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Railway Station Contributes to Create Awareness on AIDS

... all its employees who are staying away from their families as an effort in this direction. But the migrant labour working in the granite industry is responsible for the spread and transmission of HIV in the district," Pasha a vendor on the station said: "I come across a lot of people who have sexually tran...

Junk Food Causes High Level Of Insulin Resistance In Children

...ia and Portugal// reported that children from poor families don’t necessarily have worse health compared to children from children’s of rich and better-educated parents. The results of the study were published in British Medical Journal. The results of the study challenge the results of the earlier reported r...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...itting that the absence of social security compels families to have more children, the prime minister emphasised the need for an effective old age care system with a focused drive to reduce infant mortality. "Empowerment of women and a holistic approach to reproductive and child care will enable this to hap...

Education And Income Level May Not Guarantee Health

... Journal (BMJ). Across Europe, children from poor families don’t necessarily have worse health than children with more affluent and better-educated parents, say researchers in this week’s BMJ. These findings challenge the widely held view that adverse social circumstances in childhood lead to an increased r...

Studies On Hearing Loss Discovers New Causes

...University, and New York University examined three families with combinations of early hair greying, sensorineural hearing loss, and essential tremor that seem to be reproducible at varying levels from generation to generation. A retrospective chart review was performed on the three patients with sensorineura...

Obesity More Likely to Cause Disability than Death in Elderly

...ars of disability difficult for individuals, their families and society, said the researchers. The research team examined data collected between 1993 and 1998 through a nationally representative survey of adults of age 70 and older. The designation “obesity” was based on calculations of body mass index, whic...

A Call To Open Up The Channel Of Goodwill To Rescue The Dying Hearts

...ent of them die without timely treatment, as their families cannot afford the costs. The cost of operating on a child with CHD is between Rs.50, 000 and Rs.300, 000 and depending on the nature of the disease, the number of related deaths keeps increasing day by day due to a lack of medical facilities, money ...

Sleep pattern to lead to depression

...ot be used to diagnosed to have depression. But in families where depression has been identified, it might provide a way for some to find out if they are vulnerable. With this information, a person can take some protective measures such as being more educative about depression and try preventing it....

Testicular cancer identified

...ermany, Ireland and Canada, studied a total of 134 families with two or more cases of testicular cancer. Out o... found that TGCT1 is more likely to be involved in families in which a man had an undescended testicle - which is already known to be one of the risk factors fo...

Skin tests confirms cancer

...n growths and malignant skin tumours in members of families with a history of HNPCC //- hereditary non-polypos...Dr Bataille and her team inspected skin lesions of families with and without a history of hereditary colon cancer. In those with no family history, MSI was not ...

The anxiety gene

...rm of anxiety disorder.// The scientists studied families with a history of problems such as panic disorders, agoraphobia and social phobia. They found that 92% of the affected family members carried a genetic abnormality.The same mutation - dubbed DUP25 - was also present in most other unrelated people tha...

Eating healthy is cost effective

... typical diet.// Raynor and colleagues studied 30 families with at least one obese 8- to 12-year-old child. The families were put on a Traffic Light Diet, in which foods are classified on the basis of nutrient content. Th...

Primates reveal a new dimension to human genome

... 'behavioral patterns' that identify these primate families unique to study. All of these were not done single-handedly. It is the work of a team that has made these things possible. The team which made these things possible was led by Eddy Ruben and Dare Buffalo, who drove to the comparison of human genomes ...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

...white blood cell DNA taken from a random sample of families living in northern Belgium. Telomere length was found to be similar between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, and among siblings. However, the length was not different between fathers and sons and between spouses. Thus, ...

Early Screening For Hearing Impairments In Newborn Can Be Helpful

...ge of the children and the costs incurred by their families and by health providers is in progress and will be the subject of future reports.” Source: Newswise, The Lanct....

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

...reported a higher risk of MS in offspring of small families and those with early birth-order position. This has been explained in context of the hygiene hypothesis, where children who are exposed to infections introduced by older siblings are at a reduced risk of developing MS. However, until now, studies tha...

Free Condom Counters For Border Security Force Cadres

... dealing with the virus. BSF men who are away from families for long periods can't avail of leave at their will because of national concerns." He said certain conditions made them prone to the infection and a few of the troopers were found to be HIV positive. The BSF's effort was to offer them moral suppor...

Family Counseling To Encourage Children Eat Healthy

... Health Behavior, believe their focus on high-risk families is unique among studies of family-oriented health ...stroke, or high cholesterol, and had invited their families to participate in the study. Source: Newswise ...

Children With Epilepsy Can Be Treated With Nerve Stimulation

...herapy and decrease overall patient morbidity. For families of children with intractable epilepsy, less time spent in the hospital has a significant, positive impact socially and financially by reducing the loss of parental work time, the patient's school absences, and family stressors relating to caring for ...

Genes responsible for cancer in women associated with increased cancer risk in men

...ncrease the risk of bone and throat cancers. 139 families were investigated, analyzing the presence of 66 di...rent mutations of the BRCA2 gene between them. The families were picked from a national register of families with breast and ovarian cancers in several relative...

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