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Diabetic Womens Death Rate Shows No Decline

...te from all causes dipped from 42.6 to 24.4 deaths per 1,000 persons between the two time periods. Among...en, the death rate actually rose from 18.4 to 25.9 per 1,000, even as the life span of non-diabetic women grew longer. The death rate from cardiovascular ...

IIT-Kharagpur the Leading Technology College in India: Survey

... by IT companies has increased from Rs.1.5 million per annum last year to Rs.1.8 million this year....

Early Arctic Spring Indication of Climate Change

...ly advancement during the same period was 2.5 days per decade and 5.1 days globally. "We were particularly surprised to see that the trends were so strong when considering that the entire summer is very short in the High Arctic with just three to four months from snow melt to freeze up at our Zackenbe...

Bone Health Protection by Dietary Calcium

...in the least calcium, an average of 830 milligrams per day. Yet this group had higher bone density in the...lement group," who consumed about 1,030 milligrams per day. Women in the "diet plus supplement group" tended to have the highest bone mineral density as we...

Eyelid Spasm can Be Prevented by Coffee Drinking

... to the amount of coffee drank and one to two cups per day were needed for the protective effect to be se...ank more coffee 1.7 years for each additional cup per day.Previous studies have suggested that smoking protects against development of blepharospasm, but ...

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

...nd that diabetes and pre-diabetes accounted for 65 per cent of all heart disease deaths in the group. Participants considered pre-diabetic had a 2.5 times higher risk of death from heart problems than those who metabolised glucose normally. In fact, their increased risk was almost on par with diabetics...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...year. The Health Office estimates that around 70 per cent of all sexually active men and women are infected with a form of HPV once in their lives, with the highest risk among men and women between the ages of 16 and 25. Some senior doctors warn that hundreds of women will die of cervical cancer beca...

One in a Hundred Eleven-year Olds Use Drugs to Enhance Performance in Sport

More than one per cent of eleven year olds admit using performance e...leven years olds used doping agents less than once per month, at 15 the same proportion were using them at least every week and 24 per cent daily. Use of...

Severe Human Bite Wounds are 12 Times More Common in Men

... of the injuries and illicit drugs in 12%. Seventy per cent of incidents resulting in a bite wound had occurred during the weekend or on a public holiday. Seven out of ten bites were to the face and 65% of the facial injuries were to the ear. Bites became infected in one in five patients and infection ...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

...ber breached the "epidemic threshold" of 378 cases per week for the first time since 2005, an NEA spokeswoman said. Two people have died from the mosquito-borne disease this year. For the first six months of the year, the number of infections totaled 2,868 cases, more than double 1,392 cases during th...

Diabetic Death Rate Drops in Men but Remains Unchanged for Women

...auses in diabetic men had fallen from 42.6 to 24.4 per 1,000, a 43 percent reduction in age-adjusted deat...e of death in diabetics, dropped from 26.4 to 12.8 per 1,000 per year. Among diabetic women, however, there was no decline in the death rate in either cate...

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

...normally developing children in the first task. 75 per cent of the answers children gave - whether they were autistic or not - were in line with commonly held race and gender stereotypes. In the second task, either stereotypes or individual likes and dislikes could be used as the basis for an answer. H...

Madhya Pradesh may Ban Sale of Vibrating Condom

... product if it does not meet the specifications as per the law or if it is found to be against our culture. "More distressing is the fact that the condom is manufactured by a central government undertaking," said Vijayvargiya. Media reports claim that the Madhya Pradesh Drugs Control Department has alr...

China Cannot Be Blamed for Rising CO2 Emissions: Britain Official

...ng Chinese goods." He noted that China's emissions per person were still well below those of rich nations. Adding to Ashton's comments, Greenpeace UK Director John Sauven said, "It is estimated that the average American still pollutes between five and six times more than the average Chinese person, an...

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

... some statistics, experts at the seminar said that per capita availability of water in India had dipped f...d to dip further to 750 cubic metres by 2025. As per international norms, per capita supply of water below 1,700 cubic metres was termed "stress" situati...

Smoking Hampers Healing of the Ligament

...h mice are placed inside smoking chambers six days per week. The mice were exposed to enough passive fu...he equivalent of a person smoking about four packs per day. They were placed in the smoking chambers for two months prior to MCL surgery and then again a...

Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

...nd, which oscillates between four and eight cycles per second, changed its phase pattern with unique sensitivity and specificity in response to the spoken sentences. When boffins degraded the intelligibility of the sentences, the theta band pattern lost its tracking resonance with the speech. The res...

Excessive Use of Cosmetics Leads to Adverse Effects on the Body

...odies. Many use over 20 different beauty products per day while nine out of 10 apply make-up which is past its expiry date. Addiction to cosmetics and toiletries means that a cocktail of 4lb 6oz of chemicals a year is seeping into the body through the skin. Some synthetic compounds involved have been ...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...ficantly fewer prostitutes in northern Africa on a per capita basis. In a frequently cited academic paper, Daniel Halperin, an H.I.V. specialist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development and one of the world's leading advocates for male circumcision, weighted results from individual countries...

Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care

...erg interviewed 30 patients 65 to 85 years old (70 per cent of them male), 24 unpaid caregivers including spouses and other family members, and 22 health professionals in rural communities in Alberta. Focus groups were also conducted with home care nurses in the health region. During the interviews, pa...

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