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Anti-Aging Powers of Enzyme Sirtuins

...ebruary 9 edition of Molecular Cell, and a podcast interview with the study's senior author, Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D., a professor in the Gene Expression and Regulation Program at Wistar, will be available on the Institute's web site (www.wistar.org) on the same date. Using the techniques of structural biolo...

Scientists Explore Possible New Way to Fight AIDS

...s and do nothing in other cases," Lusso said in an interview Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Mental Health of Kashmiris Needs Urgent Attention: Survey

...l violence is still unusually high." One in six interview respondents reported they had been illegally or legally detained, and more than three-quarters of those detained reported that they were tortured while being held. Nearly one in 10 people reported having lost one or more members of their immediate...

Ontario Supports OHIP’s Rejection of Claim by North York Ma

...e," says his lawyer, Mark Freiman, in a telephonic interview yesterday. "It has a very far-ranging impact in terms of defining the obligations of government and the lack of obligations of government in the areas of health care." The case demonstrates very clearly some of the flaws in the public health system...

Rewiring the Heart

...ing a beet red face and talking mile a minute. The interview was cut short. As he walked out of the office, he knew something was drastically wrong. He called his physician and described his symptoms. Within minutes, his physician ordered him to take a cab to the nearest emergency room. Jeffrey learned he was ...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

... University use the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) interview to determine the level of dementia-related impairment. According to Meuser, a CDR rating of 1, representing mild to moderate deficits in memory and other cognitive and functional areas, is a reasonable stage at which retirement from driving may be in...

Sudden Death Isn’t Always So Sudde

...y tried to fill in the blanks by asking doctors to interview witnesses on the spot. The doctors gathered information on 406 cases and found that warning signs were surprisingly common. Chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and dizziness were the most common heralds of an impending cardiac arr...

WHO Urges Shah Rukh Khan to Stop Endorsing Tobacco Products

...ic diseases and health promotion at the WHO, in an interview to IANS. He said players like Michael Schumacher or some Indian film stars should not associate themselves with tobacco products. "They have a huge fan following and promoting such products is nothing but a social malice." Referring to Shah Rukh...

Aung San Suu Kyi complains of irregular medical visits

...al Affairs Ibrahim Gambari, who was granted a rare interview with the Nobel peace laureate on Saturday night by Myanmar's ruling junta. Gambari, who also was allowed to meet Suu Kyi during his previous trip in May, told the visiting UN envoy that she "welcomes continued engagement by the United Nations in ho...

Ramadoss Blames State Governments for High Dengue Toll

... toll of over 130 lives across the country. In an interview with Karan Thapar for the CNN-IBN programme Devil's Advocate to be telecast Sunday, Ramadoss states, "Even though I don't want to shy away from my responsibilities, it is the state governments who have to take steps." According to the health minist...

Inaccurate reporting of child physical abuse by healthcare staff

...e also concerned about their inexperience and poor interview techniques, especially when they were faced with parents who were keen to avoid detection. "Recognising child abuse is always going to be a difficult and emotive area" said one Community Nurse. "Often parents, as carers, can give a plausible explana...

Its in your ‘hands’ to fight fatal nosocomial infectios

...man of the World Alliance for Patient Safety.In an interview he emphasized the need to train, assess and improve the skills of all health workers to ensure safe practices and to stress that it indeed lies in the hands of the health workers. MS...

Free Medicines, Health Insurance for Poor Soon: Paswan

...er free medication to the poor," Paswan said in an interview here. "The banks will be stocked with the help of the drug manufacturers who have agreed to provide 0.5 percent of their annual turnover for this effort," Paswan told IANS. As per ministry estimates, drugs worth Rs.450 million are to be contribut...

Opioids Linked to Worse Outcomes After Back Injury

...xas. The researchers used a structured clinicial interview based on formal DSM-IV criteria to evaluate patients for opioid dependence before enrollment in the rehabilitation program. (For details of the DSM-IV criteria, see below.) The patients retained severe functional limitations. Those who became opioi...

Stereotypes Contribute to Older Men Seeking, Receiving Depression Care Less Frequently

...sted other strategies, such as using an open-ended interview style, using less direct or clinical (i.e., threatening) language to discuss depression, and involving family in all phases of treatment. The researchers acknowledge that their study “should be considered as exploratory and hypothesis-generating be...

Dust Mites Make Skin Lose Water

...n into the skin," lead researcher Takai said in an interview with Reuters. He added that the finding could provide an explanation for dermal allergies in humans. RAS...

About 5 Percent of Adults with Insomnia Use Alternative Therapies

...rvey on the use of 27 types of CAM therapies. The interview also included questions about five other health conditions: depression and anxiety, congestive heart failure, diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure) and obesity. Four items assessed behavior and motivation for using CAM therapies. Of the ad...

JIPMER Strike Enters Eighth Day

...t must withdraw its decision. JIPMER today held an interview to appoint temporary paramedical staff to tide over the crisis. JIPMER Director K S V K Subba Rao told reporters that work was affected because of the strike even though they were trying to restore normalcy. RAS...

Successfully Separated Conjoined Twins In A Critical Yet Stable Condition

...s as they were in the hospital waiting room. In an interview earlier in the day Benzschawel said, “It's been a roller coaster, you have a mix of every emotion possible pretty much the worst feeling.” Family members and friends also assembled in the room, to give their moral support to the parents and for hel...

HIV Positive Individuals Say Media Is Insensitive

...ay from me, and didn't even look at my eyes during interview sessions. I always thought journalists would help in breaking the stigma," said Vanlalmuana, the president of the Positive Network of Mizoram (PNM). Vanlalmuana is living with HIV for the past six years. Many others also felt like him. "Many a time...

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