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High Prevalence of AIDS among Indian Truck drivers

..."Interpersonal communication is the most effective medium to convey any message. When a health worker interacts with a trucker, there is a greater possibility of realizing the importance of safe sex. "Besides, they must be educated on the use of condoms. They should also be motivated to seek early and comp...

Price Of Alcohol Does Not Influence Consumption

...rits - as well as quality brands that can be high, medium or low-end," said senior researcher Paul J. Gruenewald. "We then go on to examine the impacts of the broad distribution of alcohol beverage prices upon sales of alcohol. Our results show that higher alcohol prices may and may not cause reductions i...

Long-Standing Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

... patients. The patients with RA classified as low, medium and high activity patients. It was found that patients with medium RA had a 8-fold increase in the risk of developing lymphoma, while high RA activity was associated w...

No Lymphoma Risk From Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs

...homa risk was much lower (8 fold) in those who had medium disease activity. Furthermore, no increased risk of lymphoma was found in those who were given anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDS), including the drug methotrexate (anti-cancer drug). No increased risk could also be documented with use of steroids or NSA...

'Fight the Flab' Competition Yields Great Results

...A message board provided for the competition was a medium of encouragement, motivation and the occasional taunt. Fight the Flab was a great success with over a 93% participation rate. Many participants reached their weight loss goals and were able to develop become more energetic, healthy and happy. More...

Music Helps in Spreading AIDS Awareness

...om drugs. Plays and skits will also be used as a medium and peer educators roped in to spread awareness about AIDS in rural areas. CHARCA has been conducting activities in different colleges of Delhi to involve the students and create a personal stake in the issue. The campaign would be hosted jointly...

A Complete Diet for Kids

...ss. Water is very essential and it presents as a medium for vital body processes to occur.According to scientists at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center abundance of fats and sugars in the diet result in excess weight and chronic disease. By avoiding these foods one can actually help ...

Blood Pressure Levels Across The Globe Show Surprising Drop

...who may be on drugs but also in people with low or medium levels." This drop in blood pressure could not be ...at risk of high blood pressure but also in low and medium blood pressure segments. "There is a lot more to health than popping pills," said Tunstall-Pedoe, a ...

Designer Strawberries

...original site and transferring it to an artificial medium for growth or maintenance. Here unfolded leaves, known as trifoliate leaves, are able to grow. When collected at 6-7 weeks after seed germination, these leaves are highly amenable to gene transfer using A. tumefaciens. Since they glow green under flu...

Presence Of Live Avian Flu Is A Cause Of Concern: Scientists

...ple has to reach us when the virus is alive in the medium - dead chicken, blood, egg, tissue, or faecal matter - by maintaining a cold chain and sticking to the time of collection and packaging norms". As for the culling procedure, Pradhan said, it is better to burn the carcasses. "Buried animals can b...

Are We To Be Blamed for The Bird Flu

...in a recent update, it mentions feed as a possible medium for the spread of bird flu between farms. In Russia authorities identified feed as one of the main sources of an H5N1 outbreak at a large-scale factory farm in Kurgan province, where 460,000 birds were killed. They felt that still little was being do...

Hepatitis C diagnosis delayed is same as denied

...s Hepatitis C was developed in 1991. Using the medium of BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr McGuire said 84% of his clients said they were never called in or notified of their infection. "My concern is they only found out by sheer coincidence and there must be a lot of people out there w...

Construction Of A New Hospital In The Bega Area Confirmed

... more capital works have to be done at Bega in the medium term. He instructed the Area Health Service to work with clinicians to look at what needs to be done to keep Bega hospital working effectively. The Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, has paid tribute to the medical staff councils, local Area Health...

Hi-tech Walking Stick Developed For Visually Impaired

...B, is capable of detecting fire exits in small and medium size buildings. "We are going to patent the product and test run it on the streets of Delhi. It may take one year to make it ready for the market," said Paul. He praised IIT for its financial and technological support and NAB for constant feedba...

Biocon To Shift Focus On Innovation To Accelerate Growth

...s will deliver superior shareholder value over the medium and long-term. We expect our insulin products to g...of FY 2007 as the biotech sector is evaluated on a medium to long-term basis, given the gestational nature of its R&D investments and regulatory time lines. ...

Fad Diet for Fat Australians

...st a quarter (23%) of your daily sodium intake. A medium Big Mac Meal including Big Mac, Fries and Coke, co... to expend the same amount of energy as found in a medium Big Mac Meal from McDonald's. A 65kg woman would have to spend just over 3 hours walking to expend ...

Advertisements to Assuage Bird Flu Concerns

... the government has resorted to using the powerful medium of advertisements aired over radio // and television to drive home the message that chicken is safe to consume, if it is properly cooked. The advertisements convey the methods of ensuring safety to poultry, in the event of the virus spreading to th...

Testtube Babies Born in Kenya

...dium. Fertillized eggs are transferred to a growth medium for at least 48 hours until they reach the 6-8 cell blastocyst stage at least. The embryo or more often several embryos are transferred to the uterus via the vagina and cervix. The woman oten undergoes at least 2 weeks of uncertainty before she retur...

Britons Believe In The Paranormal Phenomena

...ndon's College of Psychic Studies and a practising medium said that psychic is always associated with an old lady in a gown with a crystal ball. About 74% of the people in the age group of 55 to 64 year olds believed in psychic powers. But Padraig Reidy, deputy editor the New Humanist magazine said that the...

Actor Anil Kapoor Supports Birth Registration Cause

...r will actively promote UBR through the electronic medium and other activities. His participation in the campaign is a reflection of his beliefs in upholding the basic right of a child - the right to a name, legal identity and nationality. The actor said: "Being a public figure also brings along with it a ...

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