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Heart Disease, Stroke Prevention Efforts Among Women

..."This legislation addresses the critical knowledge gap by ensuring that health care professionals are informed about the risks of cardiovascular disease in women, know how this disease affects women differently than men and are better equipped to diagnose heart disease in women," Capps said (Capps releas...

New Vaccine to Tackle Rabies in Dogs

...lar anti-rabies injections, to be given after in a gap of six months, said Pradhan. Source-IANS...

Chikungunya Make a Comeback in Kolkata

...ince chikungunya was reported in the state after a gap of 42 years. KMC will collect blood from Shakil Khan again and send it for tests at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM) here. KMC sources, however, said the health officials who visited Khan's home have found Shakil had no fever or pain now. ...

Racial Gap in Florida's Infant Mortality Rates Increasing

The gap between black and white women's infant mortality r...Family Health Service division, the state's racial gap in infant mortality nearly doubled from 1970 to 2005. "Black women are twice as likely to have prema...

Malaria Network Gets 49bn from Bill Gates

...veries, and the need to bridge the malaria funding gap have led to growing investments to develop new products for the treatment, management, prevention, and control of malaria,` he said. Dr Wanga said more malaria research and trial involving African and non-African scientists and institutions should ...

Tanzania: African Malaria Institute Gets $4 Million for Health Research

...veries; and the need to bridge the malaria funding gap was the motivation behind the fund. "Consequently, more malaria research and trials involving African and non-African scientists and institutions will have to be undertaken in Africa," he said. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Support Fails Rural Heart Patients

...on technology such as telemonitoring to bridge the gap between very remote communities and a centre of care. Source-AMA SRM...

Osteopathic Medical Education Will Help With Shortages

... changes in U.S. health care delivery systems, the gap between the nation’s demand for physicians and the number of physicians practicing medicine will exceed 50,000 by 2020. The number of colleges of osteopathic medical education (COMs) and affiliated branch campuses has grown from just five in 1963 ...

Generic Drug Utilization On The Rise

... can lower one's costs and thus delay reaching the gap or help avoid it altogether. According to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), generic dispensing has increased among private third-party payers growing by 9 percent over the past year - from 48.4 percent in 2005 to 52.6 percent i...

Effective Marketing of Multivitamins Essential

...urce of vitamins is food," he adds. To close the gap between the paucity of established scientific evidence and the widespread use of vitamin supplements, Rosenberg suggests that supplements be regulated, as they are currently subject to very little federal regulation. "Right now, the term multivitamin...

New Guidelines for VHD

...Euro Heart Survey on VHD show that there is a real gap between the existing guidelines and their effective application. It is for this reason that we have produced these guidelines, which are the first European guidelines on this topic. It is a unique feature of these guidelines that we have been able to...

New Microchip for Protein Sorting

...old gel electrophoresis technology. There is a big gap in the need for technology in this area." Han and Fu therefore devised the anisotropic sieve that is embedded into a silicon chip. A biological sample containing different proteins is placed in a sample reservoir above the chip. The sample is then ...

Developing Countries- Still The Least Likely To Use Contraception

...ulation surveys. They found that the contraceptive gap has remained over the years (and in some cases grown wider), even as the overall wealth of the countries (based on Gross Domestic Product) has risen. However, a rise in GDP does not mean that family planning services automatically become more acces...

28% Lower Mortality Rate In Top U.S. Hospitals

...U.S. healthcare system: a preventable, but growing gap between high-quality hospitals and the rest of the...ic surgery to cardiac care. However, the continued gap between the nation's top and poorest-performing hospitals continues." Source-Eurekalert RI...

Nobel Prize and Lifespan

... nominees from the same country were compared, the gap widened further. Prof Oswald said: "Status seems to work a kind of health-giving magic. Once we do the statistical corrections, walking across that platform in Stockholm apparently adds about two years to a scientist's lifespan. How status does thi...

Social Status may Affect Lifespan

... and nominees from the same country, the longevity gap widened by about another eight months on average, the researchers said. The researchers focused on winners 'as an ideal group to study as the winners could be seen as having their status suddenly dropped on them'". 'Walking across that platform in ...

Fast Food (Low-Cost Diet) for Obesity

... ‘Priced Out of a Healthy Diet”' finds a 51% price gap between shopping carts full of nutritious foods versus unhealthful foods. For people, who can barely afford the least-expensive foods, these more expensive, healthful foods are clearly out of reach. Moreover, people are less concerned about the aes...

Hypertension Has Its Roots in Childhood

...a dip in nighttime blood pressure than whites. The gap between the pressure measurements of whites and blacks also widens as children get older. At night, blood pressure should drop because the body is resting, says Dr. Gregory Harshfield, director of MCG’s Georgia Prevention Institute and a co-author o...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

...tely, several studies document a seven- to 12-year gap from symptom onset to time of diagnosis. During this time the children get bigger and their hormones get higher and the tissue damage gets worse. Therefore, the earlier we can diagnose and treat the disease, the more effectively we can control the ne...

Polio Outbreak on Wane: Next Rounds Must Focus on Youngest Children

...in the unique context of UP and Bihar, an immunity gap in young children is sufficient to sustain transmission. The IEAG also cautioned that the coming months would be the country’s best chance to stop the virus with a series of accelerated vaccination campaigns focused on the youngest children in hig...

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