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Smoking Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk

...ppears in the July issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....

Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea

...ly to find that your customer had called more than one company and already took off with the one who got to him first, Hur said. This is the most frustrating. I am always in a rush. Many replacem...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

...rebs, a principal research scientist at M.I.T. and one of the first scientists to envision robot-assisted...mputer games to make the practice less tedious. In one application, as patients grasp and release their hands, an image shows a hand squeezing lemons or st...

A Balanced Diet can Keep Asthma, Wheezing at Bay in Teens

...on and respiratory symptoms. Over the period of one school year, 2,112 students completed a standardiz...e majority of adolescents in the study were white, one third was overweight, and 72 percent did not consume multivitamins. Also, nearly 25 percent reported...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...said that the Hopkins experiments demonstrate that one of the major architectural markers of the human ge...dded. Katsanis and his team first stumbled onto one type of repeat element while looking at genes associated with Bardet Biedl syndrome, a rare disorder...

Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...ed in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....

Fossilized Midges can Predict Climate Change: Study

...rapidly and cold periods lasted up to 50 years for one event and 150 years for the other. The detection of these events will allow experts to understand more clearly what can happen when the climate system is disturbed. Professor Jim Marshall, from the University's Department of Earth and Ocean Sci...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

... Loyola University Medical Center, Illinois: "It's one thing to survive, but another to live a life blind and deaf and in a wheelchair. Incidentally, the chance of surviving without a major handicap depends on the length of gestation, and not on birth weight. At 23 weeks, the chance of survival could b...

IFC to Invest About Rs.3 Billion in Max Healthcare

...ent will help us realize our vision of emerging as one of India's leading healthcare providers," Singh added. IFC, which supports private sector-led development through direct investment to promote growth, has invested over 400 million dollars in various projects across India in the 2005-06 fiscal....

Spain Withdraws Contaminated Chinese Toothpaste

... hazard. Once a formal "notification" is made by one EU country, there is a legal obligation for other EU member states to take follow-up actions on their markets. The issue became prominent in late May, when Chinese toothpaste containing DEG was found in Panama, the Dominican Republic and subsequentl...

Macca Calls for Veggie World to Prevent Global Warming

... favour borders on myth. "Livestock farming is one of the biggest destroyers of the planet. When you ...ct it's the opposite. It's all about attitudes, no one thinks they're the one who has to change," he added. McCartney also recalled the spat his late wif...

Study Links Breast Cancer to Western Diet in Chinese Women

...ng estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, one of the most common types. "The 'meat-sweet' pattern was significantly associated with increased risk of breast cancer among overweight postmenopausal women," a summary of the study said. "The Shanghai data gave us a unique look at a population of...

Singapore Dengue Fever Cases Hit Year's Peak

...ding grounds in the city which has a reputation as one of Asia's cleanest. Dengue is traditionally associated with poorer tropical countries. The disease leads to a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and rashes....

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

...cy and safety. Roche plans to release results from one more this year, while data from the fifth study will become available at a later date....

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...er populations around the world suggests that this one genetic marker is highly influential across ethnic...ing earlier in life than age 50. Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States, and the good news is that its largely preventable w...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

...ication of enriched grains is generally considered one of the greatest advances in public health policy, ...ues analyzed data from national cancer registries, one in the United States and another in Canada. The US data were derived from the nationwide Surveillanc...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...penditure in developed countries, where as many as one person in ten is treated for hypertension. The dif...ure on antihypertensive drugs. Before the change, one in ten patients starting antihypertensive medication was prescribed a thiazide drug. This proportion...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

... admitted for heart attack to a hospital ranked as one of Americas Best by U.S. News & World Report are l...the July 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Using a methodology that is similar to the recently released mortal...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...exception to this power equation. This is probably one of natures worst follies, which the planet has liv...rs to blame for the spread of infection. On the one hand we glorify our women, and on the other we show scant disregard for their health and well being....

Clinicians Ordering Inappropriate Prostate Screenings

...the July 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals , Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests to screen for prostate cancer are frequently performed among patients for whom the PSA test is not shown to be beneficial, and clinicians with certain characteristics are more like...

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