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Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

...uthern //India, has made a strong plea for all out nationwide efforts to detect the Parkinsons Disease at an early stage. They have suggested that doctors working at primary health care centers and district hospitals be educated to identify Parkinsonism and refer the patients to specialty centers. In a pape...

Melamine Contamination Killed Thousands of Pets, Says a New Report

...rly 39,000 cats and dogs// were sickened or killed nationwide consequent on pet food-contamination with an industrial chemical. The data was reportedly compiled from records collected from more than 615 veterinary hospitals. Last month there was massive recall of contaminated pet food. Described as one of ...

TB Cases, Deaths Decline in Yemen Because of Awareness Programs

...alth and Population. A number of health workers nationwide have received training on treating TB, IRIN News reports. Midwives and nurses also will be trained on TB and how to handle medicines, al-Absi said. In addition, there is a new campaign in the country to enlist the help of the private sector, military...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

As college campuses nationwide grapple with the problem of binge drinking, Univer...U.S.-Mexico border, UTEP is one of 15 universities nationwide to receive a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to implement the model program. ...

90 Brands of Pet Food Recalled from the Market Following Death of 10 Animals

...caused kidney failure. This event has sparked// a nationwide recall of pet food. Veterinary offices have been at their wits end answering queries from owners of pets. Menu Foods Inc., the manufacturers of many varieties of pet food, marketed under several brand names has recalled 50 brands of dog food and ...

India to Market Female Condoms

... National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) began a nationwide initiative in October to provide female condoms at just Rs.3 to NGOs working with female sex workers. The government has decided to distribute 500,000 female condoms by June in the first phase at a cost of Rs.180,000 in its second line of defence a...

Northwest China Region Reports Six New Cases of HIV Daily

...officially reported HIV/AIDS cases grew to 183,733 nationwide at the end of October last year, up nearly 30 per cent than the previous year. The ministry also says that at the end of last October, 12,464 people had died in China of HIV-related illnesses. SRM...

Physical Activity Reduces Hypertension Risk in Young Adults

...ta in Minneapolis, and colleagues used data from a nationwide study that tracked the physical activity levels and blood pressure measurements of nearly 4,000 black and white men and women over a 15-year period. Although previous studies have linked lack of exercise to hypertension development in middle-aged a...

Schools Help Hold the Line Against Childhood Obesity

...than they do to cause it, new research suggests. A nationwide study found that one measure of obesity// rose more than twice as fast when kindergarten and first-grade students were on summer vacation than when they were in school. And obese children were helped most by being in school: they gained weight no f...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

...n funds. PFA Calcutta is a flagship project of PFA nationwide and has set an example in animal management," said Chakrabarti. He also said: "I have no faith in the state's veterinary department. They have no positive role to play and their contribution to the sterilisation programme is zilch." With rabies c...

Heart Disease, Stroke Prevention Efforts Among Women

.../23). In addition, the legislation would expand nationwide a CDC program called WISEWOMAN, which currently provides no-cost heart disease and stroke tests to low-income, uninsured women in 14 states. The measure also would authorize grants to be made to educate physicians about preventing, diagnosing and tre...

Consumers Warned of Using Cat Food Due to Salmonella Contamination

...clude arthritis. The Wild Kitty Cat Food is sold nationwide to retail stores and through distributors and internet sales, nationwide. The manufacturer declined to recall this product despite several requests by FDA that it do so. Consumers who have purchased this product should not feed it to their pets, bu...

Portugal’s Citizens Vote to Legalize Abortio

...s who underwent the abortion). The case led to a nationwide move to legalize abortion before 10 weeks into the pregnancy. Yet the turnout of voters was just 44 percent and short of the 50 percent quota required for passing a bill. Socrates is expected to press ahead with a law to push his proposal and wi...

Pakistan: Authorities Plays Down Bird Flu Risk

...] birds either." In 2004, Pakistan established a nationwide surveillance system to monitor any bird flu outbreaks, while in 2006 health authorities banned the import of poultry products and birds from more than 30 countries where cases of bird flu had been reported. Moreover, hunting of birds has also been...

Potential for Adult Stem Cells to Repair Hearts Damaged Investigated

... surgery. Rush is one of 15 to 20 research sites nationwide participating in the study, which is sponsored by the Cellular Therapies business unit of Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Baxter technology is used to select the subject’s own CD34+ stem cells that are under investigation in this trial. The baseline...

28% Lower Mortality Rate In Top U.S. Hospitals

...s company, patients treated at top-rated hospitals nationwide have nearly// a one-third better chance of surviving, on average, than those admitted to all other hospitals. The researchers have also found that the patients who undergo surgery at these high-performing hospitals also have an average 5% lower ri...

Longer Sleep Could Mean Shorter Life Span

...But experts say the study is flawed//. Based on a nationwide survey of 1.1 million adults, the study by Daniel Kripke of the University of California and others found that those who slept eight hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die within six years than those who got 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 hours, reported t...

The Uncommon Pathway of Campylobacter Jejuni

... the increase in campylobacter as a problem. Their nationwide analysis of fresh, marketed chicken showed that as much as 80 percent of the meat they tested harbored campylobacter." Usually, material entering the cell moves to compartments called lysosomes, where an acidic mix of enzymes breaks it down. By mon...

Parkinson's Drugs Could Increase Heart Disease Risk

...nti-Parkinson's drugs from Britain registered in a nationwide database. The studies compared treatment histories among Parkinson's disease patients who did and did not develop heart valve disease. The rate of heart valve disease was seven times higher among pergolide-treated patients and five times higher amo...

Myanmar Junta Head to Be Treated in Singapore

... Ne Win resigned all political posts in 1988 amid nationwide anti-military protests and passed power to a younger crop of military men who have lorded over the country for the past two decades. Source-IANS...

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