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Consuming Grape Fruit Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Study

...east cancer. The researchers found that eating as little as a quarter of the fruit can increase the danger by 30 percent in women. "This is the first report of a commonly consumed food that may increase the risk of breast cancer among post-menopausal women," the Daily Mail quoted the researchers, as sayi...

Lower Mortality Rates in Hospitals With Good Quality Care

...s perform on detailed quality measures. However, little was known about whether hospitals that perform well on those measures had better patient outcomes. The researchers set out to determine whether performing well on HQA measures was associated with lower risk-adjusted mortality rates for AMI, CHF and...

Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

...8 Beijing Olympics. He called British event "a little steppingstone" and said, "I make of it that I've got a lot of training ahead of me." Pistorius, is trying to convince the world governing body, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to let him compete at next year's Beijing Olym...

Scorpion Venom may Help Treat Cancer

...ould be used in operating theatres in the US in as little as 18 months....

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

... to have the syndrome than those who drank and ate little or none, reported the online edition of the Daily Mail. They were also 62 percent less likely to have the syndrome if they drank approximately half a litre or more of milk a day, and 56 percent less likely if they regularly ate other dairy foods. ...

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

...s why they dont attach much importance to renewal, little realizing that all their hard work may go waste.In other words, if the insured has a health condition existing prior to taking the policy and requiring medical treatment, the same gets automatically excluded in the policy. To ensure that in subsequen...

Nano Propellers may Be Tomorrows Drug Deliverers

...the propeller pumps efficiently or just spins with little effect. If the blades have a hydrophobic, or water-repelling nature, they pump a lot of water. But if they are hydrophilic -- water-attracting -- they become clogged with water molecules and pump poorly, the study showed. "Pumping rates and ef...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...drug costs," Cohen said. "And patients would get a little vitamin C to boot." "The rapidly escalating price of medications (especially for cancer and other life-threatening diseases) has provided incentives to explore pharmacological approaches to lower the costs of drugs," Ratain and Cohen conclude. "A...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

... the eastern city of Valencia. Minguet finds her little multi-function phone a godsend and like other part...s in that direction. "It's difficult. But with a little perseverance, following facial expressions carefully and only expressing simple things, you end up b...

Diabetes may Lead to More Complications

...ed for stroke, heart attack and heart surgery, but little is known about their outcomes after trauma. Rehan Ahmad, D.O., and colleagues at the Penn State College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Penn., used a statewide database to identify 12,489 patients with diabetes who were ho...

Sexual Abuse Payout Re-opens Old Wounds

...victims receiving more than $3 million and some as little as $100,000. And that's before lawyers take their ...the trauma." In the end, some of the payouts had little to do with what victims suffered, reports say. Key to determining the value of the cases was a hos...

Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shows No Change of Taste

...rmation in the article. The sense of taste shows little deterioration during aging but can be weakened by disease or medications. Accidental nerve damage during some medical procedures, including radiation treatment, middle ear surgery, dental or oral surgery or tonsillectomy, also can cause taste dysfunc...

Apples and Lentils Could Help You to Shed Off Those Extra Pounds!

...Lawrence Cheskin, M.D. said, "There's surprisingly little in the way of studies to draw any hard and fast conclusions." Cheskin is director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center and associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He was not involved with the r...

Vitamin C may Not Help You from Getting a Cold

...ki, also shows that vitamin C (ascorbic acid) does little to reduce the length or severity of a cold. It ...nt to believe that it works. Hemila said he sees little use in further study for colds for adults. However, more studies on vitamin C and colds in children ...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

...iate pretest probability of disease, yet there are little data on its associated cancer risk from exposure to radiation. Andrew J. Einstein, M.D., Ph.D., of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and colleagues conducted a study to estimate the lifetime attributable risk (LA...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...ctious disease. Accordingly, the nation also has little extra capacity in its hospitals and other health c...ny a mass disease outbreak. And the government has little ability to ensure that during an outbreak, when many workers would stay home, limited Internet capac...

US Health Insurance Firms Suspend Sales, Promise to End Fraudulent Practices

...roblem with pet insurance.'' U.S. officials did little to stop the abusive sales practices, according to ...e program. But then the halt in sales will have little effect on the companies' revenue because most sales are made during the regular enrollment period th...

Group Therapy and Willpower can Help Smokers to Quit

...iated with the smoking habit. The counsellor has little time for nicotine substitutes such as patches, sprays and other medicines. These substances can reduce the craving and headaches, which usually occur as part of the nerve- wracking withdrawal symptoms although the smoker does realize that he no lon...

Seven Children Ordered Removed from Squalid Home in Texas

...gainst Ramirez next week, Farmer said. There was little food, and some of the children told CPS investigators they ate only a hot dog out of the freezer for breakfast that morning, having been prohibited from opening the refrigerator, documents show. The oldest child often was left to care for the other...

'Demi Moore Had Miscarriage Two Years Ago', Says Her Sister-in-law

...nvolved with all his offspring and keep all of her little flock close. She's a piece of work," Guynes added....

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