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Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

...esearchers abruptly ended studies of a vaginal gel meant to block the virus after early results showed the women who used it had a slightly higher risk of becoming infected. A similar trial testing whether the contraceptive jelly nonoxynol-9 might work as an anti-HIV microbicide, failed in 2000, when the...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...atch rats alive, while their relatively small size meant there was little meat on the bone. But rats are regarded as a traditional delicacy in southern China, and some believe that their flesh is more nutritious than pork or chicken. A rat was fetching for between 40 to 50 yuan (5.2 to 6.5 US dollars) ...

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

... may be getting the wrong doses of fertility drugs meant to stimulate their ovaries . This, the researchers state, not only means that the drugs may not work properly, but also that they may be exposing women to a greater risk of side effects. During each menstrual cycle, women usually release one egg. ...

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...sed that condoms were not for family planning, but meant as protection against sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. She also made a forceful plea for sex education in schools and denounced those opposing the idea as hypocrites. It is moral hypocrisy and just posturing on the part of those who are op...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...t. These patients use the free services which are meant only for the tax paying citizens. Last week Waika... down on illegal immigrants who misuse health care meant for citizens. Such a crackdown would mean those ineligible patients would be refused treatment at ...

1 in 14 Young Adults Cant Solve Simple Math Sums

...1 in 14 of them cannot solve basic maths questions meant for 8-year-olds, according to a survey . The survey was conducted to mark the release of the ITV DVD Numberjacks: Calling All Agents!, the Scotsman reports. The brain gain software props up pre-school children to learn key numerical skills. ...

Bird Flu Antibodies Found in Migrant Birds in Siberia

.... The spokesman said the presence of antibodies meant that either the birds had survived avian influenza or remained infected but it had not spread in an open form. He said no bird flu cases had been registered this year. "About six million poultry are currently in high risk areas. Nearly 4.6 million of...

Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...ression. "I feel that it is what we as women are meant to do with the placenta," says Jodi Selander, a North Las Vegas natural and herbal healing enthusiast and who offers encapsulation services. After Maxanne's birth, though, the hospital's staff said they were not comfortable releasing the placenta. ...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

... It is stressed that such an approach effectively meant patients would be treated only once they had gone blind in one eye. Wet AMD affects the central part of the retina called the macula and can lead to blindness in as little as three months. The two drugs are known as anti-VEGF drugs and they wor...

Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...invasive screening available to all pregnant women meant that the numbers of invasive procedures decreased by 40% between 2004 and 2006", says Professor Brndum-Nielsen. "Although we have not yet studied the whole of the population, these numbers are significant enough to show that the new guidelines have...

Pureed Products Unnecessary and Harmful for Babies UK Expert

...ick liquid. The term comes from French, where it meant purified or refined.Infants should be fed exclusively on breast or formula milk for the first six months, then weaned onto solids. If not, it is feared they could lose out on vital nutrients derived from breast milk, which protect against common infe...

Early Pregnancy Test Reduces Down Syndrome in Children

...invasive screening available to all pregnant women meant that the numbers of invasive procedures decreased by 40% between 2004 and 2006, says Professor Brondum-Nielsen. Although we have not yet studied the whole of the population, these numbers are significant enough to show that the new guidelines have be...

Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...invasive screening available to all pregnant women meant that the numbers of invasive procedures decreased by 40% between 2004 and 2006", says Professor Brndum-Nielsen. "Although we have not yet studied the whole of the population, these numbers are significant enough to show that the new guidelines have...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...any layers of decision-making for the delays which meant that it could take several hours to transport casualties even short distances to a field hospital. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) insisted that military medics had the resources needed and that Vietnam comparisons were misleading due to advances in mi...

UK Hospitals Failing Hygiene Standards

...n 10 did not meet cleanliness standards either. It meant that 99 trusts - one in four of the total - were not meeting the hygiene code. Gill Morgan, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: "By recognising in an open and honest way that they need to do more, trusts are taking the important steps t...

Volunteers Remove Garbage from Kashmir's Dal Lake

...ouring into the lake we wonder where all the funds meant for the lake's preservation have gone." "It is time the government ordered a probe into the utilisation of those funds," Tuman said. The Dal Lake, situated in the middle of summer capital Srinagar, is presently facing a grave ecological disaster....

Diana Could Have Been Saved Had She Been Rushed to Hospital

...cardiac arrest, the journey took 40 minutes. This meant that the Princess did not arrive until one hour and 40 minutes after the accident. Despite lengthy resuscitation attempts, including internal cardiac massage, she died at 4 a.m. French local time....

Preimplanted Genetic Screening Should Be Interpreted With Caution

..., will tell the conference that her teams findings meant that the results of preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) for chromosomal abnormalities were not always reliable and should be interpreted with caution. PGS is offered to women with recurrent IVF failures as well as repeated miscarriages. It is b...

Individual Differences in Sleep Structure are Biologically Determined

...d been sleep deprivation in the night before. This meant that the individual differences were not driven by circumstance, but were at least partially biologically determined. For deep sleep (stages 3 and 4) in particular, the individual differences were overwhelmingly biological in nature. In this group...

Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care

...ss experience, explore what their heart conditions meant to them, and identify both barriers and facilitators to managing chronic illness in a rural setting. During this process, more than half of the patients recalled times when they had waited days for heart-related symptoms to subside, or gotten used ...

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