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HIV infections have reached a new high

The number of people infected with HIV in the UK is likely to... Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) predict that the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis may rise from around 23,000 in 2000 to almost 34,000 by the y...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...ns caused by asphyxia. Asphyxia can be caused by a number of factors, including an obstruction to the baby's blood supply or detachment of the placenta, however, in many cases the cause cannot be identified. On the strength of these studies, researchers from hospitals and other medical institutions across ...

Computers may become surgeons

...ange, can become useless. And although the small number of magnetic resonance imaging machines worldwide are capable of providing updated images during surgery, the instruments still have to be held and manipulated by humans. The researchers believe their work could have a significant impact on the emergi...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

Paediatric heart units that carry out a high number of operations have lower deaths rates than those with a low volume of cases. David Spiegelhalter, a scientist at the Institute of Public Health in Cambridge, analysed voluntary surgical returns and hospital episode statistics relating to 12 hospitals...

Choose your mate

...ty, their wing size, asymmetry of features and the number of tooths on their sex combs which are used to purport females. The main difference between offspring was that those whose mothers had been able to pick their mate were more likely to live longer. Dr Promislow, said "Our results focus on adults, and...

Monday malady

...ekend's socialising could also be to blame for the number of Monday heart attacks. Nearly about 64,000 men and women who died of heart disease in Brisbane were studied between 1985 and 1993, and it was found the mortality rate was at pinnacle on Mondays. Deaths of women under 55 with no previous history o...

To get the better of

...ng to the reproductive tract. Dr Cathy added: "The number of sperm in the cervical mucus is an important predictor of future fertility, then the findings outlined may have cardinal implications for infertile couples....

Smoking stripes longevity

...okers and non-smokers and an estimate of the total number of cigarettes a regular male smoker might consume ...ughout a smoker's lifetime and postulates that the number of ciagrettes smoked throughout a lifetime is constant. Clive Bates, director of Action on Smoking ...

The negative advancement

...to achieve tanning could increase the chances of a number of more common skin cancers. However, research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute claims to have found a relationship between// tanning lamps and many types of skin cancer like basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...s. But the guidelines revised last year expand the number of potential patients to 36 million, an increase of 140 percent. "We're urging caution," say Donald Fedder, a University of Maryland pharmacologist and lead author of the study. Statins are safe in the short term, but doctors "need to follow their p...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...ews, Virginia, looked at dietary supply data for a number of countries in North and South America, Asia and Europe. Such data reflects only the supply of food in a given country, and not the food intakes of different people. Grant evaluated exposure to the sun's ultraviolet-B (UV-B) rays based on a country'...

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

...utterbur. The study was one of an increasing number of randomised controlled trials with herbal medici...ients did not report any adverse symptoms, a small number of people taking antihistamines reported side effects, mostly drowsiness and fatigue. Dr Schapowal s...

Inadequate Drug Treatment For Youth

...y, the psychological needs of the patient, and the number and types of drugs the person abuses. To close the treatment gap, the government, health-care providers and insurance companies must address funding, insurance coverage, capacity and the stigma associated with seeking help for drug addictions....

Kidney cancer on the rise

...inued rise of the disease despite a decline in the number of smokers in the UK. "The most common symptom of the disease is blood in the urine, but unfortunately the bleeding is often intermittent and can be disregarded by patients and doctors," Dr James says. Early detection is crucial if the cancer is to ...

Wheat wards off colon cancer

...me available wheat strains already contain a great number of orthophenols.Antioxidants can be found in several vitamins, including vitamins E and D, but research shows that eating whole grain products and wheat germ is critical for the antioxidants to be absorbed....

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...alate. The risk of the birth defect rises with the number of cigarettes that a mother-to-be smokes each day, even after factors like the mother's race, age and educational level are considered. The finding, based on the largest-ever examination of cleft lip and palate incidence nationwide, suggests that the...

Lifestyle variation can cut diabetes hazard

...up. In the metformin group, the corresponding case number was 7 and in the lifestyle modification group it was just 4 cases. This means a 50 per cent reduced incidence in diabetes after lifestyle modification. So if you've been diagnosed with high blood sugar, it could be well worthwhile losing some weight ...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

...ormer smokers, on the other hand, had only a small number of lung cancer cases compared with those who conti...d in doing so will be the chief determinant of the number of deaths caused by tobacco over the next few decades....

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

... to a low of 58 percent in California. The average number of prescriptions per member per year varied from 8.3 in New York to 12.2 in Kentucky. Generally, prescription drug use was lower in the Northeast and West, and higher in the South and Midwest. For children, the percentage receiving at least one presc...

Pain Killers Keep the Virus Away

...ld. But when treated with the cox-2 inhibitor, the number of virus copies in the cell fell more than 100-fold. "There's a significant block there in the virus production," says Thomas....

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