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Sugary Diet can Be Helpful in Shedding Off Pounds

...ing at least 20g sugar) between two and four times per day, depending on their energy needs. An increas...ocused on including sixty minutes of brisk walking per day. The researchers noted that after three months, the group combining the sugar-containing diet...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

...ing at least 20g sugar) between two and four times per day, depending on their energy needs. An increas...ocused on including sixty minutes of brisk walking per day. The researchers noted that after three months, the group combining the sugar-containing diet...

Brits Need to Change Lifestyle to Have a Greener Future: Report

... The UK government has set a target of cutting 60 per cent of carbon emissions by 2050, which is higher ...ilt, mainly around Britain's shores, to provide 50 per cent of the country's new energy needs. The rest would come from a combination of biofuel "combined ...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

...e in the United States, prevailing in less than 5 per 10,000 in the community. Because medical research and development of drugs to treat such diseases is financially disadvantageous, companies that do so are rewarded with tax reductions and marketing exclusivity on that drug for an extended time (se...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...proximately two million premature deaths worldwide per year," National Geographic quoted Michal Krzyzanowski, an air quality adviser at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, as saying. In the United States, premature deaths from toxic air pollutants are estimated at 41,200 annually. Krzyzanowski work...

Selenium Supplements may Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...study, the relative risk rate was approximately 50 per cent higher among those in the selenium group than among those in the placebo group. The risk of developing diabetes tended to be higher in people who had higher blood selenium levels at the start of the study. Dr. Stranges said that it's not clea...

Singapore Dengue Fever Cases Hit Year's Peak

...d the ministry's "epidemic threshold" of 378 cases per week. "Singapore is facing an increase in dengue cases," the ministry and the National Environment Agency said in a joint statement. "The recent spells of intermittent rain coupled with warm weather has provided the mosquito ample opportunities t...

Teens Seems to Be Smoking Less

...ing rates among 15- to 19-year-olds declined to 15 per cent last year. The result is a substantial change from the rates of 1999, where almost 28% teens used to smoke. The decline is "a step in the right direction," said Rob Cunningham, a policy analyst with the society. "Higher tobacco taxes, the la...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...change in prescribing practices reduced drug costs per Norwegian by US$0.16 in the first year. Antihypertensive drugs are a major part of national drug expenditure in developed countries, where as many as one person in ten is treated for hypertension. The different classes of antihypertensive are all ef...

Indian Minister Laments Country's Lack of Sex Education

...e don't want to create controversy. But we have 55 per cent population that falls in the reproductive age and we have to create awareness among them."...

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

... Trust of UK will stand to save billions of pounds per year, as Alzheimers disease, one of the most comm...stern world, costs the NHS up to 17 billion pounds per year. According to the scientists, they have identified a series of proteins, which are most common...

Dotted All Over? - Count Yourself Lucky

...ooking at the average rate of telomere length loss per year. It was concluded that people with a lot of moles appeared to have longer telomeres and to keep their moles for longer. Those with shorter telomeres had fewer moles and tended to lose them more quickly with age. Seems like there's no bett...

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...his week, receives nearly 6 million e-visitor hits per month. Content includes research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences....

Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team

...llstones occur very frequently, affecting 15 to 20 per cent of all Germans, usually without noticeable sy...ntal influences, like the wrong diet, are 70 to 80 per cent responsible for the disorder," explains Lammert who works in the university hospital's Departme...

Bashful Men 50% More Likely to Die of Heart Attack or Stroke

...y the time the study ended three decades later, 60 per cent had died and the experts then compared the qu...esearchers still found that the shyest men were 50 per cent more likely to have died of a heart attack or stroke. And while the researchers have no idea ...

Drinking More Milk may Lessen Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...iduals with the highest dairy intake (3-5 servings per day) compared to those getting less than 1 1/2 servings each day. The Tufts researchers suggest that calcium and vitamin D may affect the body's ability to generate or utilize insulin, the hormone the body makes to process sugar that is impaired in...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

Forty per cent of community pharmacists have dispensed an of...urnal of Clinical Pharmacology . And although 78 per cent said they would tell a family doctor that the prescription they had written would have to be di...

Hospital Infection Affecting Patients in Scotland

... Scotland while being treated. The study found 9.5 per cent of people in acute hospitals had a healthcar...medical wardsShe said if infections were cut by 30 per cent, the NHS could save 55 million a year. Ms Sturgeon said this money could pay for an extra 8,000...

Canadian Cancer Society Calls for Ban on Asbestos

...cerns and worries over legal liabilities. But 95 per cent of Canada's production, from several mines in Quebec, is exported, virtually all of it to developing countries, where it is used to make cheap building materials. Asian countries such as India, Indonesia and Thailand, are the major export market...

Kenyan Capital Bans Smoking in Public

...illings (74.6 million dollars, 55.5 million euros) per year in taxes, but costs five times as much in disease, disability and death, according to official figures. Kenya is Africa's second country to introduce a partial smoking ban after Tanzania, which banned smoking in many public places in 2003. N...

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