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Reports Of New Bird Flu Outbreak In China Raise Concerns

... claimed the valuable lives of more than 88 people ever since it re-appeared in 2003. Although no case of human-human transmission has been documented so far, it is feared that the mutation of the virus into a more virulent form could spark a global pandemic. The massive poultry resource in China poses...

Extension Education for Blood Pressure advice!

...e largest clinical trial of hypertension treatment ever conducted, is based at The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. Putting the purpose of this programme in perspective ALLHAT principal investigator Barry R. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biostatistics and director of the Coordi...

Researchers Identify Role Of Protein In Sperm Hyperactivation

...g the issue of male infertility.// "No one had ever seen inside sperm cells to measure all the currents that control their activity," said lead researcher Dr David Clapham. "We are already measuring many of these currents and beginning to answer questions about what they are and what they do." The pro...

Task Learning Made Simple By Taking Short Breaks

...speeded up. "It's absolutely original; no one has ever seen this before at all," says Edvard Moser, who studies memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. This instant replay could help the animals to learn about a recent place and what parts of it are most important, the...

20 Men Involved In Gay Sex Network Acquire HIV Infection

...velation came after Hong Kong recorded its highest ever annual number of HIV cases in 2005. A total of 313 new HIV cases were reported to the territory's Department of Health in 2005, 17 percent more than the 268 cases reported in 2004, health officials said. One third of the cases involved heterosexual...

Novel Study Unravels a New Dimension to Decision Making

...igher stakes, even life and death. Remember if // ever you have a difficulty over taking decisions, the best thing to do is sleep on it! They say things have a way of settling down on their own. Perhaps this applies to decisions as well. It works like magic, when you allow the unconscious mind to take o...

New Drug Promises Hope In Multiple Drug Resistant And Latent TB Treatment

...nce has been observed. The compound is the first ever known to combat latent infection. Following infection, some patients go into a latent phase where no symptoms are seen. Such patients are not capable of infecting others, as they do not have an active infection. However, they can develop active infec...

Nursing A Threat : NHS Nurses May Stage A Royal Protest

...hat has inspired additional 78,660 to join the NHS ever since 1997. ...

Healthy Step : 7000 (S)caught under the Scanner

...f Europe". This is slated to be one of the largest ever study conducted in Europe that will have the keen participation of experts from multifarious disciplines. They will concentrate their experiments on examining the effects of environment factors such as housing, Job opportunities and its bearing on th...

Chicken Fest in Chandigarh To ward off bird flu scare

...d eggs have plummeted in some parts of the country ever since the bird flu virus was detected at Navapur village in Maharashtra just over a week ago. Tens of thousands of chickens have been culled in and around Navapur to prevent the spread of the disease. For the chicken-loving Punjabis, the festival i...

Aluminum in Deodorants Could Increase Breast Cancer Risk

...e products eight years ago, and now I wonder why I ever bothered. Soap and water and maybe a little talcum powder seem to do the job nicely." She added that the same effect could be observed by the introduction of cadmium into the body via cigarette smoke, "Each of these agents on their own may not have a...

Canadian Medical Association Journal's Editorial Mess Gets Murkier

...al go down." Indeed there are doubts if they would ever be able to get the journal out on time since many other luminaries seem to agree with the position being taken by the former editors. "I'm not sure they can put the journal out," said Dr. Jerome Kassirer, medical professor at Tufts University School ...

Pigeons And Sparrows In UK Face Bird Flu Risk

... 93 individuals and infected more than 150 others, ever since it emerged in 2003. Although the probability of transmission of the bird flu virus to wild birds is negligible, it cannot be ignored. Waterfowl such as geese, poultry and ducks are main carriers of the H5N1 virus. Causalities have also been r...

Substance Abuse Prevention Messages Better Received Among Teenagers in the Form of Media Campaigns and Curriculum

...t the establishment of their own identities in the ever changing world. It mainly talks about being independent and in control. Office of National Drug Control Policy for its national campaign adopted the theme Above the Influence. The result of the campaigns will be published in the journal Health Educat...

'Free for All'Chicken Delicacies at Old Delhi fest

... restaurants and hotels, have been out of the menu ever since the bird flu broke out in the country last month. "I did not know that a chicken festival was organised at the market. I saw so many people eating chicken and so joined in," said Shazeb, a software engineer who had come for Sunday prayers at...

No Smoking Day Inspires Many to Kick the Butt

...y the records, this is perhaps the largest numbers ever recorded who have decided to kick the butt. Pro-smoking lobby groups opine that despite the ban due to be in force in 2007, smokers will still resort to using tobacco at home. But anti-smoking campaigners firmly hold ground that this ban will encou...

Famous Faces Join Campaign To Spread Awareness On Ovarian Cancer

... dreadful disease. Research is essential if we are ever going to find a way to combat it. Please buy a pin badge in support," said Joan Collins referring to the Wellbeing of Women pin badges that are being distributed across the country in a bid to raise funds for "vital medical research into the disease....

Want to save the child from obesity introduce infant food early: says a study

... difference in fat mass between children that were ever breastfed and those never breastfed. Children who were breastfed for a longer duration and those who were breastfed without concurrent formula feeding did not have significantly lower fat mass than did those children who were never breastfed. Childre...

Quebec arming itself to combat a potential influenza pandemic

...r, hoping such a situation of a pandemic does not ever arise, "What is obvious today, it should be obvious, is that everyone here is working together to prepare our society and the health-care network for the occurrence of this pandemic, which, again, we hope will never happen,'' he said. A flu pandem...

Klein's Third Way Has Tough Opposition

... suggested reforms being degrees worse than he had ever imagined. Archbishop Tom Collins is disappointed that quick access to healthcare is highly dependent upon the patient’s financial condition. He said, "Access to health care should be dependent on the need of the person that is suffering -- and not u...

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