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Lack of Timely Intervention Results in Needless Death Due to Stroke in US

...ng many more permanently disabled, and costing the nation $62.7 billion, according to the American Stroke Association. But from diagnosis to treatment to rehabilitation to preventing it altogether, a stroke is a litany of missed opportunities. Many patients with stroke symptoms are examined by emergency r...

Adult Down Syndrome Clinic Opened at UAB

...rmingham) has opened one of the few clinics in the nation dedicated to providing services to adult patients with Down Syndrome. Because of improvements in diagnosis, treatment and management of the condition while young, Down Syndrome patients are now routinely living into adulthood, and have the same risk...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

...gh crime rate, in contrast to the low rate for the nation as a whole. Witnesses say there was a fight outside the school before the victim Jordan Manners was chased inside and shot down. After police received a call about a possible drowning at the school, they arrived to find the 14-year-old in seriou...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...gn. As it stands, America is the only industrial nation that offers no legal protection for vacations. The average vacation in the United States is now only a long weekend, and 25 percent of American workers have no paid vacation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compare that to Sweden, which ...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...ntrolling population growth in the world's biggest nation with some 1.3 billion people. Beijing allows urban dwellers to have one child, while villagers can have two if the first child is a girl. Worse, stiff penalties are levied on those who dont fall in line. And when they wont cough up, local officia...

Lyme Disease Cases Rising In The U.S

...the third highest incidence of Lyme disease in the nation and the Philadelphia region is one of the worst in the state due to the presence of high concentrations of deer, which carry ticks onto properties. Says Lou Giroud, President of Giroud Tree Service and ISA Certified Arborist: 'Deer ticks, which s...

Americans Get Least Value For Money In Healthcare

...zen, Karen Davis: The US stands out as the only nation in these studies that does not ensure access to healthcare through universal coverage and promotion of a medical home for patients. Our failure to ensure health insurance for all and encourage stable, long-term ties between physicians and patients ...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

...contributions to the social capital that propels a nation such as ours for vast numbers of our nations children and young adults. One of the most troubling complications of childhood obesity is that it is pushing way up the numbers of children and young adults with what is called Type 2 diabetes, a disea...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

... differences in outpatient care. "As we become a nation with an older population, the type of routine preventive care we studied will become even more important," Bird said. "Understanding these gender differences may allow us to improve care." The RAND study is one of four published in the latest editi...

Lets Care For Our Physicians A Salute to Them on Doctors Day!

... This journey has not been easy for a developing nation like India. There have been setbacks to Indias healthcare milestones. The proverbial black sheep have raised their ugly head time and again, leaving a blot on what is a noble profession. The major chinks that let down the country still remain rampa...

Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

...idence to suggest that the remarkable progress the nation has made in this area is slowing. All such data and trends suggest that if the nation is to make further progress in delaying sexual activity and preventing early pregnancy and parenthoo...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

... has come to light there, because the west African nation borders on four or five countries where HIV has been traced back to animals. Domenech thanked the "speed and transparency" with which some countries, such as Ghana or Togo, reacted to bird flu outbreaks, making it easy for international organisatio...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

...uries occur although the United States is the only nation that has a comprehensive needle safety program, said Ron Stoker, executive director of the International Sharps Injury Prevention Society, an organization devoted to reducing such injuries. The program came into existence when President Bill Clinton ...

Non Communicable Diseases to Be the Cause of Deaths in Poor Countries by 2115-World Bank

...ending burden such a situation would impose on the nation and economy. The countries need to take up preventive measures in order to curb the diseases. It has to prevent non communicable diseases to the greatest extent possible, and in doing so, promote healthy aging to avoid premature death. The Government...

US Supreme Court Could Protect Medical Equipment Manufacturers from Law Suits

...ement in federal law. Federal courts around the nation have taken different views of whether that provision bars state law damage claims against medical devices approved by the FDA. The issue has so confounded the courts that three appeals courts reviewing the same medical device made by the same comp...

One Fifth of Timor Needs Food Assistance: UN Report

... people living in outlying areas across the island nation will require more than 15,000 tonnes of emergency food assistance, particularly during the six months of the coming 'lean season', from October 2007 to March 2008. "A poor harvest this year has worsened the already fragile livelihoods of people all...

Roshan Announces Launch of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project

...of Afghanistan and will allow hospitals across the nation to leverage AKUH's world-class medical expertise." "FMIC is on the front lines of healthcare delivery in Afghanistan, serving per month an average of 4,000 patients in the out patients department, 3,000 patients in radiology and 14,000 lab tests. Te...

Hitler's Holocaust may Have Stemmed from Syphilis from Jewish Prostitute

...rman nation," he wrote, adding, "The health of the nation will be regained only by eliminating the Jews." According to Dr. Habeeb, "Hitler's bizarre belief that syphilis was a hereditary disease that was originated and propagated by the Jews and resulted in insanity and mental retardation" could be the re...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...d to the American people that I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line." Embryonic stem cells are primitive cells from early stage embryos capable of developing into almost every tissue of the body. Scientists believe they could be crucial to finding a cure for a number of serious diseases, incl...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...ed the scales and the government is calling on the nation to lose weight. As of March 2008, companies will be required by law to subject all employees over 40 years to a medical check-up which will include a hip circumference measurement. A hip circumference above 85 centimetres for males and 90 centime...

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