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Flu Strikes Late - Child Succumbs

...lu season seems to have arrived late as it usually peaks in the months of December and January. This unusually long delay may be due to milder winters, say experts. According to Dr. Theresa Tam of the Public Health Agency of Canada, in an average year, about 4,000 Canadians die because of influenza an...

Strep, Psychiatric Symptoms Possibly Linked in Some Children

...tious Diseases. Depending on the season – strep peaks in December and January – more than one in three children will be infected. Not all of the children will have sore throat symptoms, but they carry the bacteria and can infect others. “The medical perspective has always been that the carrier states ...

‘Braveheart’- Woman Becomes First to Climb Mountains After Heart Transplat

...Heart”. She led her team up one of several unnamed peaks in the remote Cajon de Arenales region near Argentina's border with Chile, more than 650 miles west of Buenos Aires. Perkins grew up among mountains and with a love for the outdoors. Her zeal for mountain trekking and climbing only increased after ...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...follow the outline of a sinusoidal curve, with its peaks and valleys, on a computer screen. 'More force--which is indicated by a corresponding higher firing rate of neurons--is exerted just before you begin the upturn toward one peak and then it eases off again in the downturn toward a valley,' Knight no...

Exam Time Boosts Sales of Memory Enhancers

...medicines are sold throughout the year, the demand peaks from November to April - the time when most exams are conducted. For many, taking such medicines has become routine, irrespective of whether there is an exam, said a shopkeeper. Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior and Jabalpur are the main wholesale centres o...

Bolivian Glacier Melts, Dangerously Fast

...In the wet season, one could still see snow-capped peaks in the region. But the snow melts quickly and runs off the glacier. 'We keep having to revise downwards our projections of when Chacaltaya is going to disappear completely,' said Ramirez, who has been monitoring the glacier since 1995. 'Not long...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

...art disease (IHD) (40.1% men and 59.9% women). The peaks in deaths from both AMI and IHD coincided with the times when influenza epidemics and acute respiratory disease (ARD), which often accompanies flu, were at their height. They found that the chances of dying from AMI increased by a third in epidemic w...

Life Functions Governed by Circadian Rhythms-new Research

...of all genes fall into the same phase or timing of peaks and valleys. Synchronization with the activity of the other genes and genes in different organs is a very important and highly specific part of gene function. In addition, genes can oscillate with different amplitude -- the swing between the highes...

New Treatment Could Enable Even Older Women to Conceive

...e edition of the Daily Mail. A woman's fertility peaks between 20 and 24 years of age. However, fertility rates remain relatively constant through the early 30s, after which they begin to decline. At age 30 to 35, fertility is 15 to 20 percent below maximum. From age 35 to 39, the decrease is 25 to 50 ...

Essential Tones of Music Rooted in Human Speech

...the neck), which create a series of resonant power peaks in a stream of air coming up from the lungs. These power peaks are then modified in a spectacular variety of ways by the changing shape of the soft palate, tongue,...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...in tablet, and labeled the drug as providing fewer peaks and valleys than with immediate-release oxycodone, the OCI said. U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said, "With its OxyContin, Purdue unleashed a highly abusable, addictive, and potentially dangerous drug on an unsuspecting and unknowing public." "For...

Low Test Scores Of Children Linked To Their Date Of Conception

...nfant mortality in the U.S.- premature birth, also peaks along with pesticide use. The evidence in this latest study shows that the trend in pesticide exposure, especially pesticides found in drinking water, is related to trends in test scores many years down the road. "We have now linked higher pestic...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

...o half get carsick at some time, and the condition peaks between ages 2 and 12, says the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those prone to migraines appear particularly susceptible, says Andrew Racine, director of general pediatrics at Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York. Carsi...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...ane studios between 1998 and 2006. The dramatic peaks and troughs in the geographic prevalence of breast cancer in NSW are likely to be blamed on several factors, including lifestyle, environment, hormones, genes, ethnicity and screening. Women who do not have children, or who put off childbirth unti...

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