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Debate Rages over firing of HIV infected health care workers

...fter testing positive for HIV. But rarely do these matters become a major controversy when many sit up and take notice. Especially in the health care industry people don’t bat an eyelid when someone is fired because of ones HIV serostatus. Many nurses and doctors and allied health personnel are politely (at ...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...abetes. Maybe they believe little can be done when matters have reached the 'multiple risk factor' stage, or they may worry about lowering blood pressure in a patient whose health is poor.// Whatever the reason, it means that of 18.5 older Americans with high blood pressure, 15 million are not adequately dia...

Fame brings wealth but not health

...uggests that it's how you use fame and wealth that matters rather than merely possessing it....

Older women's heart health depends on location of fat

...k has shown that, it is not the amount of fat that matters but the distribution of the fat that is important, when it comes to the heart health of women over 60. The study involved a group of 1,356 women aged between 60 and 85 whose body fat distribution and amount of atherosclerosis in the abdominal part of...

Answer on SARS 3 to 4 weeks away

...icized for delaying information about SARS. Health matters are normally the responsibility of the provinces, and the government adopted a national reporting system for SARS only three weeks ago. However at this stage 12 laboratories around the world are working together, and 80 clinicians treating people wit...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...d, and thick linguini is lower than thin. To make matters even more confusing, the glycemic index measures only the carbohydrate in food. Some vegetables, such as carrots, have quite high GIs, but they don't contain much carb, so they have little effect on blood sugar. Therefore, some experts prefer to spe...

How a man's mind really works

...lture plays a part, but Gurian argues that biology matters much more than previously realized."The science has been crucial. Wherever I go, I start by showing PET scans and people can see for themselves the differences between the male and female brain. I think that alters life and marriages," said Gurian . ...

New vaccine for brain cancer

... be eradicated. Another research found that age matters when predicting length of survival. Hence Younger patients with a grade IV tumor will do much better than a 70-year-old with a grade II tumor, so there’s something related to age that has a huge impact on the survival of these tumors. Younger pati...

Low Fat Dairy Products Ideal For Patients With Gout

...evelop the condition. Eating a lot of seafood made matters even worse. But men who ate high quantities of dairy products appeared to be protected from the disease.Surprisingly, researchers say diets high in vegetables containing purine – such as peas, beans, mushrooms, cauliflower and spinach -- did not affe...

Age Matters in Kidney Matching

...er, a recent study looking into the issue, “If Age matters when matching donor and recipient kidneys,” gave not only the researchers a whole new perspective but also the transplant community. Researchers from the University of Florida in Gainesville found that, pairing young kidneys with young recipients ...

Pigs Population A Major Threat To Encephalitis Ravaged UP

...tual epidemic. The proliferation of pigs has made matters // worse as the animal is known to be the biggest host for the encephalitis virus, carried across to human beings by mosquitoes. Uttar Pradesh officials do not even have any official statistics on pigs or piggeries. "They could be in tens of thousa...

It Is Possible To Detect Alzheimer's Early

...ong-term care and other important legal and family matters before the disease sets in. Individuals are more likely to address other risk factors for dementia (such as vascular problems) if they learn of their risk of the disease. Researchers will be able to conduct more and better clinical trials on the subj...

Indian Psychiatrist in UK Accused of plagiarism

...vision and radio. Persaud writes on mental health matters in a string of publications and has presented the Radio 4 psychology programme "All In The Mind". The alleged plagiarism came to light when Thomas Blass, professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, happened to read Persaud's article. T...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

...ecite to Pete on the phone. One verse reads: "What matters is what is underneath. A friend of the Kate told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "She's found writing her thoughts down in verse very calming. Her friends and family are pleased she has had something to focus on while she recovers" According to a...

New Medicare Plan - Mixed Reaction among Pharmacists.

...nies for filling prescriptions. All this will make matters worse for the pharmacist. They are concerned about which plan their customers are going to prefer and only then they will know how badly they will be affected. The insurance company will be paying by check and it will take around 2-4 weeks to be ...

Snappy Mobiles Known To Cause Snappish Behavior in Families

...down of family ties. On the same breath, household matters also consumed work time. Working Women were fo...rs to be given reprieve by fathers to handle Child matters on designated days. These findings have been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family....

Australia's Mentally ill, ill at ease with Quality of Care

...s crucial to move heaven and Earth in dealing with matters concerning Mental illness, given the alarming statistics - one in seven people in Australia. The Government now is faced with an enormous task to gear up services to improve the quality of mental health care while providing ample support for the affe...

Drug Combinations Could Be Dangerous

...e could also change the interactions, complicating matters further. In order to grasp all possibilities, an enormous database must be assembled, a task that technicians in Germany are only just beginning. Patients too must be wary of interactions on their own. For example, taking certain heart medicines wi...

Bleach Away Cancer

... research also warned We don't want people to take matters into their own hands by going to the kitchen cabinet. The scientists are clearly not suggesting that household bleach has a role to play in cancer treatment ...

Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!

Sleep science was of little help in matters of sleep till late the reason being high cost associated with finding solutions. But as a ray of new light comes the IST project 'Sensation' which is a project of 46 partners from 20 different // countries, addressing sensing of physiological paramet...

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