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Prison Tattoo Project Should Be Restored: AIDS Activist

...ccorded for the project, one year, is too short to gauge the results conclusively. The tattoo project worth $600,000 formed a part of the federal AIDS drive and had commenced in August 2005. The Public Health Agency, under whose charge the project began, accorded training to an inmate to provide sterile ...

Innocuous Blood Test Pitches in as Heart Risk Barometer

...ndicators, like cholesterol and blood pressure, to gauge the true condition of the patient....

Another Feather in the (Folic) Cap - Folic Acid Foils Hearing Loss

...han 50 years. Additional research is required to gauge the effects of folic acid on hearing-loss, especially on a well-nourished population....

Outcome of Animal Studies on Treatment for Herpes Keratitis, Disappointing

...imals. Quigley explained that tests conducted to gauge the efficacy of QR-435 in quelling the virus showed that the treatment did not linger in the eye for the period required to kill the virus. But during many other studies, the virus was annihilated with the said treatment. The company however confir...

President Bush's AIDS-Fighting Program Fraught With Inconsistencies

...rivileged nations, which has made it difficult, to gauge the success of the programme. Audit officials claim that the three year old AIDS program, valued at $15-billion has not enabled a precise count of the thousands of patients the program has assisted. The Bush administration is now trying to sort out...

You may Live Long and Think Clear With a Variant Gene

...earchers. This study has helped the researchers to gauge how important are the genetic aspects are that helps to decrease the risk of disease in those who live to see a complete century or more. One out of ten thousand people live to 100 years.Scientists are now channelising their efforts to develop a dru...

Distinguishable Traits of Fatal Skin Cancer Recognized

...mented. This information helped the researchers to gauge the growth rate of the tumour.Rapid growth of tumours were noted with thicker tumours, with even, elevated borders , with little or no pigmentation, along with associated sores and ulcers. The researchers noticed that a third of all the melanomas ...

Lung Cancer Surgeries Doesn’t Help Breaking Nicotine Dependence in Smoker

...to use saliva samples as well as questionnaires to gauge whether patients were smoking 3, 6, and 12 months after surgery. Investigators at Washington University and at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center enrolled 154 patients being treated for early stage lung cancer at their centers. The...

Taste Buds Could Suggest Best Cures For Depression

...ion. A recent report may offer a newer method to gauge the type of remedy the patient would best respond to. It was earlier thought that taste is inherited and does not change , but researchers found that ‘taste’ does change to alterations in neurotransmitter levels and to fluctuations in moods, - Taste ...

Underweight Moms: Weighed Down by the Risk of Miscarriages

...o have previously miscarried. They will be able to gauge why they did so, and probably help them to choose an improved diet and lifestyle that will prevent the heartache of another miscarriage, opined, The Miscarriage Association. MT...

After Ecstasy Comes the Pain… WARNING

...North America in Chicago and is the first study to gauge the impact of ecstasy on first time users....

Bread enriched with lupin may help stave off calories

...relin , a hormone that functions like an appetite gauge . The levels of ghrelin levels were significantly reduced when the subjects consumed lupin bread, as they did not feel hungry for a long after the meal. "These results suggest that protein and fiber enrichment of bread with lupin kernel flour has th...

Pessimistic Attitude Could Lead to Coronary Heart Disease

...eart checkups and completed personality surveys to gauge their anger, hostility, depression and anxiety over a period of 15 years, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Each of these traits independently predicted heart disease. But the mix of these traits 'was the most powerful predicto...

Children and Chronic Kidney Disease

...een for kidney problems also appears to be a handy gauge of kidney function and disease progression in children with chronic kidney disease, according to results of research at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and several other institutions. Researchers studied 92 children with mild to moderate kidney...

Good Heart Health May Begin With a Bar of Chocolate!

...recruited 1,200 subjects, for an 18-month study to gauge the influence of aspirin on blood platelets. There was an instruction to the subjects to avoid a number of food items, which included chocolates, as they were thought to affect platelets. Among the study subjects, 139 people were chocoholics, so s...

Why Public Should Really Know About HPV?

...pes can even cause cervical cancer – Researchers// gauge women's understanding of its link to cancer and th...ong those vaccinated. The survey was then given to gauge intentions toward vaccination. It was completed by 635 adults, 49 percent of whom were women. Res...

‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ Favored Against ‘Abstinence-Only’ Progams

A national survey was conducted to gauge the nature of school based sex education that was most effective, and it was found that mere abstinence based approaches did not meet with the desired results. //Infact Americans feel that youngsters in schools need to know much more than just avoidi...

Lice now dried to death by novel dryer

...tic fluid under such conditions. Studies trying to gauge how effective shampoos and hair rinses containing permethrin is to kill nits had found out that it is capable of killing only 60% of eggs whereas studies regarding Louse Buster has shown that it is able to annihilate almost 98% of nits. This dryer ...

Moms to be, beware of meth - It can hamper growth and development in your babies

...mined hair samples of adults and young children to gauge their exposure to meth. There was conclusive evidence that the drug is conveyed from the expectant mother to the unborn child. According to the observations of the study, the adverse reactions of exposure to meth for the unborn children through exp...

Women's Skin Tone Influences Perception of Beauty, Health, Age

...rs who were asked to estimate each model’s age and gauge her health and attractiveness. The models who had the most even skin tone received significantly higher ratings for attractiveness and health, and were also judged to be younger in age. The models with uneven, blotchy skin tone were judged to be si...

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