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Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

...itamin. Researchers collected data on almost two million pregnancies from hospitals in seven provinces to o...subjects with such defects were recorded among 1.9 million births.Researchers discovered a 46 per cent overall reduction, and a 53 per cent reduction in spina ...

Folicacid Reduces Congenital Malformations, If Added to Flour

...troduction of folic acidenriched flours for over 2 million births in Canada. Between 1993 and 1997, the incidence was 1.58 per 1,000 births. Between 2000 and 2002, the rate dropped 46% to 0.86. The biggest improvement occurred in the parts of Canada that had the highest rates of neural tube deformation bef...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...by rotting sewage -- and that's after at least 350 million dollars has been spent on cleaning it up. Now, w...ll of Delhi's three and a half billion litres (950 million gallons) of daily urine, excrement and other waste flow into the Yamuna -- much of it raw as treatme...

Canada Daycare Looks After Elderly Parents While Children Work

...evalent as a need for people," he said. Some 1.7 million Canadians aged 45 to 64 are caring for elderly, severely ill or disabled parents, according to Statistics Canada, and more than 70 percent of them also have full-time jobs. Even so, white collar workers in Canada's oil patch headquarters, for the m...

Bak Protein Sets Stressed Cells on Suicide Path

...o kill cancer. Dr. Dong recently received a 1.1 million dollars, four-year renewal grant from the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases to further study the structural changes of mitochondria during apoptosis and normal physiological conditions....

Philippine Medical Colleges Open to Indians

.... It will cost an Indian student between Rs.1.2 million to Rs.1.5 million to study in a Philippine university. The amount will include visa fees, course fees and accommodatio...

Plants Respond to Changing Environment

... it was not until the flowering plants evolved 300 million years ago that plants gained the ability to repres...g plants. The lycophyte group, which evolved 400 million years ago, were the first plants to evolve vascular tissues specialized tissues for transporting wat...

Too Much White Rice, Pasta and Bread may Increase Chances of AMD

...mpairing AMD is expected to double and reach three million by 2020. "Our results support our hypothesis," says Taylor, "that dietary glycemic index, which has been related to the risk of diabetes, is also associated with the risk and severity of AMD." Taylor speculates that carbohydrates that comprise a h...

Trial of VivaGel in Sexually Active Young Women Commences

...ol and Prevention that show 48 percent of the 39.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS are women, and among 15- to 24- year-olds with HIV, females account for 60 percent. In the U.S., 43 percent of AIDS cases in the 13- to 19-year-old age group are female....

All Babies in Massachusetts Should Be Screened for Life-Threatening Disorders

...hat percentage has increased to 87.5, or about 3.6 million babies. Ed Doherty, State Director for the March of Dimes Massachusetts Chapter said, "We are optimistic that when the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Newborn Screening Advisory Committee meets in October this year that they will recomm...

FDA Approves Phase I Clinical Trial of Topaz Pharmaceuticals' New Head Lice Treatment

... yet safe to children and adults. Between 6 and 12 million children are affected by head lice in the United States each year. In many cases, the children with head lice are dismissed from school and not allowed to return until they are declared "lice free" -- impacting parents and children alike. "This IND...

Meth Users Involved in Violence, Sexual Risk-Taking: Study

More than half a million young adults reported use in the past year of crystal meth in 2001- 2002, according to a new nationally representative study. That estimate is higher than previous studies and represents nearly 3 percent of the U.S. population. Among meth users, the...

Hundreds of Cyclists to Ride for Alzheimer's Cause

...ney to fight the disease that affects more than 5 million Americans. Nearly every cyclist participating in the 11th annual Memory Ride has a personal story to tell -- about a grandparent, a parent or close family friend who has struggled with the disease. The Alzheimer's Association is committed to "a w...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

...o double to 20,600 at 1,451 stations. And the 16 million tourists who come to Paris every year -- making it the most visited city in the world -- will also havy easy access to the bikes for seeing the sights. Users simply click on a website to sign up or pick up a form from bakeries, newsagents or metro ...

Researchers Develop Tool to Gauge Quality of Life of Hepatitis B Patients

Chronic hepatitis B affects 350 million worldwide. In a new study, UCLA researchers measured the effect of hepatitis B on patients quality of life beyond just the physical symptoms of the disease and created a new tool to better assess patients overall well-being, which may help clinici...

Uninsured Adults Increase Medicare Costs

... Created in 1965, Medicare now covers nearly 43 million elderly and disabled Americans. In 2006, the programs cost of $374 billion accounted for 14 percent of the federal budget, and federal spending on Medicare is expected to grow to $524 billion by 2011. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medica...

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...the Textile Valley of India, discharges nearly 100 million litres of effluent water containing bleaching powder, sulphonic dyes, chemicals and other inorganic catalysts. These are dumped into the Noyyal River or in the open wasteland. Kalidass, an environmentalist, says: 'The agricultural lands will slowly...

China Declares War on Unsafe Foods for Soldiers

China has declared war on unsafe food for its 2.3 million soldiers, with the military to implement new safety measures following the recent spate of health scandals, state media reported on Friday. Measures include weeding out fake or substandard food products and eliminating the common practice of sever...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...cal journal The Lancet said India may have lost 10 million unborn girls in the past 20 years, but Indian experts have challenged the number, saying it likely closer to five million....

'Sexually Active' Malawians Urged to Take HIV Tests

...i, ravaged by the AIDS pandemic, has urged its six million "sexually active" citizens to go for voluntary HIV... Friday that statistics had shown that out of "six million sexually active Malawians, only 15 percent have gone for HIV testing and know their status." "This...

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