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Lindsay Lohan is 'serious' About Her Rehab Stint

...r work schedule. "She is staying in Promises for longer than a month. We don't know how much longer because of her work schedule, but she is taking rehab very seriously this time and not messing aroun...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...was removed Talbott found that circumcision was no longer statistically significant in explaining the variance in AIDS infection rates across the countries of the World. Second, to date, there has not been an adequate explanation as to why Africa as a continent is experiencing an AIDS epidemic far in exce...

New Tumor Markers for Pancreatic Cancer

...tients who have been diagnosed with it do not live longer than six months. The modus operandi of cells is well known: the genes (DNA) are the masterminds of the system and their role is to give orders. Those orders are transmitted in the form of messages (RNA), which ultimately become molecules that do th...

Diet Could Be Life or Death for Prostate Cancer Patients

...ds from birth. These mice had fewer tumors and a longer life span than those not fed the diet. Survival was 60 percent in mice fed a high omega-3 diet, 10 percent in mice on a low omega-3 diet and zero percent in mice fed a diet high in omega-6, a different type of polyunsaturated fatty acid found in vege...

Nephrologists Reassess Disaster Response Strategies

...facilities in the region were closed for a week or longer including more than one-third of all centers in the state of Louisiana. The best guess is that of over 5,800 Gulf Coast dialysis patients affected by Katrina, 2.5 percent died in the month after the storm although given the high mortality rate among ...

Morning Sickness may Signify Lower Breast Cancer Risk

...r as the symptoms became more severe, or persisted longer into pregnancy. "Pregnancy is a time of drastic physiological changes, including rapid development and alterations in the breast tissue. The rapidly changing anatomy of the breast makes it more susceptible to errors in DNA replication and/or repair...

Modified Drug Therapy for Alzheimers Disease

...anges the shape of that puzzle piece so that it no longer fits in its original spot. This halts the chain reaction that leads to the devastating symptoms of Alzheimer's disease." Since 2000, Ghosh has been leading the structure-based design of beta-secreatase inhibitors for therapeutic intervention of Alz...

More Women Medical Graduates Than Men

...pean Working Time Directive, junior doctors are no longer allowed to work over 58 hours. This must be reduced to 48 by 2009. They are also entitled to take rests to break up on-call duties and night shifts. The BMA is happy with these changes but they want more flexible training hours. The results of the...

Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

... are in advanced stages of the illness and were no longer responding to medicines when they signed on for the experimental therapy. The study was conducted by Andrew Feigin, MD, director of Neuroscience Experimental Therapeutics at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and his colleagues in collabora...

Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin

...o blind within five years now can keep their sight longer through localized treatment with Avastin , a well-known cancer drug, according to a two-year study published in the June, 2007 Archives of Ophthalmology. This is a major breakthrough for eye cancer patients who are treated with radiation therapy and...

Civic Authorities in US Seek to Stem Urban Decay

... long time for city planners to understand that no longer having several big steel plants along the Mahoning River isn't all that bad. ''This community has been looking in the rearview mirror, still mourning the loss of the industry that sort of defined who we were,'' he said. Steel mills were the city'...

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...the people for long. The European Commission no longer has reserves to help cushion its citizens. Its mountains of unsold butter and meat and its lake of powdered milk have disappeared after reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy. Then there is corn. While relatively little corn is eaten directly it...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...es has hurt Cuba's family doctor system and caused longer waits at health centers. At the Havana clinic where Moore's American patients received free check-ups in March for respiratory problems and bone fractures suffered at Ground Zero, Ivonne Torres reads a Buddhist text as she waits for an appointment....

An Indigenous Treatment Plan Offered by the Labor on Child Welfare

...parents doing the right thing, so parents would no longer have full control over their family payments according to Ms Macklin. The family responsibility commissions will be new statutory bodies made up of local elders and persons with the standing of a magistrate. It is not be an easy task to set up these...

Patient Confidentiality Must Be Ensured-UNAIDS

...e quicker they can begin treatment, which leads to longer and healthier lives. With the UNAIDS stressing the need for patient confidentiality, people testing for HIV need not fear any social stigma....

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

...Witches and people accused of being witches are no longer persecuted in the West, but they are still frequently persecuted in Africa, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Malaysia," one of the conference organisers, historian Rune Blix Hagen of Tromsoe University in Norway, told AFP. "In these countries, more wit...

Common Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Older Adults

... in bone mineral density in other populations with longer follow-up is warranted given the recent description of serotonin transporters in bone," the authors conclude. The second study, 5,995 men age 65 and older (average age 73.7), was conducted by researchers led by Dr Elizabeth M. Haney, of Oregon Heal...

Smoking Hampers Alcoholics' Neurocognitive Recovery During Abstinence

... group, those with greater nicotine dependence and longer smoking histories showed less recovery in several areas of functioning, he added. Sara Jo Nixon, a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Florida, said that sober alcoholics, who has no history of cigarette smoking, attained...

Kenya Says HIV/AIDS Rate Drops to 5.9 Percent

...ai Kibaki announced that public hospitals would no longer charge HIV/AIDS patients for life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs in a new bid to fight the deadly disease. Since 1984, at least 1.5 million people are said to have died from AIDS in Kenya, according to health ministry estimates....

New Oz Road Safety Campaign Hits Speeding Youngsters Below the Belt

...graphic images of car crashes and injuries were no longer effective for young people who frequently viewed worse images on computer games or in horror films," he added. Whelan added that the ad isn't 'light-hearted', but has an element of 'darkish humour' in it, and that combing a widely used gesture and ...

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