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Tag: "persuade" at medical news

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...tice, as demonstrated by Dr. De Wals's team, could persuade other countries to follow suit. The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine....

Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...s-crosses the five villages with a loud speaker to persuade people to avoid tobacco dependency. "I used to chew pan parag and other tobacco chewing items very frequently. However, since the Village Panchayat has banned the consumption of tobacco in the village in any form, I too had stopped using tobacco it...

US Patient Implanted With HeartMate II, Leaves ICU

...he FDA and Humana Health Care, Moazami was able to persuade them to allow the compassionate use of the experimental device for Guthrie. "We had no choice with this gentleman," he said. "He was too healthy not to do anything, but he was stuck in the ICU." Once the new device was implanted, Guthrie recovere...

Non Smoking Workers Absorb the Carcinogen Immediately

...sis. The science is making it easier and easier to persuade courts to sanction employers who continue to allow smoking. The Stark study on the effects of workplace smoking, The Impact of Clean Indoor Air Exemptions and Preemption on the Prevalence of a Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen Among Nonsmoking Bar an...

Gel-based Handrub Improves Hospital Hygiene

...skin tolerance is an important factor in trying to persuade health care workers to take the necessary steps to improve hand hygiene....

Risk of Heart Attack, Death High Among Extremely Anxious Patients

...e to talk about heart disease, adjust medications, persuade exercise, and come up with effective strategies to advance cardiac risk factors, such as smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Equally important, it helps to set up a caring relationship that lightens the fears that could shorten a patie...

Long Island Seniors Rally for Rx Affordable Prescription Drugs and Cell Phone Protections

...h as meals, trips and entertainment, to doctors to persuade them to prescribe newer and, in many cases, more expensive drugs when generic and less expensive alternatives are just as effective. According to a report in the April 2007 New England Journal of Medicine, 94% of doctors report having some type of re...

Govt Sees Off Casino Challenge

...ry. The British Casino Association (BCA) failed to persuade the London-based court that Labour's policy to create 17 new casinos, including the first Las Vegas-style "super-casino," was treating existing gaming establishments with "blatant unfairness." However Judge Brian Langstaff said that the legal chall...

Stem Cell Transplants Ease Parkinson's Symptoms in Monkeys

...t that stem cells not only replace cells, but also persuade the brain to heal itself. "People used to think that stem cells transplants would work by replacing missing cells. But these results suggest they may do more than that. They may actually switch on the brain's own innate repair mechanisms," says ne...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...the same attitude when he holds seminars trying to persuade obese women to slim down. 'They tell me that if they lose weight their husbands will leave them because everyone knows that in Mauritania men prefer a fat woman.' But one thing is finally beginning to shake up popular attitudes to fatness - the e...

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

...MPs have decided to form a group next month and to persuade other parliamentarians, from both houses, to join the movement in creating awareness about the preventable disease in their constituencies. They have also decided to join the British Parliamentary Group on Global TB, which has been working in this fi...

Nearly 2,500 Mentally Ill Women in Delhi are Destitute: Abdul Kalam

...ent and rehabilitation centre to approach them and persuade them to undergo the treatment. "NCW can also seek the assistance of police department, scouts and guides, volunteers of National Service Scheme, NCC cadets and members of the Red Cross Society of India of different States for collection and registe...

Doctors Role in Preventing STD

... new study suggests that doctors should advise and persuade patients with sexually transmitted infections to inform their partners and bring// them for check up and treatment. In some severe cases, provide home testing kits or drugs in order to help reduce infection rates. Partner notification is an importa...

Corporate Inc Awakening To Economic Impact Of HIV

...ery suggesting that companies need to find ways to persuade employees to reveal their HIV status. This is possible if companies assure their employees that there will be no discrimination or loss of employment, are educated about the disease and work with vendors, suppliers and neighbouring communities to r...

Microbicides, Need of the Hour, to Aid the Fight Against HIV

...who despite stocking up with condoms are unable to persuade many a recalcitrant customer to use protection. This callousness is present despite the awareness about AIDS in India, which has touched the five million mark. Sex workers have often wished for a female condom, or any protection they can control. ...

Misled Public Stay Away from Polio Immunisation Drive

...Ahmed, who had been roped in by the Rotary Club to persuade religious leaders and the community to get all Muslim children vaccinated against polio, had said that "illiteracy and ignorance have been holding people back, but once they know the vaccine is good for their children, they will want them to be immun...

WHO Urges Shah Rukh Khan to Stop Endorsing Tobacco Products

... other countries". "The Indian government should persuade popular sports and film personalities to endorse the cause of health," he said adding that authorities must impose heavy taxes on such tobacco products to discourage its consumption. Experts at the health meet pointed out disturbing statistics on ...

Eradication of Lung Cancer in 20 years

...ally, really important, but we need to continue to persuade people of the serious harm they are doing to their health by smoking, and we can get the smoking rate down even more. "The notion of Scotland as a high tobacco-using country is one that can be changed. If Scots choose to turn their backs on tobacco...

Increased Warning over heart drugs

...ield it was easier to offer a prescription than to persuade people to make lifestyle changes. He noted that people with a relatively low risk of heart disease were being put on the drug, "turning them into patients". Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke acc...

Flu jabs delay causes alarm

...time the government started its annual campaign to persuade people at risk of flu to get vaccinated for free.People aged over 65 and diabetics constitute this vulnerable group. Over 75% of the aged people (over 65) were immunized in 2005.The government has sent an alert that severe winter would result in deat...

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