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Uninsured Often Receive Less Medical Care

... uninsured individuals in the U.S. underscores the importance of knowing the health consequences of being uninsured, according to background information in the article. Dr. Hadley conducted a study to examine whether uninsured individuals who experienced a health shock caused by either the onset of a chronic ...

Shortage of Human Cadavers for Medical Training

...est when people live a ripe age. Explaining the importance of human cadavers in medical teaching,Dick Rainsbury, the RCS director of education, said: "The college currently receives about 60 cadavers a year. They are hugely important to us in the teaching of anatomy. Visual demonstration is not enough. If th...

World Kidney Day – Caring for the Kidney

...ath due to the associated heart ailments. It is of importance to note that a healthy individual identified with chronic kidney disease has a tenfold propensity to suffer death due to heart–related disorders, irrespective of suffering from kidney failure or not. Twelve million people suffer from morbidity from c...

Can Certain Common Foods Trigger Cancer?

...he team from Queen's University has emphasized the importance of eating a balanced diet including garlic which can go a long way in stifling the development of carcinogens. The researchers are now studying the outcome of treatment using vinyl carbamate on mice. Vinyl carbamate, which is present in fermented foo...

Dialysis Trust Set Up in Bangalore by End-stage Kidney Patients

...World Kidney Day is to emphasize to the masses the importance of kidneys and to disseminate the message that kidney ailments are common and serious but certainly capable of treatment. Patients grappling with end-stage kidney disease have instituted the Dialysis Trust of Bangalore with the main idea of increas...

Stem Cell Finding Could Help Reduce Transplant Rejection

...volving the lung-derived MSCs that shows potential importance of these cells in lung transplantation. That study is not yet complete, but so far it indicates a very strong ability of these MSCs to suppress the immune cells that are involved in organ rejection. In addition to helping prevent organ rejection, oth...

Circumcision May Lift HIV Risk for Women

... free condoms. Experts said the study showed the importance of finding ways to protect women in the search for ways to fight AIDS. "We need to err on the side of caution to protect women in any future male circumcision program," said Dr. Maria Wawer, the study's lead investigator, a researcher at Johns Hopk...

Dry Eye Syndrome Affects Visual Functions

...man optical system and is consequently of critical importance for clear vision. DES patients with an unstable tear film can usually clear a blurred image temporarily by blinking frequently to redistribute the tear film over the ocular surface. However, this may not be sustainable during activities requiring p...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women’s Sleep Issue

... are pleased that ACCP members are recognizing the importance of sleep medicine by actively inquiring about their patient’s sleep habits.” Sleep Recommendations The ACCP-SI supports the following sleep recommendations from the NSF: ? Keep a standard relaxing bedtime routine and regular sleep times. Kee...

Free Kidney Check Up Camp in Kasturba Hospital on World Kidney Day

...s observed to create awareness among public on the importance of kidneys. Kidney does an astounding job of filtering around 180 liters of our blood every day. It also regulates salts in our blood and keeps our body temperature and blood pressure under control. The intention of World Kidney Day 2007 is to make...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women's Sleep Issues

... are pleased that ACCP members are recognizing the importance of sleep medicine by actively inquiring about their patient’s sleep habits.” Sleep Recommendations The ACCP-SI supports the following sleep recommendations from the NSF: ? Keep a standard relaxing bedtime routine and regular sleep times. Keep yo...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

...ory, adding new details that identify the relative importance of the geographic and evolutionary advances the virus makes. From 192 samples obtained across Eurasia, the UCI team reconstructed the virus's geographic reach and evolution. The analysis shows that Guangdong – home to a large poultry industry – is ...

Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation

...erstanding of different cancers and emphasizes the importance of describing cancer in the context of normal human development that has gone awry due to genetic and epigenetic alterations,” said Nathan Bowen, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scientist at Georgia Tech and the Ovarian Cancer Institute...

Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists

...elcomed the development. "There is no doubt on the importance of having the vaccine" he said. He added that controlling dengue viruses was becoming a "formidable task for every country, not only for developing countries" because of rapidly expanding urbanisation and international travel. Source-Bio-Bio Tech...

Lifestyle Changes Suggested To Latin Americans

...ust be placed on lifestyle changes reiterating the importance of healthy diet and exercises. He also added that the younger population must be addressed on these issues to have permanent health benefits on the society on cardiovascular diseases. JYT...

Reactions to 'false-positive' Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed

...c antigen (PSA) test. "This study emphasizes the importance of doctors' discussing the pros and cons of prostate cancer screening with patients," said the study's lead author David Katz, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and of epidemiol...

Sleep Well, Have a Healthy Heart !

...n, who added that reaching out to people about the importance of sleep may result in a decline in the number of reported cardiovascular diseases. Those who think they might have OSA, or another sleep disorder, are urged to discuss their problem with their primary care physician, who will issue a referral to a...

Busting the Exam Blues

...andle stress better. It is vital to understand the importance of good sleep and to maintain a healthy sleep pattern. Some tips that would help to invite sound slumber are: ? Take a relaxing shower before 'sleep hour' ? Drink a glass of warm milk ? Listen to soft music...

Yale Researchers Named Ellison Foundation Senior Scholars in Aging

...to aging or to neurodegeneration could be of broad importance for designing therapeutics that slow the aging process.” Wolin joined the Yale faculty in 1991. After undergraduate work in biochemistry at Princeton University, she received both an M.D. degree and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistr...

EU Commission to Set Up Rapid Action Team

...uth disease in the 27-nation bloc 'highlighted the importance of having well-prepared, well-trained personnel available to provide their expertise in dealing with the problem.' ANN...

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