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Travellers Cautioned Over The Alternate Remedies For Malaria

...ases are rampant. It was found that largely people fell ill, as they had not taken any anti-malarial drugs. Statistics have shown that every year almost 2000 of the travellers return having contracted the disease. The doctors have also begun finding that in many cases the patients had taken homeopathic ...

More Money For Mental Health, governments told

...ed a boost of $4 billion over four years, it still fell short of the escalating expenditure, said John Mendoza, the chief executive officer of the Mental Health Council of Australia. Mr. Mendoza said that only 40 per cent of mental illness was being treated due to decades of under investment. He was sp...

Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria

...he need to attend to the health centre if children fell ill. The safety of the treatment was registered with home care assistance after each SP dose, and a blood test was made a month after the second administration to assess the potential toxicity of treatment and the possible hepatic damage. After a tem...

NRT Still The Best Answer To Stop Smoking

...hers they have found that the effectiveness of NRT fell from 10.7% to 7.2% among smokers for a period of four years. They studied about4,800 adults and found that 30% of those who had used NRT were smoking again after a year. The researchers pointed out that the previous studies which said that NRT was ...

Medical College Admission Denied for Physically Disabled Student

Polio could not fell her, but a medical college did when it refused admission to a young Orissa student, who topped the Scheduled Tribe category in the recently held joint entrance examination.// Susmita Haro, 18, was denied admission to the VSS Medical College in Burla...

Smoking Ban Affects Gambling Clubs

...nt Brian Smith said that the poker machine revenue fell 28%. He also said that this would reduce about $60 million a year from pub charities to various sports and other community groups. Problem Gambling Foundation clinical director Philip Townshend has found that calls received by the gambling helpline a...

New Research Suggests That Obesity Strikes Faster Growing Kids

... that mean BMI rose by 0.7 kg/m2 while mean height fell by 0.5cm. Over the same period the weight-height correlation rose from 0.59 to 0.71 as the BMI of taller children rose. Among the shortest 10% of the children, the mean BMI rose by 0.12 kg/m2, as against 1.38 kg/m2 among the tallest 10% - a 12-fold...

Timing of Food Consumption Activates Genes in Specific Brain Area

...bese people, the researchers note. The mice soon fell into a pattern of searching for food two hours before each feeding time. They also flipped their normal day/night behavior, ignoring the natural cue that day is their usual time to sleep. After several days, the researchers found that the daily act...

Students Fell Ill After Eating Stale Food on I-Day

More than 40 schoolchildren in Madhya Pradesh fell ill, five of them seriously, after eating stale fo...apura Primary School, 60 km from Chhattarpur town, fell ill after eating "halwa puri" Tuesday. The children complained of stomach ache and started vomiti...

Secure Relationship Leads To Decreased Libido In Women

... within four years of the relationship this figure fell to under 50%, and after 20 years it dropped to about 20%. In contrast, they found that men's sexual desire remains just as strong regardless of how long they have been with their partner. The study by researchers is reported in the journal Human N...

Need for Change in Social Norms to Prevent Spread of HIV

...e violations, and it worked. The transmission rate fell and the country averted a disaster.’ She stated that the Bush administration’s ABC approach [abstain, be faithful, use condoms] was effective only if it is part of a balanced and comprehensive prevention strategy as was seen in Uganda. When childre...

Bihar schoolboy dies in fight over front bench

...ts pushed him from the front bench in class and he fell hitting his head// on the floor. Qamar Irfan, a Class 5 student of Sarda Convent School in Darbhanga district's Manihas village, died Thursday. Police said Qamar was forcibly pushed off the bench by students in a fight over who would sit in the fro...

Rabbit Flu Claims Its First Human Victim In Britain

...is farm. His mother explained that he subsequently fell the following day and succumbed to the infection after three days. It was revealed by the post-mortem report that Mr Freeman had died from septicaemia after having got infected by the bacteria that causes pasteurellosis, which is also known as rabb...

Netherlands to lift livestock restrictions over avian influenza

...humans, unlike the H5N1strain. Though no animals fell sick, the fear of the virus getting mutated was there. So, around 25,000 chickens were culled and livestock markets in the region and sales of animals from nearby farms were banned. These restrictions are to be lifted today. The ministry has made a...

Obesity Project In Australia Pronounced Success

... school activities increased 60%, while TV viewing fell 21%. There was 57% improvement in kids who brought healthy lunches to school. "The success if the program doesn't reduce the need to tackle obesity at a state and federal level, but it does give us a lot of optimism for dealing with it locally," Pr...

Increasing Levels Of Severe Poverty In US Could Jeopardize Public Health

...d.' U.S. household income, adjusted for inflation, fell by 3.6% between 2000 and 2004. Woolf says that the sinkhole effect and the upsurge in poverty could deeply affect society and calls for the reexamination of policies enacted in recent years to foster economic progress. Source-Eurekalert IK...

Exposure to Pollutants Reduce The Effectiveness Of Vaccines In Children

...ntibody response to diphtheria toxoid at 18 months fell by 24.4% for each doubling of the combined prenatal PCB exposure variable, and they also found that the postnatal exposure had similar significant effects. Grandjean had also explained that the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences a...

'Smart Beds' Could Help to Prevent Elderly Patients from Falling

... year 73 patients, more than half of them elderly, fell out of their beds at the hospital, the staff said. Weighing 15 kg, the smart bed system is made up of compression springs under the hospital mattress. Plenitum Care is aiming to make the smart bed lighter and more portable. Source-IANS...

Heart Treatment from Vasogen Shows Promise

...patient Phase III clinical trial shares in Vasogen fell more than 70 per cent. However on review of the full data set released yesterday it was seen that there was a 21-per-cent reduction in risk in a 1,746 patient sub-group and they had not progressed to the more advanced stages of heart failure. Res...

Nitric Oxide Levels In Brain Indicate Sleep

...ake cycle, adenosine levels increased and the rats fell into a sleep much like the "recovery" sleep that occurs after prolonged wakefulness. Blocking adenosine receptors with caffeine prevented this nitric-oxide-induced slumber. Rosenberg sees the most pharmaceutical promise in developing drugs that pro...

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