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Fluids Could Aid in Weight Loss

People who want to lose weight successfully should drink at least two litres of fluids a day, said the Consumer Rights Protection Centre in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.// The centre said that many overweight people drank too little and often mistook thirst fo...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

...ge because three different times the VA managed to lose it," Ramos said. "Even after I was medically retired, the VA had no idea that I was an amputee." In an interview, Ramos recalled how he informed his doctor at the VA that he had an artificial limb: "I knocked on my carbon-fiber arm and said, I'm ...

UK’s Junior Doctors Losing Hop

...a "cast-iron" guarantee that no junior doctor will lose out as a result of reforms to the training system. According to James Johnson, the careers of thousands of aspiring young doctors could be wrecked by the changes. Complaints registered over the MTAS include lack of sufficient job choices, comput...

UK Scientists to Reveal Genetic Secrets Behind Serious Illnesses

...st that carriers of the gene will not successfully lose weight by decreasing their energy intake and becoming more active, they have said. They have further warned that genetic testing could be problematic where genes are identified before therapies exist, meaning that people could be told that they hav...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

...th relatively higher CD4 cell count nadirs did not lose drug options to the same degree as did others in the study (0.34 drugs less per 100 cells/mm3). Additionally, patients on 3TC (lamivudine) showed a slower accumulation of nucleoside mutations and thymidine analogue mutations (TAMs). According to th...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

...s been found to be of immense help for patients to lose weight and become fit, according// to a study. “There’s an important use for the telephone in delivering support for making changes to physical activity and diet,” said Elizabeth Eakin, Ph.D., lead study author, at the University of Queensland in A...

Dieting Fads -Flab Revisited

...ead researcher Dr Traci Mann: "You can initially lose 5 to 10 per cent of your weight on any number of d... same time, your muscle mass is reduced and so you lose the ability to burn as many calories. The problem is that once you start eating normally again - whi...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...s smoking, the better.” “The average smoker will lose about 10 years of life because of smoking. Every day, doctors across Wales witness the devastating effects of smoking on their patients. Many smokers take up the habit at a young age and the majority, by their early 20s, wish they had never started.”...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...ric drugs when those produced by big Western firms lose patent protection. In addition, they are increasingly trying to develop new drugs that could compete worldwide. In the meanwhile, it is well known that India’s IT firms have won market share in everything from data analysis to call centers. Say...

Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts With Genes

...ay be more problematic for people in this group to lose weight through dietary changes if they do, in fact, become obese. Our findings demonstrate that although genetics help to determine our risk of obesity, dietary and lifestyle habits are also important to consider.” Ordovas determined that the inter...

New Vaccine to Combat Pneumococcal Diseases

... nearly one million children under the age of five lose their lives to pneumonia and other pneumococcal diseases//. Considering the fact that these deaths are preventable, WHO has recommended the inclusion of the 7-valet vaccine that addresses seven different strains of pneumococcal diseases in the imm...

Irish Dentists Wipe The Smiles Off Their Patients

.... // Over a million medical card holders stand to lose access to free oral healthcare, in the wake of the Irish Dental Association (IDA) voting for a withdrawal of support for the Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS). According to the IDA, the DTSS scheme set up in 1994 to provide free oral car...

Toolkit Released To Employers Of Expecting Mothers

...also revealed that 30,000 British women every year lose their jobs just for having a child. Other figures were that almost 45 per cent of women suffer some form of discrimination at work when they become pregnant, 14 per cent suffer financially, and seven per cent are sacked, made redundant, or treated...

Terminally Ill Patients Asked To Depute People To Make Decisions

...omeone to take decisions on their behalf when they lose capacity to take decisions. Dr Nathanson suggests that this opportunity can be made use of by patients who are terminally ill and suffer from a chronic disease. She also feels that this piece of information could be useful to the doctors. Accordin...

Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death

...dy, as red blood cells develop in bone marrow they lose their DNA. If a virus ends up inside a red blood cell, there are no genes it can hijack to replicate itself. “It occurred to us that if a virus bound to a red blood cell, that was a dead end,” said Dr. Robert W. Finberg, a professor at the Universi...

Antioxidant Molecule Could Help Minimize Stroke-Linked Brain Damage

... stroke/reperfusion. "If you have a stroke, you lose glutathione very quickly," Dr. Cho says. "That happened in the untreated mice, but SS31 seemed to keep glutathione levels relatively high in the treated animals." But how was SS31 working its magic? To help find out, the team tested the drug in mic...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect of Smallpox Vaccine

...s supervising the case, says the boy probably will lose 20 percent of his outer skin layer, but she hopes he will recover without the need for skin grafts. Kahana believes the case should be a lesson to the military, which must educate service members about the risks of the vaccines it requires them to ...

Computer Programmers, need not fear Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

...uld have trouble making a fist. Certainly we would lose co-ordination of our fingers. But in the case of repetitive strain injury, numbness and tingling appear over the back of the hand, if at all and the pain is dull, usually in your forearms. One may find it difficult to lift heavy objects because o...

Take Heart If Your Parents Died at a Ripe Old Age: Framingham Heart Study

...ned the risk factors of heart disease. Yet, don’t lose heart, the researchers continue, if your parents died young, diet and exercise may well do the trick. The results from the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, show that middle-aged children who had at least one parent who lived t...

Indian American's Contribution in Cancer Gene Discovery

... of cancer because many of the patients, when they lose this chunk of DNA containing multiple genes, they are predisposed to cancer," he added. Cancer experts have hailed the latest breakthrough. Source-IANS...

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