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Diabetes may Lead to More Complications

...for trauma than non-diabetics. Approximately 17 million Americans have diabetes, with one-third remaining undiagnosed, according to background information in the article. These patients develop complications more frequently and do worse after an acute illness than individuals without diabetes. Studies s...

Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients

... rate of complications and high mortality. Three million new cases of C. difficile colitis occur in the Uni...nwide Inpatient Sample, includes data from about 7 million hospital stays per year in 1,000 hospitals located in 35 states; thus, it approximates a 20 percent ...

Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Shows Steady Increase

...dentified in the 30-year period, a rate of 6.4 per million persons and a total of 0.14 percent of all cancers...an Francisco registry had the highest rates9.7 per million white individuals and 10.8 per million black individualswhile the Iowa registry had the lowest, with...

Sexual Abuse Payout Re-opens Old Wounds

...riests . Divided by the 508 plaintiffs, the $660 million deal amounts to an average of $1.3 million per person. But the actual payouts will fluctuate considerably, with some victims receiving more tha...

Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...he new research reveals the split happened about 3 million years ago. Previously, scientists thought SIV infected an ancestor of green monkeys before the lineage split, much longer ago. "Studying SIV helps us learn more about HIV," said the paper's first author Joel Wertheim, a doctoral candidate in the ...

Probable Health Monitor Sends SMS of Emergency Alerts and ECG

...essage. Cardiovascular disease is kills almost 20 million people each year, with around 22 million people at risk of sudden heart failure at any one time around the world. Lives can often be saved if...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

...le with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes affects about 18 million to 20 million Americans, according to the American Diabetes Association. The review appears in the latest issue ...

Bird Flu Antibodies Found in Migrant Birds in Siberia

...lu cases had been registered this year. "About six million poultry are currently in high risk areas. Nearly 4.6 million of them have been vaccinated and over 2.3 million revaccinated," he said....

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...:, so gushed a website. It is estimated that 563 million people were reached by the TV spots and print coverage in Elle, Redbook, Self, People, Women's Health and many more popular magazines. "Make the Connection" was eventually transformed into "Make the Commitment." Funded by Merck, "Make the Commitmen...

Chemotherapy Better for Non Small Cell Lung cancer

... is important because around the world more than a million new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed each year, around 80% of which are non-small cell lung cancer. In addition, many patients are only diagnosed after the disease has progressed, so survival rates across all stages of disease tend to be fairly l...

Millions of Births Still Go Unreported in India

...tain parts of India is not satisfactory. Of the 26 million children born every year, 10 million still go unregistered . Two out of every five children are not registered and therefore do not exis...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

... Services also announced that it had released $897 million to states for emergency preparedness efforts. The money includes $175 million for pandemic flu preparedness. A nationwide surveillance system to track the progress of an outbreak...

US Health Insurance Firms Suspend Sales, Promise to End Fraudulent Practices

...e government insurance program. Medicare has 43 million beneficiaries, of whom 7.5 million are in Medicare Advantage plans. Private fee-for-service plans are the fastest-growing part, with en...

India Grapples With First Bill to Stop Workplace Sex Harassment

... feminist. But she added that "89 percent of 270 million workers in the unorganised sector are women who ha...ndreds of millions of working women, as few as 1.5 million can be considered to be a part of the formal sector that would be protected by such legislation. S...

Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

... the smallest decline despite receiving almost $17 million in the name of virginity. And, no state has more ...earch released a report that was nine years and $8 million in the making. Scientists followed middle school children enrolled in four separate abstinence progr...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...urnal The Lancet has put the loss of females at 10 million over the past two decades. "With technology making it easier to find out the gender of a foetus in earlier stages of pregnancy, these numbers will only increase," said journalist Gita Aravamudan, author of "Disappearing Daughters". Aravamudan's n...

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...ent to scan each patients DNA for more than half a million genetic markers, was performed at the Center for Applied Genomics at Childrens Hospital. The Centers tools spell out a patients genotypethe specific pattern of variations among an individuals 30,000 genes. Established in the summer of 2006, the ce...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

...purity. Knowing that Paraguay, half of whose six million inhabitants live in poverty, may be sitting on a gold mine, authorities are now launching a bid to win international recognition as the stevia plant's country of origin....

Rorting Health Practioners Busted

...health specialists have been ordered to repay $4.3 million for rorting the federal health system, since 1999...s. "This resulted in savings to Medicare of $4.3 million in benefits repaid and an estimated $12.9 million in benefits not paid due to partial or full disqua...

Zambia Opens First Cancer Hospital

...n President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday opened a 10 million dollar specialist cancer hospital which will enable patients to receive treatment at home for the first time . Mwanawasa said the National Cancer Diseases Hospital (NCDH) was built following a growth in the number of cancer patients in Zambia who h...

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