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Study Finds Fat Type That can Protect Against Weight Gain and Diabetes

...ergy expenditure (the amount of energy required to maintain the body's normal metabolic activity, such as respiration and maintenance of body temperature) and its role in the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome in two different genetic strains of mice: the B6 mouse and the 129 mouse. The B6 mouse is...

Busting the Exam Blues

...reatening situations. However it is important to maintain stress at optimum levels to maximize our performan... to understand the importance of good sleep and to maintain a healthy sleep pattern. Some tips that would help to invite sound slumber are: ...

HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

... “The EHR-S contains functions that help providers maintain a legal EHR for business, regulatory and accreditation purposes." EHR-S Standard Provides Critical Foundation for Long-Term Care The long-term care provider community, serving an estimated 3 million frail and elderly patients annually, is a com...

Anxiety and Stress Levels Aggravate IBS

...ons, behavior and emotions may help to prolong and maintain them over time,' conclude the authors, who suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy may be an effective treatment. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Study to Look at Aspirin as Aid to Conception, Healthy Pregnancy

..."If aspirin can help some women become pregnant or maintain a health pregnancy, it will be a critically import...y. Participants will take their study pills daily, maintain daily records and provide both urine and blood samples. Recruitment will begin shortly. "We are t...

Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme

...e widely available to its citizens, drug companies maintain that the plan undermines patent law and discourages foreign investment. "We were disappointed by the announcement," Bangkok CEO of US drug firm, Merck Sharp and Dome, Christian Sellars, told Radio Australia's Karon Snowdon. "We have been working ...

Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets

...r local training and education to help improve and maintain older facilities. According to the Millennium Development Goals, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation should be halved by 2015. Yet at the end of 2004, 1.2 billion people in developing countries still la...

Foot Pain Ruining Your Golf Swing?

...Heel pain can make it uncomfortable for golfers to maintain a solid stance during crucial portions of their golf swing. ? Neuromas are nerves that become thickened, enlarged and painful because they’ve been compressed or irritated. A neuroma in the ball of your foot can cause significant pain as your body ...

Allergies Not Just for Children Anymore

...ned to reduce or eliminate symptoms, as well as to maintain control of the condition. In certain patients with respiratory allergies (hay fever, asthma), allergy shots may be prescribed. These injections of small amounts of material from the substances causing the allergies can decrease, or sometimes even e...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...cy occurring per 250 women per year. Therefore, we maintain that the effectiveness of STM is comparable to the effectiveness of modern contraceptive methods such as oral contraceptives, and is an effective and acceptable method of family planning.” A number of fertility awareness based (FAB) methods of fami...

Norwalk Virus Forces Closure Of Canadian Hospital

...ng. There is no therapy for this disease except to maintain fluid balance in the body. It generally settles do...ating habits especially sea food and salads and to maintain a good hygiene. JYT...

New Hope for Regenerative Medicine

...bility and safety. McLaughlin's group were able to maintain animals for over 12 months with entirely uniparental blood and were able to rescue irradiated mice with bone marrow transplants from these animals. This unambiguously proves that the transplanted uniparental cells could produce hematopoietic stem cel...

'single–parent' stem cells to replace adult mice organ

...ystem of adult mice. The scientists were able to maintain animals for more than 12 months with entirely uniparental blood and were able to rescue other irradiated mice with bone marrow transplants from these animals. It is clear proof, according to McLaughlin, that uniparental cells could produce hematopoi...

Bladder Pacemaker For Incontinence

...e can suppress involuntary bladder contractions to maintain continence and increase bladder volume by 60 to 110 percent. However, Grill suspected that the method could be made even more successful by making it more selective, delivering inhibitory pulses only in response to bladder contractions rather than ...

Happy Impotence Day

...n - which could mean anything from an inability to maintain an erection, to lack of sexual desire. National Impotence Day is an annual health campaign that highlights impotence, a much stigmatized sexual problem that affects most men at some time during their lives. It is estimated that one in ten men in...

Cuba Computerizing Its Health System

...ciences, and Educational Software. The aim is to maintain quality health service free for the Cuban people, increase exchange among experts and boost research-development projects. This was revealed at a trade exhibition "Informatica 2007" currently on in Havana. An important link in wiring process is t...

Shedding Pounds from Diet or Exercise—Take Your Pic

... “For weight loss to occur, an individual needs to maintain a difference between the number of calories they consume everyday and the number of calories they burn through metabolism and physical activity,” says Leanne Redman, Ph.D., first author of the study and clinical research fellow at the Pennington Biom...

Pakistan: Authorities Plays Down Bird Flu Risk

...stocks every two to three months. They should also maintain bio security and there should be no tree in a 3km radius of a poultry shed," Dr Zafar Jamil Gill, director general at Lahore-based Veterinary Research Institute told IRIN. In a Pakistani context, migratory birds spread the disease, according to ve...

FDA Clears Critical Limb-Saving Vascular Device

...as to bypass damaged blood vessels and temporarily maintain blood flow to the injured limb until the patient can be transported to a surgical facility. The TLSS is a tube formed from two layers of plastic. The device has several features that optimize its use in a trauma situation, including a self-sealing ...

Kolkata Hospital Wins Accreditation for High Quality Patient Care

... provide world-class treatment to our patients and maintain the highest standards in heart care," Borar said. Source-IANS...

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