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Apples keep lung disease away

...ly develop COPD - so there must be influences that mitigate this risk factor, either genetic, lifestyle or environmental. Researchers at the University of Southampton, UK, have carried out the first study into diet and COPD in smokers. They find that those who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables are at...

Air Pollution said To Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

...air pollutants. And possibly, there may be ways to mitigate the impacts of air pollution, such as anti-inflammatory medications or other interventions. ...

Arthritis Drug – Rofecoxib , Found To Increase Heart Attack Ris

...use of aspirin along with low-dose Vioxx seemed to mitigate the heart attack risk. However, the study did find it only took a few Vioxx prescriptions to raise the risk. For people who had a heart attack, the average number of prescriptions dispensed was about five. Though the study found no increased risk o...

To safeguard poultry farmers a Rs. 35-crore fund set up.

...s ago. The Government has set up a fund to help mitigate the losses sustained by farmers whose poultry will have to be culled, and they are being paid Rs. 30 to Rs. 40 a bird said Dr. Acharya. Dr. Acharya reiterated that there is no incidence of bird flu in Karnataka .Precautionary measures were taken ...

Companies Not Doing Enough To Fight Bird Flu

...e organizations are looking at what they can do to mitigate their risk ... " Druckman said in a statement. "Any business continuity plan needs to address the issue of pandemic." Only 41 percent were stockpiling sterile masks and gloves, while 73 percent were working on employee health-risk mitigation training...

Phoenix Islands To Be Protected Under Global Conservation Map

...rom future threats including over fishing and help mitigate the effects of climate change," said Greg Stone, Vice-President of Global Marine Programs at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Protecting the Phoenix Islands means restricting commercial fishing in the area, resulting in a loss of revenue that t...

Phobia Attack: Courting Fear with Cortisol, the Stress Hormone

...ehavioral therapy could be used to lessen and also mitigate phobias and post-traumatic stress disorders that are provoked by a particular stimulus. Dr Cosmo Hallstrom, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists said, "It seems unlikely that you could remove a long-term phobia by simply altering the chemical leve...

Supercomputers To Assist In Thwarting Bird Flu Epidemic In Future

...ed on human strains, would be the best strategy to mitigate pandemic influenza,” say the authors, Timothy Germann, Kai Kadau, Ira Longini and Catherine Macken. “It's probably not going to be practical to contain a potential pandemic by merely trying to limit contact between people (such as by travel restri...

Poor Housing May lead to Poor Health

...r housing and educating farmworker families how to mitigate the detrimental effects of poor housing quality." Previous research on housing quality in general has found that it is an important determinant of health. Crowding and inadequate sanitary facilities, for example, can contribute to a higher incidenc...

Doctors Strike In Andhra Enters The Second Day

...ngal, Kurnool and Tirupati failed to take steps to mitigate the hardships faced by the patients. The Andhra Pradesh High Court asked the state government to submit a report Friday on the services being provided in government-run hospitals in the wake of the strike. The court adjourned to Friday the hearing ...

Obese Women At Increased Risk Of Developing Breast Cancer

...omen who take hormone replacement therapy actually mitigate the effects of obesity on cancer risk. Moreover, current weight as defined by body mass index is not as important as a woman's weight gain from the age of 18. While there is much literature on the risk of obesity and breast cancer, there is no data...

Flu Pandemic Predicted to be 1000 September 11ths

... totally predictable one, but if we act now we can mitigate its effects." Dr Hajioff who is a London GP, pointed out that the 1918 pandemic had killed 40 per cent of the population. "In the present day, you are talking about five million people across Europe and hundreds of thousands in the UK. It's like 1,...

Growth Hormone Stimulants help to Combat Aging Symptoms

...e further whether GHS can help in the long term to mitigate some of the negative effects of aging.’ He added, however, that many steps remain to determine whether this concept could be turned into an effective and safe treatment. The GHS used in the study was discovered and developed by Pfizer Global Research...

Risk Of Premature Death In Obese Adolescents

... use of weight-control medication could be used to mitigate this threat," he says. "But relying on drugs or surgery to contain the threat that obesity poses to young people is testimony to glaring societal failures," Katz adds. "Obesity is preventable by means well understood and at our disposal: increasing...

Fat or old - Swig red wine to live long says study

...ine .The amount of alcohol that would go in would mitigate whatever projected benefit that resvestrol claims to establish. MST...

Obesity - An Advantage For MHD Patients

...y probably represents protective reserves that may mitigate the adverse effects of malnutrition in patients,” according to Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh M.D., author of the study. MHD patients tend to have a high degree of protein-energy malnutrition and inflammation. The combination of these two conditions, terme...

Migraine Sufferers More at Risk of Heart Attack

... patients with migraines should think about how to mitigate other known heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol levels, smoking and obesity," the scientist said. Source-IANS...

'Drug Holidays' Increases Death Risk in HIV Patients

...6 times greater risk.STI was initially designed to mitigate the serious side effects of HIV medications in patients, including changes in body fat, liver problems and heart disease. Patients following STI would take a break when their immune systems were strong and start taking the drugs again when their bo...

Climate Sceptics Issued With Challenge by a U.K Scientist

... need, very urgently, to discuss what to do now to mitigate the effects of climate change. Yet a handful of scientists, politicians and writers are still claiming humans are not responsible at all.” "We have got to kill off this notion so we can get on with the real work: protecting ourselves from future cl...

Scientists Assess Risk of Flu Pandemic Spread Via Global Airlines

...appropriate intervention strategies to contain and mitigate its evolution and impact on the population." The researchers developed a mathematical model using massive passenger-flow databases from the International Air Transport Association, an organization of airlines comprising 99 percent of worldwide comm...

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