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Medical Education in General Practice: A Way Forward

... the community-care setting. This is of particular importance in rural areas where the brunt of the workforce shortage is felt. AMSA is calling on the federal government for a capital investment in primary care practices to allow for high quality teaching of students and junior doctors, said Mr Mitchell. Me...

Kerala Institute to Hold International Seminar on Drug Discovery

...ent said Tuesday. The seminar will look into the importance of ligand (a molecule in biochemistry) and protein preparation in computational studies, docking in virtual screening of ligands and focused library design of selective estrogen receptor. Modulators using combinatorial docking method, quantum mecha...

Novel Method of Adult Stem Cell Growth may Help to Treat Cornea Disorders

...in the long term. According to researchers, the importance of this growth method lies in the fact that it enables the characterisation of the cells obtained, that is, determination of the quantity and viability of the units to be used....

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...as in many countries, family ties are of paramount importance and get-togethers are large and frequent. Young women and men often live at home with their parents and other family members until they marry. "All the time," said the young woman who had sought help at RAHI, which means "wayfarer" in Hindi, when a...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

...ntary organisation, has helped them understand the importance of health during pregnancy and also of hospital deliveries. "The health condition of the urban poor is a great issue. We have told them how they can save their children by taking small steps. We have told them that if they go to a hospital for chil...

2 Minute Delay in Cutting Cord can Give Babies a 'significant' Health Boost

...searchers state. "Although this is of particular importance for developing countries in which anaemia during infancy and childbirth is highly prevalent, it is likely to have an important impact on all newborns," they added. The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association....

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

...lizabeth Barr. "This study confirms the clinical importance of pre-diabetes, and suggests the need to target glucose abnormalities with lifestyle interventions.'' Studies have shown that diet and exercise can help pre-diabetics avoid diabetes, which is emerging as an epidemic worldwide. The findings follow ...

Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care

...t support for the rural patients should stress the importance of recognizing symptoms and seeking help earlier from health care professionals, and should harness the strong work ethic evident in the rural population. The researchers also recommend that rural and urban health care regions continue to find ways...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

...al features of aggressive breast cancer. While the importance of these cancer cell-stromal cell interactions is well established, only limited progress has been made in identifying the factors that cause stromal cells to initiate tumour progression. "Our breakthrough findings demonstrate that PTN-activated st...

Aedes Agypti Mosquitos Immune System Revealed

The immune system of this mosquito is of great importance as scientists believe it plays a key role in controlling the transmission of viruses that cause yellow and dengue fevers diseases that infect over 50 million people worldwide every year.The genes that make up the immune system of the Aedes aegypti ...

Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis

...to recognize Ub. This type of protein is of utmost importance for the cell because it can distinguish between ubiquitinated and non-ubiquitinated proteins, explains Dr. Daniela Hoeller, the responsible scientist. UBD-proteins are the key to the effects of Ub both in normal and malignant cells. Dikic and his ...

Kids Think Ketchup and Bread are Part of Fruit and Vegetables Food-group

...More and more children and adults are aware of the importance of having five daily fruit and veg portions," he said. "But more needs to be done to help children understand what counts and what doesn't. "Parents can be a good example by eating healthily themselves," he added....

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...ely little corn is eaten directly it is of pivotal importance to the food economy as so much of it is consumed indirectly. The milk, eggs, cheese, butter, chicken, beef, ice cream and yoghurt in the average fridge is all produced using corn and the price of every one of these is influenced by the price of corn....

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

...ordeaux wine wholesaler Ginestet. Apart from the importance of exports, particularly to emerging markets, to producers, Vinexpo also tackled the issue of moderate drinking. With France in the throes of campaigns to cut back drink-driving, a study by Educalcool, a Quebec based educational body, showed that o...

Physical Activity can Be Increased by a Motivating Mail

...transtheoretical model both of which emphasize the importance of increasing motivational readiness for physical activity, balancing the pros vs. cons of activity, and developing strategies for becoming and remaining physically active, said Melissa Napolitano, Ph.D,. Both programs offer a cost-effective way to...

SARS Patients Experience Mental Health Decline

... family-centred approach to followup care, and the importance of exploring strategies to minimize the psychological burden of an epidemic illness as part of future pandemic-planning initiatives Survivors used health care services frequently the first year after hospitalization. "Psychiatric evaluation account...

Smoking Hampers Alcoholics' Neurocognitive Recovery During Abstinence

...ety. [These] differential outcomes demonstrate the importance of considering the behavioral impact of continued cigarette smoking among alcoholics on long-term recovery of function, Nixon said. Durazzo said that the findings imply that consideration of smoking status is significant to the evaluation of cognit...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

... the system to stop processing it at this level of importance and leave it at a subconscious level. This goal is...m of therapeutic advice is to help to minimise the importance of the tinnitus. It involves eliminating the negative significance that makes the sound pass to a co...

New Methods to Quit Smoking

...ncy on tobacco. Richard Dolls work also showed the importance of putting critical analysis and high quality research at the heart of good decision making. With changes in the law providing fresh impetus for smokers to quit, the catalogue of reviews in The Cochrane Library is a great source of the knowledge ne...

Outdoor Alcohol Ads Boost Urge to Drink in Young Teens

...es the effects of advertising on children. "The importance of this (study) is they determined that these messages have an impact on normative beliefs, which are the assumptions we make about how the world works. It doesn't have to be a (TV) commercial (to be effective)," Thomsen said. The study is publish...

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