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Study Says Chest Pain Toll in Women is More than Physical

...ion can expect her condition to take a toll in the neighborhood of $800,000, according to a report. C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., medical director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, medical director of Women’s Health, and one of the article’s authors, said researche...

Cooling Temperatures Help Crucian Carp

...n Physiological Society published the study. Safe neighborhood The carp developed this remarkable physiological adaptation as a way to avoid troublesome neighbors: predators. But the predator-free ponds where they live are inhospitable and require the fish to survive several months in only a few feet of water co...

Guide For A Healthy Heart

...g that extra snack, take a brisk stroll around the neighborhood or your office building. * Do housework, gardening, or yard work at a more vigorous pace. * When you travel, walk around the train station, bus station, or airport rather than sitting and waiting. In addition to providing information on pr...

Staying Indoors Responsible for 1995 Heat Wave Killings

...are important, but our research indicates that the neighborhood infrastructure itself could be implicated." Nea... researchers used several data sets to explore how neighborhood conditions in Chicago were linked to mortality during that heat wave. They found, as expected, th...

Environmental Factors Leads to Obesity in Rural Communities

... to what we’ve known. Certain characteristics of a neighborhood may put residents at greater risk of being obese,”...in people who live in rural settings. Altering the neighborhood environment to be more activity friendly may result in higher levels of physical activity and the re...

V P Singh Proposes Doubling Of Medical Seats

...ng term solution can be provided by implementing a neighborhood school scheme on the lines of one such programme i.... Under this scheme, all children would only go to neighborhood schools. The government should allow the private sector to open these schools and fix a reasonable f...

Man with Possible Bird Flu Symptoms Hospitalized In Gujarat

...hai Marghiwala, a 30-year-old resident of Jamalpur neighborhood of the city, was suffering from fever for a week. Gujarat's Health Minister Ashok Bhatt, however, denied Marghiwala had bird flu as primary investigations revealed negative results. According to Bhatt, the blood samples of the patient were sent to ...

Bird Flu Claims Two More Lives In Indonesia

...icials said earlier that many fowl had died in the neighborhood where they lived in the West Java district of Indramayu. Five patients in the country suffering from the infection are reported to have recovered. Edited IANS...

Poor more prone to severe Periodontal Disease

...ow income and poor education at the individual and neighborhood level is linked to severe periodontitis among Afri...djustment for age, gender, recruitment center, and neighborhood socioeconomic conditions," "Specifically, the odds of having severe periodontitis were twice as hi...

Surroundings Have An Effect On Weight

... the need to understand the character of a child's neighborhood when making recommendations for lifestyle and activity changes aimed at obesity prevention and treatment, the researchers said. --Edited IANS ...

Study Finds Low Socio-Economic Status Linked to Poor Dental Health

...ngs remained consistent even after age, gender and neighborhood income level were adjusted. People living in disadvantaged neighborhoods were found to have twice the level of dental problems as compared to their well-off counterparts. The authors say that more research is needed to look into the influence of econ...

Shanghai To Tackle Hypertension

...festyle, in addition to improper medication. The neighborhood hospitals’ professional standards do not come up t...by the program by transferring chronic patients to neighborhood health centers from city-based hospitals. In the meantime the State of Indianapolis in the US also...

Safe Neighborhood Means Less TV For Preschool Children

...e, the relationship between parental perception of neighborhood safety and obesity, physical activity and television viewing in preschool children. Television viewing is associated with aggression and poorer academic performance in school-aged children, and TV-viewing patterns are established early in life, said ...

Uterine Fibroid Embolization Gaining Popularity

...erformed in the [United States] per year is in the neighborhood of 600,000; 200,000 of which are performed because of fibroids,” Dr. Zwiebel says.Uterine fibroid embolization has become an alternative for most patients because it’s less painful and less invasive. One of the main advantages is you can treat multip...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

... survey looked at black and white people in 200 US neighborhood areas. Six times more supermarkets were located in areas where white people lived, compared to black people. In general, the more supermarkets in an area, the more likely the local population was to eat the recommended five portions of fresh fruit ...

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