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Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...l reveal breast cancer is likely to be at least 17 per cent higher in some of the city's most expensive s.... These breast cancer hotspots are more than 17 per cent above the average figure for NSW - and more than 30 per cent above some western Sydney areas. ...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

... for nicotine, and was launched at a cost of 55.20 per patient per month. In trials involving more than 6,000 patients in the US and Europe, around a quarter of thos...

Life Insurers in India to Launch Health Insurance Policies

...hts, observers say . At a growth rate of over 44 per cent per annum, it is one of the most attractive businesses for non-life insurers and even life insurers are ...

Side Effects of Natural Health Products With Prescription Drugs Under-reported

...on conducted a survey of 132 pharmacists. While 47 per cent of pharmacists reported that they had encount...a patient with a suspected adverse event, only 1.5 per cent reported this to Health Canada, the department of the government of Canada with responsibility ...

Weight Management Achieved by Controlling and Not Suppressing Food Cravings

...alty snacks, are those that pack the most calories per unit of volume, as compared to less energy-dense f...e fruits and vegetables, which have fewer calories per unit of volume, explains Cheryl Gilhooly, PhD, MPH, research dietitian and first author of the study...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...f cereals to those with 12 or fewer grams of sugar per serving," Kolish said. "We want to be part of the solution, and we want to help families make good choices," said Chris Shea, senior vice president of General Mills, one of the country's largest breakfast-cereal makers. But consumers' organizatio...

Understanding Restless Legs Syndrome

...erience symptoms of insomnia at least a few nights per week. Though more doctors today are aware of RLS, unless they suffer from the condition themselves, they dont necessarily know what it is like for their patients to live with RLS symptoms, said Sheila Connolly, a founding member of the Restless Le...

FICCI Proposes Models To Solve Indias Healthcare Crisis

... 1.3. The study also shows that even though 72.2 per cent of India's population lives in the rural areas, 80 per cent of doctors, 75 per cent dispensaries and 60 per cent of hospitals are in the urban areas, makin...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...lbuminuria, or slightly high levels (20 milligrams per liter or more) of the protein albumin in the urine...rcent) had eGFR values of less than 60 milliliters per minute per 1.73 square meters, which were considered abnormal and signs of declining kidney function...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

... about one in five patients. It suggests the 20 per cent who are given the drug are those who have a p...on document - limiting the treatment options to 20 per cent of patients who would benefit is unjustifiable and allowing one eye to go blind before treating...

Alcohol Consumption may Help to Protect Against Rheumatoid Arthritis

...d with subjects less exposed to alcohol (0-3 units per week), using logistic regression models with adjus...ctive still. An alcohol consumption of three units per week or more was found to reduce the risk by smoking or by a genetic predisposition to RA. Several...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...ons that are present at levels of approximately 20 per cent or greater in the circulating viral population in a patient. This study clearly shows that resistance HIV strains present at the one percent level can lead to premature failure of therapy. It is our hope that in the future, clinicians can use ...

Humanized Antibody Therapy Found Highly Effective in Easing RA Symptoms

...tion to ongoing methotrexate therapy , showed a 50 per cent improvement in the symptoms at 24 weeks. Also one fifth of the patients achieved a 70 per cent improvement in symptoms in the same period during the study, which was presented at EULAR 2007,...

Indian Antibiotic Faces Anti-dumping Duties in China

...ina has imposed an anti-dumping duty of up to 37.7 per cent on Indian manufactured antibiotic sulfamethox...dumping duty tax rate has been increased from 10.7 per cent to 37.7 per cent and the tax would be in effect for five years. Sulfamethoxazole is a sulfo...

2 Minute Delay in Cutting Cord can Give Babies a 'significant' Health Boost

...ot increase the newborn's blood volume by up to 30 per cent, as previously thought. "Late clamping of the umbilical cord is an inexpensive way of enhancing blood status, preventing anaemia over the first three months of life and enriching iron stores for as long as six months," the researchers state. "...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

...rine induction. In Britain, ART accounts for 1.4 per cent of all births every year 10,242 in 2004 whi...lly (the success rate among women under 35 is 28.2 per cent, falling to 10.6 per cent for those aged 40-42). But many have begun to wonder, like noted fert...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

... the 20th century, according to him. "About 80 per cent of those with epilepsy can be cured or their ...and surgery can now be offered to the remaining 20 per cent", says Salam. He adds that proper diagnosis is the key to success in epilepsy treatment. Vi...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...lbuminuria, or slightly high levels (20 milligrams per liter or more) of the protein albumin in the urine...rcent) had eGFR values of less than 60 milliliters per minute per 1.73 square meters, which were considered abnormal and signs of declining kidney function...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

... woman who has a twin brother is likely to have 25 per cent reduced fertility. A study conducted by them... of 754 twins, females with a twin brother were 25 per cent less likely to have children than females with a twin sister. The researchers also noted that w...

Inflamed Intestines Cost Australians Heavily

... with the conditions is expected to increase by 20 per cent or more by 2020. However, the conditions currently receive only 0.1 per cent of allocated health expenditure. The diseases affect approximately 500,000 to 2 million people ...

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