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India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...ring the 30 year period (1976-2006), or about 1.04 per cent of total global output on diabetes (2,77,781)". It is estimated that the number of diabetics in India is likely to increase from the present 49.8 million to 69.9 million by 2025. But, no clear picture of the prevalence of diabetes in various p...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...lthough the prevalence of use varied from 17 to 72 per cent between different countries, the review suggested that nearly half of diabetics supplemented their conventional medicines with some form of alternative therapy. Elderly women who had been living with diabetes for longer, and people interested...

Genetic Mutation That Makes Common Cancers Resistant to Drugs Identified

...colorectal or ovarian cancer, and found that eight per cent of breast, six per cent of colorectal and two per cent of ovarian tumours had the AKT1 mutation. "Recently, molecula...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

...ade, predicting grains would rise by as much as 50 per cent between now and 2016....

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...ommission also wants a budget of 120 million euros per year, funded partially by the EU and partially by national sources, for a marketing campaign to gain market share abroad. At the same time, the European Union's executive arm proposed loosening currently strict but "confusing" rules on bottle label...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...nsume about seven billion hot dogs, or 818 wieners per second....

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

... Wensleydale, which was found to contain 4g, or 65 per cent of the recommended daily salt intake. Pret a Mangers All Day Breakfast, with 3.54g, was next on the list followed by Tescos Finest All Day Breakfast, Morrisons Chicken and Bacon, Sainsburys Taste the Difference Brunch and Waitroses Sausage, Egg ...

Four Pakistan Children Abused Daily: SPARC Report

..., stepfathers, uncles and elder siblings, abuse 47 per cent of children. People either known to the chi...hes, physicians, clerics and neighbours, commit 49 per cent of the sexual assaults, the report said. "Around 75 per cent children who are victims of comm...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...us (HIV) which causes AIDS) -- to below 50 viruses per millilitre of blood. At the 24-week point in the two trials, 56 and 62 percent of patients in the etravirine group had achieved this goal, The Lancet paper says. Among the "placebo" group, the rate was 39 and 44 percent. Side effects were "mild o...

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

...ot an investigation into the medical practitioners per se. It's an investigation in support of the investigation by the London Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism command," Keelty said. Seven people have been arrested in Britain over the attacks, all of them doctors or with medical links. Mr Ruddoc...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...reduce heavy drinking days or the number of drinks per drinking day, you might actually alleviate some suffering, even though you dont cause the person to be abstinent. Not everyone who seeks alcohol treatment is ready to consider a lifetime without alcohol, so an abstinence goal can be a barrier for s...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...Finger, which currently costs thousands of dollars per digit, might seem expensive to prospective buyers. But it's not a get-rich-quick scheme for its inventor: Didrick, 37, sold his house, his Porsche and many of his personal possessions to help fund development, and he draws only a modest salary from s...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...earch found that the mean annual prescription cost per individual was similar for males (196.13 euro) and females (195.12euro). However after 65 years of age, the mean prescribing costs for males were significantly higher than females. On average, costs for a 75-year-old man would be 12 times the costs...

Sleep Disorder Leads to Road Accidents

...ntres. Health departments spend nearly 300 dollars per night at sleep centres diagnosing patients, which is a costly exercise and ties up valuable resources particularly as many of these referrals are unnecessary. Dr Kerr said his team was working on a project to develop a more effective system of dia...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...tation is generating the gas from water, using 100 per cent renewable energy from a hydroelectric plant in the Alps. It produces no CO2 emissions at all." Along with using renewable energy to produce "green hydrogen", Hafseld believes that the increasing uses of hydrogen-powered fuel cells in cars are ...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...er a 4.5-year period from 2002. It found that 84.3 per cent of smears taken from women between 25 and 40 years of age produced a normal result. Significantly, the report concluded that women from poorer social and economic backgrounds were more likely to have abnormal smear results. The annual repor...

Computer Games World Cup Kicks Off in Paris

...earn up to two million dollars (1.5 million euros) per year, said Matthieu Dallon, Games-Services president. "In Korea and in the United States there are television channels 100-percent dedicated to electronic sports," he said. Svanevik Sondre, a Norwegian player who goes by the name "Real," has spon...

Napo Obtains Special Protocol Assessment Agreement From FDA for Crofelemer

... mg) will be assessed in Stage I. When 50 subjects per group complete the initial efficacy dosing period (28 days), an interim analysis will be conducted to select an optimal single dose of crofelemer for Stage II. Stage II will continue until an additional 75 subjects are randomized both to this dose of...

Overdose of Paracetamol was Dropped

...the hospitalisation rate has dropped 41% from 19.6 per 100 000 population to 12.1 per 100 000 in 2004. Myers team found that although for under 50s the rate fell 46%, there was a 50% jum...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...elves are said to be responsible for upwards of 70 per cent of cervical cancers. That means Gardasil will not prevent all cervical cancers and women are still advised to get Pap tests. But the important consideration here is that if young women have already been exposed to these two most popular strain...

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