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Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $710,000 to Understanding of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

...probable time to clinical events such as dementia, falls and depression. Connie Marras, MD, PhD FRCP(C), of Toronto Western Hospital will focus on determining predictive factors for reaching a common neuroprotective clinical trial endpoint -- time to disability requiring dopamine replacement therapy. She...

The Rate of Accident Deaths Much Higher

...ils and grab bars for their support. Deaths from falls climbed from 16,257 in 2002 to 17,229 in 2003, the... or tied car crashes among people in their 40s and falls were the leading cause of accidental deaths among the elderly. Massachusetts had the lowest accid...

Lack of Sleep Affects Eye-steering Coordination Needed While Driving

...vehicle due to fatigue, before the driver actually falls asleep," said Chattington. Experts recommend that adults get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good health and optimum performance. Persons who think they might be suffering from a sleep disorder are encouraged to consul...

Body Parts Industry Of U.S Under Investigation

... Evaluation and Research. However, the FDA often falls short of its inspection projections. The agency estimated it would inspect 463 tissue firms in 2005, but only ended up checking on 270, according to FDA budget documents. The issue of who cuts body parts out of cadavers made headlines in late 2005 ...

World Blood Donor Day

...d universally as the 'World Blood Donor Day' . It falls on the birthday of Karl LandSteiner, the Nobel Prize winner, who discovered the ABO blood group system. World Blood Donor Day was initiated, prompted by the success of World Health Day, 2000, which was devoted to the theme 'Blood Saves Lives. S...

Drug Surveillance System Needs to Be Fixed

...gulatory process, where postmarketing surveillance falls short of the standards the agencies set for themselves. This is exemplified by the case of rosiglitazone, which comes from a family of drugs with well documented side effects, he writes. However, postmarketing safety data seven years after regulato...

Tai Chi - More Than Magic

...nto whether tai chi can improve balance and reduce falls among elderly people, and improve the well-being of patients with HIV. "Tai chi is clearly an exercise program, but it has something more," says Andrew Monjan, chief of the National Institute on Aging's neurobiology of aging branch. "It seems to b...

US States Get Ready to Fight Mercury Pollution

... far from where it was released. As the mercury falls on lakes and streams, it becomes methylmercury, a neurotoxin that accumulates in fish, with concentrations increasing in larger fish that eat smaller ones. The presence of harmful levels of mercury has led to health advisories limiting the consump...

Vitamin E- Take Its Benefits With A Pinch Of Salt

...ncer who are receiving radiation therapy.Vitamin E falls into the category of anti-oxidants. Theoretically, the adverse outcome can be attributed to Vitamin E having a paradoxical effect, that is, instead of serving as an anti-oxidant, Vitamin E might have promoted oxidation; by displacing other antioxid...

Many Women Undertreated for Ovarian Cancer

...percent when all of the cancer can be resected and falls to 15 percent when residual disease remains after surgery. Previous research has shown that women who receive care from a specific cancer specialist, the gynecologic oncologist; at a hospital that performs a high volume of ovarian cancer surgeries;...

Double-penalty System for Bankrupt Health Trusts Lifted

...lance// the books. Till now, when a health trust falls into deficit, not only is it penalized by having to pay back its debts but in addition, some money is cut off from its allocated funds from the ensuing year’s budget. All this has meant that some health trusts find it virtually impossible to balan...

TB Cases on the Rise

...The figures, released ahead of World TB Day, which falls on the 24th of March, are provisional and relate to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. London continues to account for the highest proportion of cases (42 percent) but the actual numbers have fallen from 3,541 in 2005 to 3,445 in 2006. Says D...

Real Life Jekyll and Hyde

...res’ during the day, of the night to come. Once he falls asleep at night, Rogers wakes up soon after, a different person. He shouts, uses the foulest language, sleepwalks, hurts himself, punches walls and even tries to injure his wife. Rogers has broken his nose thrice, cut his knuckles and head and b...

Head Injury Awareness Day

...head. Accidents, home and occupational hazards, falls and assaults cause head injuries or trauma to the head. Bicycle falls are a leading cause of head injuries in children. Head injuries may include injuries to the brain...

Malaria-curing Herb Must Be Carefully Farmed - WHO

...ion. "The availability of these treatments still falls short of what is needed." Resistance to conventional anti-malarial drugs such as chloroquine or amodiaquine have triggered great demand for artemisinin therapy which the WHO has recommended since 2001 in combination with other drugs as a malaria cu...

Brazilian Boost for Bird Flu Vaccines

... WHO warns that current global production capacity falls far short of the demand expected during a pandemic. It estimates that about 12 billion doses are required to vaccinate the entire world's population with the two-doses needed to protect each person. Current capacity is estimated at less than 400 m...

Programs to Prevent Falls Among Elders Not Doing Their Work

... does not reduce and may even increase the risk of falls and fractures.' In retrospect ,Cumming advices ...More than 1000 people above the age of 65 die from falls every year in Australia and more than 45,000 are admitted to hospital. Thirty per cent of people a...

Pacifier Use May Lower Risk of SIDS

...and parents should not reinsert it once the infant falls asleep.' Parents should also avoid using homemade pacifiers, avoid strings or cords to secure the pacifier to the child, and regularly clean and replace pacifiers. Even though evidence is mounting that pacifiers help to prevent SIDS, no one knows w...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...o-head in the same model. The mouse model chosen falls in a class of genetic diseases that afflicts 1 in ... one person in 5,000 is affected by a disease that falls into a category of lysosomal storage diseases. Currently there is no treatment for Sandhoff or Tay...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

..., and slowed physical responses contribute to more falls as people grow older,' Knight said. Knight and co-author Gary Kamen, who directs the Exercise Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, recently published the results of a study on motor-unit firing rates in the Journal of Applied...

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