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Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...with 80 percent of them occurring in Asia, unless more is done to tighten trans-border controls on the tr...tes sold in 2006. The protocol, which would take more than three years to discuss and ratify, would include provisions such as setting up a global tracing...

Pure Pomegranate Juice Helps Reverse Erectile Dysfunction Function

... the authors conclude that additional studies with more patients and longer treatment periods may in fact reach statistical significance. The strong directional results of this pilot study are encouraging because almost half of the test subjects experienced a benefit simply by adding pomegranate juice to ...

Electric Field Therapy to Zap Cancerous Tumours

...ients using electrical field therapy, which could more than double the survival rates for people with one...r less. With the therapy, the average reprieve was more than a year, and three of patients in the small trial were still alive, more than two years after th...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...ation coverage from TV, radio, the internet and at more than 6,000 parties in 119 countries. Gore will u...ution by 90 per cent in developed countries and by more than half worldwide. It also asks people to cut their own pollution, make their homes, businesses, s...

Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...ecognize its symptoms (such as headache, plus 2 or more of the following: fatigue, dizziness, nausea, insomnia). 72 percent knew that descent was the primary mode of treatment. However, a fundamental mode of treatment, oxygen, was known to less than 10 percent of travellers. 47 percent of those surveyed...

Rosehips may Be an Effective Alternative for Rheumatoid Arthritis

... pilot study showed. Experts now want to conduct more extensive trials, which could form the basis of ne...y were surprised by the results, since RA is a far more serious and challenging disease than osteo-arthritis. A total of 89, mostly female patients with a...

Bird Flu in Asia Still High Risk Says WHO Official

... Indonesia alone, the WHO estimates that there are more than 13,000 poultry markets, where birds from many different places are exposed to each other, raising the danger of transmission. Since 2003, the H5N1 virus has infected 310 people, including 190 who later died, according to WHO figures. Some 250 ...

Alcohol Abuse, Addiction Hits 3 of 10 Americans

...f drinking and dependency. Some 12.5 percent of more than 43,000 people surveyed reported having succum...9.8 years. "Alcohol dependence was significantly more prevalent among men, whites, Native Americans, younger and unmarried adults and those with lower inc...

Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful

... British Youngman willingly came forward to donate more than half of his liver to his father, and the transplant has been successful. David and Stephen Lomas, from Ulverston, Cumbria, were speaking after The 20-year-old David Lomas from Cumbria said he agreed to be a donor straight away when his father...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...s laboratory again in the next few weeks to gather more information about its procedures and protocols. "T... have reported the worker's Brucella exposure in a more timely manner. Davis said none of the workers who were exposed to the Q fever agent got sick and t...

Tamiflu 30 Mg and 45 Mg Capsules Approved by FDA

... annually.(2) Children are also two to three times more likely than adults to get sick with the flu, according to the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).(3) Additionally, children represent one of the most important links in influenza transmission.(4) Experts believe that c...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

... 44 showed the highest rate of abuse, and men were more than twice as likely as women to report struggling...f alcoholism and improved therapies havent spurred more treatment, said Deborah Hasin, the studys lead author. The rate of treatment has been at a standstil...

Maxygen Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Trial of MAXY-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients

...g this first Phase II trial we will begin to learn more about how our drug might play a role in the large,...ctive of the Phase IIa trial is to identify one or more doses of MAXY-G34 that effectively treat chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Patient tolerability, saf...

Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

... this compensatory response, and did not sleep any more deeply or any longer than they did under non-sleep deprived conditions. At the end of the study, the animals were given three full days to sleep as much as they wanted. It was observed that they seldom recovered the sleep they had been deprived of ...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

...rs of disease-carrying mosquitoes. "When we have more rain like this, our mosquito population can go up, and more contact with mosquitoes means a greater possibility of mosquito-borne illness," said Doug Hardy, an ...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

... Changes set in about a century ago, he said, with more mosses growing and shorter periods of ice, followed by lowering water levels and increasing salinity until some dried up completely.In addition to the ponds, the researchers also reported a drying of nearby wetlands. "The ecological ramifications of...

Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

... by examining these creatures, are hoping to learn more about how stress affects fertility in both men and women, a subject which is still inadequately understood. The naked mole-rat lives in colonies of between 100-300 animals, but only the queen reproduces, suppressing fertility in both the females an...

Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller

...ole in some kinds of pain. Prialt is 1,000 times more potent than morphine but, unlike that drug, is not...ng drug. Prialt, or ziconotide, is the result of more than 20 years research by a scientist born in the Philippines, Baldomera Olivera, who is a professor...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

...malia and Sudan, the agencies said. There are no more recent figures, as the area was hit by serious flooding late last year, causing massive destruction of infrastructure and displacing hundreds of families within the camps, they added. They blamed reduced donor funding to the UNHCR for the worrying ...

Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction

...on Bonaparte to his future wife Josephine sold for more than a quarter of a million pounds at an auction o...inal handwritten letters by historical figures -- more than five times the pre-sale estimate. The letter from the future French leader fetched 276,000 po...

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