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Tag: "neglected" at medical news

Easy Access To Healthcare Services Essential For Better Survival Rates

... older patients, proving that TYAs remain the most neglected group of cancer patients across the globe. "Our previous research has shown that the survival of older teenagers and young adults with cancer in the United States has lagged behind progress in younger and older patients. We found that diagnosis wa...

Change In Mental Makeup Could Prove Beneficial For Elders

...rom the stereotype image of the elderly as lonely, neglected and helpless, Misra firmly believes that age is no bar to "facing life ahead upgrading skills, using our talents to serve others and trusting younger generation to lead their own lives". Several others share the same views and are striving in their...

Study Reveals AIDS, Malaria Need More Attention

... greater resources for health research to focus on neglected diseases....

UK Computer Grid In Bird Flu Fight

...t WISDOM data challenge against several targets of neglected diseases will take place in autumn 2006. This drug discovery application against the avian flu virus was jointly deployed by the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Academia Sinica Grid Computing Team, Taiwan; Corpuscular Physics Lab...

Teenage Boys More Vulnerable And Emotionally Engaged In Romantic Relationships

... Early dating experiences have been a relatively neglected subject of study, according to the BGSU researchers. That's due to assumptions that such relationships are short-lived and shallow, and therefore not very influential, Giordano explained. The focus has been almost exclusively on sexual behavior rathe...

Brazil & Kenya Seek Support For A New Resolution At WHO’s Annual Mee

...sure at the WHO assembly, for more funds to combat neglected diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Kenya and Brazil are planning to introduce a resolution to overhaul the way medical research and development is done. But for one group supporting the resolution, the humanitarian organization “...

Study To Look Into Psychological And Emotional Effects Of Cervical Cancer

...rtners to cervical cancer. "I think partners are a neglected group of people who probably need a substantial amount of support or at least some way of understanding what is going on." The study will also study the effects of the cancer on important organs like the bowel and the bladder....

Small Naps are Beneficial for Doctors to Overcome Fatigue

...ine at the University of Chicago, 'yet is has been neglected by the one industry that studies sleep. The researchers studied 38 first-year medical residents (also known as interns) on the general medicine service at the University of Chicago Hospital from July 2003 to June 2004. For several month-long perio...

Underlying relationship between Childhood insecurity and Eating Disorder

...a solid self-worth and identity. On the other hand neglected children have a very low opinion of themselves and suffer low self esteem. In their research, Troisi and colleagues from the University of Rome studied 96 women between the age of 20 and 30suffering anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Upon scratchi...

Antihistamine Could also be used as a Potential Antimalarial Drug

...comes to developing new drugs for the treatment of neglected diseases like malaria,” said senior study author D...rld. “This line of research can be applied to many neglected diseases,” said Chong, the lead author of the study. (Source: Nwswise)...

Campaign For Arthritis Awareness Launched In Scotland

...ners have also warned that women are being largely neglected in their treatment of the condition. As many as ten woman MPs including Theresa May have joined with the ‘arthritis charities’ to push for a boost in funding and access to the latest treatment. Speaking at yesterday's campaign launch, Ailsa Bosworth ...

Experts Are Optimistic Of Making Waterborne Infectious Diseases A Thing Of Past

... that up to seven tropical diseases that are quite neglected including river blindness could be brought under control, with infection by some totally eliminated, just by an increase in the coverage of the programmes. In Africa some 500 million people need treatment to control diseases such as disfiguring ele...

Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

...than lung problems, the development of services is neglected year after year. The Irish College of Psychiatry have reported that one consultant and a partial team can have up to 600 patients which is ludicrous and detrimental to the patients well-being. Psychiatrists, nurses and administrators do their best bu...

Producing More Drugs For Lethal Diseases Is Not The Answer

...Group, The George Institute, argues that drugs for neglected diseases are increasingly being developed partly d...ill be discussing the rise of drug development for neglected diseases and the role of PPPs at a major international conference, organised by the ESRC Innogen Cen...

US, India Firms Develop New Cure for Black Fever

...a San Francisco charity focusing on treatments for neglected diseases, in collaboration with the Hyderabad-based drug manufacturer Gland Pharma Limited, the American company announced. The drug is expected to be a key tool for India's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), which aims to ri...

Child death reduction needs five times more funds

...ommentary. "This goal acts as a spotlight for many neglected diseases, as well as a litmus test for the achievement of other MDGs." GYT...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

In Kumbaribill, a neglected village nestled near the Similipal wildlife sanctuary in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district, deaths due to malnutrition and diseases are// frequent. "We are dying of government apathy," lamented a villager. "We are poor and helpless because we are locked...

Emotional Problems Common Among Children With Developmental Disabilities

...could lead to the prediction that this sizable and neglected public health problem will also continue to be a burden on families, communities, and governments,” the researchers conclude. Source-Newswise RM...

Double Knee replacement for a Kenyan in Chennai

...g abroad to have his knee surgery. The old man had neglected and severe osteo arthritis with bent knees and was unable to walk more than ten yards, tiring easily. Although there were good hospitals in Nairobi, the old man did'nt trust the Doctors in his homeland. He did'nt want to travel to South Africa, Thail...

Surge of HIV Cases in Taiwan Prompts Doubling in Expenditure for HIV Prevention

...on high-risk sexual behavior said, ‘Our government neglected education targeted at drug users.’ In addition a survey of female injecting-heroin users in Taiwan found many held misconceptions regarding the modes of HIV transmission and those who didn't perceive themselves susceptible to AIDS rarely used cond...

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