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Time for Bono to Rock 'The Independent' For AIDS Awareness

...ation on May 16th, in addition to highlighting his editorial talent would also encourage various corporate giants to help curb the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Noted brands such as American Express, Giorgio Armani, Converse and Gap have already committed to participate in the noble cause. The new pap...

Medias Plays Vital Role In Sexual Behavior Of Teenagers

...eived less parent disapproval of teen sex. In an editorial accompanying the Pediatrics article, pediatrician Dr. Victor Strasburger said that pediatricians, teachers, parents and the entertainment industry must think about sexual activity differently from how they confront other risky behaviors to which teen...

Future of Canadian Medical Association Journal Threatened

...lted in an international controversy regarding the editorial independence of medical journals. Dr Hoey was di...ctually and morally, to its contributors, editors, editorial boards and readers — a sort of constituent assembly.” In spite of repeated requests the editorial ...

Lancet Blames CMA For Dismissal Of Editors

...r wrongheaded principles is deeply troubling,' the editorial reads. The journal's publisher had asked the edi...st week. This could have prompted for the spark of editorial interference. An attenuated version of the controversial article was however, published by the CMAJ....

Canadian Medical Association Journal's Editorial Mess Gets Murkier

The editorial mess at the Canadian Medical Association journal i...gns of resolving as acting-editor Stephen Choi and editorial fellow Sally Murray followed // Dr. John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill in resigning from their posts a...

Does Magnet Therapy Posses Healing Powers?

...t. He points to the statement in Finegold-Flamm editorial that said that MRI devices (uses powerful magnets) do not affect/harm ones health nor provides any healing effects as wrong. He has conducted experiments in which 1000 individuals are exposed to MRI and20% of them suffered from negative effects such ...

Wisdom behind High Protein Diet Questioned

...zation // has come under severe scrutiny with an editorial in the journal Nature questioning the wisdom behin...istance shed more weight. This prompted the Nature editorial to point out, 'The diet is being promoted as beneficial for everyone, whereas the published research...

New protein diet program questioned.

...protein diet. Hence it was published in the Nature editorial as advantageous to all but the research showed that it was useful only to a select population experiencing metabolic disorders. The spokesperson for the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, London told that there was no difference in the weigh loss wh...

Medicare Data would help in Drug Validation

...n of the drug. The researchers have published this editorial article in New England Journal of Medicine. Source: Eurekalert....

Happiness Is Not Attained By A Wealthy Life But By A Healthy One.

In an editorial of the famous British Medical Journal it was said that people in London are in pursuit of wealth rather than health // . Money cannot bring you all the comforts and happiness that a person desires, it is by treasuring the relationships that a happy...

Bad professional behavior dates back to medical school

...al Center in Dallas, and author of an accompanying editorial in the journal. Maxine Papadakis, lead author on the study and the dean for student affairs at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, says, "We found that for physicians disciplined by licensing boards, the strongest association...

Tooth Loss And Heart Disease Exist Side By Side

...American Journal of Preventive MedicineContact the editorial office at (858) 457-729....

Scientist Calls Upon Media To Retract His Work

...egenerative disorders. Otherwise, the magazine's editorial board would have to retract the paper itself 'advising the scientific community to ignore" the research, Kennedy said. The paper appeared in May under 24 authors' names. Questions have been swirling for weeks about the authenticity and ethics of th...

A Change In Lifestyle Can Help In Weight Reduction

...s Program for NIDDK, and author of an accompanying editorial in the journal. “But for obese adults who can’t lose enough weight to improve their health, medication used as an adjunct can help.” “The take home message is that weight loss medications will be most effective when they are combined with a reduced...

British Scientists Doubt Delhi Doctor’s Stem Cell Claim

...se doctors and if necessary close them down.' An editorial in the British Medical Journal this year warned that Indian authorities needed to act to 'prevent the escalating numbers of clinics offering stem cell cures for all sorts of ills'. Minger told the daily: 'Only one team in the world, from the Americ...

Killing two birds (cholesterol and Alzheimers disease) with the same stone

...needed to confirm their findings. An accompanying editorial argues that it is still too early to definitively ...option for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The editorial also points out that the research was not able to isolate the potential advantages of the drugs othe...

Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced

...ese diseases. I am thrilled to be working with the editorial board whose members represent global leadership in diabetes and metabolic disorders, from both developed and developing countries.' explained Co-Editor, Professor Anoop Misra.More than 60- 70 % of the diabetic population resides in South Asia, China,...

Herceptin Not A ‘Wonder’ Drug, Says The Lanct

... public, and even in medical journals," The Lancet editorial concluded....

Critically Ill Patients More At Risk Of Infection If Glucose Is Present In Their Lung Secretions

...cal immune responses in the airway.An accompanying editorial suggests that a link between an increased risk of infection and abnormally high levels of glucose is biologically plausible. Too much glucose also tends to give immune cells the equivalent of a "hangover." Source: Newswise...

Researchers Question The Effectiveness Of Homeopathic Remedies

...isease ever more effectively.” In an accompanying editorial of The Lancet comments: “It is the attitudes of patients and providers that engender alternative-therapy seeking behaviors which create a greater threat to conventional care—and patients’ welfare—than do spurious arguments of putative benefits from a...

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