there that we've dropped the charges. I was on the blower to the Attorney-General (Kerry Shine) yesterday and got an update t...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...ng, claimed at least 15,000 lives. The separatists dropped their claim for independence in return for more autonomy for Aceh under their 2005 peace deal....

New Trends in Drug Abuse Among Teenage Girls

...hem were the fallout of drug abuse among girls. It dropped to 35% for women when the drugs employed were street drugs. SAV/B...

America’s Arthritis Patients Take Sizeable Chunks Of Healthcare Econom

...ear period, other costs, including hospital stays, dropped enough so that actual per-person spending remained unchanged. "We found that the driving reason for the higher spending was the increase in the number of people with arthritis”, says Murphy. Murphy urges those with arthritis to become proactive i...

Syphilis Rate on Rise in US Gay, Bisexual Men

...r factors, public health officials think the rates dropped because fewer people were selling sex to get crack cocaine as the decade went by. However, the syphilis rate rose by 19 percent between 2000 and 2003. During that period, the rates among women continued to slide — by 53 percent — while rates amon...

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

...akes. The system's annual attorney fees have since dropped from three million to dollars to only one million. Malpractice lawsuits and notices of intent to sue have fallen from 262 filed in 2001 to about 130 per year, said Rick Boothman, a former trial attorney who launched the practice there. The "say-you...

Use Filtered Blood for Transfusion: Expert

...searchers found that post-surgical infection rates dropped from 33 percent to 23 percent. In other words, the relative risk of infection dropped by about 30 percent for the patients with leukoreduced blood. "Our data would suggest that when yo...

Working Up Potential Living Liver Donors

.... Most of those who did not make it to the surgery dropped out after the first step; 144 due to medical reaso...or because they were hepatitis carriers, though 42 dropped out voluntarily, and 24 because there was another better donor. From step two onward, there were ver...

Pneumonia Vaccine is a Blessing, Study Shows

...e vaccine. Adult hospitalizations due to pneumonia dropped to 26 percent from 1997 to 2004, the study demonstrated. The researchers concluded, "Our results contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting the beneficial effects of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines." SAV/B...

Super Bug Turns Super Killer

...5.5 per cent annually; in contrast, MRSA cases had dropped by 4.3 per cent. Nearly 50,000 patients above the age of 65 suffered C difficile infection in hospitals in England in 2006 and 7000 patients suffered MRSA. A safety measure would be to ensure that patients who are to undergo routine surgeries be c...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

...d to 100% of women over 50. In Sudan, the practice dropped by 10% between 1981 and 1990. Several governments have introduced legislation to ensure the process is only carried out in hospitals by trained doctors. Other countries such as Egypt have banned the operation altogether. GP/M...

Number of Students Taking Up Geriatric Medicine on the Decline

...e of its subspecialties, including geriatrics, has dropped 6.3 percent. Only 67 percent of positions in fellowship programs, needed for geriatric students to graduate, were filled during 2005–06. The National Institute of Medicine is now using this data as it begins studying the health care workforce ...

Breast Cancer? ER Positive or Negative

...00 women per year. By 2003, the mortality rate had dropped to 25 out of 100,000 women per year. Although breast cancer mortality has declined for all groups of patients, declines were greatest for women under 70 and women whose tumors were ER-positive. The researchers found that among women under 70, mort...

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