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WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...sation) is a public-private partnership focused on increasing children's access to vaccines in poor countries. Partners include the GAVI Fund, national governments, UNICEF, WHO, The World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the vaccine industry, public health institutions and nongovernmental organization...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

... ability to function only later in life. "As the increasing number of claims to the VA shows, PTSD has become very significant public health problem, particularly for veterans of current and past conflicts," said committee chair Nancy Andreasen, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry and director, Psychiatric Ne...

Coverage for Childrens Mental Illness Reduces Out-of-Pocket Spending

... with other medical services without significantly increasing total health insurance costs. Studies also indicate that state parity laws have had little effect on the use of mental health services. But prior to the release of this study, Barry and Busch said little has been known about how state policies affect...

Functional Foods Must Be Monitored to Assess Their Long-term Safety and Effectiveness

...h of your gut or heart. These foods are rapidly increasing in popularity. Between January and April 2005 200 functional foods were launched onto the market and with a turnover of 316 million in 2005, the active health-drink market is one of the fastest growing in the UK. Current EU rules focus primarily o...

Saving Powers Of The Ocean On The Wane

...ion of a fouryear study say that global warming is increasing wind speeds over the Southern Ocean and preventing it from absorbing more carbon. In addition, this is causing the sea to release some of the gas that it had stored before. Says lead author lead author Corinne Le Qur: "This is serious. All climate...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...d standards. "Since diabetes is so common and is increasing rapidly, whatever enhances diabetes care is worth looking at," Huang said. A study released last month at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists' annual meeting in Seattle found that poorly managed type 2 diabetes costs the U.S. heal...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...d, handling high rates of blood flow and pressure, increasing the risk of a total collapse. Babies most at risk are those born between 24 and 32 weeks gestation that weigh less than 1500 grams, or about 3 lbs., 5 ounces. About 20 percent of such infants have a bleed, known as a germinal matrix hemorrhage or a...

'Muscle Noise' may Diagnose Neuromuscular Disease Sans Radiation Exposure

... thigh of a healthy male volunteer while attaching increasing loads to his ankle. This enabled them to measure the vibrations produced by his vastus lateralis thigh muscle under different stresses. With the help of this sensor array, the researchers measured the velocity of vibrations depending on the muscle ...

Babys Birth Weight and Future Risk Has No Scientific Basis

...g the pregnancy period would have little effect on increasing the size of a baby. "It has been suggested that...e and are more achievable than strategies aimed at increasing birth weight."...

New Brain Neuromarker May Shed Light on Autism and Schizophrenia

...-female and enemy-friend relationships. An ever increasing number of mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists in collaboration with neuroscientists are trying to understand how patterns are generated in the human brain and their relation to behavior, said Dr. Gary Perry, dean of the Charles E. Schm...

Parents Who Smoke Put Healthy Kids at Increased Risk of Lung Diseases

... parents to smoke more in their own homes, thereby increasing the harm to the developing lungs of children. "We may see an increase in diminished lung function in children of smokers because of this trend," Arets said....

Wrinkles can Be Really Ironed Out, Thanks to Vitamin A

... work by improving the topmost layers of the skin, increasing cells production and helping to increase collagen which gives the skin its structure."...

Single-tablet With Two Drugs may Help Control High BP Better

... drugs may be the key when it comes to controlling increasing blood pressure in people with even moderate hypertension. The international study named ACCOMPLISH (Avoiding Cardiovascular Events through Combination Therapy in Patients Living with Systolic Hypertension) was conducted by a team of researchers le...

Researchers Find Estrogen Governs Genes That Affect Aggression

...eceptor and the beta-receptor played a key role in increasing aggression in short days and decreasing aggression in long days. In another study, the researchers then injected mice living in winter-like short-day and summer-like long-day conditions with estradiol, a type of estrogen. The injection increased ag...

Lions Club Plans to Increase Free Healthcare for Poor

... a target to reach out to more number of people by increasing our free services," Lions Club International's senior functionary K.N. Gupta told a press conference Tuesday. "We have also made a plan to develop medical infrastructure in our existing hospitals in next few years," said Gupta, who is also chairper...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

...rse the spread of the disease by 2015, despite the increasing number of cases worldwide. U.N. member countries...Haya Rashed Al Khalifa at the meeting said that an increasing number of women are affected by HIV/AIDS worldwide, adding that the disease has a destructive impact...

Experts to Develop New Weapons Against Food Poisoning

...zard due to Campylobacter remains high, and may be increasing because the pathogen has also started to demonstrate resistance to several common antibiotics....

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

...ce." Last fall, Dr. Koch and his team found that increasing levels of the protein S100A1 above normal helped protect animal hearts from further damage after simulated heart attacks. In some cases, the animals' heart function hardly changed at all even when a large percentage of the heart muscle had died. At t...

Better Working Conditions for Nurses Might Decrease Patient Infections

... possible solution presented in the study suggests increasing the availability of highly-qualified float nurses through cross training. This would allow hospitals to more appropriately staff their ICUs and further develop the skills of nursing staff based on other units. The sample comprised 15,846 patients i...

Exposure to Smoking in Prenatal Stage Increases ADHD Risk in Children

...ese data highlight a new risk of maternal smoking, increasing the risk for ADHD in their children. ADHD, in turn, increases the risk for substance abuse. Thus, it appears that in utero exposure to nicotine may help to perpetuate a cycle across generations that links addiction and behavioural problems," added Dr...

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