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Two-thirds of outdoor pools in Montreal are closed

...efebvre, spokesman for the department. "So we have nothing to say that this is a particular public health problem for Montreal's pools." Lefebvre said that proper action has been taken by closing the pools until further tests are performed. Chlorine is added to the water every 2-3 hours, after the city lif...

Hughes Syndrome Mimics MS Causing Wrong Diagnosis

...a matter of eliminating other conditions and I had nothing else. Then a few months ago my daughter drew my attention to an article about Hughes Syndrome. I'm wary of new developments in my condition but asked my doctor about it and he had never heard of it. Now I am doing all that I can to make people aware....

Gene linked to Hearing Loss in Aged Identified

...e-related hearing loss. "At the moment, there is nothing we can do. People can wear a hearing aid, but that doesn't prevent their hearing deteriorating. "This offers real hope that treatments will be found and we are optimistic that in the future people will no longer face the prospect of losing their he...

Study Revels That Women Of Italy Are High-Risk Drinkers

...mong the mothers of the control children. This has nothing to do with light drinking. Previously people might have thought that women in Italy drank differently, but this turns out to not be the case. They drink, apparently at binge levels, and they have kids who have damage.” Sokol hopes that future studi...

Sight loss risk doubles in overweight people

...and cataracts. "In 1999 the doctors said there was nothing more they could do to save my sight," she said. "No-one ever said to me all this could be due to my weight. If they had I might have been more motivated to lose weight," she said. By 2010, one in three Scots will be clinically obese, according to e...

Compulsive Gambling – a psychiatric disorde

...have strong addiction to it."I'd say that there is nothing that matches gambling. Not even sex matches the high I get from gambling," said one addict//. There has been an upsurge of gambling places across Canada recently, thereby, creating more attraction for those with gambling problems. According to some...

Despite High Literacy Rate Female Foeticide is on the Rise in Kerala

...s has happened just because of female feticide and nothing else. The problem is that we are unable to track how this is happening and who are the guilty," said Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy Thursday while speaking at a workshop here on "problems relating to NRI (non-resident Indians) marriages". "In order ...

Drug Prices Rising Faster Than Inflation

...hat have the biggest increases, which imply it has nothing to do with normal economic theory. People are bein... plan for seniors that took effect Jan. 1 has done nothing by way of reducing prices. ‘In fact,’ she said ‘prices have now zoomed up more than they had before ...

Breast Feeding - The Key in Fighting Child Mortality in Africa

... death rate in the first month as babies who drank nothing but breast milk. Colostrum, the first milk produced after childbirth, is rich in a variety of components that help the gut to grow and build resistance to infection. Substitutes, like animal milk, can disrupt the normal function of the gut. Often i...

Cancer Survivor Runs Half-marathon

...ase and then went on to script history proves that nothing is impossible for human beings," he said. Armstrong was detected with testicular cancer in 1996 and was given a 50-50 chance of survival. But he recovered and then made history by winning the prestigious Tour de France title six times on the trot. ...

Eye-opener for Stroke Victims Suffering Partial Vision Loss

...ng brain damage and are told on a daily basis that nothing can be done.Sahraie adds that. We are already finding that patients report that they can navigate more easily around their home or feel more confident when they are crossing the road." Scientists expect to engage in additional rounds of testing to ...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...sease, and the government seems to be doing almost nothing to improve them," Jha told a visiting IANS correspondent. Kala azar - medically known as Visceral Leishmaniasis - is a vector-born disease and is characterised by fever, weight loss, swelling of spleen and liver and anaemia that could lead to cardi...

Fertility Clinics Allowing Parents To Select Gender

...ng is being used for late-onset diseases that have nothing to do with childhood sickness," Cohen claims. He sees these as troubling trends. The changes are taking place because there is little consensus on which tests are appropriate for PGD, and no federal or professional oversight of the clinics, accordin...

Most Suicide Rates Decline, but Findings Are Puzzling

...ve that the decline in some suicide rates may have nothing to do with antidepressants but with improved medical care. For example, some of the studies they surveyed attributed the decline in American homicide rates to improved trauma care. 'It could be that the number of attempted suicides hasn't gone down...

New foetal scans are misleading

...ements is incredibly dangerous and they contribute nothing to the debate over whether the legal time limit for abortion should be lowered. " Dr Huseyin Mehmet, a reader in developmental neurobiology at Imperial College London, said, "A foetal brain at 23 and 24 weeks is extremely immature and it is like an...

Why Don’t All Moles Progress to Melanoma

Everyone has moles. Most of the time, they are nothing but a cosmetic nuisance. But sometimes pigment-producing cells in moles called melanocytes// start dividing abnormally to form a deadly form of skin cancer called melanoma. About one in 65 Americans born this year will be diagnosed with melanoma at s...

Delhi High Court Blames Government 'Inaction' on Dengue Outbreak

...measures to prevent the dengue outbreak, but still nothing concrete seems to have been done. Despite Rs 21 cr being sanctioned to remedy an open drain behind AIIMS, the government has done precious little on a gaping problem. It is estimated that above 3000 people in the country are in the grips of the de...

Do Anti-wrinkle Cosmetics Really Work?

..., facemasks and peelers in packaging that promises nothing short of a miracle. Yet so far//, the battle against the wrinkles that come inevitably with age has been fought mainly on the surface of the human skin. The latest weapons, however, are primed to work from within. Numerous manufacturers are lining...

Smokers Warned to Give up else Face Denial of Operations

...of the Patients Association said, 'Finance has got nothing to do with making sure people are made well and every effort should be made to do it the best one can. Managers, Doctors could be forced into breaking the Hippocratic Oath, under which they pledge to treat the ill to the best of their ability.' He ...

Green Signal given to Full-Face Transplants

...nstructive procedures already. Plastic surgery has nothing further to offer them. "In other words, surgeons cannot work on them any more. They may have problems with eyelid and mouth opening and closure, they may not have any hair, their ears may have gone, been destroyed or damaged. "Most of them just wan...

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