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Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

...o serve smaller portions. Americans are becoming more and more aware of the growing number of overweight children and teenagers in the US. About a third or 25 mill...

Drug Firm on the Threshold of Developing Dengue Vaccine

... the dengue vaccine with the US Army for 10 years, more or less," The Straits Times quoted Stephenne as saying. The Thai trials will be part of the second phase of the process. The vaccine was tested on 500 people in the United States during the first phase and proved safe and effective, Stephenne sai...

Indian Fashion Beckons International Models

...love with it." Experts feel the participation of more and more foreign models will help the Indian fashion weeks gain recognition, much like the events in Milan, L...

An Electronic Shirt That Monitors Your Hearts Health

... around, make breakfast and dinner, or sleep - but more importantly, we can determine if they are missing meals, fall over or stop moving. The technology can distinguish between normal and abnormal events and alert family or emergency services or, for people who live in retirement villages, alert local me...

New Conditions That Will Increase the Risk of Alzheimers Identified

... people exhibiting both conditions are seven-times more likely to develop the disease than their peers. ...ed any one or a combination of these symptoms were more likely to develop Alzheimers in the following years. Similarly to heart disease, brain blood vess...

Cancer Risk is High Among HIV/AIDS and Kidney Transplant Patients

...e study found that HIV/AIDS patients were 11 times more likely to develop Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer asso...rch showed that transplant patients were 208 times more likely to develop the cancer than the general population. Researchers suggested that one common th...

Dengue Fever Cases Up 36 Percent in Thailand: Report

...reak has killed 17 people in Thailand and affected more than 21,000 since the beginning of the year, the E...ople died last year. "The situation this year is more serious than last year because of the earlier arrival of the rainy season, which brought forward the...

Elevated Carbondioxide may Have Negative Impact on Ecosystem

...posed to elevated amounts of CO2 the plants became more susceptible to attack by Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica). Furthermore, as these beetles consumed the weakened soybeans, the insects invasive abilities were intensified. Dr. Jorge Zavala, Sr. of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the Univers...

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

...riticised three university hospitals for accepting more than one million dollars from a US tobacco giant for research into smoking. Philip Morris International is conducting the research simultaneously in South Korea and Japan, said Jang In-Jin, a pharmacology professor at Seoul National University Hos...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

... come as U.S. regulators ordered a recall of three more Chinese-made products deemed dangerous to children, part of a lengthening list of recent U.S. government actions to ban, recall or restrict Chinese imports from juice to toothpaste suspected of containing high levels of toxins. China's pharmaceut...

Indian and Pakistani-origin Scots More Likely to Suffer Heart Attacks

Indians and Pakistani origin Scots are more likely to suffer heart attacks, according to a ne...versity of Edinburgh, however, noted that they are more likely to survive this trauma in comparison to their non-Asian countrymen. As part of the study, t...

Protein That Absorbs Lipids may Provide Future Weight-loss Strategies

... part of the intestine, but in its absence, lower, more distal, sections of the intestine compensate and a...admitted that before so doing, she wanted to learn more from animal studies. "There is evidence that people have different amounts of CD36 and that mutat...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...in humans. Overall, men are three to five times more likely to develop HCC than women; however, in indi...ls who are under 50, HCC is seen seven to 10 times more frequently in men. A similar or even more pronounced gender disparty is seen in mice. In order to ...

Combination of Tratuzumab and Chemotherapy Yields Better Results for Breast Cancer

...e results of a meta-analysis of 5 trials involving more than 13,000 women whose breast cancer was amenable to surgery. All the trials compared disease-free survival, overall survival and the risk of locoregional and distant recurrence of breast cancer in women given adjuvant chemotherapy alone or chemot...

Top China Official Pessimistic on Fixing Food Safety Woes

...es in those systems that he said would only become more apparent. 'With the deepening of our work, problems in food safety mechanisms will gradually emerge and the difficulty in integrating and organising inspection work will only grow,' he said. 'The inspection, prevention and emergency response syst...

Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles

...prions bound to montmorillonite were significantly more infectious than prions alone. "We thought the bi... "In each case, you add montmorillonite and we get more animals sicker and quicker than in the absence of montmorillonite clay." What is occurring in soil...

Australian Injured as Spain Begins Annual Bullrunning Festival

...o cracker by Pamplona's mayor. Organisers expect more than one million people, many of them from Britain. The bullrun has been criticised by international animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for what it says amounts to gratuitous cruelty....

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...ng a civil action for loss of income, estimated at more than $2 million. The full-time thoracic surgeon is also an Australian Army reservist and served with Australian forces in East Timor last year, receiving the Australian Service Medal in recognition of his efforts. He also spent a month in the fr...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

...rampage of the disease. "Death was accepted far more in the Caribbean than it is here. I was told that ...cancer are being picked up by health services much more often than they used to be. Clinical trials of the drug Tamoxifen are underway to see if that can pl...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

... no symptoms and most others seem to suffer little more than weakness or shortness of breath, atrial fibri... Atrial ablation already makes up 30 percent or more of the business of some specialist groups in competitive cardiac care markets like Florida, accordin...

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