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Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...banization have helped make heart disease a bigger killer than 'The Big Three' -- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- combined." Kishore and Ben Herbstman, UAEM members, petitioned WHO that simvastatin (Zocor) -- originally manufactured by Merck -- be added to the list. Simvastatin was selected based on...

More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...h Statistics, heart disease has topped the list of killer diseases every year but one since 1900. (The exception was 1918, when an influenza epidemic killed more than 450,000 Americans.) Stroke is the third leading cause of death. According to the American Heart Association, every 36 seconds, an American di...

Americans Optimistic About the War on Cancer

Despite it being the number two killer in our nation, Americans are very optimistic about the war against cancer. In fact, according to a recent nationwide survey sponsored by Abbott, nearly two-thirds (64%) believe the scientific community is winning the war against cancer. "As an org...

Surge in Cancer Incidence in Asia Feared

...6 percent in Europe. Heart disease remains the top killer in China, but cancer is a close second. Interest... liver cancers. It also remains the biggest cancer killer worldwide. "Lung cancer is the big one because of cigarette smoking. There are many tobacco advert...

New Bird Flu Case in Hong Kong

... rural New Territories area, was infected with the killer strain. They warned of personal contact with wild birds and live poultry. It was the 17th wild bird that has been found dead in Hong Kong this year with H5N1, which has killed almost 200 people and ravaged poultry flocks worldwide since 2003. Mig...

British Funds 250 Million Pounds to Reduce Child Mortality

...rom India's poorest families are immunised against killer diseases compared to three in four from the richest. Funds will also help to improve healthcare for other socially excluded groups such as Dalits (formerly known as 'untouchables'), indigenous people, and minorities, including Muslims." Most of the...

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

...naugural health conference. "In western countries, killer diseases like polio are considered to have long been eradicated.In contrast, the polio virus continues to threaten many Muslim countries," he said. He said Muslim nations should band together to develop and produce vaccines which were halal, or permi...

Breast Cancer Drug may Offer Hope for Treating Ovarian Cancer

...s of ovarian cancer, which is also called a silent killer are triggered by oestrogen, it still offers hope to thousands, reports Daily Mail. The study that involved 44 women found that the drug stopped oestrogen supply to tumours for almost half a year, in 25pct of the women. In one-third of the women,...

Aspirin Therapy for Heart Disease Found More Effective for Men Than Women

...women respond. "Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. Future research should be aimed at finding out the cause of this increase in aspirin resistance and the effect on outcomes in women with heart disease." Dorsch said. Source-Newswise/B...

Cancer Time Bomb Threatening Economic Infrastructure

...cause for increase in Lung Cancer which is a major killer in the region. WHO has reported that almost a million people die due to this cancer. Another major fatal disease is the stomach cancer. This is growing at a rate of 25% in a year. Mainly due to the westernization of the Asian diet there is a major ...

Head and Neck Cancer Vaccine Targets Proteins to Create Immune Response

...sed on three peptides derived from p53 that target killer T cells and helper T cells. Although killer T cells directly destroy tumor cells, they are assisted by helper T cells that secrete small protein...

Virginia Tech. Shooter -Human Rights or Innocent Lives

...ginia Tech., U.S., details of the sullen// ‘loner’ killer Cho Seung-Hui began to take form. The odds for forcible detention of mentally unsound persons, could not be any stronger than this point of time. At the same time, psychiatrics ponder-where and when does one draw the fine line? The fact that Cho...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

... public health message is that flu is an important killer in cardiac patients. If people can recognise that the flu vaccine has specific cardioprotective effects, then high-risk people will be more likely to make sure that they receive the influenza vaccine every year. We know from our other research that o...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...ette) to a friend. In all these crimes, either the killer or the victim or both are high on alcohol, reports Grassroots Features. Alcoholism is taking a heavy toll on the socio-economic life of the tribal population. According to an official from the department of tribal development, the age-old problem o...

Bob Woolmer Was Strangled With A Towel

The killer or killers of cricket coach Bob Woolmer used a twi... 300-room hotel because it was "highly likely" the killer left behind his DNA in Woolmer’s room. The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the material inside the...

UAE Analyses HIV Policies to Plan National Strategy

...velop a five-year national strategy concerning the killer disease, Gulf News// reported Thursday. Officials from governmental agencies as well as international organisations, including the Red Crescent Authority, UNAIDS and UNDP, discussed the HIV/AIDS situation in the country at a workshop. The worksho...

A New Pain Killer With Less Side Effects

... opioid receptors. In addition to acting as a pain killer this drug produces a number of unwanted side effects of importance from a clinical (e.g., depression of breathing, constipation and tolerance) and social (addiction) viewpoints. "Clearly there is a place for new morphine like drugs without these si...

Golfer Plans ‘lasting Legacy’ for Mothr

...d to the defeat of lung cancer, the biggest cancer killer of women as well as men. "I have supported a range of charities throughout the years, but have decided that I want to concentrate my efforts on one project and to do something that has the potential to make a profound difference to thousands of peo...

Weed Killer Plays a Pivotal Role in Those With Genetic Vulnerability to Parkinson’

...ens or farms//. Paraquat, a common chemical weed killer could be the hidden hand behind those suffering with Parkinson’s disease, at least those with certain genes that render them susceptible to one of the world’s most common neurological disorder. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience,...

Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers

...en. The study also shows// that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune sy...g findings of the study is that children’s natural killer cell function increases under chronic stress. Previous research with mostly older adults has shown t...

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