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Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

...e than 20 countries were infected. Today, this has dropped to about 25,000 in nine countries, and at this rate the Commission is on track to meeting its 2009 deadline for eradication worldwide, Dr. Savioli said. Guinea worm is endemic in some villages of sub-Saharan Africa, spread through contaminated wate...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

...rogram considered “at-risk” for binge drinking has dropped by two-thirds, according to preliminary study results. “The impact our program has had has been very encouraging,” said Joe Tomaka, Ph.D., a health promotion professor at UTEP and director of the university’s BASICS program. “We teach them about...

Increased Depression, Burden, Reported in Family Caregivers of ALS Patients

...ot enough time for oneself. Quality of life scores dropped slightly among caregivers. Chio says several factors may have contributed to the steadiness among quality of life and depression in people with ALS, including a patient’s acceptance of the deadly disease, or possibly cognitive impairment. The st...

Sunscreen Covering Earth Becoming Thinner

...ine since about 1990. By 2005, global aerosols had dropped as much as 20% from the stable level between 1986 and 1991. GPL...

UK to Pull Pseudoephedrine

...cacy altogether. Only last month, US firm SCOLR dropped its phenylephrine development plans, claiming that the treatment "did not justify continued internal development." SCOLR vice president and chief technology officer, Stephen Turner, told In-PharmaTechnologist at the time that "phenylephrine-based r...

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo - Announce They Are To Introduce Healthy Drink

...imes. In 2005, the amount of soda sold in the US dropped for the first time in recent history. Even the diet soda business has slowed. The new offerings of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are Diet Coke Plus and Tava respectively and they will be promoted as "sparkling beverages". The companies are not calling th...

Atkin’s Low-carb Diet Best for Weight Los

...d that their blood pressure and cholesterol levels dropped considerably. On average, women taking the Atkins diet lost 10.4 pounds after 12 months. The average weight loss was 5.7 pounds for women on the LEARN diet, 4.8 pounds for those on Ornish diet and 3.5 pounds for those following the Zone weight-loss...

Pregnant Smokers Raise Their Child's Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

... smoked during pregnancy. But the current rate has dropped to between 5 percent and 7 percent due to health warnings, Uiterwaal said. "There are still substantial numbers of mothers who smoke during pregnancy," he said. "This is just another reason for expectant mothers not to smoke." This is the first st...

Mid-day Naps Healthy for Your Heart

...r catnaps, their risk of dying from heart diseases dropped by 64 percent, according to the results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. So, what makes this happen? The scientists opine that hitting the sack in the afternoon reduces levels of stress, and stress is a well-documented forerunne...

Singapore Reports Fewer Dengue Cases in 2006

...he number of homes found to be breeding mosquitoes dropped to just 18 in every 10,000 homes last year, compared to 53 in 2005, the report said. These was thanks to the dengue prevention campaign launched by the government, it said. The National Environment Agency (NEA) carried out 1.5 million inspectio...

Two New Studies Back Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention

...ates of breast cancer, and the breast cancer rates dropped as the blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D increased," said study co-author Cedric Garland, Dr.P.H. "The serum level associated with a 50 percent reduction in risk could be maintained by taking 2,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily plus, when...

Gender No Bar-Heart Attacks Target Everyone

...ort also notes that from 1973 to 2003, male deaths dropped by 49 percent but female deaths had dropped only 24 percent. Source-Medndia ANN...

Public Urged To Prevent Mosquito Breeding

...y average ovitrap index for December last year had dropped to 2.3%, from 7.4% in November. The ovitrap indi...one of 20% to 40%. The index for port areas also dropped from 0.5% in November to 0.2% in December last year. Although the current weather was dry and cool...

Genetic-Key to Stop Heroin Addicts

... It was also found that about 62% of drug addicts dropped out of methadone programs because of severe withdrawal symptoms. Lead researcher and pharmacologist, Dr Janet Coller said "Individualised dosing may decrease the incidence of withdrawal symptoms in some people and therefore encourage them to contin...

Nobel Prize and Lifespan

...premature death due to non-biological reasons were dropped which left the researchers with 524 scientists. Among these 135 had won a Nobel Prize. The average lifespan of these 524 was found to be a little more than 76 years. The Nobel prize winners were found to live 1.4 years longer than the nominees. Wh...

Social Status may Affect Lifespan

...ners could be seen as having their status suddenly dropped on them'". 'Walking across that platform in Stockholm apparently adds about two years to a scientist's lifespan. How status does this, we just don't know,' Oswald said. Though the prize money increased with time, the actual amount had no effect on ...

WBC in Lung Produces Histamine: Study

...mine, and therefore the severity of the pneumonia, dropped in proportion to the amount of antihistamine given. "This is a study in mice, so we cannot freely extrapolate the results to human beings," cautions Caughey. "Nonetheless, antihistamines may deserve more of a look as therapeutic options in lung and...

Age, Gender Major Factors in Severity of Auto-Accident Injuries

... 2000, remained steady for drivers from 65-74, but dropped for younger drivers. "It is reasonably well known that age and gender have an effect on the likelihood of an accident, but the influence that age and gender have on driver injuries once an accident has occurred is not well understood," Mannering sai...

A Secret Dossier Predicts Major Changes At NHS, England

...the thinking develops. Some of these ideas will be dropped and some will become policy." PI...

More Ugandan Men Seek Circumcision In 2006

...rcumcised heterosexual men in Uganda and Kenya had dropped by roughly 50 percent, last year. Uganda's Health Ministry has formed a committee to appraise the findings in order to go ahead with a circumcision policy. The increase could also be due to the switch over of some men to Islam, observers said. As U...

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