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India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...research in India, even though the country remains one of the most affected by the spread of the disease. Indian scientists have published only one percent of the research works published globally. The editorial in the Indian Journal of Medical R...

South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

...in a population of 48 million infected, as well as one of the world's highest rates of teenage pregnancy....

Furore Over Spa Planned on Active Philippines Volcano

A project to build a spa on the rim of one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines wa...s erupted 33 times in the last 400 years, the last one being in 1977, and government experts at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology have...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...me data with alarm and surprise. Regardless of how one interprets these findings, they are important in truly informing the debate with generalizable facts," the study concluded....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

... America's dependence on foreign oil. But before one gets carried away, here is the reality check. Dr. Margo Thorning, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for the American Council for Capital Formation has warned, "AB 32 is likely to cause "leakage" of industry to states and countries with no ...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...d and current exposure was unexpected. More than one in four of the individuals included in the ECRHS were sensitized to at least one of the allergens tested, indicating that avoidance of cat exposure would be beneficial to a much wid...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...ith impaired speech and movement. In approximately one third of cases it also results in dementia. The disease affects at least one percent of people over the age of 65. Dopamine, which helps direct movement, is provided in a part...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...al body weight (approximately 10-15 pounds) after one year, compared with people not involved in formal ... gain it back," said Michael L. Dansinger, MD, MS, one of the study authors and a physician at Tufts-New England Medical Center's Division of Endocrinology...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

...ge in the effort to limit the cacophony. The new one in many cases leaves it up to an inspector to dete...lable to an inspector to do so. "It is certainly one of the strongest noise laws in the country," he said. Where before there was less clarity on what ...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...apies might be that it isn't sufficient to replace one neuron," he says. "You might have to replace combinations of different neuronal types when it comes to reestablishing neural function." The finding, he says, has not been without its hints. In 1996, the lab reported (PNAS, Dec. 1996) what he descri...

Aboriginal People Less Likely to Use Methadone Therapy

...such as heroin. Methadone therapy is recognized as one of the most effective options for treating heroin addiction....

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

... from migraines, the prevalence of teens suffering one or more migraines in the previous year was nearly the same in lower vs. higher income groups8.6 percent vs. 8.4 percent, respectively. But when the Einstein researchers focused on those teens without a strong family predisposition for migraines, th...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

... that a sandwich was often the main constituent of one of three meals in the day, and so that fact that it contained a third of the recommended daily intake of salt was not necessarily a problem. However, she cautioned that if it was combined with other things, such as a packet of crisps or biscuits th...

Diabetic Skip Jabs to Stay Slim

...g actress and singer from Leeds, said: She told me one woman had fallen into a coma but I still thought I could control it. I started lowering the dose I gave myself so I could eat less carbohydrates, but when you stop taking the insulin its like bulimia the food just goes through you. By skipping the i...

NHSs Golden Handshake Shocks People

...e, Huntingdon and Peterborough Pacts to merge into one giant body and Mr. Town was seconded to oversee th...hat such a large sum of money has been paid out to one individual. The Strategic Health Authority has some tough questions to answer. This is a consequence...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...o follow the current monotherapy trial. EPC2407 is one of two VDA compounds currently in clinical trials ...g evaluated in two Phase II human clinical trials, one in patients with primary brain cancer and the other in brain metastases due to melanoma. EpiCept's l...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

...g tools work," she said. As of June 2006, around one million Africans were receiving antiretroviral drugs which roll back the AIDS virus, a tenfold increase since December 2003. But this was still less than a quarter of the estimated 4.6 million people in need of the drugs....

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

...fant found a type of salmonella identitical to the one carried by the turtle, it said. The turtle, which had a 3.2-centimeter (1.25-inch) shell, had been given to the family in January by a friend who bought it at a flea market. The 1975 law bans the sale of turtles with a carapace fewer than 10 cent...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

... country has no rule directly regulating dogmeat," one health ministry official said while asking for anonymity. Food safety regulations require all livestock to be examined before sale, but dogs are not defined as livestock. An animal rights protection law bans the brutal killing of dogs or other an...

New Asthma Gene Identified

... gene, there have been quite a few reports but not one that can be clearly reproduced in samples," said G... 7-10 percent of children in the United States and one child in seven in the United Kingdom. Its prevalence differs widely among different geographic areas...

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