Vitamin A supplementation inadequate in India: Need for effective strategies
...ences. Although started initially in India, it now lags behind African and neighbouring countries //in terms of the implementation, according to recent report.The report entitled "Controlling Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies in India - Meeting The Goal" states that India has the largest percentage as well...Maternal Mortality Rate On Rise In India
Top health officials said that India still lags behind in curbing the maternal and infant mortality with a woman dying// every five minutes due to childbirth complications. "Maternal health is the foundation of all health," Health Secretary P.K. Hota told a function organised here Monday on the ...UK Has To Focus On Bridging the Gap between Healthcare Professionals and Patients
... the current reforms. But the sad state is that UK lags behind Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and the USA. This Picker Institute study report criticizes the present prevailing attitude. The doctors are hardly giving any advice to the patients. There is very less interaction between the doctor and...Chemotherapy Queues in Ontario Stay Steady
... Cancer Care report has also revealed that Ontario lags far behind most jurisdictions even in colorectal cancer screening which has a death rate of over 3,000 Ontario residents a year. Since the probability of curing colorectal cancer lies mainly in its early detection Opposition leader John Tory has be...Doctors Urged to Help Turn Down the Heat
...ional levels. Mitigation policy in Australia still lags behind Europe, and our government has not yet set a national greenhouse gas emissions reduction target beyond 2012." Doctors should take a lead in this push for prevention of climate change, Prof Kefford says. "We can inform the debate with relia...Rates Of Breastfeeding Increase In Hong Kong
...that the numbers should improve as Hong Kong still lags behind some other countries. She added that breastfed babies "suffer fewer incidences of diarrhea, respiratory and middle-ear infections, and are less likely to develop allergies and childhood obesity." Breastfeeding also helps mothers by reducing ...Rajasthan Reduces MMR, Still Lags Behind Country
...inister Digambar Singh. However, Rajasthan still lags far behind the national MMR average of 301, according to the report on 'Maternal Mortality in India: 1997-2003 - Trends, Causes and Risk Factors' released last week. National MMR has come down to 301 in 2002-03 from 398 in 1997-98 and 327 in 1999-01...Health Care in America-Not a Rosy Picture
..., this study also concludes that the United States lags on some measures of health and care despite spending more on medical care than any other nation. Statistics have shown that the annual U.S. medical expenditure was $5,635 per person in 2003. This was followed by Canada with an expenditure of $3,003 p...Too Few Americans Getting Preventive Health Screenings
...found that the use of proven prevention strategies lags significantly behind other gains in health care: ? Only about 52 percent of adults reported receiving recommended colorectal cancer screenings. About 56,000 Americans die from colorectal cancer, and 150,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. In 200...Diabetes Risk Factors Develop Earlier in Women Than Men
...in death rates for heart disease in diabetic women lags behind that of diabetic men," he said. "Previous research had shown that hypertension and cholesterol were elevated among women who later developed diabetes. However, current findings that these novel risk factors are elevated among women even earl...Different Approach Needed to Protect Brains of Premature Babies
...rent ages. At birth, the mouse brain's development lags somewhat behind the human brain. A 3-day-old mouse brain, for example, is roughly equivalent to the human brain during the sixth to seventh month of gestation. Scientists studied slices from 3-, 7-, 10- and 21-day-old mice. To simulate injury, re...Aborigines Century Behind the Health of Colonizers, WHO Report
... Organisation says //that the health of aborigines lags an appalling one century behind that of the settlers. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have significantly worse outcomes than their fellow countrymen on every indicator of health. In New Zealand, while inequality exists between Maori ...Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain
...m. Previous data have shown that the U.S. actually lags behind some other countries in several aspects of acute coronary care. The study is from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), which has collected data from 44,372 patients treated at 113 hospitals in 14 countries. The new paper is...Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain
...m. Previous data have shown that the U.S. actually lags behind some other countries in several aspects of acute coronary care. The study is from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), which has collected data from 44,372 patients treated at 113 hospitals in 14 countries. The new paper is...Best-performing Hospitals Has Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality
...urse of the study, their overall performance still lags considerably behind the best-performing hospitals. If all of the 513 study hospitals in the 19 states studied performed at the level of the best-performing hospitals during the years 2003 through 2005, 15,925 deaths among women hospitalized for car...Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con
...hina's largest city and other parts of the country lags behind the surge in demand. The Chinese government set a goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent by 2010, but failed miserably in 2006, the first year of implementation....Australia lags behind many other countries in legislating to keep children as safe as possible in cars, leaving parents confused about the safest restraints and seating positions , a major review of restraint legislation, accident statistics and parent surveys has ...Researchers Develop First Mouse Model of Lung Transplantation
...explain why the success of the procedure in humans lags far behind other solid organ transplants. Ultimately, the mouse model could pave the way for developing new therapies to prevent lung transplant rejection a major problem that limits the long-term success of the procedure. Five years after lung...