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Better Understanding of Quality of Life Assessments

...loan and his coauthors say that choosing the right ones to use can be difficult, as can the proper data for a study or treatment regimen. Requiring the patient to submit excessive amounts of data, such as daily reports or lengthy questionnaires, contributes to a lessened quality of life, say the authors, ...

South Asian Sisters Bring Mental Illness Out of Closet

...essure and isolation of family members whose loved ones suffer from mental illness will be eased and that they can find comfort in a taboo subject being brought to light in a humanistic and embracing way," adds Rehana. Asked in what way is South Asians' attitude to mental illness different from the Weste...

Anthrax Attack - Greater Potential Threat Than Thought

...ptoms, but the most-exposed subjects were the only ones to have high-magnitude responses. Low-level exposure did not appear to trigger an antibody response, but did induce a response by cells of the immune system, Intermediate exposure induced both. Finally, cellular immune responses declined with post...

Military College to Set Up Stem Cell Research Centre

... said."Replacing dead cells in the retina with new ones may someday cure even presently incurable eye dise...cells could be used to replace the damaged or dead ones in diseased organs."This stem cell therapy is similar to the process of organ transplant, only the t...

Electrical Activity Alters Language Used By Nerve Cells

...ultiple types of receptors, and then eliminate the ones that aren’t needed,” commented Spitzer. “But it provides organisms with the ability to adapt to the environmental conditions in which they are living.” The researchers are not certain if the adult human brain will retain this same flexibility, but ...

Come Apart and Rest Awhile – It’s Christma!

...ad love, merriment and cheer by gifting their dear ones to make them happy. The gifts are usually packed and placed at the bottom of the Christmas tree. People wait until midnight to open the goodies and celebrate the sparkle of Christmas with gifts, looking forward to the choicest blessings from God. O...

Mental Health Expert Offers Tips for a Happier Holiday Season

... memories of “perfect” holidays past or lost loved ones can also all contribute to feelings of tension, anxiety and sadness. “In terms of relationships, nothing magical ‘just happens’ during the holidays,” said IsHak. “If you don’t get along with your in-laws during the year, you’re probably not going t...

Organic Food Fever Catches Up In Delhi

...tion that the economically well-off people are the ones who eat organic food. "It is the simple middle class who are the regular buyers of organic products. Most of the people believe organic food is meant for the privileged classes. But that is definitely not the case." Mathur, whose company has been d...

A Study Questions the Effectiveness of High Speed Colonoscopies

...ional literature) detected better growths than the ones who did the procedure more quickly. It also found that those who spent more time were 10 times better in finding adenomas than others who spent only fewer times on examining the colon. A Colonoscopy entails inserting a small scope through the rectum...

Study Reveals That Folate Does Not Prevent Heart Attacks

...ilar chances of developing cardiac problems as the ones not on the supplementation schedule. Bazzano answered an interviewer, "We found that there was no benefit to using folic acid supplements in terms of cardiovascular disease risk or stroke risk." "We also found that there was no harm in terms of a...

Ways to Fight Childhood Obesity

...tivity each day, in one session or several shorter ones lasting ten minutes or more”, and overweight children should involve in more of physical activity. Only after taking care of the diet, exercise and lifestyle of a child, drugs to reduce weight like Xenical (orlistat) or Reductil (sibutramine) shoul...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...mily X members, the research team identified which ones had the initial stages of pancreatic cancer” said Brentnall. “We then compared DNA samples from the family members with pre-cancer to those who did not have the disease, and isolated the cancer-causing gene to an area of Chromosome 4.” Over the nex...

Lung Cancer Surgeries Doesn’t Help Breaking Nicotine Dependence in Smoker

...re they took up a cigarette after surgery were the ones who were most likely not to be smoking in a year’s time. "The results suggest that patients who wait until cancer surgery to quit smoking need assistance from the medical community to help them stay away from cigarettes, and that this intervention ...

You are Slim.. But are You Sure You are Healthy?

...ternal fat. Doctors such cases more risky than the ones who are fat, since they are not deceptive. Expert opinions : Professor Jimmy Bell, at the Medical Research Council's centre, Imperial College, London is the head of the molecular imaging group. He said that Mr. Schwartz had high amounts of fat ar...

India Stands Eighth Among South Asian Countries in Infant Mortality Rates

...r taking initiatives to protect the lives of young ones was Sri Lanka followed by Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan. Nepal is at the fifth position in the list. According to the report, more than 1.4 million babies are estimated to die in South Asia during the first month of life and another 2.2 millio...

Study Focus on the Need for Vigilance in Two Key Areas Among Adolescents

... the sites they visited. Parents aren't the only ones who may not recognize trouble brewing. Peebles and Wilson found in their second study that younger eating disorder patients may be at risk for more rapid weight loss than adolescents and frequently have atypical presentations that may make diagnosis ...

Asian-American Teens More Likely Than Whites to Learn Healthier Lifestyles

...teaching appropriate preventive habits such as the ones presented by the authors are at home with parents and at schools. Parents and teachers should point out not only the importance of these habits but also their implications for health now and later in the lives of children and adolescents.” Allen sa...

Twiggy Slams Ultra Thin Actresses

...es go on extreme diets to be thin and they are the ones causing eating disorders among fans. She wants to see more curvaceous actresses in films. Twiggy said: "They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a l...

Contraceptive Methods Not Effective Enough

...for having an abortion said they have had previous ones earlier. Women who had come for repeat abortions were found to be over the age of 30, were from a large family and with low income. Most of them had said that they were using contraceptives and had conceived in spite of it. Abortions are not unco...

No Proven Programs to Help Teens Quit Smoking

...for adolescents that work. But we don’t know which ones are most effective for each teenager.” The reviewers say that complex programs seem to work the best because they are “designed to respond to the many issues that characterize young persons’ smoking.” Even so, the evidence is not strong enough to...

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