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Smokers may Be Motivated to Quit During Interventions in Hospital Stays

... The aim of the systematic review was to evaluate how effective smoking cessation programs are when directed to patients admitted to a hospital. The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates re...

Probable Health Monitor Sends SMS of Emergency Alerts and ECG

...ity of life." The researchers are now working on how to enable global-positioning system, GPS, in the modified cell phone, so that the medical centre can more quickly pinpoint the patient. They also hope to improve the level of detail that can be sent from the cell phone to the emergency room using t...

School-based Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs

...tes. The education programs covered topics such as how to identify potential abuse, good touch vs. bad to...ormly accepted definition, it is difficult to know how often sexual abuse occurs, especially in countries where there have been few studies conducted. Ra...

Men Could Overcome Erectile Dysfunction Through Group Psychotherapy

...nger follow-up periods in order to measure exactly how effective psychosocial therapy can be. This research will need to group the men carefully, and also consider different forms of psychosocial treatment, says Melnik. It, however, still remains to be determined as to which patients can benefit from p...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

...on exposure from a 64-slice CTCA, and to determine how this risk is influenced by patient age, sex, and scan protocol. The recent Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VII Phase 2 report provides a framework for estimating LAR of cancer incidence associated with radiation exposure from a CTC...

Less Information on Dietary Treatment in Type2 Diabetes

...ic Review,there are no high quality data to assess how well dietary treatments for type 2 diabetes work ...ies which examine a range of interventions and see how they influence many of the features that are important in type 2 diabetes, says Lucie Nield. The r...

Food Cravings are Linked to Weight Managenemt

...hat successful weight loss was related not only to how often people gave in to their cravings, but also t...s that differed in glycemic load, a measurement of how quickly the carbohydrates in a persons diet are converted to blood sugar. Participants completed f...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...re some of the chilling anecdotes in a new book on how a traditional preference for sons in India has res.... The author provides an equally grim account of how the practice has led to a cycle of abuse. In some regions, an acute shortage of women has resulted...

Alcohol may Help You to Be Cool

...y gave their opponent a shock. The idea was to see how alcohol affected the mens belligerence, as measured by the kinds of shocks they chose to hand out. In the next part of the study, the researchers required 120 men, some drinkers, some no, to simultaneously perform a difficult memory task. The idea ...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...cy. However, dose-response studies, which describe how different levels of exposure affects an organism, did not show excess rates near nuclear facilities. Several difficulties arise when conducting dose-response studies in an epidemiological setting as they rely on a wide range of factors that are oft...

Converting Left-hander to Right-hander also Changes the Brain

...t changes the way their brains are organized, and how hard particular regions work. The researchers s... beyond its involvement in handedness, as it shows how flexible the brain is in terms of which regions can do what. "The key thing is that there are are...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

... 'With my other hand, I really had to concentrate how much pressure I was putting on the cup. Every day I have this hand, it surprises me.' The device is on sale privately, with an entirely lifelike version for around 13,000. It could be available on the NHS in about three years. Made from light-we...

Winona Ryders Arrest Got Her Rid of Drug Dependence

...as looking for the right man for her. "You know how people ask, 'Who is the love of your life?' God, I hope I haven't met that person yet, in a way, because I'm single. I hope I haven't had that, since that would be sad," she said....

Male Casting Couch in Bollywood?

...perience of the said incident. I still remember how a model coordinator approached me and kept calling me till I told him I was not his cup of tea, says Sonu Sood, who played Abhishek Bachchans elder brother in Yuva and a parallel lead with Emraan Hashmi in Aashiq Banaya Aapne. Nigar Khans husband a...

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

A new research has shown just how a sensible diet, exercise and weight control helps people live a longer life. Researchers from Howard Hughes Medical Institute have found that all these factors increase longevity by reducing signalling through a specific pathway in the brain. T...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...y much concerned about the human rights issues and how people with HIV are treated in Chinese society." China estimated last year that it had 650,000 HIV cases, although UN officials estimate the actual number is now higher. A recent paper in British medical journal The Lancet praised China's adoptio...

Tuberculosis Drug Increases OCD Therapy Progress

...compulsions. The investigators are now studying how the drugs effect on smokers who want to quit. "People who smoke have positive feelings from the drug effects of nicotine associated with exposure to cues of smoking, such as seeing a pack of cigarettes, lighting up, or actually smoking," Kushner sa...

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

... the 46 second deaths in the original study to see how many might reasonably be regarded as undetermined. They suggest that, in the three families in the original study in which both deaths were attributed to specific natural causes, one death should be regarded as undetermined. In 18 families in the...

Police Raids Hospitals and Labs in Orissa

...the entire district administration over there. But how these things have taken place, it is beyond our imagination," said Sneha Mishra, social activist....

Three Gene Variants Could Hold Key for HIV Vaccine: Study

...rs that influence variation amongst individuals in how they control HIV-1, but also point toward new mech... polymorphisms that could provide additional clues how some patients are better able to control the virus than others," Goldstein said. "This should ulti...

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