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Breast Cancer Patients Unaware of Reconstructive Surgery

...eferral surgeons. Low referral surgeons identified inadequate patient knowledge, high cost, and unavailability of plastic surgeons as reasons for not referring patients for a plastic surgeon consult. Interestingly, low-referral surgeons also noted that breast reconstruction was of little concern to breast cance...

Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid

...urban growth in India, leaving the urban poor with inadequate or no basic services. Despite the numerous roadblocks, however, WaterAid India (WAI), the India chapter of an international charity working on the issues of safe water and sanitation worldwide, believes that it is possible to provide slums and othe...

Rapid Spread of TB Among Prisoners Causes Concern

... the public. "This is often due to overcrowding, inadequate ventilation, ignorance of preventive measures and failure to supervise and ensure adherence to treatment," the ICRC said in a statement. Tuberculosis has been fought vigorously in the prisons of Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa since several years...

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

...h burden of TB, efforts to fight TB are impeded by inadequate laboratory facilities and critical shortages of health staff. But easily the biggest problem is posed by the HIV epidemic. TB is a major cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS. HIV is the main reason for failure to meet TB control target...

New Study Reveals That Firefighters Are Prone To Heart Attack

...ey are not immune to the hazards of overeating and inadequate exercise, said Linda Rosenstock and Jorn Olsen of the UCLA School of Public Health in Los Angeles in an accompanying editorial. Wellness and fitness programmes are needed to reduce cardiovascular risk factors, and all firefighters should have annual...

AAO Urges Athletes to Wear Protective Eyewear

...protection,” he said, “and street wear glasses are inadequate to protect against any type of eye injury.” Most sporting leagues don’t require children to wear eye protection, so parents must insist that their children wear eye protection when they play. “When they do, the occurrence of eye injuries is grea...

WHO Calls for Greater Efforts to Fight TB

...ltidrug-resistant TB, HIV-associated TB epidemics, inadequate engagement of all care providers and lack of adequate human resources that needed to be overcome. A rise in TB cases was due to lack of activities to address the link between the spreading of the disease and HIV, Han Tieru, WHO representative in Ma...

U.S. Child Health System Needs Total Overhaul

...ered by outdated logic, outmoded organization, and inadequate and misaligned finance strategies that were designed to be responsive to epidemiology and health goals more relevant to the early part of the 20th century. “An increasing body of science now tells us that the scaffolding for our adult physical, co...

U.S. Child Health System Needs Total Overhaul

...ered by outdated logic, outmoded organization, and inadequate and misaligned finance strategies that were designed to be responsive to epidemiology and health goals more relevant to the early part of the 20th century. “An increasing body of science now tells us that the scaffolding for our adult physical, cog...

WHO Urges Higher Priority for Neglected Diseases

...ey are considered 'neglected' because they receive inadequate policy support and funding, are not given priority in research and development, and health programmes are often poorly implemented. International funds tend to be directed towards childhood immunisation and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberc...

Russia Launches Five-Year Plan To Combat Diseases, Including TB, HIV/AIDS

...e living with TB, HIV/AIDS or hepatitis because of inadequate health checks. Russian and international medical experts have said that the government has not taken action to address the country's health crisis and that it has denied the extent of the issue. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said the government a...

Urban Poor in Dire Need of Proper Healthcare: Report

...elfare centres for their revamp which is more than inadequate for the present population of urban poor," the statement said. It has also called for the renovation of urban hospitals and dispensaries by properly equipping them with adequate manpower, essential drugs and supplies. Public-private partnership i...

Sleep Disturbances Could Affect Performances in School

...ucted studies all found that adolescents reporting inadequate sleep, irregular sleep patterns, and/or poor sleep quality do not perform as well in school as students without sleep complaints, this study provides additional evidence indicating that sleep disturbances occur at high frequencies in adolescents and ...

Genetic Test for Type II Diabetes Moves Closer

...nd is characterised by either low levels of, or an inadequate response to insulin - a hormone secreted by the pancreas to release energy from the breakdown of carbohydrates. The disease is frequently passed from generation to generation, and its rapidly increasing prevalence is thought to be due to environme...

India Lags Far Behind in Controlling Maternal Deaths

...unctional health centres, scarcity of blood banks, inadequate number of specialists like gynaecologists and anaesthetists in rural areas and the poor condition of the transport system are some of the bottlenecks of the problem. 'Seventy percent of the national budget allocated for health support goes back un...

Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads to Respiratory Complaints

...al common limitations among the studies, including inadequate control of the complicating effect of tobacco smoking; lack of standardized measures for the amount or duration of marijuana use; and lack of standardized measures of the outcomes that were evaluated. “Despite these limitations, clinicians should ...

Smartcard Legislation Fails The Privacy Test - AMA

...Card Dr Haikerwal said the legislation provides inadequate protection against the misuse of personal information and any possible future uses of the card other than those that the Government has already specified. “The AMA has serious concerns about the privacy and security of people’s personal details th...

Inadequate Communication Reduces Benefits of Mammogram Screening for Black Women

...erning that abnormal mammogram results resulted in inadequate communication for black women but not for white women,” said Jones, a member of the Yale Cancer Center, who plans to conduct future studies to investigate racial differences in interactions with the healthcare system. “This may provide some insigh...

Increase of HIV Infections Among the Educated Class in South Africa

...he reasons cited are – a total apathy to safe sex, inadequate information from Government agencies, affluent life style and lot of leisure time. An increase of 19.2 % was observed among people with full time employment while there is not much of a steep rise in the unemployed population from the previous year...

A Novel Technique Nudges Genes Into Activity

...hey should be," she said. As a result, there is an inadequate amount of a particular protein in the body. "If we can bring the level up a few notches, we might actually treat or cure the disease," Dr. Janowski said. For example, some genes are natural tumor suppressors, and using this method to selectively ac...

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