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Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...n with neural-tube defects were recorded among 1.9 million births. The researchers found that between 1993 and 1997, the incidence was 1.58 per 1,000 births. Between 2000 and 2002, the rate dropped 46 percent to 0.86. The biggest improvement occurred in the parts of Canada that had the highest rates of ne...

Los Angeles Diocese Opts for Huge Payout in Sexual Abuse Cases

...mount, which would average a little more than $1.3 million per plaintiff, exceeded earlier reports that the settlement would be between $600 million and $650 million. Some Roman Catholic orders the Servites, Claretians and Oblates will be carved...

Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

...tion for the latest cull is likely to be around 30 million koruna (1.05 million euros, 1.46 million dollars). He said decontamination of the poultry farms will continue over the ...

President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

...the popular program to cover some of the nations 8 million uninsured children, but he doesnt seem to mind. ...r the period enough, lawmakers said, to cover 3.3 million additional youths while keeping the focus on children of the working poor. The program, which expi...

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

...s particularly virulent. In India alone, nearly 36 million people are severely affected by the Hepatitis B vi...Worldwide, the figures are estimated at 300 to 400 million people, and the vulnerable areas are Southeast Asia, China, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcon...

Food Poisoning at the Chicago Food Festival

...ess from salmonella infection. There are over one million reported cases of salmonella poisoning in the USA each year, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The real total is probably much higher, because salmonella poisoning symptoms are often mistaken for other illnesses, such...

War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry

... build a thought-controlled arm at a cost of $30.4 million - part of at least $70 million the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs have committed since 2001 to develop b...

China to Make Cuban Dengue Mosquito Killer

...and know-how to build it. Cuba will purchase six million units annually of the insecticide, and China will donate another half million to Cuba, the statement said. Cuba suffered four dengue outbreaks during 1977-2002. In the most re...

Tumor Painting to Fight Against Cancer

...ish tumors from healthy tissue only if more than 1 million cancer cells are present. But Cy5.5 can identify tumors with as few as 2000 cancer cells, making it 500 times more sensitive than MRI. "My greatest hope is that tumor paint will fundamentally improve cancer therapy, said James M. Olson, MD, PhD, o...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

...ck syndrome. Strep is estimated to cause over 700 million infections each year; over 650,000 of these are dangerous invasive forms. The UCSD-Australian research team sought to identify what special characteristics make the invasive M1T1 strep clone so virulent for humans. They observed that during the ear...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...SD symptoms at some point in their lives. Some 5.2 million adults have PTSD during a given year, the center reports. Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and colleagues show that inhibiting a kinase (kinases are enzymes that change proteins) cal...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

...ty and mortality. Sleep apnea affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health, and is especially prevalent in overweight or obese individuals. Many more have the milder form of sleep-associated respiratory disorders, hypopnea. Untreated sleep apnea can increase the ch...

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...s total annual tobacco output, which is nearly 545 million kilograms. Tobacco victims in India out-number the AIDS victims, as one million of the 250 million tobacco users in the country die every year. According to the World Health Orga...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

...turer, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a federal investigation into claims that...,000 patients, and sales of Xyrem totaled just $29 million in 2006. It is vital to public health and safety that pharmaceutical companies are deterred from ...

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

There are $1 million worth unpaid bills pending at the Waikato hospital owed by the health care cheats . These cheats are those patients who use the taxpayer-funded health care facilities to which they are not eligible as they are not the citizens of New Zealand nor do t...

Once-rare Skin Cancer Type on the Rise in US

... 30-year period. That amounts to a rate of 6.4 per million persons and a total of 0.14 percent of all cancers...d the highest rise in the cases with 9.7 for every million among white and 10.8 for every million among African-Americans. Iowa counted the lowest incidence ...

Final Potter Book Already Out on the Web?

...ler Amazon revealed on July 16 that a staggering 2 million people worldwide have already pre-ordered the fina...er and the Half-Blood Prince' which clocked in 1.5 million orders. Amazon is expecting a surge in the number of orders as the release date of 'Harry Potter a...

Indian Introduces Paan-flavoured Condoms

...r of its people living with HIV-AIDS stands at two million to 3.1 million, sharply lower than earlier estimat...at 5.2 million, while UNAIDS in 2006 estimated 5.7 million cases which would have been the highest in the world....

Treat Every Patient as a Potential Organ Donor, British Health Official Says

...eir organs. But only a fifth of the population, 13 million people, have actually added their names to the NHS register. Doctors say more patients are going abroad for transplants and coming home with serious complications. "These transplant tourists' often face low standards of safety and quality of care...

Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government

...the John Howard government's move to allocate $336 million towards setting up solar hot water systems in scho... hot water systems was important, most of the $627 million funding announced on Tuesday went towards schools. He conceded there was an educational aspect to ...

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