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Soccer Players Face Groin Injuries

...etes had a groin injury incidence of 0.44 injuries per 1,000 hours, while a control group had a groin injury rate of 0.61 injuries per 1,000 hours. Our 28% injury reduction rate is highly significant, says principal investigator Mich...

Senior Church Leaders in Lesotho Pledge to Fight AIDS

...0 new infections are estimated in 2007, that is 80 per day, bringing the number of people living with HIV to a total of more than 270,000, of which more than 16,000 are children aged below 14 years. More than 55 percent of 180,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS, the statement said. The NAC and t...

Organ Donors Solicited During UKs National Transplant Week

...tion during which Lomass son David, 20, donated 60 per cent of his healthy liver to his father.The surgeo...n for the rest of the body, which still has it. 74 per cent of lung transplant patients survive one year, and many go on to lead full lives....

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

...ong 1.9 million births.Researchers discovered a 46 per cent overall reduction, and a 53 per cent reduction in spina bifida cases specifically. The decline in prevalence was most noticeable in ...

Folicacid Reduces Congenital Malformations, If Added to Flour

...ada. Between 1993 and 1997, the incidence was 1.58 per 1,000 births. Between 2000 and 2002, the rate dropped 46% to 0.86. The biggest improvement occurred in the parts of Canada that had the highest rates of neural tube deformation before 1998Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. In Queb...

Canada Daycare Looks After Elderly Parents While Children Work

...ice hours. The companies pay hundreds of dollars per day for the service. Their employees also pay a daily fee to access the service. "We're trying to help our employees with their work-life balance, by offering them (a service) very similar to child care," said Colin Merrick, a spokesman for Deloitt...

Electronic Medical Records can Pay You Within 16 Months

...al records system reduced costs by 393,662 dollars per year, nearly two-thirds of that coming from a shar...rs a year for the medical center, or 9,983 dollars per provider....

Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

...nxiety and depression in children have risen by 70 per cent in the past 25 years; sure signs that the env...with psychiatric problems commit around 60 murders per year. Yet according to the Lancet's report, , patients in mental health wards may be in bigger dange...

Monoclonal Antibody Induces Death in Liver Cancer Cells

...y that appears to be overly active in more than 70 per cent of the cancers we examined and, when targeted, leads to significant reduction in tumour cell proliferation and survival," said Dr. Monga. He also says that targeting the PDGFRa pathway in liver cancer cells does not affect normal liver cells, ...

Female Heart Attack Victims Show Signs of Lasting Depression

...s were surveyed out of them 102 were females. 14.3 per cent of the women had worsening depression one yea... initial myocardial infarctions, as compared to 11 per cent of the men. As well, the women scored lower than their male counterparts in physical and social...

Now, a Tattoo That can Be Easily Removed

...ryptic body symbols can be permanent or removed as per the wearer's choice. The new method is called micro-encapsulation, where particles are suspended in a biodegradable polymer coating. The microcapsules, that are as tiny as pins, can bear a molecule that requires protection or restrained release. ...

Air Pollution Stats Filtered in Ontario

...highest, the smog death toll would be closer to 18 per day. If Torontos pollution kills 1,700 people a year, dirty air would account for approximately a third of all heart- and lung-related deaths or nearly 10% of the 18,636 deaths recorded in all of Toronto in 1999, the year upon which the 1,700 figure ...

Avastin Dropped Out Of Funded Drugs List

...ncer. Although Avastin costs an average of $35,000 per patient for 12 treatments over six months, British...hocytic leukemia, at an estimated cost of $170,000 per year....

Strategies for the Summer

... snow, sand and concrete that can reflect up to 85 per cent of the suns dangerous rays. UVA rays can also...ty of skin cancers are related to sun exposure. 80 per cent of skin cancers occur above the neck. Skin cancer can be avoided. Minimize Sun and UV Exposure...

Sex Survey Reveals That Most People Want Sex Thrice a Week

...th a good sense of humour turned them on, while 80 per cent said that they would snub a bloke with bad manners. Seventy per cent of men also said that they would dump a woman who was just pretty but not witty, reports the Su...

Large Geographic Differences in EpiPen Prescriptions in the U. S.

...culate the average number of prescriptions written per person. Researchers found that on average, there were 5.71 EpiPens prescribed per 1000 persons in the U.S. The highest number of prescriptions per 1000 persons was in Massachusetts w...

Tourettes Syndrome in Children may also Result in Superior Learning Skills

...nce, Psychology, Neurology, and Linguistics. As per the background information in a report published in the journal Neuropsychologia, tics in Tourettes syndrome can include eye blinking, repeated throat clearing or sniffing, arm thrusting, kicking, shoulder shrugging, or jumping. In a study, eight ...

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...directed by the court to streamline their units as per environmental norms by the end of this month. According to a study by the United States Agency for International Development, India's thriving industry and rapid economic growth account for much of pollution. This costs the country an estimated 9.7...

Spain Announces Cash-for-kid Payments to Boost Birth Rate

... plan to give families 2,500 euros (3,200 dollars) per new child in a bid to raise the flagging birth rat...st families receive an additional 291 euros a year per minor. The 2005-2006 slight increase was largely due to births by immigrants, who will likewise be...

US Teen Birth Rate Drops to Record Low: Report

...he following 15 years, reaching a record low of 21 per 1,000 young women in 2005 compared to 39 in 1991, ...g black teenagers dropped by 60 percent, from 83.5 per 1,000 in 1991 to 35 in 2005, according to the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statisti...

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