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Deadly Virus Hits Popular Lake in US

...ebagos vulnerable sturgeon population. He was at a meeting of anglers in Cable, Wis., Saturday when he heard the bad news about Little Lake Butte des Morts. My first thought was the sturgeon, Koerner said. A female sturgeon doesnt spawn until shes about 25. Its 15 for a male. Theyre not a renewable resourc...

Alzheimer's Drug may Help to Restore Speech in Stroke Patients

... a placebo. Berthier presented the findings at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Boston, the New Scientist reports....

Large Intake of Calcium from Dairy Food Linked to Dementia in Elders

...a new study presented at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington DC. Scientists from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, said that too much calcium could cause neural damage by narrow blood vessels in the brain. They further said that the effect might be compounded by vitamin D, which regula...

New Food Allergy Clinic Opens at University of Michigan Health System

...ars, and we are expanding our services as a way of meeting those growing needs, says Marc McMorris, M.D., medical director of the clinics and clinical associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics. McMorris notes that the clinic combines local care with nationally recognized experts. Both childre...

Low-Carb Diet Effective for Teens Trying to Lose Weight

...ffice setting. The study presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto, shows that 84 percent of the teens who completed the six-month study lost weight, according to Robert Siegel, M.D., the studys main author and medical director of the Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group...

Government Plans to Set Up Drug Banks in All Districts

...ll the poor people," Paswan told reporters after a meeting of the Pharmaceuticals Advisory Forum. He said his ministry has already moved a policy note in the cabinet on the issue. The health secretaries of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Mizoram and officials from the Drug Contr...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

...2003. Their work was presented today at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto. What we believe has not ever been documented before about the childhood obesity epidemic and its complications is that the rates of hospitalizations of children for the treatment of complications of T...

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

...ect from 20 Rhode Island middle schools and is now meeting with schools to arrange for their participation in September. One of the unique features of these interventions is that they are tailored to each student. They are also fully interactive, making them very engaging for the students. If the expert sy...

Teens Need to Eat More Fruits, Veggies to Prevent Obesity

Almost no adolescents are meeting all four key obesity prevention behaviors eating ... sugar-sweetened drinks. Although some teens are meeting each goal separately, only 9 percent are eating the recommended servings of produce, according to a ...

Effects on Breast Tumors of DNA Alternations in 3 Genes Described

...ted at the American Association of Cancer Research meeting held in Los Angeles in April. "We found that hypermethylation of E-cadherin, but not of the other genes, was more likely to occur in estrogen receptor (ER)-negative than in ER-positive tumors," said Tao. ER-positive tumors are those that express re...

Car Airbags Most Suited To Medium-Built Individuals

...ence University, is due presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, in Chicago, this week. Newgard based his results on an analysis of injury statistics for the period 1995-2005, from a motor vehicle crash database. The database shows that during the years studied, ...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...n Association of Clinical Endocrinologists' annual meeting in Seattle found that poorly managed type 2 diabetes costs the U.S. health system an extra $22.9 billion a year in direct medical costs. Diabetic complications cost almost $10,000 per patient each year, concluded the author of that study, Willard Man...

Immigration Department Failed To Check On Immigrants With TB, Report Says

...ther health undertakings are effective in terms of meeting the intent of the health requirement,' the report said. It also found that health screening procedures have 'limitations and gaps' that weaken DIAC's ability to prevent the spread of diseases, such as TB, in the country. DIAC acknowledged the syste...

US Hospital Group Offers Warranty on Surgeries

...irst-year results of its experimental program at a meeting last month of the American Surgical Association. Reviewing the existing professional guidelines and medical literature, Geisingers cardiac surgeons came up with their list of 40 action items viewed as best practices like screening a patient for th...

Genetic Marker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...ay, May 20, at the American Urological Association meeting in Anaheim, California. The study looked at more than 550 prostate cancer patients who had been treated at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University. Researchers wanted to identify the characteristics of prostate ca...

Green Tea may Protect the Bladder from Becoming Inflamed

...l of Medicine study, being presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Anaheim, Calif., found that components of green tea protected bladder cells from damage in culture. The study is Abstract 299 in the AUA proceedings. Green tea, reported to have many health benefits, ...

Single-tablet With Two Drugs may Help Control High BP Better

... presented at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in Chicago while the six-month data was published in the journal Blood Pressure....

WHO Announces Deal on Sharing Bird Flu Virus

...was among the predominant subjects at WHO's annual meeting against the backdrop of an ongoing battle with Indonesia over H5N1 virus samples. Several experimental pre-pandemic vaccines based on H5N1 exist, but as the virus continues to mutate, scientists need to match the latest circulating strains to that ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

...tions Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly to review the body's ... reversing the spread of HIV by 2015. Ban at the meeting said that ensuring access to treatment, prevention, care and support services is "critical" to rever...

High-fat and Sugary Diet Severely Damage Liver and Other Vital Organs

...tudy were presented at the Digestive Diseases Week meeting in Washington, D.C....

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