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Stents Do Little to Prevent Heart Attacks

...ly into blocked arteries to keep them open. This landmark study funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, confirms that stents do improve blood flow but are no more effective in preventing heart attacks than that is possible by drug therapy alone. According to statistics, an astounding 800,000 Amer...

Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre

...ommission, Brian Clarke, said that 2006 had been a landmark year for mental health provision in Ireland, as the Mental Health Act 2001 took full effect. Clarke said the MHC has set up a database on mental health service research, and hoped to start an all-island research center. The Health Service Executi...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...Ozone, the Bhutan government will clearly create a landmark in the international drive to protect the environment. The government of Bhutan has made environmental protection a centerpiece in its development agenda. Article 5 of the constitution emphasizes the need for every citizen of the country to protect...

New Guidelines to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic

... along with height and weight. This represents a landmark publication, as Canada is the first country in the world to produce comprehensive evidence-based guidelines to address the management and prevention of overweight and obesity in adults and children. These are also important guidelines for health prof...

New Bill Introduced in US to Promote Public Health

...entive medicine and public health workforce. The landmark bill, called the Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act, will ensure the nation has a continuous supply of highly trained preventive medicine and public health physicians. It will provide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Addictive Drugs Harms the Brain

A new landmark study on the effects of the morphine drug shows that the even after the residue had// worn off the system there is still a persistent effect of the drug on the brain. It was found that a single dose actually distorted the neural pathways that control...

Genetic Flaws Leads to Diabetes

...f many common diseases. “This represents sort of a landmark moment in type II diabetes research” said Michael Boehnke, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who led the so-called FUSION study, which included investigators from several American sites, the National Human Genome Research Institute, ...

Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

...or-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "This study is a landmark in regenerative medicine; the Stanford group has accomplished the biological equivalent of turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse and back again." Source-Eurekalert/...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

... network of 2,000 scientists that has produced two landmark reports on global warming this year. Tom van Ierland, a climate change expert with the European Union, said cooperation from developing countries is essential to the goal of keeping temperatures from climbing more than 3.6 degrees, or 2 degrees Cel...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...ix years," Fox was quoted. The new study follows landmark research results in March that showed angioplasty is being overused on people who have chest pain but are not in immediate danger of a heart attack. But this popular procedure, which typically uses stents to keep an unclogged vessel open, is still a ...

Gene Mutations Leave Caucasians Prone To Heart Diseases And Diabetes

...genome-wide association study, was used. Since the landmark completion of mapping the human genome in 2003, scientists have been able to sniff out vital genes from virtually, millions of them. The two studies, using 40,000 people, found the same thing -a stretch of DNA called 9q21 carried certain mutations in...

Hormone Therapy An Alternative to Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer

...esearch programme. He said: This is an important landmark in the research and treatment of ovarian cancer. Despite intense scientific research over the past 20 years, there have been few new leads in our understanding of how this disease operates. But this study suggests that the addition of hormone therapy...

Chinese Surname Shortage Sparks Rethink

...00 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday . Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety means there are now 93 million people in China wit...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

...f company outings centre on alcohol, he said. In a landmark case reported in May, the former boss of a South Korean woman was ordered to pay her 30 million won compensation for forcing her to go drinking with the rest of the staff after work....

Fangs Taken Out of Canadas Bill 29

In a landmark victory for Canadian union workers, its high court proved that collective bargaining rights are indeed protected by the constitution. The victory judgment against the provincial government which was supporting the Bill 29 that allowed the governm...

Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk

...ificant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine. The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska.* Participants taking calcium, as well as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three ti...

Largest Ever Study of Genetics Behind Common Diseases Published

...quered history of irreproducible results, but this landmark collaboration of scientists in Britain has shown conclusively that the new approach of analysing a large subset of genetic variants in large samples of patients and healthy individuals works," says Professor Donnelly. "We are now able to effective...

New Drugs Hold Hope for HIV Patients

...nts in deep salvage, 2007 may be comparable to the landmark events of 1996, when the near miraculous effects of combination therapy were first observed, the authors wrote. The findings of the study were published in the British Medical Journal....

UK Introduce New Health Warnings Against Alcohol

... to Public Health Minister Caroline Flint, it is a landmark agreement and the warnings introduced will be kept simple for the people to understand the implications of heavy drinking better. "We want to make it as simple as possible for people to keep an eye on how much they are drinking and help them take r...

Hemangioblasts Aiding Eye Damage Repair

...ell Technology, is obviously thrilled with their landmark discovery of hemangioblasts or stem cells that repair arteries and regenerate blood. According to the company,the stem cells made from human embryos can proceed on to hearts and arteries of mice and rats, and appear to start repairs.ACT claim...

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