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Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

Independent research, involving over 3 million Italians, conducted by Henley Management College and the University of Milan has concluded that the prescription costs for men over the age of 65 is significantly higher than it is for women. The primary objective of this study was to make the fi...

Now, Dads to Get Text Alerts on How to Raise Their Children

...million pounds in funding will be split, with 10.5 million pounds to be spent on improving telephone help-lines and 23 millionpounds going into an innovation fund to encourage support services to find new ways to reach parents....

More Than a Million Expected for Spain's Famous Bull Run Festival

... of the bulls festival on Friday, with more than a million people expected, including those who will take their chances in the bull run . The nine-day festival includes concerts and balls -- not to mention copious amounts of drinking -- in Pamplona in northeastern Spain. But it is known to many worldwide...

Computer Games World Cup Kicks Off in Paris

...ticularly in South Korea where some earn up to two million dollars (1.5 million euros) per year, said Matthieu Dallon, Games-Services president. "In Korea and in the United State...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

...break involved the United Food Group recalling 5.7 million pounds (2,850 tons) of ground beef that sickened 1...er for Disease Control estimates that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning a year resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. Food poisonin...

Deep Insights into Type2 Diabetes by Wesley Researchers

There are more than one million Australians with Type 2 Diabetes who are at an increased risk of developing serious health problems including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness . New Wesley Research Institute project aims to make it much easier for people to manage...

Hello Kitty Doghouse for Pampered Pooch

...ness, unveiled a luxury dog house Friday worth 3.9 million yen (32,000 dollars) for the ultimate pampered pooch . The one-of-its-kind doghouse, decorated with some 7,600 glass crystals and a cushion bearing Hello Kitty's face, will be put on display at a Tokyo department store later this month, Sanrio Co. ...

Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...ad and colleagues. It is thought that around 100 million people use a hookah daily worldwide. Reports suggest that family attitudes towards children smoking tobacco in waterpipes are far more permissive than attitudes to cigarette smoking. There has been little research into the health effects of waterpi...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

... state like California the savings could be over a million dollars a year. Over the last few decades, trans...pulated state in the United States, and nearly two million of its 11 million residents live in the Columbus metropolitan area. The population is growing, and s...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

... cardiovascular disease or diabetes, there are 3.2 million adults under the age of 75 in Britain at high risk...S). The researchers tracked the progress of 1.28 million healthy men and women, registered at 318 general practices over a period of 12 years to April 2007, ...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...nment announced in its March 2007 budget that $300 million over three years will be available to the province... and Melinda Gates Foundation has given almost $28 million US to an international health group to try to figure out how to introduce a female-only HPV vaccine ...

Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

...ldren and teenagers in the US. About a third or 25 million US children and teenagers weigh over the healthy weight for their age or just under it, according to government statistics. Among adults, about two-thirds are overweight or simply obese, which increases their risk for illnesses such as diabetes an...

Drug Firm on the Threshold of Developing Dengue Vaccine

...y that time, Stephenne estimates that between $500 million to $1 billion will have been spent on research and development....

Gene Expression in Blood may Hold Clues About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

... As part of the research, scientists examined six million pieces of gene expression information to study the differences in gene expression patterns in the blood of 15 individuals who either recovered promptly after acute glandular fever or developed prolonged illness called post-infective syndrome. Gene ...

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

...e university hospitals for accepting more than one million dollars from a US tobacco giant for research into...hey would receive a total of one billion won (1.08 million dollars) from the US company for the research. Jang said the "basic research" aimed at identifying...

Taj Mahal, Symbol of Love - New Seven Wonders of the World

... world over Internet and by telephone and over 100 million votes were cast. Taj was competing against 21 short-listed man made marvels. Hosts Bollywood actor Bipasha Basu, US actor Hilary Swank and British actor Sir Ben Kingsley, announced the new wonders of the world in the random order, which included: T...

Africa's Men Urged to Step Up AIDS Fight

...d the pandemic that has infected some affects 39.5 million people worldwide, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. ... prymaid," she said. As of June 2006, around one million Africans were receiving antiretroviral drugs which help roll back the AIDS virus, a tenfold increase...

Star Health Grants Boon To India's HIV-Affected

...IV virus. The potential market would be around 5.7 million affected persons across India. According to Jagannathan, Chairman and Managing Director of the company, the premium is likely to be fixed at around 3000 rupees per year with a coverage up to 50,000 rupees. Jagannathan was quoted: The compensation b...

Australian Injured as Spain Begins Annual Bullrunning Festival

...amplona's mayor. Organisers expect more than one million people, many of them from Britain. The bullrun has been criticised by international animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for what it says amounts to gratuitous cruelty....

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

At least 2.2 million people in the US could be suffering from atrial fibrillation, it is estimated. And the number of patients is forecast to soar. It is a condition in which part of the heart does not beat the way it should. Instead of beating in a regular, normal pa...

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