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Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...n University in Providence, RI, have developed the largest registry of patients in the United States with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, informally known as broken heart syndrome because it is often preceded by an emotional or physical shock of some kind and almost always strikes women. One thing is certain: Pati...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

...dly city in the country and home to the minority's largest population -- 60 percent of transgender people make less than $15,300. Experts and advocates say that people obviously in the middle of transition are often discriminated against when looking for work. Those with jobs often cannot get their health ...

Deadly Virus Hits Popular Lake in US

... on the Canada-United States border. They are the largest group of fresh water lakes on Earth. If tests confirm the virus in Lake Winnebago, keeping the lock closed wont do any good. It will already be too late. If the disease is in Lake Winnebago, then there is nothing to be gained by having the lock c...

Mammogram Rates On The Decline In America

...line in the rate among women ages 50 to 64 was the largest of any age group. Experts say that this is worrying as women in this group are the most likely to benefit from receiving mammograms. Says Robert Smith, the American Cancer Society's director of cancer screening: A decline in mammography utilizatio...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

...e care evaluated in four of the 11 measures. The largest disparity found by researchers was that women were less likely to lower their cholesterol to recommended levels after suffering a heart attack or other acute cardiac event, or if they had diabetes. For example, women with diabetes were 19 percent ...

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...or the Georgia Forestry Commission. This week, the largest fire there was in Ware and Charlton counties, where more than 107,000 acres have burned, says Mr. Bielenberg. The fire started April 16 when a tree fell on a power line. Stoked by winds, it has destroyed 24 buildings, including 18 residences....

Talwalkars Awards a Record $1 Million Order to Nautilus

...order worth over $1 million by Talwalkars, India's largest chain of health centers . This is the biggest ever order placed with a single fitness equipment company in India. The order follows a joint venture agreement between Talwalkar Better Value Fitness and Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd to create new prem...

IT Delays Putting Patient Safety at Risk, Say Senior NHS Staff

...he NHS information and technology programme is the largest civilian IT programme in the world with projected expenditure of over 12bn. The main features of the programme are a new networking service, called N3; electronic booking, called Choose and Book; electronic transfer of prescriptions; and a nationally...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...their consumer products, HLL is perhaps the single largest single contributor to heavy metal poisoning in India through the arsenic content of its soaps, detergents, shampoos. The dispersed nature of detergents and soaps ensures that HLLs arsenic and other toxics reach every waste stream from village wells t...

World Cities Join Hands to Combat Climate Change

Fifteen of the world's largest cities have agreed on a $5-billion initiative with...ded by mayors and governors from 40 of the world's largest cities to discuss climate change. Clinton's initiative launched on Wednesday called on ABN AMRO, C...

FDA Approves Ranbaxys Allergy Drug

...ary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL), India's largest pharmaceutical company. RPI is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the US healthcare system....

Naresh Trehan Removed from Escorts Hospital

... lines of Dubai Health City, is expected to be the largest such centre in South Asia. However, Trehan continues to be a 10 percent shareholder in Escorts, which was acquired by Ranbaxy-promoted Fortis Healthcare Limited in September 2005....

Research Suggests Breast Cancer Fatigue Begins Before Chemo

...ast cancer (stage I, II, IIIA), which makes it the largest study to document the prevalence of fatigue associated with altered sleep and activity patterns before chemotherapy treatment. The study - published in the current issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - confirms what was reported in a ...

Myths About Hydropower Projects Exposed

...country's total global warming. These dams are the largest global warming contributors compared to all other nations," the research noted. The methane emission from India's dams is estimated at 27.86 percent of the methane emission from all the large dams of the world - more than the share of any other cou...

DiCaprio Bites Back Over Eco 'Hypocrisy'

...owerful democracy on the planet and we're also the largest polluters simultaneously," he said. While Gore's film was an account of his personal crusade to change American public opinion about the urgency of the pollution crisis one audience at a time, The 11th Hour attempts to tackle even bigger questions....

Genetic Marker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...rincipal investigator of the study. "We have the largest and best-detailed prostate cancer population to perform this study because Dr. Catalona has a rich database and follow-up on all of his patients," noted Helfand. The 8q24 genetic variation was originally discovered by deCODE genetics, a biopharmace...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...rdiac arrest. Herbal Magic is currently Canada's largest chain of weight-loss centres with more than 350 ou...nts and over-the-counter diet remedies make up the largest portion of the weight-loss industry. Health Canada launched the Natural Health Products Directorate ...

American State Lawmakers Make Moves To Tackle Autism

...rder. A recent U.S. study of childhood autism, the largest so far, has found that about 1 in 152 have the disorder, with the highest rate 1 in 94 children found in New Jersey. According to Madeleine Goldfarb, a Livingston mother of a 13-year-old autistic son, a crisis looms as children with autism appr...

Drug Treatment Slows Decline in Lung Function in COPD Patients

...is geographic difference. The TORCH study is the largest ever, multicenter long-term COPD study. The study compared salmeterol at a dose of 50 mcg plus fluticasone propionate at a dose of 500 mcg twice daily combined in a single inhaler, with placebo, salmeterol alone, or fluticasone propionate alone for a...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

In the largest and most rigorous U.S. trial comparing two traditional operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women, a team of urologists and urogynecologists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that a sling procedure helps m...

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